The irony isn’t just what CC Sabathia said the other night — “It’s kind of weak, to me … just shows what they’ve got over there” — when he decried Eduardo Nunez’s bunting against him in the top of the first inning.
It was the target of those barbs.
The Red Sox.
ASIDE: “A partial list of Things in Sports CC Would Find Kind of Weak”
- Play-action passes
- Head fakes
- Rope-a-dope
- Button-hook pass patterns
- Dosey-do slides into bases
The Red Sox, you will recall, were mired in an 86-year losing streak with the Yankees not so long ago.