TFC players jailed for Public Intoxication and Suspended by TFC

[joeyjones]

Man seriously what is this team up to? Acting like a bunch of losers, alcoholics, and scumbags. this isnt what a winning team with their minds set on winning do

really? tell that to Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford...or the 82 Cardinals...or Bernie Carbo before he hit a huge homer in the 75 World Series

[pawlukj]

being part of a professional team, means that you behave and act as a professional. I dont know why they were drinking in the first place, i guess thats up to them. But even a normal person wouldnt do stuff like that let alone a pro that is playing a game ina few days.

They can go ahead and join Hedo Turkoglu in my category of disgrace.

[nlsanand]

I'm letting this one slide. Cops can be assholes sometimes, and these aren't Canadian cops either (who are bad enough). So that explains the arrest, coupled with the story from Aceval. The Silva running away part...haven't got a clear story yet. But I'm almost willing to assume it was something like "Fuck off officer, we're leaving anyways." situation.

In terms of being out on Sunday night. Well, Luis's situation kinda explains that. I can live with it. My brother died a couple of years ago, and I went and got drunk a couple of nights later (though I went to my local, not some club downtown). People deal with that shit differently.

[tiberius]

So a Chilean, an American and a Dutchman walk into a bar...

I am starting to see a pattern here - the last big aggravating dust-up we had was when a bus full of Chileans stirred the pot at BMO in 2007 for the U20... We should have known that we would get indigestion if we tried Chili again this year...

[MG42]

The Legend Wade Boggs

We’ve had a few questions come up about Boggs, and why we refer to tasty Miller Lites as Boggs. Well my friends, open your ears and I’ll pour in a tale.

I heard the legendary story over my car radio as I was heading down I-5 to work about a year ago, listening to Mitch in the Morning on 950 KJR, as usual. For some reason or another, Mitch was gone that day so Steve Sandmeyer was hosting the show, and former Mariners and Yankees pitcher Jeff Nelson was sitting in as his sidekick.
Sandmeyer was killing some time by making small talk about baseball and about Nelly’s career and exploits as a major leaguer. The conversation turned to some of the funniest things Nelly had seen in his career when Sandy asked something like “who was the best with the ladies out of everyone you were around in baseball?” Nelson said that it was tough to say for sure, but that he figured it was probably Andre Dawson, the former Expos, Cubs, Red Sox, and Marlins slugger.

The two shared a laugh about the Hawk’s game, and then Sandmeyer stumbled upon the most compelling question ever articulated in an interview: “who would you say drank the most beer out of everyone you ever played with?” The following colloquy sheds some light on one of drinking’s biggest stars and on one of the greatest drinking feats of all time.

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 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 eachother, 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.

Sandy: Unbelievable. That’s absolutely unbelieveable.

Nelson: Yeah, I know, I’m not kidding though, let’s call up somebody and they’ll tell you man, they’ll tell you I’m not lying.

Sandy: Alright, who should we call up. Let’s take a commercial break, and then we’ll call up somebody and see if we can’t get to the bottom of this….This is absolutely amazing.
[commercial break: When the commercial end, 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, Hank: (Rolling on the ground laughing)

So there you have it, that’s the wonderful tale of Wade Boggs’ incredible drinking feats. So one day when a few of us at tasty booze were hanging around crushing some ice cold Miller Lites, and after I told them the story of Wade Boggs, we decided from then on that we would call a Miller Lite a Boggs in honor of the man who drank ‘em the best.

[ochos]

Finally getting around to reading this story - and frankly I have to laugh at all the people on this board who come on here to judge and criticize just about anybody like they're paid to give their opinion. It's actually kind of sad the way people just jump right into passing judgement, without really thinking about how certain situations play out. These kinds of things can happen out of nowhere - I've seen my fair share of bar/club brawls and things can escalate very quickly.

First off, for three players to get arrested all at once is not common. Definitely would seem that they were all dragged in - it doesn't necessarily mean that they all did something bad. When cops arrive on the scene of a conflict, they don't care to listen to stories. They'll arrest first and ask questions later (and rightly so in many cases). But once you're in cuffs, that's it, your fucked. Regardless of innocence, be prepared to spend the night in the clink.

I could really give a rat's ass if these guys even got in a good old fashioned fisticuffs - hell we all found it entertaining in Cool Runnings, no? But seriously, I hope this snaps some sort of sense into them and we see a resurgence in form. I'm sure the organization will deal with this pretty sternly, in the modern, politically correct 'holier than thou' era where everyone is perfect. But to act disgraced by the players as if they beat up a school kid is just silly. I've heard some pretty sad stories about pro athletes getting away with all sorts of crazy bar brawls - the kind that make this look like child's play. And these guys are worshiped like gods because they're often untouchable.

So to end rant - who really gives a fuck? Let's get on with it and get a W

[Auzzy]

Possibly a bit of context about PI arrests in Texas, an article from Mother Jones magazine in the US: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...ng-while-brown

Not saying this necessarily applied in the case of the TFC 3, but just something to keep in mind. (Duane Rollins posted the link to Twitter.)