Material for Heckling C.C. Sabathia at Sox Park
Hey, the Sox open at home next Monday against the Cleveland Indians and I have a feeling that Cleveland ace C.C. Sabathia will be on the mound at some point. Yes, it’s the same C.C. Sabathia that gave up golf this spring so he wouldn’t get injured again.
I’m serious. Harken back to last year when Urlacher quit golf to prevent injury. Well, it seems that football players aren’t the only ones bitten by the injury bug from the nasty sports and gaming pursuit known as golf. In the March 16, 2007 issue of GolfWorld, John Strege talked with Sabathia who says that his stint on the DL for the last two Aprils was because of golf. I quote:
“So I’m going to give up golfing, and let’s see if I can make it through April this year.” Sabathia, who stands 6-foot-7 and weighs in the vicinity of 300 pounds, presumably takes an aggressive swipe at the ball, claiming to hit it 300 yards. “I shoot in the 90s,” he told the paper. “It’s not worth it for me to go out and shoot 90 then go on the disabled list.”
Well, I can’t disagree with you tough guy. Good luck on getting better.
If these injuries start to accumulate, I may eventually have to start calling golf a sport (versus a sports and gaming pursuit). If danger and the physical toll of performing the action are any measure of whether a game graduates to a sport, golf would certainly qualify in this aspect as a sport.