The web is working additional time attempting to make sense of a now-viral picture of former Main League Baseball heavy-hitter, Sammy Sosa. The image, considered practically 3 million occasions, was posted on X by @RickNunley60. And though it was taken on March 1 on the Chicago Cubs spring coaching facility in Mesa, Arizona, some insist it needs to be a blast from Sosa’s previous. Even Shannon Sharpe has entered the dialog.
“They are saying Sammy, he Black once more,” Sharpe stated on the March 3 episode of his “Nightcap” podcast, reacting to the pic Nunley tagged “Sammy Sosa Saturday.”
Sharpe and others are puzzled by this newly-melanated model of Sosa – who’s from the Dominican Republic – as a result of within the years since his retirement, his once-brown pores and skin has appeared nearly white in some photographs.
In a 2009 interview with Univision, Sosa admitted he had been utilizing a product to whiten his pores and skin.
“It’s a bleaching cream that I apply earlier than going to mattress and whitens my pores and skin tone,” he stated. “It’s a cream that I’ve, that I take advantage of to melt [my skin], however has bleached me some. I’m not a racist, I reside my life fortunately.”
Naturally, the image of a darker Sosa left Sharpe’s cohost Chad Ochocinco with a number of questions.
“How do you go from bleaching your pores and skin to being Black once more?” he requested Sharpe.
“Man, Sammy appear to be the Wayans brothers the “White Chick,” Sharpe laughed.
After joking with Ochocinco about how he’s been Black his entire life, Sharpe appeared to supply Sosa an olive department again into the Black neighborhood.
“Glad to have you ever again, Sammy,” he stated.
The dialog continued on Rick Nunley’s X publish, with a number of individuals questioning how Sammy Sosa acquired again to Black.
“The place the hell you discover pre-bleached Sammy Sosa at?!” somebody wrote within the feedback.
Others weren’t satisfied that the image in query was taken within the twenty first century.
“This image from 1998,” one commenter insisted.