Tim McCarver: Global Warming Increasing the Number of Home Runs ( so it's not steroids?)

NewsBusters ^ | 4/28/2012 | Noel Sheppard

[dfwgator]

Chance of a shower here and there, but they should get the game in.

[Da Bilge Troll]

Tim is nuts! Everyone knows baseball players are all aliens today! What other explanation fits all the facts?

[archaicoldschool]

One too many foul balls to the noggin for Tim

[jjotto]

So then global warming stopped 11-12 years ago? That’s when home run totals began falling dramatically. Of course, the crackdown on steroid use has had no impact whatsoever...

[Mozilla]

AH Maybe it is roids are increasing the Homers. Explain me how Pujols has no homers yet?

[Mozilla]

AH Maybe it is roids are increasing the Homers. Explain me how Pujols has no homers yet?

[aruanan]

Tim McCarver: Global Warming Increasing the Number of Home Runs ( so it's not steroids?)

Global warming is increasing the number of nutty things whacked-out delusional people are attributing to global warming--wait a second, okay, I'm still possibly out of that section on a standard Venn diagram of what I'm positing.

[driftless2]

"Ruth"

I read the book "The Year Ruth Hit 104 Homeruns" by Bill Jenkinson. Ruth last played in 1935. The year that he supposedly would have hit 104 homeruns, if the fences were the same distance they are now, was 1921. Since that time, no player has come close to the distances Ruth achieved on his homeruns as tabulated by Jenkinson. Todays sluggers have weight training, hitting coaches, film, and uh steroids. Ruth trained on fatty foods, stogies, and liquor.

[dfwgator]

Babe would have hit more home runs, if only he cut down on the smoking, and the drinking, and the sex....especially between the innings.

[Ditto]

Although it is counter intuitive to most of us, at the same altitude, the fact is a baseball (or golf ball or whatever) will travel further on hot, humid days than on cooler, less humid days. The air is actually thinner under the hot, humid conditions than in dryer, low humidity conditions. It took an aircraft pilot to explain the air-density / altitude stuff to me. For pilots, it's a real big deal.

McCarver is also an idiot for buying the global warming crap, but the fact remains that in the same ball park you will see more home runs under high humidity conditions than in low humidity conditions. The air is actually thinner when the humidity is high.

Read more about it here.

[driftless2]

I forgot to mention today’s players are trained in nutrition as well. Ruth probably thought he was malnourished if he didn’t eat three large steaks, a dozen eggs, a few loaves of bread, and whatever booze available to wash it down with at a single sitting. I figure all generations of pros have succumbed to the temptations of the flesh equally i.e. Tiger Woods. Although even Woods most likely wouldn’t have matched Ruth in the debauchery department.