dee-nee.com updates for 8/16/2004

[fightonusc]

More Wade Boggs - It's no secret that the man loved to drink; Jim Rome would often tell the story related to him by a former teammate of Boggs that he watched Wade consume three cases of beer on a cross-country flight coming back from a road trip. That's 72 beers in about 6 hours. And the most amazing part, according to the teammate, was that Wade seemed more or less fine at the end of the flight.

Also, he was nicknamed "Chicken Man" by Jim Rice for his habit of eating chicken before every game. Plus, he showed himself to be a complete douchebag by kissing home plate after hitting a HR for his 3,000 hit as a member of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. The same team that allegedly put it into his contract that he would go into the Hall of Fame as a Devil Ray, although HoF officials later said that, no, if he's elected, he has to go in as a Red Sox.

[Gantry]

Can you really drink 72 beers in 6 hours?  That's a beer every 5 minutes for 6 straight hours!   I don't think that's humanly possible unless you are Andre the Giant

[fightonusc]

Damn it, I guess I'll just take over this thread...

Several things need to go in for Roger Clemens:

- Has said that if he's forced to go into the Hall of Fame as a Red Sox, he'll skip the ceremony. While I agree that he should be able to go in as a Yankee if he wants, he's kind of being an ass by threatening to boycot the ceremony.

- Had a complete spastic meltdown and tried to go Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Mike Piazza with his broken bat during the World Series.

- Was ejected in the second inning of game 4 of the ALCS for arguing balls and strikes, leading to the A's completing the series sweep against the Red Sox.

- Was arrested with brother Gary in 1991 for assualting a police officer following a disturbance at a Houston nightclub.

- Of course, there's the matter of getting ejected from his son's youth baseball game this year.

[fightonusc]

Kirk Gibson:

(from Sports Illustrated): Former teammate Dave Rozema missed a start after teammate Kirk Gibson pulled a stool out from under him while he had a glass bottle of cough syrup in his back pocket.

[ultimate7]

Can you really drink 72 beers in 6 hours?  That's a beer every 5 minutes for 6 straight hours!   I don't think that's humanly possible unless you are Andre the Giant

No way, I don't believe, how many times would he have to go to the can.

72 cans = 864 ounces = 6.75 gallons of beer, I think he would be dead.

[fightonusc]

I've had friends who could go through a 12-pack an hour for a few hours. But being able to maintain that level of excellence for six hours seems like a Herculian task...But, if Jim Rome said it happened, it must be true...

[Baines]

As much as I've always wanted to believe that an RBI player could accomplish the feat, I still find it a little hard to buy into.  One of the most impressive displays of drinking i've ever seen was when spike_owen#1's brother drank 36 bottles at the strip club in about 3 1/2 hours.  This guy goes about 6'4" 350 though and was absolutely fucked up.  Seeing that, I find it a little hard to believe that someone could double it.

[malnuboy]

I know its not an actuall appearance but in the movie the Rookie you get to see both Wade Boggs and Jose Canseaco's Devil Rays jerseys hanging up, this might be worth a mention.

[Flood]

Dirty Sanchez maybe, but Rey?

[T Roogs]

While I believe Sandberg's wife had an affair with Palmeiro, the trade and the retirement were years apart, I'm not sure how much of an effect the affair could have had on his retirement.

sandberg was banging grace's wife...or vice versa. that's how it went down. Palmiero was like maddux, just let go.

[ultimate7]

sandberg was banging grace's wife...or vice versa. that's how it went down. Palmiero was like maddux, just let go.

Roogs, what are you talking about
1) Grace wasn't married at this time
2) The Cubs traded Palmiero in a deal for Mitch Williams

[T Roogs]

sorry about the palmiero thing. My point was he had nothing to do with ryno's wife. Grace was banging her then. He didn't have to be married to be banging another man's wife.
God did grace smoke a lot.

[ultimate7]

How do you know this?

[fightonusc]

Because T Roogs is actually Andre Dawson. Go Hawk!

[T Roogs]

I live in chicago...pple talked about it all the time back in the mid 90's.
i'll site The Score as my reference, back then i think it was 820AM on only till 6PM. Now its 24-7. memories.

[T Roogs]

Because T Roogs is actually Andre Dawson. Go Hawk!

I'm actually Steve Buchelle!

[Gantry]

Clemens and Gibby have also been added to the Hall of Shame, well done USC!