IT'S CALLED SELECTIVE REPORTING LADIES AND GENTLEMEN...

I woke up to the headline "Yankees' CC Sabathia blames weight loss for poor 2013" in the Star Ledger today. I knew right away it was a tactic to get me to read the article and be upset, because if you've been following the CC Sabathia "weight loss" scandal, like the media reports it, you know that it wasn't the weight loss that worried Sabathia at all... it was the loss of muscle that came with the weight loss.  I was hoping Brendan Kuty would at least lay that out for the reader.  He didn't. Well... that's disappointing.

This is how Kuty quoted Sabathia: "I didn't know the weight loss was going to affect me that much. There were just some games that I was short. I didn't have the stuff, you know. It was frustrating."

Now... knowing what we know about muscle loss, leg strength with Derek Jeter for example, you know that the next logical question is... "So was it the weight, or the muscle that affected your performances?"  Logically, all these players have nutritionists, doctors, physical trainers. That being said, we all know that would be the followup.  It's a stretch by Kuty.  I was hoping he would go further. He did... but glossed over it:

"But Sabathia wasn't nearly as strong as he said he is now. In fact, Sabathia said, he's physically stronger than ever, and that he was telling head athletic trainer Steve Doanhue that earlier Thursday.

'Just total body,' he said. 'Legs, everything. Mentally, everything. So I'm ready to go.'"

Sure, we read "stronger" but never did he discuss muscle loss.  Why? The average person has no idea about this type of topic. Wouldn't it make sense to explain it?

Here's the way it works; According to Pacific Health Labs, "unfortunately, the faster you drop weight, the more muscle you lose.

This observation was made by researchers at Rockefeller University. Researchers looked at the effect of different daily caloric deficits on weight loss.  As might be expected, the fewer calories the subjects consumed, the more weight they lost. What wasn’t expected was where the weight loss came from.  In individuals who moderately reduced their daily caloric intake, 91% of the loss was fat and only 9% was muscle. But in subjects who severely reduced their daily caloric intake, fat represented 48% of the total weight loss and muscle 42%.  In other words, the greater the daily calorie restriction, the greater the loss of muscle mass.  For endurance athletes, loss of muscle mass can produce a decrease in strength, power and a decline in overall performance..."

Just so you all know... That was a simple Google search and it was done to give the full story of CC Sabathia's situation.  Remember, I'm a blogger that writes for Bleeding Yankee Blue. I don't write for the Star Ledger... a paper that has been around for a long, long time.  That was a pretty important part of the puzzle.  It would make sense that CC would explain that... if he was asked about it of course.

Look, I don't want to give Kuty a hard time. I just found his article incredibly irresponsible.  It was selective reporting to get Yankee fans riled up on a Saturday morning.  It's sneaky, and it's actually NOT the entire truth.

Well, at least you come here to  Bleeding Yankee Blue and read the truth. 

Enjoy your day.  Sorry I picked on you Kuty... just making sure people understand how it works.

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