Much has been made of the analogy that climate change is like steroids for our weather. But what if we’ve got the thing backwards? Here’s baseball sage Tim McCarver:
It has not been proven, but I think ultimately it will be proven that the air is thinner now, there has been climactic changes over the last 50 years in the world and I think that’s one of the reasons that balls are carrying much better now than I remember. You know, the ball that Ramirez hit out and the ball Freese hit out, I didn’t think either one was going to be a home run, yet they made it.
Joe Buck’s response:
So that’s your inconvenient truth?
I agree, it isn’t steriods which are making the balls travel farther over the last 50 years, its climate change. Yea, that’s it.
Uhhh, wait a minute, don’t they broadcast for Fox Sports? And Tim was a catcher so he took some blow to the head. No excuse I can think of for Joe Buck. His dad deserved Hall of Fame status as a broadcaster.
Can’t wait for Yogi Berra to chime-in on this one such as…”Nobody hits them that far anymore on account of the air being so thin after all these years of people taking deep breaths”.
I agree,its climate change.