The Yankees’s C.C. Sabathia is not having a stellar season. With a 4-9 record and a 5.24 ERA he could be forgiven for feeling a sense of frustration. Even one serious enough to get him into a near brawl with fans in, of all places, Toronto.
Canadians brawl? Who knew.
Anyway, it was more shouting match than anything else, though Sabathia seems to have come away from it without one shoe. And feeling, as the New York Times reported, some contrition.
That the episode resulted in media coverage at all demonstrates just how far the game (and the society) have come since the days when brawling was
And when
Cobb’s legend was poisoned forever, though a recent biography has helped correct the record. Sabathia’s moment, by contrast, was captured on TMZ. Which means that it was forgotten in hours.
