OhMurph.com has received first-hand knowledge of an off-the-field incident involving ace Johan Santana during the filming of a recent Subway commercial with Yankees ace CC Sabathia.

The sandwich franchise created a popular commercial in 2005 which featured then-skippers Willie Randolph and Joe Torre, in which their baseball rivalry spilled out onto the culinary field. Willie’s most memorable line: “Yeah, it’s got a lotta meat!”

Moments before the attack

To promote their new Big Chipotle Cheese steak sandwich, Santana and Sabathia were enlisted to film a commercial together to discuss how promote the new sandwich. However, the filming went awry not long after the shoot started.

Upon his arrival to the set, Sabathia proceeded to consume the entire food spread that was laid out for the staff, forcing the catering company to rush an emergency order before filming could start. Sabathia then continued to polish off the seven samples of the Big Chipotle Cheese steak allocated to him before he declared himself ready to shoot. With the appetizers out of the way, a lean, trim, and tasty-looking Santana was finally brought into the set with what appeared to be a temporarily satisfied Sabathia.

The production company, however was prepared for a hunger flare-up. They had worked with Sabathia on previous commercial shoots during his time in Cleveland. Santana was placed to Sabathia’s left on the bench used on the set, ensuring his prized pitching arm was away from Sabathia. Likewise, Santana’s right arm was actually taken from a mannequin and attached under his jersey while his real arm was tied back – for reasons that became clear immediately.

During the first take, Sabathia eyed Santana’s prop sandwich in his hands. As soon as the first “cut” was yelled by the director after the “It’s playing in New York big” line, Sabathia immediately pounced on Santana and bit down hard on his right wrist while going for his sandwich, completely shattering the dummy arm. The elephant trainers were immediately mobilized and fired dartfuls of Proheptazine at Sabathia to tranquilize him while Santana’s handlers rushed him away from the set. Sabathia was roped and returned to his cage while a shaken Santana was evaluated by the medical staff.

The commercial’s producers were forced to utilize CGI in combination with separate footage that was shot two weeks following the incident with Santana alone on the set. The end result was seamless, and the ad campaign boosted non-Sabathia sales of the new sandwich to an average eight across the Tri-State region, or 4% of daily total sales.

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