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Cubs All-Star Pete Crow-Armstrong is feeling the bite of one Mad Dog.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Christopher \u201cMad Dog\u201d Russo went off on Crow-Armstrong during a Wednesday segment on \u201cFirst Take,\u201d where the sports talk personality addressed the conspiracy that PCA repeated on Kristin Cavallari\u2019s \u201cLet\u2019s Be Honest\u201d podcast, claiming that Babe Ruth never existed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The Cubs superstar took it a step further when he also said that if the legendary Yankee did exist and hit 714 career home runs, then he did it against pitchers who were essentially throwing to him underhand.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Russo was outraged by the take and responded as such, saying that \u201cthis drove me nuts\u201d and labeled it \u201cderogatory.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHey Pete, you\u2019re talking to me now about Ruth!\u201d Russo said as he ran through Ruth\u2019s historical numbers. \u201cNobody hit home runs like Babe Ruth. Say what you want about Ohtani, we understand that he\u2019s a unicorn. Babe Ruth is so good it\u2019s mindboggling. Did you know, Peter Crow-Armstrong, that Babe Ruth hit 27 home runs over 500 feet? Bonds? Never. Not one. \u2026 Ruth owned baseball, nobody hit home runs like Ruth! He out-homered leagues! To sit there and say they were pitching underhand, well why didn\u2019t anybody else hit the home runs hitting underhand?\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOutside of Gehrig, nobody hit home runs! It drives me crazy, especially in baseball, it drives me crazy when I hear today\u2019s athletes and media guys who are 30 years old, who disparage the old-time guys.\u201d<\/p>\n

Russo acknowledged that one argument he would give credence to would be the fact that prior to 1945, baseball was segregated and that could have inflated some of baseball\u2019s records.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Crow-Armstrong, in the midst of another terrific season for the Cubs, went on the podcast and discussed where he first heard the theory.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is gonna be crazy,\u201d he acknowledged. \u201cBabe Ruth never existed is one that I like. I heard some pitcher with the Mariners \u2026 I think he did some podcast on Zoom where he was going down the rabbit hole with somebody about how Babe Ruth never existed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe always talk about how the game is evolving, people might as well have been like underhanding the ball to that guy,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd he\u2019s regarded still as one of the best players ever. Might as well dive further into it and be like, well, maybe he just never existed.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The ESPN talking head later said he did not like how people think that players from 1927 are not nearly as good as players today.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAre you crazy?\u201d Russo continued. \u201cHe would have been a Hall of Famer as a pitcher, forget as a hitter. There\u2019s only one Babe Ruth. He hit anywhere, any place, any time. He\u2019s that good. And when you start to knock Ruth\u2026pay attention, do your homework. That was a disgrace what he said this week.\u201d<\/p>\n

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