“Drunk stories are like Deer; where if there’s one, there’s two, and if there’s two, there’s four.”
At one time one of baseball’s best pitching prospects, former Cardinals player Rick Ankiel had one of the most infamous falls from grace, as he mysteriously struggled with an inability to throw the ball anywhere near the strike zone
Recently Ankiel admitted that he struggled with anxiety for years, even to the point of drinking straight vodka before his starts to quell his nerves.
Despite the amazing admission, Jeffrey Gorman thinks it’s hard to believe that Ankiel only drank twice before games, as so he admitted, and that we would probably have to assume it was more than that.