The Secret Dreams of Mike Trout

how a joke with a friend accidentally REVEALED THE INNER LIFE OF ONE OF THE WORLD's best athletes.

THE THEORY

Hear me out.

I believe his holiness Mike Trout is secretly harboring desires to be a meteorologist. That is, if his tweets are to be believed.

I developed this theory by spending a day looking through all of Trout's photos on Twitter (I know I'm the weirdo here, it's fine), and I saw a pattern start to form. I saw the Trout tweeted about weather rather often, and has been for a while.

1. The earliest example was this photo from 7/17/2012, Imgur. It started out so innocent, a mere day-of forecast for a game against the Tigers, but there are a few notable things about it. It's clear Trout is on an iOS device, which gives you a weather app out of the box, but Trout chose a third-party app instead. My more Meteorology-inclined friends hate this app, going as far as to call it 'useless,' and instead opting for the Weather Channel app, which has far more information and specifics that matter to meteorology people. That is the app Trout is on in this photo.

2. From 1/22/2013, Imgur. Another example of Trout using the Weather Channel app. Why would Trout download an app for something when he already has an app that does the same thing on his phone? Is it fair to presume that it's because he really cares about weather?

3. The New Jersey Weather Blog tweets, (1/28/2014) Imgur, Imgur, & Imgur. These tweets were what sold me. Here Trout is interacting with a twitter account that is mostly followed by people in the amateur meteorology/storm-chasing community or people in New Jersey. I believe Trout to be both. The account has just over 3,500 followers, so it isn't huge. Trout knows about the site/twitter, I assume, as a weather person and Jersey resident. He's still going on Weather.com and he continues to interact with the account all night.

4. Last one, 2/21/2015 Imgur. Just another example of him tweeting about weather.

Am I trying to say that Mike Trout is the baseball version of this (Imgur)? Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying.

If Trout wasn't the athlete that he we all know him as, he would be on TV standing in front of a green screen somewhere, talking about cloud cover. Or, I could be totally wrong and just reading too much into a guy tweeting about snow every couple months.

Either way, consider this my formal application to make "The Weatherman" Trout's new nickname.

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AFTER

Devin murpis