Obese Black Player Watch

[Don Wassall]

300 pound C. C. Sabathia is 0-3 with a 13.50 ERA. It's still early in the season but it wouldn't surprise me in the least if Sabathia is beginning the downward part of his career even though he's only 27. What issurprising is when one of the very few black American pitchers who do well in the majors, doesn'tend up fizzlingout prematurely. Lack of stamina and endurance ranks up there with poor hand-eye coordination as among the most glaring weaknesses to be found in "The World's Greatest Athletes." Edited by: Don Wassall

 

[PhillyBirds]

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[Poacher]

Crispy Creme Sabathia.

 

[GiovaniMarcon]

I hear his footlocker is filled with Ho-hos and also perhaps Nazi gold.

 

[Van_Slyke_CF]

A write-up the other day on Yahoo tries to place the blame for Sabathia`s performance from late last year on an excessive workload in recent years.

If Sabathia were white, someone on a talk show would be calling him a "fat tub of goo." Because he`s black, he gets a special dispensation.

It`s time to blame the white coaches and management for his struggles. It`s a white conspiracy so that he doesn`t get half the money he`s expecting from free agency.

 

[sport historian]

300 pound C. C. Sabathia is 0-3 with a 13.50 ERA.  It's still early in the season but it wouldn't surprise me in the least if Sabathia is beginning the downward part of his career even though he's only 27.  What is surprising is when one of the very few black American pitchers who do well in the majors, doesn't end up fizzling out prematurely.  Lack of stamina and endurance ranks up there with poor hand-eye coordination as among the most glaring weaknesses to be found in "The World's Greatest Athletes."

This reminds me of something I saw in Sport Magazine around 1972. There was an item saying something like "black pitchers are in general better performers than white pitchers." This was right after Vida Blue's big year in 1971.

 

[LabMan]

It appears that "The Prince Of The Milwaukee Brewers" is not far behind !

 

[Bear-Arms]

At least he started wearing his hat the right way.

 

[Don Wassall]

It appears that "The Prince Of The Milwaukee Brewers" is not far behind !

Prince's fat daddy hit 51 homers in '90 and 44 the next year, then never reached 40 again. Wouldn't be surprising if his even fatter son also does a quick power fade.

 

[Realgeorge]

Two years ago the Orioles brought up a 280-pound negro outfielder [thank goodness I can't remember the idiot's name] who was going to stroke 50 homers a year and stoke the Orioles' anemic offense. He gave an interview on WBAL-AM saying he wanted to imitate Cecil Fielder and Mo Vaughn. He did. Fittingly, the giant black person lasted only eight games with the club [mostly strikeouts], being sent permanently back to A-ball.

 

[LabMan]

As blacks are not showing much interest in playing baseball,efforts will be made to find anyone that can wear a uniform,some of the results have been quite comical,and as always,the baseball will find all pretenders.

 

[Van_Slyke_CF]

Hold the presses! We were all wrong about Crispy Creme Sabathia. He won yesterday with a grueling 6 innings of shutout work, striking out 11 against the awesome Kansas City Royals. He will save the Indians season! He`ll get that $100 million+ FA contract from 2009 yet!ÂÂ￾@

 

[Don Wassall]

Sabathia is pitchinglights outfor the Brewers right now. Last night on ESPN's Baseball Tonight, John Kruk referred to Sabathia as a "great athlete." There are several standard stereotypical jokes about supposedly non-athletic whites succeeding in certain sports, and one of them is the image of the overweight pitcher. I can state with assurance that no white reporter ever called Mickey Lolich or David Wells, both 200 game winners,"great athletes."


It's especially ironic coming from Kruk, who was a good hitter but was mercilessly made fun of because of his less than cut physique. Kruk has used that and a general buffoonish image to make a good living with ESPN.

 

[Bart]

Kruk is so disappointing. The caste clowns are beating their drums steadily in favor of Sabathia for Cy Young. Since joining the Brewers his record has been 9 -0.They are saying he deserves the award for doing so well with the Brewers. Problem is most people forget thatbeforechanging leagues earlier in the year, his record was 6-8, giving him a combined reord of 15-8.I guess what he did in Cleveland doesn't matter.Let's just forget about that.


Brandon Webb is at 19-6, a couple more guys also have CC beat, and a few more are in the same vicinity as Sabathia. But the media is in the tank for Mr. Athlete.


I just checked the won loss record for the teams CC has faced while in a Milwaukee uniform.Hewon only two games against teams with winning records, beating the third place Cardinals, and the fourth place Astros. The other teams he beat are the Pirates, who are in last place, the Senators, who are in last place, the Padres, last place, the Braves,second to last, Giants, second to last, Reds, second to last,and thethird place Rockies.The Brewer bats have been popping, providing him with nearly six runs per game pitched.So, yes he has pitched well, but surely has been favored by circumstances.

 

[Bart]

Sabathia lost his last two starts, and is now at 15-10. Should keep him out of the running for a CY Young, but you never know.

 

[PhillyBirds]

Sabathia pulled in the bottom of the fourth. Philadelphia up 5-1 after a Shane Victorino grand slam home run. Bases currently loaded again...

Goodbye, Cy Young discussion for CC.Edited by: PhillyBirds

 

[foreverfree]

Phils held on to beat CC 5-2.

John

 

[Solomon Kane]

Saw some of it, great game. Myers outduels caste favorite Sabathia. Key walk taken by Myers to extend inning and get to Victorino. Go phils.

 

[Bart]

Sabathia pulled in the bottom of the fourth. Philadelphia up 5-1 after a Shane Victorino grand slam home run. Bases currently loaded again...

Goodbye, Cy Young discussion for CC.

Sabathia's resume was fattened up this year against lousy teams. He's won only three games againstsquads with winning records. He got shelled by the Phillies this evening. His post season record is not good.


Yahoo Sports: But he struggled in the playoffsâ€â€￾again. He's lost his last three postseason starts, including two against Boston in last year's ALCS. Overall, Sabathia is 2-3 with a 7.92 ERA in the playoffs.

 

[Ground Fighter]

If Sabathia were white, someone on a talk show would be calling him a "fat tub of goo." Because he`s black, he gets a special dispensation.

Fat-marcus Russell also recieves that same dispensation from the football caste-system nut-huggers. Along with hundreds of fat, out of shape, sumo-like lineman in the league as well.

 

[Jimmy Chitwood]

the "too white" Red Sox are being encouraged to sign this fat ass as a "high priority target."

why in the hell would they want to do that?

 

[PhillyBirds]

C.C. is now a Yankee, to the tune of 7 years/$160 million.

Interesting thing, ESPN analyst Buster Olney dropped an interesting line:

"The Yankees are hoping he'll be like one of the old pitchers, David Wells; a physical freak. Yes they're both heavy, but they are both tremendous athletes and workhorses."

First time a talking head has calld Wells an athlete?

 

[white is right]

I one time saw Wells walk out of an SUV in downtown Toronto to pay for gas. He looked extremely tall and not nearly as fat as he looked on TV. As for the contract that buys a lot of doughnuts and can buy a 400 sq foot apartment in Manhattan....

 

[Poacher]

Must have paid him by the pound.

 

[PhillyBirds]

I heard the contract was only for $60 million cash, the
rest to be paid in pizza and cookies in weekly
installments equaling $100 million.