Pre-game for the Sox

[mack 44]

Well if it works...

[JR Boucicaut 3765]

LOL I heard that...heard Millar said that he wishes he never mentioned it...

[Eazy_b97 1]

maybe he was hammered and it slipped out?

[Vapor 0]

As was wells when he threw his perfect game, alcohol + baseball = more gooder

[2048 0]

As was wells when he threw his perfect game, alcohol + baseball = more gooder

homer simpson said that.

[Stampeder 2]

Sounds like my hockey practices.

[this guy 0]

Who was the pitcher that pitched a no-hitter on acid? Might have been on something else.

[JR Boucicaut 3765]

Dock Ellis pitched while high on LSD in 1970. It was true.

Boomer Wells claimed he was hungover but most people don't believe it. He said it to sell his book.

[LegoDoom 0]

Boomer Wells claimed he was hungover but most people don't believe it. He said it to sell his book.

I just assumed he has a hangover more days than not, so I figured it could be true.

[Jim A 4]

I don't doubt Wells nursing a slight hangover..it was '98 albeit early in the year and the Yankees were already cruising to that 114-48 season...and while he may just have a couple drinks before turning in on the road when in the company of all his teammates...those guys used to party hard at places like Gaslight, etc..where the owner used to stay open late for them when on a homestand..although nothing like the Yankees of the 70's and 80's..thank goodness..

Boomer is actually a pretty cool guy, he just doesn't want to put up with the autograph hounds,etc..if you approach him like a normal guy and just shoot the bs..he's much different..

[Shorthanded67 0]

Well if the BoSox were a bit tipsy, that may explain some of that brutal fielding.

[Eazy_b97 1]

Or why Ramirez's improved?

[D3nZ 0]

A guy that played with me last year was a regular player, didn't score a goal for about 5 games sober. On the 6th game, came to the came drunk like a redneck in Alabama. He scored 3 goals that game and had an assist. He didn't score for the rest of the season while he was again sober.

[asdfa 0]

i don't know about you guys but i hear plenty of stories of guys who play better high. it supposedly gives them better view of the ice and they end up being able to pull off more moves because they're calm

[J-Shera 0]

I heard that to, alot of players on my my high schools team did it.

[RadioGaGa 162]

I'm not going to say drinking before you play is a good idea, but one night after work a group of us went out for a couple drinks and time ended up slipping away and I ended up going right from the bar to the rink for pick up...I think I had 2 (maybe three) drinks in about 3 hours and I played pretty good that night. Maybe becasue I was "loose" I dunno. But, for what it's worth, that's my story.

[Stampeder 2]

We've got drunk before practice a few times, its fun...but you suck. You also cant skate for very long.

[2048 0]

I wonder what a couple of 151 or absinthe shots would do to you before a game.

[PiKappaPhi 0]

My personal opinion on all this is probably the dumbest thing you can do while playing a contact sport. All your muscles are relaxed and your reflexes are slowed down considerable so one would be much more susceptable to injury.

[LegoDoom 0]

My personal opinion on all this is probably the dumbest thing you can do while playing a contact sport. All your muscles are relaxed and your reflexes are slowed down considerable so one would be much more susceptable to injury.

Have you seen Manny play the field? It wouldn't matter.

[JR Boucicaut 3765]

Another reason why not to play drunk - alcohol dehydrates you. Then you drink a ton of water while playing to overcompensate, and all of a sudden it's barf city on the bench...

[mack 44]

Played hungover but the only times we drank before and during games were for outdoor pickups. Nothing like flaming jacks to get the furnace going, even if it actually opens you up to more cold.

[NCPUCK26 0]

i don't know about you guys but i hear plenty of stories of guys who play better high. it supposedly gives them better view of the ice and they end up being able to pull off more moves because they're calm

Yeah there were a few kids like that on my team. We were number three in the state, one is playing at a solid D-3, the other is one of the best in the state. On the bus ride to our state semi's game one kid was in the back of the bus takin shots, played a sick game, the other only came to practice and one game sober, played like shit and just kept flipping out on kids. Also at a tourny in Marlborough this spring, the Jr. kids on my team all had the water bottles filled up with beer, and we just sat in the lockeroom pregaming, still won too haha.

[Jim A 4]

Nothing like being a functional alcoholic at 18...

read the articles on guys like Max Middendorf and Bryan Fogarty..look at what they pissed away