CC Sabathia: "Yankees retiring 52 means more than Hall of Fame"
All The Smoke
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🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Newly minted hall-of-famer CC Sabathia pulls up for his second appearence on All the Smoke.
CC gets into everything, most notably his legendary Yankees tenure; from A-Rod recruiting him, Cashman closing the deal, the Astros rivalry, and the current Aaron Judge-era.
On Ohtani, CC is all-in: "Ohtani is the greatest baseball player to ever live."
Plus, the WBC's rise to must-watch TV, how the Commissioner's office is finally putting players in the room, and what the CAP program is doing to bring legends back to the game.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome back, All the Smoke Bay Area Edition. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm sure it. |
| 0:08.8 | Our second home. |
| 0:10.2 | We got a second time around with our next guest. |
| 0:13.8 | He's picked up some hardware and some accolades. |
| 0:16.0 | This is the last time we talked. |
| 0:18.0 | Man, welcome to the show, C.C. |
| 0:19.9 | C. |
| 0:20.0 | C. |
| 0:20.9 | Appreciate it. Appreciate it. You're flying to the show, C.C., Sebastian. Appreciate it. |
| 0:21.1 | I appreciate it. |
| 0:22.0 | You're flying |
| 0:23.4 | is all green Jordan gear. Yeah. Man, I put the whole fit on. Man, I see. You're doing it. With the package, I just put the whole shit on. Exactly. We just get all of it. Exactly. Let's get to, you're coming off some surgeries, some |
| 0:35.7 | knees, and |
| 0:37.1 | when he was rehab and I seen him walk |
| 0:39.8 | down his hall in IG and I hit him like, bro, don't get the old nigga walk. With your chest out and your ass stick it out? He's like, nah, bro, I can't. So what's going on? What did you just have done? I had knee replacement about eight weeks ago. Okay. As we sitting here now, |
| 1:45.4 | yeah, it's just something I knew I needed to do, like in retirement, playing a lot of golf every day, walking up and down golf courses. Was it wearing tear from your career or was there an injury? It was wearing tear from my career. Okay. So during my career, I had nine scopes. Damn, and that knee? Yeah, and that one knee, just meniscus and cleaning it up and going back. I mean, I was in a different body. You know what I was? I was 330 pounds landing on my leg. Like, I knew I was going to have to have something done in retirement. So last summer, I went to the doctor and I thought, like, maybe I can go get a partial or whatever. went in there, he was like, no, you need a full knee replacement. And I'm like, it ain't never a time that I'm like maybe I can go get a partial whatever went in there he was like no you need a full knee replacement and I'm like it ain't never a time that I'm like got three months to just sit around um so I kind of pushed it back pushed it back and I had to get it this January just to wasn't no time for golf you know what I'm saying just just to just try to get myself straight's tough, though, because every time I see you on the golf course. |
| 1:45.8 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:47.5 | So this is a real downtime for you. |
| 1:48.3 | How long is it been? |
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