“…thinner air” cited by sports broadcaster

From DeadSpin’s Timothy Burke:

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]

h/t to WUWT reader Eric Neilsen

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Former MLB player and broadcaster Tim McCarver…Image from Wikipedia

Too many balls to the head?

UPDATE: It gets dumber. MLB has blocked the video on YouTube citing copyright violations…except that under fair use exceptions to the copyright law, criticism of boneheadedness is allowed, especially when using short snippets like this video clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSRwnY3eHKU&feature=player_embedded

And these two incidents, combined with exorbitant prices to support exorbitant salaries, are why I don’t go to baseball games anymore. The great American pastime has lost its mojo.