Wade Boggs - chicken and beer

Wade Boggs, Hall of Fame drinker?
Just about everyone knows that Wade Boggs had a thing about eating chicken before each game and nailing a chick who spread her goods in Penthouse after the scandal, but did you know that Wade could put down 60-70 beers during cross country flights? Check out the story below.

It's from some sports talk show out of Seattle and is being hosted by a guy named Steve Sandmeyer and former Mariners and Yankees pitcher Jeff Nelson was sitting in as his sidekick:

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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......Wade would drink anywhere between 50 and 60 beers.

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 usually 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 each other, 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.

From here they take a a commercial break and call up somebody to prove Nelson's story is true:

[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.

Nelly, Sandberg, Sorrento: (Rolling on the ground laughing)

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I am sure the guy could drink but 50 or more beers in a day? :think2:

Wade Boggs just becomes more awsome every time I read about him

definetly has acehived "hero" status for me

didn't he have a Sex Addiction too? No kidding!

Fishhead drank semi regularly with Wade at Selmons Bar in New Tampa before he moved form there to St. Pete. Wade also lived in the New Tampa area at the time.

My personal best for a day is around 30-35 beers ... , started around 8 am , went to 4.00 am ... ( had a little help from my friends ... if you catch my drift )

Wade Boggs will have a cult-like following now, all hail Wade, sex fiend AND alcoholic!!!

legendary

barbary coast 1991 9 to 9 shift betting ponies drank 106 glasses of beer.....may have been 10 oz glasses so knock off a little for that............the waitresses were keeping count and would hand the count over to the next shift...........also ate 6 dogs from the hotdog cart guy used to park in barbary race book................kraut and mustard mmmmmmmmmmmm and 106 beers............mmmmmmmmmmm

steak tartar said:

barbary coast 1991 9 to 9 shift betting ponies drank 106 glasses of beer.....may have been 10 oz glasses so knock off a little for that............the waitresses were keeping count and would hand the count over to the next shift...........also ate 6 dogs from the hotdog cart guy used to park in barbary race book................kraut and mustard mmmmmmmmmmmm and 106 beers............mmmmmmmmmmm

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my god, suprised anyone could survive that shit, hope you hit a few races to pay for the tab...

ya as i recall did ok i used to that weekly there but the 106 was unusual they would bring two at a time and 10 min later two more i usually put away 50 or so but like i said they were the glasses

Wade Boggs was drinking up a storm at a big bar and he does drink like a fish. We were talking baseball and right about the same time the Margo Adams affair exploded he was at a bar...I was talking to him about baseball and he was an ego maniac. He had to be losing his mind because of the affair as well as his ego. He was so self centered and critical of teammates that I was in shock. He finally went to far when he insulted Dwight Evans once too much...I brought out a couple of points that proved without a doubt how selfish he was (that was he reputation back then) and he went crazy. He tried to get at me and about 10 bounces escorted him out after quite a scene. It all happened so fast that I could not believe it happened. Yeah he can pound em. What I remember most was that he was just wide eyes staring at me listening with tremendous instensity to my stories on his selfishness. I told him in Cleveland that the Sox had a man on third with less than two out and he took two straight fastballs for strikes. He was not looking to get the run home by driving the ball..instead he chose to be selfish and look for a hit. He went nuts. LOL....

Tom Brady#1 said:

Wade Boggs was drinking up a storm at a big bar and he does drink like a fish. We were talking baseball and right about the same time the Margo Adams affair exploded he was at a bar...I was talking to him about baseball and he was an ego maniac. He had to be losing his mind because of the affair as well as his ego. He was so self centered and critical of teammates that I was in shock. He finally went to far when he insulted Dwight Evans once too much...I brought out a couple of points that proved without a doubt how selfish he was (that was he reputation back then) and he went crazy. He tried to get at me and about 10 bounces escorted him out after quite a scene. It all happened so fast that I could not believe it happened. Yeah he can pound em. What I remember most was that he was just wide eyes staring at me listening with tremendous instensity to my stories on his selfishness. I told him in Cleveland that the Sox had a man on third with less than two out and he took two straight fastballs for strikes. He was not looking to get the run home by driving the ball..instead he chose to be selfish and look for a hit. He went nuts. LOL....

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I think you've told that before. I feel for your grandkids

Wade Boggs being a big drinker I thought was out for years....

RupertPupkin said:

My personal best for a day is around 30-35 beers ... , started around 8 am , went to 4.00 am ... ( had a little help from my friends ... if you catch my drift )

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:coke:I remember those days....a case was no problemo after a couple bumps...but 70??? - major props to Wade....had to be doing some lines himself I'd imagine

steak tartar said:

barbary coast 1991 9 to 9 shift betting ponies drank 106 glasses of beer.....may have been 10 oz glasses so knock off a little for that............the waitresses were keeping count and would hand the count over to the next shift...........also ate 6 dogs from the hotdog cart guy used to park in barbary race book................kraut and mustard mmmmmmmmmmmm and 106 beers............mmmmmmmmmmm

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:monsters-

That is 8.28 gallons. I have a hard time believing that.

thejdog said:

:coke:I remember those days....a case was no problemo after a couple bumps...but 70??? - major props to Wade....had to be doing some lines himself I'd imagine

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I'll say one thing , I guarantee a "Line" formed behind Wade for the bathroom , as soon as he first decided to drain the snake

steak tartar said:

barbary coast 1991 9 to 9 shift betting ponies drank 106 glasses of beer.....may have been 10 oz glasses so knock off a little for that............the waitresses were keeping count and would hand the count over to the next shift...........also ate 6 dogs from the hotdog cart guy used to park in barbary race book................kraut and mustard mmmmmmmmmmmm and 106 beers............mmmmmmmmmmm

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hey steak - looking forward to bumping heads with you every day come football and CBB

levistep said:

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That is 8.28 gallons. I have a hard time believing that.

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its true not overly proud of it i had numerous 50/60 beer sessions there also but this day was special i think i owe it all to the hotdog cart guy.....kept me going

In college each spring we had a case race, it was us (the football team) vs the hockey team. Each year it changed who hosted it (either one of our seniors or one of theirs), each man got a case and then we made teams and first one done won. As you can imagine their was a ton of shackanery. Most crazy that I ever saw, and I cant make this shit up, we were at a hockey house and they had a couch on their lawn. Some guy finds a chainsaw (why their was a chainsaw handy, I have no f'n clue). Cuts the couch in half and then a group of guys pull togeather to throw each half on the roof. It was pretty nuts, and of course 90% of the time ended in at least one brawl.

Sheesh, I already hated that chicken eating prick, now I see he's a boozer and I hate him even more. That stupid chicken eating routine, that ugly ass inside out swing and hitting 90% of his hits to the opposited field, including hundreds of cheezy doubles hit off of the Monster. Riding on that fucking horse with a cop when he greased out a ring as a member of the Skankees. But most of all, he not only cheated on his wife, having a "home" wife and a "road" wife, but if you're a millionaire athlete and gonna cheat, at LEAST get a decent looking broad. The side bet was definitely clock stopping material. Last time I saw him, he was hawking some kind of hair replacement product, it was waaaaay beyond tacky.:monsters-