I love baseball and everything associated with it, the only problem is as any other AA/ baseball fan knows, is that a nice cold beer goes best whether at home or at the park. This being my 63rd day in recovery it's very hard to seperate the two and it bums me out that until I can accept that i don't need one drink or twenty-four to enjoy the game.
Just a random rant I had watching a game and seeing at least one beer commercial every break.
The good news is that once I started working the steps and learning to apply the principles of the program to my life, I have found that I can enjoy a baseball game without the beer, perhaps even more because I can remember it. Go Mariners! !!!
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I asked God for all things that I may enjoy life. He gave me life so that I may enjoy all things.
yeah football season was very strange the first year or two. but now, because of sobriety, I have season tickets, even though I live a thousand miles away from FedEx Field. Gotta take the good with the not so good. I'll make two games this year and am grateful for the fire chief in VA that buys the rest of the season.
yeah football season was very strange the first year or two. but now, because of sobriety, I have season tickets, even though I live a thousand miles away from FedEx Field. Gotta take the good with the not so good. I'll make two games this year and am grateful for the fire chief in VA that buys the rest of the season.
yeah football season was very strange the first year or two. but now, because of sobriety, I have season tickets, even though I live a thousand miles away from FedEx Field. Gotta take the good with the not so good. I'll make two games this year and am grateful for the fire chief in VA that buys the rest of the season.
I dunno if you all watched the NFL draft, but I'm pretty stoked about "RG III" wearing a Redskins uniform. God knows we need QB (and a miracle to end the Danny boy curse)
I love baseball and everything associated with it, the only problem is as any other AA/ baseball fan knows, is that a nice cold beer goes best whether at home or at the park. This being my 63rd day in recovery it's very hard to seperate the two and it bums me out that until I can accept that i don't need one drink or twenty-four to enjoy the game.
Just a random rant I had watching a game and seeing at least one beer commercial every break.
Thanks
My experience is the same as Dean's, it takes one or two times to get through something the first time without drinking, then it becomes a non drinking activity
that whole statement " as any other AA/ baseball fan knows, is that a nice cold beer goes best whether at home or at the park" doesn't apply to me any more, cold beer goes best down someone else's throat, I am so far away from that statement I don't even know how to respond...beer just ....doesn't have the same appeal any more, as a matter of fact beer has NO appeal, for me going to the ball park now is going with other crazed sober people, then of course noticing all the fat drunk slobs that think they are having fun...my friend Bobby put it best -years- ago, "I used to think people who didn't drink (while I was drinking) were boring, after I had been sober for awhile I realized it was me that was boring (when I was drunk)
Do these activities with other sober alcoholics until you get the hang of doing them sober, and take particular note of the drunk slob people while doing so, it loses it's appeal really fast
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I love baseball and everything associated with it, the only problem is as any other AA/ baseball fan knows, is that a nice cold beer goes best whether at home or at the park. This being my 63rd day in recovery it's very hard to seperate the two and it bums me out that until I can accept that i don't need one drink or twenty-four to enjoy the game.
Just a random rant I had watching a game and seeing at least one beer commercial every break.
Thanks
My experience is the same as Dean's, it takes one or two times to get through something the first time without drinking, then it becomes a non drinking activity
that whole statement " as any other AA/ baseball fan knows, is that a nice cold beer goes best whether at home or at the park" doesn't apply to me any more, cold beer goes best down someone else's throat, I am so far away from that statement I don't even know how to respond...beer just ....doesn't have the same appeal any more, as a matter of fact beer has NO appeal, for me going to the ball park now is going with other crazed sober people, then of course noticing all the fat drunk slobs that think they are having fun...my friend Bobby put it best -years- ago, "I used to think people who didn't drink (while I was drinking) were boring, after I had been sober for awhile I realized it was me that was boring (when I was drunk)
Do these activities with other sober alcoholics until you get the hang of doing them sober, and take particular note of the drunk slob people while doing so, it loses it's appeal really fast
Yea I'm quickly seeing the difference in "drunk fun" and just flat out stupidity. I don't need alcohol to add to any of it. watching games and remembering them is awesome
They don't care whether you have one or twenty-four; get drunk or not, or die...they want your money. You care and that's most important work with that one. "Admitted we were powerless over alcohol and that our lives had become unmanagable".
