Charlie Day: Wade Boggs said he drank 107 beers in one day

Former Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees star Wade Boggs told actor Charlie Day that he drank 107 beers in one day

While on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Charlie Day, star of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, told Fallon that former New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs drank 107 beers in one day.

Dear god.

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It’s been rumored that Boggs could drink 60-70 beers on a cross-country flight from New York to Los Angeles with a layover in “North Dakota,” as Day put it.

That rumor became the plot of the first episode of the new season of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. The gang flies across the country, drinking as much beer as possible and trying to break Boggs record. After the gang arrives, they also have to go hit a baseball the next day, like Boggs would do.

The gang invited Boggs to be in the episode, and he accepted their invitation! In the episode, Charlie gets 30 beers deep and then starts hallucinating that Wade Boggs is actually on the plane drinking with him.

When Day met Boggs in person, that’s when Boggs told him the actual number of beers he drank in one day was 107, not 70.

Day told Fallon that Boggs would come to the plane like “12 beers deep,” drink the entire way to their destination, and then go out that night, which would make it entirely possible for Boggs to drink 107 beers.

Not so fast.

I’m no math magician, but I’m pretty sure Boggs would have died of alcohol poisoning if he drank that much beer in one day. Drinking 107 beers in one day is 4.5 beers per hour.

Assuming those beers are 12-ounces, Boggs blood-alcohol concentration would have been 1.195 percent. According to every alcohol safety website, someone is at risk of a coma and respiratory arrest at a BAC of 0.40 percent. So, unless Boggs was purging (throwing up) like every hour, his BAC would have been almost three times what it would take to put someone in alcohol induced coma and kill them.

While it’s nice story, there’s no way Boggs could drink that much beer. Andre the Giant, on the other hand, might have a shot.

Here’s the video of Charlie Day and Jimmy Fallon discussing Wade Boggs, the new season of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and the fact that Boggs was drinking actual beer while they were filming while the rest of the cast was drinking prop beer.

Boggs played 18 years in the majors and was a career .328 hitter. He was also inducted into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in 2005.

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