CC Sabathia said he "flipped out" at hecklers outside a Toronto nightclub early Saturday morning, but he still came away feeling fortunate.
"I think I was definitely lucky the other night that I had friends to push me in the cab, that cared enough to get me out of that situation," Sabathia said Monday afternoon.
The lefthander's reaction to the heckling, which he characterized as "a little bit" personal in nature, was caught on a camera phone and released Monday by TMZ. Sabathia said the incident, which did not result in police intervention, occurred entirely outside the club and lasted "literally 25 seconds.