Song Advocating Domestic Violence Played During Aroldis Chapman's Appearance at Cubs Game

CHICAGO, IL - The Chicago Cubs have fired a DJ associated with the playing of an inappropriate song at at even more inappropriate time Sunday night, but what led up to the monumental mishap remains a mystery Monday afternoon.

The 1990s song "Smack My B**** Up" by United Kingdom artist Prodigy was heard throughout Wrigley Field after closer Aroldis Chapman’s ninth inning appearance during the Cubs’ Sunday night loss to the St. Louis Cardinals.

While it would be considered inappropriate to play the song - which features the lines “Change my pitch up, Smack my b**** up.” along with a lot of noise - anytime during a Major League Baseball contest with thousands of families in the stands, it was particularly cold to play it following an appearance by Chapman.

The Cubs’ closer served a 30-day suspension earlier this year when he was with the New York Yankees after a report of a domestic incident surfaced in which Chapman was accused of choking his girlfriend and firing eight shots at his home in Florida in October of 2015.

Crane Kenney, the Cubs’ general manager, confirmed on Twitter Monday that the DJ responsible for the music’s selection has been fired by the team.

"We have terminated our relationship with the employee responsible for making the selection and will be implementing stronger controls to review and approve music before public broadcast during our games,” Kenney wrote.

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— Jesse Rogers (@ESPNChiCubs) August 15, 2016

But the DJ was not named, and multiple scenarios are being thrown around as to how the song made it to the public address system at that particular time.

A commenter on Deadspin, which was among the first to report the story, said there’s no way it was a coincidence.

“This was intentionally done by a team employee who 1) thought it would be funny or 2) was making a statement about the team trading for him. Because the chance that this was a random occurrence- that song for that player- is zero.”

Talk on Chicago sports radio 670-AM early Monday afternoon included possibilities the idea to play the song came from someone who felt Chapman “did nothing wrong” (in the domestic case) or from someone who knew they were moving on from the job with the Cubs anyway and wanted to start a discussion showing a critical view of the Cubs’ trading for Chapman earlier this summer.