If you're going to do some dirt then do it in the town you play for/are most famous. I'm guessing few Toronto cops would have given him a citation over this. If he played for the Cardinals or D-backs the cop would have probably convinced the woman to drop it. Doesn't make it right, but that's how it is everywhere.
If he was a player in the big leagues or college down there and had the bad luck of being written up anyways, it would be just as big a story for a day or two. The pants dropping, the veteran angle, the story just writes itself.
Kind of bizarre how it all played out, my guess is some intern at an Arizona-based media outlet was looking at the court cases for today and recognized the name. AM was going to do the whole "hide under a bunch of coats and hope it goes away" technique, but he's still a little too famous for it to work. It's true what they say, the coverup is always worse than the crime.
He should have come out with it in May, done damage control and it would have been mostly forgotten by now. Babs, is kinda not helping when he says he didn't know about it. Should have gotten everyone in the loop, control the narrative etc.
