You don't say..... Baseball Team Bans Beer By order of A's general manager Billy Beane, the A's no longer provide beer for the visiting team's postgame refreshment. Also banned: beer in the home-team clubhouse. And clubhouse beer on A's road trips. "Guys weren't too happy," said Eric Byrnes, Arizona Diamondback infielder. So Saturday, when his team was playing the A's he brought a case of Bud Lite to the ball yard. "It's BYO (bring your own)," Byrnes said, "so I BYO'd it." Twenty years from now, a youngster outside the Diamondbacks' ballpark will ask his father, "Dad, why is there a statue of Eric Byrnes?" "This is the first visiting clubhouse I've ever been in the major leagues that didn't have a couple cold (adult) sodas," Byrnes said. I didn't want this (rule) to leave a bad taste in my teammates' mouths. Or no taste." The unwritten Baseball Code says that a player is entitled to unlimited free frosty ones after each game. |
No Water for 37 Years! Croatia's Nikola Opacic, 70, has not had a drop of water in the last 37 years, drinking beer instead, 'It's not that our water isn't good, but it can't quench my thirst,' Opacic was quotes as saying by Croatian daily 24 Sata. Opacic went off water while working as a construction worker in Munich, Germany, in 1969. He said the water in Germany was of very poor quality, and therefore, he began to drink beer instead and never lost the habit. Opacic remains agile despite his years and still works as a roofer. He claims he owes it all to beer. |
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Hugh Hood “Nothing ever tasted better than a cold beer on a beautiful afternoon with nothing to look forward to than more of the same.” — BrianLynch "Beer is the center of everything. Everything revolves around beer. When you drink beer, everything revolves. Therefore beer is the center of everything.”." |
Abraham Lincoln "I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.” __ Dan Hodge "Beer that is not drunk has missed its vocation." |
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True Beer Facts There are 6,999 drops of beer in a standard 12 ounce bottle according to the Canadian Ace Brewing company. The "hinged-lid" on beer steins first cam into existence because of the Bubonic Plague. Drinkers used the lip to keep out flies or other insects that might carry the plague. |