Comments on: Can you chew at Safeco?

By: go mariners go huskies

go mariners go huskies — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:34:25 +0000

I have actually TALKED to ushers with a fatty chawski in my mouth and they seemed unfazed. I always have a spitter, it’s just common courtesy people!

By: Typical Idiot Fan

Typical Idiot Fan — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:06:13 +0000

lol public health / clean air laws enforced at a stadium that sells garlic fries…

By: StvB

StvB — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:56:15 +0000

Re: #60

Any topic that elicits mention of a member of the ‘79 Pirates gets a big thumbs up from me!

By: Grizz

Grizz — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:31:43 +0000

Re: Yankees Suck. Actually, the team quietly backed off that policy after the possibility of a legal challenge was raised.

By: msb

msb — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:09:29 +0000

The buzz was so massive it made me dizzy and I quit after a few weeks. I guess pro ballplayers have built up quite a resistance to the nicotine’s effects.

according to the article in #19, it is harder to quit spit tobacco than smoking …

By: Dave in Palo Alto

Dave in Palo Alto — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:12:08 +0000

# 54 — I’m pretty sure Guidry tossed five innings and his lunch in this 1978 game:

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1978/B08200SEA1978.htm

Kind of an interesting box, actually. Goose Gossage relieved Gator in the 6th, and the M’s beat up on Gossage and Sparky Lyle. Jim Beattie pitched the 9th for NY.

Enrique Romo, “Senor Smoke”, got the win to go 10 and 4, not bad for a team that would lose 104 games.

By: The Ghost of Spike Owen

The Ghost of Spike Owen — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:45:10 +0000

I have never been hassled while chewing in the stands a Safeco. I make sure to have a spitter and always throw it away myself. i had to clean up too many other peoples’ spitters when I worked at a movie theater; I won’t ask some poor grounds crew kid to do it for me.

By: Tek Jansen

Tek Jansen — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:58:19 +0000

Sure, tobacco could be considered a PED, but since everyone in MLB is allowed to use it, at least in chew form, there is no competitive advantage. At least Guillen receives no advantage from chaw when facing a right-handed pitcher. The same goes for Ibanez facing lefties.

By: kenshabby

kenshabby — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:56:17 +0000

A friend of mine was a big-time chewer in high school. He carried around empty Coke cans to use as spitoons. Once someone bet him $20 that he wouldn’t drink a can full of chew spittle. That someone lost the bet, and my friend miraculously didn’t violently retch after consuming a can-full of that toxic sludge.

I chewed for a brief period in my early 20s, because a roommate chewed and I wanted to try it. The buzz was so massive it made me dizzy and I quit after a few weeks. I guess pro ballplayers have built up quite a resistance to the nicotine’s effects. Maybe if they want a safe stimulant + oral fixation they could suck on espresso popsicles.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:35:59 +0000

Oh and just so you know, tobacco is also banned by the NCAA. This certainly didn’t prevent a single member of my football team or coaching staff from dipping before, after, during, on the bus, in practice, in front of the NCAA rules committee or in front of NCAA drug testers.