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From here on out, Carsten Charles Sabathia is just “CC” Sabathia — not “C.C.”
After holding a news conference Monday to announce they’d made a trade to acquire the reigning AL Cy Young award winner from Cleveland, a member of the Brewers public relations staff advised media members that Sabathia prefers to have his initials written without periods. “Oh, really?” Brewers general manager Doug Melvin said. It was not immediately known why Sabathia wanted it that way.

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Q: When you came over from Cleveland, it gave you an opportunity to clear up the matter of your dots, your periods, in “CC,” …. and you have this exasperated look on your face right now.

CC: I had no clue what was going on with that. I never said that I never liked dots. They asked me when I wrote my name, how do I spell it, and I said I spell it “Carsten.” I never write “CC”. I don’t really care about the dots anyway. It’s just something that kind of got made-up when I came here. I never stated anything about the dots in my name. J.J., you like the dots in your name?

(Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome from a couple of lockers over, Brewers shortstop J.J. Hardy)

J.J. Hardy: It doesn’t make a difference. You know, I have ‘em, but it doesn’t make a difference.

CC: See? Doesn’t make a difference.