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It's been a long time since Babe Ruth became a baseball legend.
So long, in fact, that one of today's brightest MLB stars thinks the Sultan of Swat is more mythical than legendary.
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It's a premise so out of left field that the player, Pete Crow-Armstrong of the Chicago Cubs, began his explanation with "this is gonna be crazy."
Forgetting the Great Bambino
Appearing on Kristin Cavallari's podcast "Let's Be Honest" alongside fellow Cub Carson Kelly, PCA was asked for an unpopular opinion, and he obliged.
"'Babe Ruth never existed' is one that I like," he said.
"I heard some pitcher with the Mariners…I think he did some podcast on Zoom when he was going down the rabbit hole with somebody about how Babe Ruth never existed," Crow-Armstrong said. "I was like, lowkey, that's awesome."
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Brandon Contes of Awful Announcing was kind enough to dig up PCA's reference.
"The podcast Crow-Armstrong is referring to was a 2024 interview with Mariners pitcher Tayler Saucedo, in which he alleged that there aren’t many videos of Ruth playing baseball, so he must not be real," Contes wrote.
Crow-Armstrong didn't go directly to the lack of video as proof.
Instead, he's extrapolating based on what he's seen in his time in baseball and expanding it 100 years back, he explained.
"We always talk about how the game is evolving," he said. "People might as well have been underhanding the ball to that guy, and he's regarded, still, as one of the best players ever. Might as well dive further into it, and maybe he never existed."
PCA wasn't met with agreement, with Kelly laughing and noting "that's crazy."
When comparisons to moon landing conspiracies were raised, the topic quickly shifted.
At least in this case, Ruth isn't around to let PCA hear his rebuttal.
In the offseason, PCA made headlines for his trashing of Dodgers fans — he's a Los Angeles native — and Dodgers fans let him hear it when he played in LA earlier this year.
Crow-Armstrong somewhat walked back those comments when speaking with Maddie Lee of the Los Angeles Times,
“If we’re going to be immature and childish about it,” he said, “I’d say they started it, they just gave me an opportunity to kind of run with it."
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