Baseball's Top 5 Drunks
1970s
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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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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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Mark Grace
Albert "Joey" Belle
Bob Welch
Wade Boggs
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.
Two Yankees once worked out a trade............ for each others' wives.
In the course of every human endeavor since the dawn of time the risk of human error has always been a factor. Including but not limited to field goals, 4th down attempts, or multiple paragraph ramblings on a sports forum authored by someone who shall remain anonymous.
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.”
1994 Pro Line Live
TheDallasCowboyBackfieldProject
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".
Dwight Gooden, Darryl Strawberry, Josh Hamilton
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Steve Howe.
Mike Kekich
In the course of every human endeavor since the dawn of time the risk of human error has always been a factor. Including but not limited to field goals, 4th down attempts, or multiple paragraph ramblings on a sports forum authored by someone who shall remain anonymous.
Wrote a book: Five O'Clock Comes Early: A Young Man's Battle with Alcoholism
Lary Sorensen
7 DUI's, once with a staggering BAC of 0.48%.
Isn’t that a record of some sort without dying?
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
I guess the LD50 is 0.40%.
Jeff
Joe Pepitone
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George Brett playing defense in the 1976-78 ALCS must have been drunk.
not even close
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
Not a player, but certainly a Hall of Fame beer drinker...he was a Cub fan, and a Bud man!
Harry Caray
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
Perhaps it was also an intestinal problem again?
Pepitone used popcorn! > @softparade said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynbqA7tS4eg
It was syphilis.
"Sudden Sam" McDowell
buying O-Pee-Chee (OPC) baseball
Sam Malone "Cheers"
Charlie Goodson - Anger Management
Mike "King" Kelly
Edward "Whitey" Ford
Hack Wilson
Pete "Grover Cleveland" Alexander
George Edward Rube Waddell