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1970s1970s Posts: 3,093 ✭✭✭✭✭

I would think Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, and Billy Martin would have to be in the conversation.
Who else is well known for living the "high life" ?

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  • countdouglascountdouglas Posts: 2,271 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Albert "Joey" Belle

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    Bob Welch

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    Wade Boggs

  • craig44craig44 Posts: 10,393 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Could make an all Yankees roster here it seems. Wasn't whitey Ford know to tip a few back as well?

    George Brett, Bobby Orr and Terry Bradshaw.

  • DarinDarin Posts: 6,247 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @craig44 said:
    Could make an all Yankees roster here it seems. Wasn't whitey Ford know to tip a few back as well?

    Two Yankees once worked out a trade............ for each others' wives.

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  • lawnmowermanlawnmowerman Posts: 19,477 ✭✭✭✭
    edited March 15, 2019 7:09PM

    Dennis Eckersley

    I remember watching an interview on TV one time about his alcohol abuse. I just found a quote from him online...

    “I hit bottom shortly before the Cubs traded me to Oakland. I was in complete denial about my alcohol abuse. Believe me when I tell you self-denial is a killer!

    “But I knew I had to do something different—alcoholism runs in my family I needed to get sober. My turning point was when I finally accepted the fact that I was an alcoholic.

    “I was scared, but I turned to Alcoholics Anonymous and went into rehab for a while. So when I went to Oakland I was clean and sober.”

  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 7,939 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wonder if we should sub category the types of tipsters:Happy, Nasty,Lovable,Funny, Belligerent,Excuseable, drunks etc. Kind of like the 7 dwarfs of "sotism".

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    Dwight Gooden, Darryl Strawberry, Josh Hamilton

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  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Steve Howe.

  • DarinDarin Posts: 6,247 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @1970s said:

    @Darin said:

    @craig44 said:
    Could make an all Yankees roster here it seems. Wasn't whitey Ford know to tip a few back as well?

    Two Yankees once worked out a trade............ for each others' wives.

    Fritz Peterson and ?

    Mike Kekich

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  • hammer1hammer1 Posts: 3,874 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @countdouglas said:
    Bob Welch

    Wrote a book: Five O'Clock Comes Early: A Young Man's Battle with Alcoholism

  • cecropiamothcecropiamoth Posts: 959 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 16, 2019 5:56PM

    Lary Sorensen

    7 DUI's, once with a staggering BAC of 0.48%.

  • JustacommemanJustacommeman Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @cecropiamoth said:
    Lary Sorensen

    7 DUI's, once with a staggering BAC of 0.48%.

    Isn’t that a record of some sort without dying?
    m

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  • cecropiamothcecropiamoth Posts: 959 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Justacommeman said:

    @cecropiamoth said:
    Lary Sorensen

    7 DUI's, once with a staggering BAC of 0.48%.

    Isn’t that a record of some sort without dying?
    m

    I guess the LD50 is 0.40%.

    Jeff

  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,267 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 17, 2019 7:11AM

    Joe Pepitone

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  • JoeBanzaiJoeBanzai Posts: 11,171 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Justacommeman said:

    @cecropiamoth said:
    Lary Sorensen

    7 DUI's, once with a staggering BAC of 0.48%.

    Isn’t that a record of some sort without dying?
    m

    not even close

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  • Skin2Skin2 Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭
    edited March 17, 2019 9:32AM

    @1970s said:

    Only drunks have a negative WPA in the postseason.

    .

    You mean George Brett's negative WPA in the World Series?? lol

    Only a drunk man can fail to catch a ball like Bret did below:

    Here is a quote from an article in the Kansas City Star, by Joe Posnanski, in regard to the 1977 ALCS...which the Royals lost:

    "We’re going to beat those ($#&$#%),” Billy Martin said.

    Game two, Yankee Stadium: Yankees win 6-2

    The big blow was a two-run error made by Brett,"

    LMAO.

    Those are one of the errors I highlighted earlier for you. So when you add those things into his few lucky hot streaks in the ALCS, the sum result is his WPA was negative, and obviously didn't play good enough to win, or they would have.

    Brett's fielding percentage in 1976-1978 ALCS
    1976 .769
    1977 .895
    1978 .917

    Are those the fielding perentages of a high school player? LOL, looks like it.

    Mike Schmidt WOrld Series WPA .15
    George Brett WOrld Series WPA NEGATIVE .12

  • countdouglascountdouglas Posts: 2,271 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Not a player, but certainly a Hall of Fame beer drinker...he was a Cub fan, and a Bud man!

    Harry Caray

  • Skin2Skin2 Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭

    @1970s said:

    @Skin2 said:

    @1970s said:

    Only drunks have a negative WPA in the postseason.

    .

    You mean George Brett's negative WPA in the World Series?? lol

    >

    Ah, no. I meant George Brett's POSITIVE lifetime WPA in the postseason and
    Mike Schmidt's NEGATIVE lifetime WPA in the postseason.

    Class dismissed.

    What is positive about giving runs away in the field? You can't just forget about them when talking about Win probability....because his errors made their probability go down...a lot. Hence why the actually DID lose, often.

    Maybe if Brett hit when it counted in the World Series they would have won in 1980. Too bad he couldn't field a ball in the alcs, they could have went to couple more world series.

    Here is a quote from an article in the Kansas City Star, by Joe Posnanski, in regard to the 1977 ALCS...which the Royals lost:

    "We’re going to beat those ($#&$#%),” Billy Martin said.

    Game two, Yankee Stadium: Yankees win 6-2

    The big blow was a two-run error made by Brett,"

    LMAO.

    Those are one of the errors I highlighted earlier for you. So when you add those things into his few lucky hot streaks in the ALCS, the sum result is his WPA was negative, and obviously didn't play good enough to win, or they would have.

    Brett's fielding percentage in 1976-1978 ALCS
    1976 .769
    1977 .895
    1978 .917

    Are those the fielding perentages of a high school player? LOL, looks like it.

    Mike Schmidt WOrld Series WPA .15
    George Brett WOrld Series WPA NEGATIVE .12

  • stevekstevek Posts: 27,581 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Skin2 said:
    George Brett playing defense in the 1976-78 ALCS must have been drunk.

    Perhaps it was also an intestinal problem again?

  • maplemanmapleman Posts: 1,052 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Pepitone used popcorn! > @softparade said:

    Joe Pepitone

  • dallasactuarydallasactuary Posts: 4,102 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @stevek said:

    @Skin2 said:
    George Brett playing defense in the 1976-78 ALCS must have been drunk.

    Perhaps it was also an intestinal problem again?

    It was syphilis.

    This is for you @thisistheshow - Jim Rice was actually a pretty good player.
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    "Sudden Sam" McDowell

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    Sam Malone "Cheers"

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    Mike "King" Kelly
    Edward "Whitey" Ford
    Hack Wilson
    Pete "Grover Cleveland" Alexander
    George Edward Rube Waddell

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