CC Sabathia discusses how he kept pitching despite alcohol addiction in clip from HBO’s “Under The Grapefruit Tree”
"Say I pitch on Monday, Monday night, Tuesday night, Wednesday night, I'm blackout drunk. Thursday and Friday, I don't drink at all, like, nothing."
12/22/2020
Many professional athletes and broadcasters over the years have battled alcohol addiction, but the realities of what that looks like on a day-to-day basis haven’t always been discussed publicly. Former New York Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia discusses that in stark terms in a clip HBO released Tuesday from
Under The Grapefruit Tree, the HBO Sports documentary on Sabathia that premiers Tuesday night on HBO at 9 p.m. Eastern. Here’s that clip: