“I Saw The Guards Coming” 😂😎AA Speaker – Bobby C.
AA speaker Bobby C. tells the hilarious and reckless story of running onto a baseball field during a Padres game while drunk, eventually caught by stadium guards after evading them for minutes.
Bobby C. shares a wild moment from his drinking days when he jumped a fence at a San Diego Padres game, shook hands with Dave Winfield, and then spent several minutes outrunning stadium security while completely drunk. In this AA speaker tape, he describes the chaos and absurdity of active alcoholism through the lens of one unforgettable afternoon at the ballpark—a story that’s both hilarious and a perfect example of how far the disease will take us.
AA speaker Bobby C. recounts running onto the field at a Padres game while intoxicated, evading stadium guards, meeting right fielder Dave Winfield, and eventually giving himself up in center field. His recovery speaker story illustrates the reckless behavior and lack of control that characterized his drinking. The talk uses humor to show how alcoholism took him to increasingly insane situations before he hit bottom.
Episode Summary
Bobby C. opens with one of those stories that only makes sense when you’re talking about what it was like in active addiction—the kind of moment that seems impossible in hindsight, yet happened with shocking ease when the disease had hold of him.
He was at a San Diego Padres game, drunk. In that state of mind where consequences don’t exist and impulse runs everything, he decides to jump the fence and run out onto the field. What happens next is straight out of a comedy sketch. He makes his way down to the old picnic area, clears the fence, and suddenly he’s in the outfield. Dave Winfield, the Padres’ right fielder, is right there. Bobby shakes his hand. “Hi Dave, how you doing?” Winfield, a big guy, asks the obvious question: “Brother, what are you doing out here?”
That’s when Bobby spots the guards coming. He bolts.
What follows is minutes of pure chaos. Bobby’s running toward the infield, thinking he’ll slide into second base—except there are more guards coming from the third base side. He changes direction, starts walking toward first base to surrender, but at the last second kicks one of the guards and takes off into the outfield again. The stadium is going absolutely nuts. Thirty-seven thousand people watching this scene unfold.
Bobby’s just out of the military, in decent shape, but he’s drunk and gasping for air. The fence is twelve feet high. He’s got nowhere to go. The guards chasing him—young, short, heavy guys who keep tumbling over each other—can’t catch him. It’s like something out of the Keystone Cops. Even the scoreboard gets in on it: “Mr. Excitement” lights up.
But eventually, it ends. Bobby stops running. He just gives up, waits in center field for them to catch him, and they take him off the field. And here’s the kicker: he gets a standing ovation from the crowd.
This is a perfect AA speaker moment because it captures something essential about what active alcoholism looks like from the outside—and what it feels like from the inside. The absurdity, the thrill-seeking, the complete disregard for consequences, the fact that he’s having the time of his life while doing something completely insane. This is what the disease looked like for Bobby. This is what it takes to run a man into the ground and eventually bring him to recovery.
Notable Quotes
Dave, I got to go now.
The stadium’s going nuts. They couldn’t catch me. I mean, I’m just out of the service, I’m in good shape, but you know what? I’m drunk.
Seems like 10 minutes, but it’s probably closer to two or three.
I finally stopped running. I just gave up. I waited out in center field for them to catch me.
I got a standing ovation from 37,000 people.
Topics Covered in This Transcript
- Hitting Bottom
- Humor in Recovery
- Early Sobriety
- Denial
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So, I worked my way down to the old picnic area they had and I jumped over the fence and I ran out in the field. And the San Diego Padres were in town. And Dave Winfield was the right fielder for the Padres.
And I went out and I shook his hand. I said, "Hi Dave, how you doing?" And he looked at me. He said, "Brother, what are you doing out here?" And he's a pretty big dude, you know?
And from behind him I saw the guards coming. And I said, "Dave, I got to go now." So, I started running towards the infield. I wanted to slide into second base.
But I was running towards the infield, there was more guards coming from the third base side. I know I can't do that. If I slide into second, I get caught.
So, I started walking towards first base. I'm walking at this point. I'm as probably close that the guard is at a mile right now and I'm walking to give myself up.
At the last second I kicked the guy and I ran out in the outfield. Now, I'm running around like a screwball. Seems like 10 minutes, but it's probably closer to two or three, right?
But the stadium's going nuts. You know, they couldn't catch me. I mean, I'm just out of the service.
I'm in good shape, you know? But you know what? I'm drunk.
I'm out of breath. The fence is 12-ft high. I got nowhere to go, you know?
And it seems like it was like the scene out of Keystone Cops. I got these young, short, fat guys who's got they couldn't catch me. They're tumbling over Up on the scoreboard they put Mr.
Excitement. It was just nuts. But I finally stopped running.
I just gave up. I waited out in center field. I waited for them to catch me.
They took me off the field. I got a standing ovation from 37,000 people.