Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia entered himself into rehab on Monday and the knuckle draggers were out in force with hot takes for days.
The sports world was rocked on Monday by the announcement by 6-time All-Star CC Sabathia entering rehab on the eve of the Yankees wild card game against the Houston Astros. It was an announcement that was met with a lot of support from the baseball community but the knuckles were dragging low on Twitter by some fans who had too much paste for breakfast.
It takes special kind of moron to completely misconstrue something like a man trying to get himself better and healthy and turn it into a sports story. The Yankees playoff game is the MacGuffin in all of this — it’s the thing that is part of the plot but doesn’t actually matter or move things forward.
While not everyone was busy huffing lead paint this morning, there was a large sect of fans on Twitter who tried to turn this into something that has anything remotely close to do with baseball.
So CC sabathia isn't only washed up but he's an alcoholic that's checking him self into rehab the day before the play offs.
— 🏁Pep Guardiola🏁 (@JiggyJus03) October 5, 2015
Thought alcoholics were skinny! RT@YahooSports: Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia will enter an alcohol (cont) http://t.co/ebP2efwgzq
— Nothreeputt (@nothreeputt) October 5, 2015
YOU'RE A FUCKING JOKE @CC_Sabathia !!!! You're supposed to be a leader on this team ? Fuck out of here.
— Jon-Anthony (@El_Mayimbe7) October 5, 2015
Wtf is wrong with cc sabathia smh
— Rasta_Rebel 🇯🇲 (@jayancuff) October 5, 2015
CC Sabathia is not straight edge, therefor I do not fuck with him. Go back to Cleveland buddy
— Connor Livesay (@ConnorNFLDraft) October 5, 2015
Dock Ellis can throw no-nos tripping balls back in the day yet CC Sabathia can't pitch in the playoffs hungover? Remember when men were men?
— 610 (@610Barstool) October 5, 2015
CC Sabathia, you're a quitter! No one likes quitters. Did drinking stop David Wells from pitching?! No he threw a perfect game still drunk!
— SangMoonNae (@YoungNae) October 5, 2015
Oh shit CC Sabathia's going into rehab. That sucks for him and I hope he gets better but Yankees are gonna be screwed for the playoffs
— Cubbies Fam (@CubbiesFam) October 5, 2015
At least now we know why cc sabathia was never in great shape
— vallejos (@ryan_vallejos) October 5, 2015
We will leave you this barn burnning paste eater of comment:
To be fair, there is a very strong contingency of fans out there on Twitter who aren’t window licking their way through this pretty seismic event, and are actually sending their support.
So there’s still hope for us all, humanity.
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