Tim McCarver Blames Global Warming For The Increase In Major League Home Runs
We'd normally save this sort of thing for McCarve'd Up (which will be back
next week after being pre-empted for NFL draft coverage) but Tim McCarver
said one of the stupidest things ever spoken on a television broadcast today,
blaming global warming for "making the air thin" and thus leading to a rise
in home runs.
Climate change, or in McCarver's words "climactic change," is the culprit
(and not, say, steroids, the age of which McCarver insists is over). Global
warming is a real thing (climate change deniers are already giving McCarver a
beatdown online) but the theory it's led to increased major league offensive
production is one of the most insane things ever asserted by a professional
broadcaster. And this man is in the Hall of Fame! [Fox]
http://deadspin.com/5906011/tim-mccarver-blames-climactic-change-for-the-increase-in-major-league-home-runs