Scientists will tell you the next United States-bound solar eclipse won’t come until 2024. Those people clearly haven’t been to Dodger Stadium lately.
If they paid a visit to Chavez Ravine, they’d know that solar eclipses occur quite often — as in every time someone passes in front of Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner.
In the scientists’ defense, though, most of us were ignorant to this phenomenon until Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig revealed it to be true Monday, tweeting a video of he and Turner’s own “solar eclipse” on the day of the historic natural event.
This is just a joke,because life is fun, and we should enjoy it,until our day https://t.co/2Z4MvX7fbz in Pittsburgh we had our own #puigmoon pic.twitter.com/zjizGXr5pL
— Yasiel Puig (@YasielPuig) August 22, 2017
In all seriousness, you have to give credit to Turner, in all his red-bearded glory, for being able to laugh at himself. As for the actual eclipse, Puig, like so many, took time to look to the skies.
eclipse pnc park 😎🌘🌗🌑🌖🌕#solareclipse2017 pic.twitter.com/lcPbNFGzoL
— Yasiel Puig (@YasielPuig) August 21, 2017
Say what you want about the ever-controversial Cuban slugger, but at least he wore protective shades — which can’t be said for New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr.
Thumbnail photo via Mark J. Rebilas/USA TODAY Sports Images
