Detroit Native, Bernie Carbo, Knows How To Party

In a jolting interview with The Boston Globe that's more revealing than any steroids admission you've ever heard, Red Sox icon Bernie Carbo talks about a different kind of drug abuse. "I probably smoked two joints, drank about three or four beers, got to the ballpark, took some (amphetamines), took a pain pill, drank a cup of coffee, chewed some tobacco, had a cigarette, and got up to the plate and hit,'' Also in 1975, the article reveals, Carbo awoke in a Chicago gutter. "I just started crying,'' he said. "I knew I needed help.'' Carbo also admits cocaine use and says he was high on something for every game of his 12-year career, which ended in 1980. "I played the outfield sometimes where it looked like the stars were falling from the sky," said Carbo, 62.

First things first. Make sure you check out this whole video up top because there is a sweet vintage interview with Peter Gammons and his pedophile mustache at the 2:48 mark. But apparently Detroit's own, Berni Carbo, was the Snoop Dogg of the 70's because I don't think I know the name of any drugs that he wasn't on. Wait, wrong, mushrooms. Anyway, dude was more lubed up than Bmase during a day game at Comerica and when he hit the 3 run shot to tie game 6 of the 1975 World Series, the one enabling Carlton Fisk to wave the most famous walk off shot in the history of baseball fair, he was as high as a fuckin kite. This is truly epic because even on my best days of days I've never even dreamed of pulling off something of this magnitude. My favorite part of this story is that after the four beers, two joints, handful of amphetamines, and the pain pill, Bernie did the responsible thing and tried to calm himself back down with the trifecta of a cup of coffee, a big fat chaw, and a Marlboro. Anyway, I might be done blogging for the day cause I gotta go see about a girl.



PS - Interesting sidenote to this story. After baseball Bernie went on to be a hairdresser until Keith Hernandez rolled over on him for loving the nose candy. I hate Keith Hernandez. I despise him.

From Bernie Carbo's Wikipedia Page - His major league career ended in 1980 with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Carbo went on to cosmetology school and opened a hairdressing salon. In 1985, in a federal drug distribution trial, former Cardinal Keith Hernandez said Carbo was the man who introduced him to cocaine in 1980. Carbo subsequently lost his house and his salon because of the bad publicity.