It\u2019s Sunday once more, and you know what that means \u2014 it\u2019s time for our weekly social media roundup! Since the last time we came together, the World Baseball Classic came to a close, with Team USA shutting down the dominant D.R. lineup before being themselves shut down by the Venezuela pitching staff. Just as importantly, spring is now upon us, and that just means one thing: Opening Day is (almost) here! That\u2019s right, this coming Wednesday, the New York Yankees will take the field against the San Francisco Giants to kickstart the 2026 season. So as we get ready for the big day, let\u2019s check in on our favorite ballplayers, and see what they\u2019ve been up to this week!<\/p>\n
Final Photos from and about the Classic<\/p>\n
The biggest news of the week, of course, was the World Baseball Classic. I will admit, I wasn\u2019t able to snag everything \u2014 Jasson Dom\u00ednguez, for example, posted about the Dominican Republic\u2019s loss on his Instagram story even though he wasn\u2019t there, which should help give you an idea just how much this tournament means to so many of these players. So this is just a small sample, from official accounts, Yankees players, beloved former Yankees, and other NYC athletes.<\/p>\n
CC Chats WBC<\/p>\n
Yankees Hall of Fame pitcher CC Sabathia loves chatting sports, and the World Baseball Classic was no different. As Team USA got ready to take on the Dominican Republic, he expressed his excitement for what would prove to be the best pitching matchup of the tournament, saying, \u201cSkenes and this USA lineup vs. an All-Star DR squad in the WBC semis\u2026can\u2019t wait!!! \u26be\ufe0f<\/a>\u201d (note: his original post has the USA and D.R. flag emojis, but they don\u2019t copy into our system, and his non-Instagram posts can\u2019t embed). At the end of that game, he expressed his excitement for his country\u2019s victory<\/a>, and then acknowledged the awfulness of the strike three call that ended the game<\/a>.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Two days later, he was posting straight through the game once more<\/a>. When Bryce Harper hit the dramatic two-run homer to tie the game, he channeled his inner Russell Crowe with, \u201cBRYCE! Are you not entertained?!?!!?<\/a>\u201d Afterwards, he expressed his congratulations to the Venezuela squad<\/a>, before ending his mini-coverage of the tournament with what he would do if he were in charge: \u201cI\u2019m all for canceling Spring Training for the WBC every year \ud83d\ude02\ud83d\udd25<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n The next day, he posted a photo dump on Instagram, filled with pictures from his time at the tournament.<\/p>\n The Cole Train gets started<\/p>\n This past Wednesday, Gerrit Cole took the mound. Yes, it\u2019s only spring training, and yes, it was only one inning, but it\u2019s a major step in his return from Tommy John surgery.<\/p>\n Spring Training Shenanigans<\/p>\n As spring training comes to a close, so does our daily dose of fun shenanigans from the Yankees and YES Network Instagram accounts. But that doesn\u2019t mean we\u2019re out of material just yet! This week, we have Carlos Lagrange, the pitcher everyone\u2019s talking about this spring, answering questions from the YES Network \u2014 but only with wrong answers, giving us a bit of a look into the tall right-hander\u2019s sense of humor.<\/p>\n Back from the WBC, Jazz Chisholm Jr. also chatted with the Network this week.<\/p>\n We also got to learn which music has been most commonly found on the Yankees\u2019 iPods (hey, some of them are still old enough to use iPods), and \u2014 what I found rather interesting as a Latin teacher \u2014 where exactly a bunch of Yankees stand on a controversial linguistic question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Sunday once more, and you know what that means \u2014 it\u2019s time for our weekly social media…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[1515,49,48,111905,149017,150076,17949,3484,81447,14558,462,3980,512,82,58784,212151,20147,148306],"class_list":["post-553463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-bryce-harper","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-capital-one","tag-cc-sabathia","tag-championship-game","tag-gerrit-cole","tag-getty-images","tag-jasson-dominguez","tag-jazz-chisholm-jr","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-sports","tag-team-usa","tag-team-venezuela","tag-venezuela","tag-world-baseball-classic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}