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

NewsBusters ^ | 4/28/2012 | Noel Sheppard

[Signalman]

There have been all kinds of reasons given for the increasing number of home runs in baseball over the decades including more tightly-sewn balls, steroids, improved fitness training programs, and bat technology.

On Saturday, renowned Fox sportscaster Tim McCarver blamed it all on Al Gore's favorite money-making scam.

"It has not been proven, but I think ultimately it will be proven that the air is thinner now, there have been climactic changes over the last 50 years in the world, and I think that’s one of the reasons balls are carrying much better now than I remember," McCarver said during Saturday's game between the Milwaukee Brewers and the St. Louis Cardinals.

He then commented about some recent shots that went further than he would have expected leading his co-announcer Joe Buck to marvelously ask, “So that’s your ‘inconvenient truth’ about Major League Baseball?”

"Well," the former catcher responded, "I think they’re going to find that out one of these days, yes I do."

"That’s a theory," he continued, "but we’ll see."

So now you can't even turn on a baseball game without being propagandized on this issue.

Heaven help us.

[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.