Pablo Sandoval won three World Series rings with the San Francisco Giants. Why would an athlete want to sunny California and a mountain of success to go elsewhere? Well on top of inking a 5-year $95 million contract, the Red Sox imposed much more lax diet regiment for the two-time All Star, a perk that Sandoval openly lauded.
Sandoval told the Boston Globe,
“If I had signed [with the Giants], I knew I would be under a [weight] regimen for five years,” he said, “and I’m not going to be happy someplace where I’m under that kind of regimen, where I can’t be myself.”
What Sandoval neglected to consider was the media and fan scrutiny that would surely follow if he didn’t deliver. What fans despise most, Boston fans in particular, is a perceived lazy, out-of-shape multi-millionaire with wasted potential.
And although we are in the infantile stages of the MLB season, Sandoval getting just one at bat in the first three games with his new team has caused the Boston fanbase to grow impatient with the former World Series MVP.
This was only exacerbated by Sandoval’s busting out of his belt during his first at bat of Saturday night’s game against Toronto. Oh ya, and going 0-4 with three strikeouts made an otherwise harmless gaffe all the more serious.
No one was more happy about it than this Blue Jays fan who trolled Sandoval hard during the Blue Jays 3-0 win over the Sox today. If the equator needed to hold up its pants, this is the belt it would use.
There’s only so much fat shaming one can take before he wises up and kills your team in October.