WATCH: Fanatics CEO Michael Rubin throwing baseballs goes viral for all the wrong reasons

Michael Rubin might have a stranglehold on professional sports merchandise, but after a video went viral on social media showing him attempting to throw a baseball, it would appear the Fanatics CEO has never played baseball.

In a video that went viral across social media earlier this week, Michael Rubin was throwing baseballs at a speed pitch machine and the results caught the attention of everyone on Twitter for all of the wrong reasons.

Michael Rubin roasted on social media for throwing a baseball

Rubin throwing a baseball is amazing pic.twitter.com/3EBEe7vEUU

— CARVER (@thecardcarver) July 17, 2024

Rubin is 51-years old. I was never expecting him to go out there and throw a baseball in any type of athletic manner to begin with. He clocked two pitches at 48 mph and 39 mph. Fine. The real issue here his his bad grip and throwing motion. It looks like Rubin was throwing a baseball for the first time in his life.

Michael Rubin’s Grip on the Baseball..Yikes.

Michael Rubin is worth more than $11 billion. When you have that type of money, you have to make sure that you can throw a baseball and control who or what’s being filmed and posted on the internet. The criticism and trolling seems pretty avoidable with that type of bankroll, no?

Shocker (Not Really) The pitch almost missed entirely lol.

On top of that, when your company Fanatics is manufacturing (for Nike) the absolute worst Major League Baseball jerseys in rich history of America’s past time, allowing a video like this to go viral is simply a bad look.

Example: I run a golf website along with The Liberty Line called Cart Path Only.

Golf Shot.

The Hold Steady on the speakers and an absolute nuke off the tee from @drewmsmith. Golf shot, baby. #Wyncote | #CartPathOnly pic.twitter.com/qNdXQUxoUF

— Cart Path Only (@cartpathonlycc) July 17, 2024

We posted a video of me hitting an absolute nuke off the tee at Wyncote Golf Club over the weekend. Why? Because the drive was a thing of beauty. This is the stuff Rubin needs to have posted online, not a video of him looking like a bag of milk throwing a few horrible pitches.

At the same time, Rubin probably doesn’t give a shit about anything and I can’t blame him for that. If I was worth $11 billion, I would go the opposite route and simply delete my entire social media presence.

Either way, with that type of cash it doesn’t matter what people are saying about you.

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