Ask me about being a sports writer!

[Hamish McBagpipe]

After scanning this thread I can't believe someone has not asked you the most obvious question......to follow.....

I dated a journalist for a few years who used to hang out with all the local/national (in Toronto) sports journalists. They're all a bunch of drunks. Seriously. And I work in a job that has a very drinking friendly culture but these guys are hardcore. I thought it might only be local but I got invited for a week to the condo my GF's paper has in Florida, for spring training, where I met a bunch of other baseball writers from around the US. What a bunch of lushes. Complete fall on the floor drunks and degenerate gamblers to boot. Surprisingly no other drugs much. It's like a holdover from the old newsroom of the 50s of the reporter with a bottle in his desk. The drinking in that business is terrible, and as far as I saw, permeated the entire industry. Led to my breakup. So, how bad was/is your drinking problem?