Guy Catches Ball With Beer And Chugs It

August 22, 2008 · Filed Under MLB, RANDOM WEIRDNESS, VIDEOS · 8 Comments 

by the goat… This guy at a Cubs game pulls a real nice move here. He catches a ball in the stands with his Beer cup and then chugs the beer, ending with the ball in his mouth. Enjoy:

Now at first glance the reaction is to give this guy his props and write this off as a great feat. Let’s examine this a little closer though shall we.

We can clearly see in the 00:16 mark of the video that this dude’s beer is approximately 96% full. This puts him well within range where we automatically have to review this. We will be using the standard equation of “Awesomeness of Act vs. Loss of Beer”.

What we first need to do is use the goatagoras theorem to take into account the total volume of beer displaced by the baseball. According to my calculations (ball speed, circumference and smoothness of catch) this particular catch resulted in the loss of 68% of the guy’s beer. When you consider the prices of ball park beers these days it may seem to some that it just isn’t worth it.

On the other hand, the average drunk asshole spills 31% of his beer on the person in front of him at a baseball game anyway, which drops the overall loss of booziness to a mere 37%. Add this to the fact that Wrigley sells “Old Style” beer for a mere $6.00 (the price of just the empty cup at Fenway) and suddenly it doesn’t seem so painful.

So was it worth it?

The Verdict

Fuck yes.

Upon further review, even if it’s a flute of Dom Perrignon this guy did the right thing. In fact I would even go so far as to say that this man wears Awesome Sauce as cologne. This is what baseball and America are all about folks, kudos ball in beer chug guy!

This got me to thinking, what are the other situations in life when one is under complete obligation to chug their beer? Here is the early list, feel free to click on “comment” below the title of this post and add yours, I will update the list accordingly:

  1. When some douchebag clanks the top of your bud light bottle with the bottom of his (the menthos and soda effect)
  2. On Tuesdays
  3. When you accidentally poke a hole in your bud can with your keys while holding it horizontally
  4. When a ping pong ball lands in it
  5. When you pick up your cards before the president while playing “Asshole”
  6. When everyone is ready to go to the next bar and you have a full one

* Updates from reader comments below

  1. 20 minutes until last call and your the wing man with the ugly girl
  2. Just before they shut down the beer between innings at Fenway

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