Maybe we need to get a few guys who aren't so uptight

[kbwsb]

<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec-->Have A Wade Boggs Weekend


We hope you enjoy your weekend baseball and be sure to put in a Wade Boggs worthy effort at your local watering hole.

For your enjoyment, a conversation between Steve Sandmeyer and Jeff Nelson on 950 KJR:

Sandy: Who would you say drank the most beer out of everyone you ever played with?

Nelson: Easy, Wade Boggs…..easy

Sandy: (laughing) Really!? Wade Boggs?

Nelson: Oh, yeah, without a doubt. I’ve never seen anyone drink as much beer as he did in my life.

Sandy: (laughing) Get outta here, alright, give me an example, like how much did he drink?

Nelson: Oh, I’d say, on a typical road trip, east coast to west coast [Nelly played with Boggs on the Yankees], say a road game to Seattle……<b>Wade would drink anywhere between 50 and 60 beers.</b>
Sandy: NO WAY!! 50 or 60 beers. That is impossible.

Nelson: No, I know…I know how crazy that sounds, and I wouldn’t believe it myself unless I saw him do it…..numerous times. And he drank nothing but Miller Lite.
Sandy: How in the hell did he have time to drink that many beers. For God’s sake, how many times did he have to go to the bathroom?

Nelson: I’m not kidding you Steve. Seriously. Wade was the kind of guy who was always the first one at the club house. So he’d get to the clubhouse, and he’d bring a six pack with him. He’d be there drinking a beer when someone showed up, and as we were all packing our stuff up out of our lockers and getting our bags ready for the trip, Wade would sit there and drink that whole six pack.

Now, at the time, we were flying out of New Jersey, so it was somewhat of a drive from Yankee stadium to the airport in New Jersey. Wade would drink another couple of beers on the bus to the airport. At the time, we were flying this older airplane, it couldn’t make it across the country without refueling, and it wasn’t the fastest airplane in the sky. So we would stop in North Dakota or something. Wade would drink about a half rack between New Jersey and North Dakota, and it would take about a half-hour to an hour to refuel once we got there, so he’d have a few more beers while we were grounded in North Dakota.

Once we got back up in the air, Wade would drink another 10, 11, 12 beers on the way out to the west coast. The whole flight from coast to coast ususally took us well over 7 hours. We’d touch down at Sea-Tac, hop on the bus headed to the Kingdome, and Wade would have another beer or two on the bus. Then, all of us would get to the Kingdome and unpack our bags and sit around and BS with eachother, and Wade would have a beer in his hand the entire time. He was always one of the last people to leave the club house too. So I’d say that all in all, he drank over 50 beers on the trip, and this wasn’t just an isolated incident, he did that almost every time.

Sandy: Unbelievable. That’s absolutely unbelieveable.

Nelson: Yeah, I know, I’m not kidding though, let’s call up somebody and they’ll tell you man, they’ll tell you I’m not lying.

Sandy: Alright, who should we call up. Let’s take a commercial break, and then we’ll call up somebody and see if we can’t get to the bottom of this…. This is absolutely amazing.

[commercial break: When the commercial end, Paul Sorrento, a former Mariner and Devil Ray, and Boggs’s and Nelly’s former teammate, is on the phone]

Nelly: Hey Paul, good to hear from you man, I haven’t talked to you in a while.

Sorrento: Yeah, what’s it been like, two, three years?

Nelly: Yeah. Hey, Paul, just to clarify now, I didn’t speak to you over the commercial break, and I haven’t talked to you about anything since we last talked a few years ago right?

Sorrento: Yeah, right.

Nelly: Alright Paul, we’ve been talking about Wade Boggs up here today in Seattle.

Sorrento: (laughing) Yeah, ole Wade huh.

Nelly: Yeah, alright Paul, I need you to answer one question for me, truthfully now….How many beers would Wade Boggs drink on an east coast to west coast road trip?

Sorrento: Oh, jeez, (exhaling like a flat tire) I don’t know, like 70.

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[Scarey]

These days, Miller Lite has 96 calories per beer. I have to believe it was more than that in Wade Boggs' playing days.

If Someone were to drink 50 beers at 96 calories per beer, that would add up to 4800 calories. I know a lot of heavy drinkers don't eat anything, so let's just assume Boggs was one of those people and that's all he had for the day was 4800 calories of beer in one day of traveling....

That's almost two and a half more calories than an average person is supposed to consume on a daily basis.





It just doesn't add up.

[veryzer]

functioning alcoholic. it happens.

[kbwsb]

I don't get the impression that Boggs did this <i>daily.</i>
But on a travel day? Why not?
BTW, sometimes people forget how physically different world-class athletes are from the rest of us. The stories about Babe Ruth's eating and drinking habits would seem like total science fiction, if they hadn't been repeated by about 100 different people over the years, including his wives and best friends. And remember that he was 6'2, 200 to 225 pounds. He wasn't some leviathan.

And I always remember this tidbit from Hollywood Henderson's bio, about his days with the Dallas Cowboys: for those years, his roommate was Ed "Too Tall" Jones.
Henderson's own daily intake of steaks, beer, cocaine, amphetamines, whiskey and whatnot was startling. But he said that Too Tall would come home from practice every day and drink a case of Budweiser.
A <i>case</i>.
Every single day, for years.

I freely admit that I'm not built that way. I'm sure that few are. But <i>some</i> are.

[chemikel]

Anybody have an idea what your blood alcohol would be after 60 beers? I looked at some online calculators and it won't calculate it for 60 beers.

[Scarey]

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Over the period of traveling from coast to coast, it's not that much.

Going back to my point KB, I understand that he didn't do this on a daily basis, but over the coarse of the season doing this for most of their road trips he would have to starve himself for a day before hand to not steadily gain weight. It just doesn't add up.

And the world class athlete thing... I guarantee I burn more calories on my daily workouts than most baseball players did then and maybe even now. I honestly don't know what a ballplayer does on a game day, but I assume it's just jogging, hitting, and stretching before the game. Just because he played baseball for a living does not mean he can dispose of 4800 calories any easier than I can.

[jstraw]

The last two dozen beers are half-empty cans because he can't remember where he set them down or that he just opened one.

[veryzer]

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Over the period of traveling from coast to coast, it's not that much.

Going back to my point KB, I understand that he didn't do this on a daily basis, but over the coarse of the season doing this for most of their road trips he would have to starve himself for a day before hand to not steadily gain weight. It just doesn't add up.

And the world class athlete thing... I guarantee I burn more calories on my daily workouts than most baseball players did then and maybe even now. I honestly don't know what a ballplayer does on a game day, but I assume it's just jogging, hitting, and stretching before the game. Just because he played baseball for a living does not mean he can dispose of 4800 calories any easier than I can.
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over the period of traveling coast to coast, it's not that much? seriously? 60 beers in less than 24 hours ain't that much? you're crazy.

i believe that drinking like that and not gaining weight is much more believable. this is a guy who was fanatical about his workout. there's no doubt in my mind that he was able to work that off.

now how he was able to sober up before game time? that one perplexes me.