Chicks may dig the long ball, as the slogan went from 20 years ago. But I do not. And when a pitcher hits a 467-foot home run, as Jon Gray did in Denver today, it’s time to act against the home run madness that is disfiguring Major League Baseball in 2017.

Gray’s homer was the longest recorded by a pitcher since baseball began keeping records, for hurlers hitting, in 2015, and also was the longest hit by any member of the Rockies this season, whether the club was playing in mile-high or sea-level conditions.

Which further convinces me …

The ball is juiced.

Whatever is going on in those baseball-making factories in Costa Rica, it needs to stop.

Jon Gray, professional pitcher, just launched a ball 467 feet.

He had never hit a home run. In 55 career at-bats he had seven hits.

And then he put one over the wall in straightaway center at Coors Field.

After, some of the Rockies were talking about how Gray is a not a small guy, at 6-foot-4, 245 pounds. And, clearly, he put a good swing on the pitch and got all of it … but the man is a pitcher!

Baseball is on pace to break the single-season record for homers, 5,693, set in the 2000 season, which fell in the middle of the steroids era.

And Jon Gray’s blast is just another brick in the wall of outta-control slugging.

Let’s get some higher seams on those balls, and maybe take out some of that Super Ball center. Enough is enough.