Tyler Baze - put the whiskey down, son

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by GPK

Speaking only from my own experience, alcoholism is not a lifestyle choice. I would have never in a million years chosen to be an alcoholic, but I am. Trust me, I would give my left nut to able to drink like a normal person. I sat with my good buddies MaTH and BT at dinner one night last week in Tampa, and watched as they both had 2 beers with dinner? 2 Beers?!? are you kidding me? My mind can't grasp the concept of just 2 beers. I have never been able to have "just 2 beers." Once alcohol enters my system, it just craves more and more. It's the way both my mind and body are wired. I quit drinking for 3 months one time after a car accident and thought for sure that I was cured and that I didn't have a problem. I went out one night with some friends and got drunk...and then got drunk again the next night and the night after that, etc...inside of 1 month of starting to drink again, I was shotgunning beers at 10am in the morning at work, just so I would quit shaking and so that I could make it through the day. You really think someone would CHOOSE to live like that? Come on...you're better than that. I could pick up a drink today, and nothing in the world will have changed. My only option is 100% abstention. I will always be an alcoholic, even if I manage to stay sober the rest of my life.

i don't think that alcoholism itself is a choice. however, you've chosen to stay away from alcohol-that is where choice comes in. i'm glad you're able to stay away from it, altho i'm sure it's difficult at times.

[GPK]

Originally Posted by Danzig

i don't think that alcoholism itself is a choice. however, you've chosen to stay away from alcohol-that is where choice comes in. i'm glad you're able to stay away from it, altho i'm sure it's difficult at times.

It's very difficult when you're surrounded by deranged drunk degenerates that are yelling "rebuff, rebuff" at a 3-5 shot that Corey Nakatani is riding and we have a $216 show ticket on him.

It can be difficult at times, but the thing that always wins out in the end for me, is that I know Amelia doesn't deserve a drunk for a daddy. I know I would be useless to her as a father, if I was to ever drink again. I have accepted the fact that I can't drink like a normal person, although normal people don't drink normal to me.

[Rudeboyelvis]

Just got a retweet by Simon Bray - unfounded rumor that T Baze is in ICU at a Monrovia area hospital..

[banter]

Originally Posted by Rudeboyelvis

Just got a retweet by Simon Bray - unfounded rumor that T Baze is in ICU at a Monrovia area hospital..

Omg, why?

Sad news indeed.

Jamie Kisely had the original tweet.

http://twitter.com/#!/JamieKisely

Then The Knight Sky tweeted about it. Followed by BoBike1 who was re-tweeted by Simon Bray. Confirmed by jballs

[jballscalls]

I'm friends with many northwest Baze family members and they were all asking for prayers last night and said he was hospitalized. Hopefully he can get past this and beat his demons.

[Left Bank]

Why is he in ICU?
What happened?

[GPK]

I'm bet he's glad he choose to be an alcoholic.

[Danzig]

bloodhorse headline said he fell at home. then, in the body of the article, they said 'after a spill'. never saw a fall at home categorized as a spill before!