The Legend of Wade Boggs

[Shogun]

Last night, a few Sun-Times staffers went out for an after-work beverage to celebrate the completion of another compelling Satuday paper. As it often does, the conversation turned to baseball and how today's game doesn't stack up to the current incarnation of America's pastime.

Some good stories about yesteryear were tossed around, but somehow I failed to mention my favorite baseball legend of all time.

I first stumbled across the gem about a year ago and since have made it a point to bring it up as much as humanly possible.

It involves Hall of Fame third baseman Wade Boggs and a whole bunch of beer.

The dirty details after the jump.
Evidently, Boggs enjoyed putting down Miller Lites. Like, really enjoyed it.

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 ususally 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.

It should be noted that Boggs said the number of tasty Miller Lites may have been inflated over the years.

The legend of Wade Boggs and a 64-beer road trip - Sports Pros(e)

 

[jdubnyce]

 

[SoulController]

 

[*Hulks Up*]

BOGGS!..I'm clean in this bytch
Now I'm finna shoulder lean in this bytch.

 

[HacksawJimThuggin]

wasn't he a notorious racist?

 

[Captain Crunch]

Boggs

 

[HacksawJimThuggin]

At one point in the 20-minute interview, Boyd repeated a charge he had made years ago by describing Boggs as a bigot who would "use the word ****** every day," adding that it's a trait Boggs inherited from his father. Boyd also said he confronted Boggs "every damn time he did it," and that, as a result, "I would turn out to be the bad guy 'cause I questioned that shyt."

 

[Walt]

wasn't he a notorious racist?

He's a piece of shyt, a fried chicken fiend of a cracker in the truest sense of the term, a ring-chasing coward, a greedy simpleminded fakkit who tried to auction the rights to his Hall of Fame hat, a pathetic cheating shythead who betrayed his devoted, ugly wife with a filthy, ugly skank, and he always looks like he's a confederate soldier in a Civil War reenactment.

From his former whore:

Adams said Boggs counseled fellow white players not to date black women and expressed displeasure over the attention she got from his black teammate Jim Rice. "(Rice) was always very affectionate with me and Wade would say, 'I can't stand him putting his arms around you.' " Adams said that Boggs made remarks on the sexual habits of black men, that he was upset "that several of the white ballplayers preferred black women when they were on the road" and that he told one of those players it was not "good for his image to be seen with a black woman."

fukk him, his family, his legacy and every fan he has ever had.

 

[Walt]

Bonus info:

In the story, Adams said Boggs made a racist remark about teammate Jim Rice, was extremely jealous of New York Yankees first baseman Don Mattingly and felt Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens acted like "Mr. Perfect."

Adams also said Boggs believed Jose Canseco of the Oakland Athletics used steroids and thought Hall of Famer Ted Williams "was a guy that thinks he knows everything about hitting and doesn't."



Adams said Boggs told her he had contracted venereal disease from one woman and impregnated another woman who subsequently had a miscarriage.

 

[ThaBronxBully]

Bonus info:

In the story, Adams said Boggs made a racist remark about teammate Jim Rice, was extremely jealous of New York Yankees first baseman Don Mattingly and felt Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens acted like "Mr. Perfect."

Adams also said Boggs believed Jose Canseco of the Oakland Athletics used steroids and thought Hall of Famer Ted Williams "was a guy that thinks he knows everything about hitting and doesn't."



Adams said Boggs told her he had contracted venereal disease from one woman and impregnated another woman who subsequently had a miscarriage.

Speaking Of Wade Boggs And "Mr Perfect"

 

[Jamal514]

I remember reading a story about Boggs where he told a flight attendant that he would "kick her fat lips in" if she didn't get him another beer. Dude seems like an a$$hole.

 

[HookersandIceCream]

He's a piece of shyt, a fried chicken fiend of a cracker in the truest sense of the term, a ring-chasing coward, a greedy simpleminded fakkit who tried to auction the rights to his Hall of Fame hat, a pathetic cheating shythead who betrayed his devoted, ugly wife with a filthy, ugly skank, and he always looks like he's a confederate soldier in a Civil War reenactment.

From his former whore:

Adams said Boggs counseled fellow white players not to date black women and expressed displeasure over the attention she got from his black teammate Jim Rice. "(Rice) was always very affectionate with me and Wade would say, 'I can't stand him putting his arms around you.' " Adams said that Boggs made remarks on the sexual habits of black men, that he was upset "that several of the white ballplayers preferred black women when they were on the road" and that he told one of those players it was not "good for his image to be seen with a black woman."

fukk him, his family, his legacy and every fan he has ever had.

But he kept it classy while doing all that

 

[mastermind]

I knew I wasnt buggin

 

[Miggs]

I always hated Boggs before i heard the racist stuff....i hated that stupid mustache,hated that batting stance,hated those singles opposite field,hated that cameo on Cheers...

 

[SoulController]

I always hated Boggs before i heard the racist stuff....i hated that stupid mustache,hated that batting stance,hated those singles opposite field,hated that cameo on Cheers...

hahahahaha its so appropriate he guested on Cheers

i hated those slap singles the other way too, dude was a machina tho