You Not So Cute, Even When You're Slurring Your Speech

Hello everyone.

It's early for a Saturday morning. I did something to my knee yesterday and was in bed with ice/heat/elevation and all that jazz all night. This sounds like an awful way to spend a Friday night, but it wasn't so bad.

I ended up staying up with a friend discussing the ridiculousness that was the 2nd game of the Sox/Yanks double header (aka the game that never was going to end). I don't even want to talk about it now, but there has never been a time when I wanted them to keep Tavarez in. Seriously, HANSEN?! I hate Hansen. Why do I hate Craig Hansen, you ask? Well here's a little story for ya.

I do some work with a charity in Boston and a few times a year, I get to rub elbows with some Red Sox players. Everytime this happens, I get giddy. I look forward to who I'm going to meet this time around, and in January, the "next big thing" Craig Hansen was there. He had done nothing to impress me in his few appearances during the end of the 2005 season, but I gave him the benefit of the doubt that he could be a good guy and just a crappy pitcher.

There is generally a good amount of booze floating around these events and Hansen was certainly taking advantage. I was talking to another pitcher for our team and he came stumbling over to include himself in conversation. Soon after, it was just me and Hansen.

First off, he was dopey and stupid. Then he started asking me who I was here with and trying to use some cheesy pick up lines on me. The kicker was after I was obviously blowing him off by flat out ignoring him and turning my back, he started holding on to my waist and touching my arms and just pawing all over me. It was gross. I wanted nothing more than to go home and take a shower.

Everytime I see his face/hear his name, especially when he's warming up in the bullpen, I cringe. He's just a kid, sure, but this event leads me to...

Tip #18: We all get drunk sometimes. That's fine. Just be smart enough to know when and where it's appropriate to get sloppy drunk and when "fun buzzy drunk" is sufficient for the night. At a party or something like that, drinking until you pass out is usually fine, but think twice about it when you're out in public. If you're getting to the point where you're incoherent and stumbling around, maybe it's time to cut yourself off and go home. As an added tip, make sure if you're going out and plan on drinking a lot, bring a friend or two to help judge when it's time to do this. (This may seem like something we all learned a long time ago, but I've seen it more and more recently when out.)

And just for clarification: I'm not saying that you shouldn't drink or get drunk when out in public, I'm just saying know your limits. Don't get so drunk that you get to the point where you act like a total bastard.

Have a good weekend everyone!
xoxo
Sophie