If you follow Major League Baseball at all, you’ll notice that there have been more homeruns than usual so far this season. What is the cause of the increase in homeruns? Are players juicing again on steroids? Are the balls being made differently so that they jump off the bat better? Or are the players just getting stronger? If you listen to idiots like F.P. Santangelo, the broadcaster of the Washington Nationals, then there is only one reason why there are more homeruns, and it’s global warming.
Say what?
F.P. Santangelo has been hanging around fake news Wolf Blitzer a little too much lately.
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Washington Nationals announcer F.P. Santangelo suggested during Tuesday night’s loss to the Chicago White Sox that “global warming” is contributing to the historic pace of home runs so far this season.
“I think the bats, plus the balls, plus launch angles, plus pitchers throwing hard, plus global warming is why there’s so many home runs,” Santangelo said in the fifth inning, just after White Sox rookie Eloy Jimenez hit a monster home run to centerfield.
Santangelo’s puzzling remark came in response to a comment from play-by-play announcer Bob Carpenter, who said Major League Baseball was “giving fans what they want,” likely a reference to the wide-held belief that baseballs are “juiced” this season. The record for most home runs ever in a single month was crushed in May, and players are currently on pace to shatter the record for most home runs in a season.
Reached for comment, Santangelo said he has a “sarcastic sense of humor” and was joking.
“Anyone that knows me knows my sarcastic sense of humor,” Santangelo said. “And that’s exactly what that was.”
“You must not have been listening or don’t know my humor,” he said. “Sorry you misunderstood.”