Nicky Smokes vs. Uncle Pat beer battle goes to Game 5

It started before most people had their coffee on Wednesday. Pat had a 3-beer lead from the day before, and Nicky decided that was the moment to start talking.

Nicky Smokes

@nickysmokess

Good morning Uncle Pat! That 3 beer lead you had was cute. Hope this didn’t wake you up Unc! @OhioTate

That turned out to be a mistake. The Cleveland side went out on a morning walk, picked up cases of beer on the way, and by the afternoon Tate's dad and both uncles were outvoting Nicky in their own living room. His argument was that a Fireball shot counted as a drink against Pat. The ruling went against him, and he walked away with another beer he said he didn't want.

Ohio’s Tate

@OhioTate

Dad, Uncle Pat, and Uncle Russ are running the 3 Man Weave on Nicky Smokes right now Nicky is trying to argue that his shot of Fireball put him up a drink on Pat That idea lost by a vote of 3-1 And it resulted in Nicky Smokes, who said he “needed a break”, getting another beer

Then everybody went to the ballpark, and the White Sox, who led the series 2-0, dropped one at home. That was supposed to wrap up the content trip. It didn't, because TickPick called on Thursday and sent the whole crew back for Game 4. They added a twist: Mintzy got a ticket, as Chicago's attempt to change the mojo. The Cleveland guys took it about as seriously as you'd expect, and on the Yak that morning one of them gave the camp's whole outlook in a single line.

Barstool Yak

@BarstoolYak

“We're overcoming 0 and 2. We can overcome this.”

0:46

This is where Nicky won back some of the room. He lost the drinking war on the scoreboard, but he took the Moore family out for wings before Game 4, fought the waitress for the check, and paid for the whole thing. Even Tate called it good juju for the Sox, and you have to respect that. Picking up the tab is how a man answers getting worked by 3 boomers.

Ohio’s Tate

@OhioTate

Genuine shoutout to Nicky Smokes After a 4-way battle with the waitress over who is paying the bill, @nickysmokess just grabbed the check and picked up the entire wings and beer tab for the family I’ll be honest: this was a good sign for the White Sox juju tonight

Night 2 at Rate Field got off to a messy start for the Chicago side. Tate gave his prediction in the stands, and 2 minutes before first pitch the camera found White Sox Dave's seat empty. That's a bad look for the guy whose team was trying to close out a series.

Eddie

@EddieBarstool

Tate gives his prediction and notes that WSD is not in his seat 2 minutes before first pitch

The juju from the wings didn't hold. The Sox led 4-3 after 5, then the bullpen gave up 6 runs in the 6th, and Cleveland won 9-5. José Ramírez homered and drove in 3, and the series is going back to Progressive Field for Game 5 on Saturday. The winner plays the Rays in the ALCS. Tate's dad was in bed by 12:05 again. That's 3 nights in a row he was first to bed, and his side still won both games in Chicago.

The Game 5 trip is Cleveland hosting Dave this time, and Nicky isn't going. For about an hour on Friday it looked like it might turn into office beef, until Dave posted that Nicky is one of the few people who moved to Chicago and actually gave the Sox a chance.

whitesoxdave

@barstoolWSD

Smokes is one of like 4 people ever, (not just in the office) to move to Chicago and willingly give the sox a chance and he’s embraced it well. He puts content out like crazy. He’s all good in my book Never seen him wear an ounce of cubs shit or root for them in any manner

Jim McTits IV

@tubnersworld

@nickysmokess @barstoolWSD You’re the definition of a fake fan, your Sox content was drinking beers and getting free ticket by larping as a fan. You don’t know shit about the Sox or baseball. “I chose them because I like their colors”

Nicky got on a plane to Dallas for a college football rivalry weekend. Mintzy's Sox weekend left him a loose end of his own: he's still sure the guy who sold him White Sox tickets is going to come through on a hotel room too. His old college buddy isn't so sure.

annika christy

@kingkrabbyp

Mintzy is still convinced that the guy who “sold” him White Sox tickets will make good on the hotel room Mintzy’s old college pal said it perfectly- “good luck with that, buddy”

Texas went about the same way Chicago did for Nicky. By Friday night Dante, Ella, Dana and DC had all gone to bed and left him alone at the bar, and he says he's digging in.

Nicky Smokes

@nickysmokess

I’m disgusted by this group. Dante, Ella, Dana, and DC. Have all left me. I’m a solo marine on the front lines. Time to dig in to my foxhole and win this war.

Here's where it stands. Uncle Pat's crew won the drinking war and Nicky won the lunch tab. Nobody has won the series yet. Saturday in Cleveland decides it, with Tate and Dave sitting in the same section. Nicky will be watching from Texas, alone, as he'll tell you himself.