The Drinking Stories Are True !!

As three of you know

( though one is currently working the streets of Yemen and, therefore, is not a threat to blab), I was formerly a paid informer for a government agency.

One of my jobs was to "infiltrate" certain hot targets, as we called them.

This year, my " venue" was the Boston Red Sox clubhouse. I was placed there as a part-time caterer. One of the few who spoke baseball and english.

I also ran some card games for the pitching staff on their down days.

We played "Texas Hold-'em" and an esoteric, anti-Yankee game dubbed, "evil empire." In this game, any player still holding cards at the time the " evil empire" card is drawn can buy out all the other players in a "democratically-conceived," fair bidding game of chicken.

What has now been revealed by the Boston media is that we drank hard liquor whilst we played. Gnawing on lobster rolls and gummy bears, we drank Wild Turkey on the rocks.

Some of the best known Boston starters were there daily. I can't mention names for reasons of contract negotiations and threats. One of them had a suck-all season, another blew a key game in Baltimore, and one younger guy has been out with a bad back for two months

( he "launched" the table against the wall in early August after he lost a wad of money in a game of " evil empire."

What he didn't know was that the table was solid oak and weighed about 750 pounds.

Terry ( Tito) did his best to put a stop to this, but he had games to manage and decisions to make. Dealing with 4-6 inebriated multi-millionaires can be draining.

According to rumors, Mr. Henry has already hired a new catering team for 2012.