Sound of Clinking Glasses Goes Silent in Boston

The experience just isn't the same.

"Pub switches to plastic cups after death" by Jack Nicas, Globe Correspondent | August 18, 2010

The Lansdowne Street pub where a man was killed by a broken beer glass early Saturday morning will switch to plastic cups and nonglass bottles until a city licensing hearing next month, a practice Boston officials have used elsewhere to reduce injuries from bar fights.

Read this and see if you believe the official account of what happened.

And that is just a fancy way of saying can, right?

At the city’s request, Lansdowne Pub owner Patrick Lyons, who owns several popular restaurants and bars in Boston, agreed to the switch, said Patricia Malone, Boston’s director of consumer affairs and licensing.

Malone said the bar will not use glass at least until its licensing hearing on Sept. 15, which the city called in response to last weekend’s death. Hector Guardiola, 25, of South Boston, allegedly threw a glass that shattered, fatally injuring Michael DiMaria, a 23-year-old New York man....

For bar owners, there are complications involved in switching to all plastic, said Kevin Maguire, bar manager at the White Horse Tavern in Allston, which still serves in glass.

I figured there would be.

Coolers are designed for bottles, so cans would not work; aluminum bottles are more expensive than glass, so customers would feel the pinch; and plastic cups are just tacky, he said. And, Maguire said, if the bar had to resort to pouring every glass bottle into a plastic cup, revenues would take a hit.

“That would be very time-consuming,’’ he said. “They’re probably crazy busy during Red Sox games, and that would draw back from the speed they’d be able to serve a packed house.’’

Where's my frikkin' beer!?!?

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Related:

"Let me be the latest to point out that Congress had no business spending time worrying about baseball; not on our time and not on our dime. Let me put this in perspective...the world has ample evidence, or, how should I say this...PROOF, that the invasion of Iraq was started on false pretenses that were know to be false at the time they were made. To put this simply the Iraq invasion was the proverbial war based on lies. Folks...there is no higher crime a President can commit than committing his nation to war based on lies...and George W. Bush, as Dick Cheney's puppet, did this.

And what does Congress spend time doing while we have war criminals walking around free? They investigate baseball. Baseball...a game...where the worst crimes committed have more to do with ticket and hot dog prices than artificially inflated statistics and performance.

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Looks like I have company on the bases.