‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ Fans Say ‘Congrats!’ and ‘Rest in Peace’ As Wade Boggs Beats Cancer
It’s official – 66-year-old MLB legend Wade Boggs beat prostate cancer like the Gang beat Boggs.
Late last year, Boggs made a public announcement to his many fans that he was fighting prostate cancer, promising his followers, “With the strength and support of my family and my faith in God, I’m going to ring that damn bell." Alongside the community of baseball fans, Boggs’ many well-wishers included a sizable section of the It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia fandom who agreed to temporarily suspend one of their favorite inside jokes from Boggs' cameo in the Season 10 masterpiece “The Gang Beats Boggs” until the boss won his cancer battle.
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Yesterday afternoon, the Hall-of-Fame third baseman finally rang that damn bell and celebrated being cancer-free with his Twitter followers, thus opening the floodgates for Always Sunny fans to bring back their favorite bit to pair with a rotisserie chicken and a stiff cocktail.
As Always Sunny fans remember well, “The Gang Beats Boggs” revolves around an urban legend about the 12-time All-Star in which Boggs supposedly drank between 50 and 73 beers during a flight from Boston to Los Angeles before cracking a couple hits in his very next game. In the Always Sunny episode, the Gang sets out to break Boggs’ record on a commercial flight with Charlie emerging as the beer drinking and batting champion after a hallucinatory pep talk from Boggs himself.
Now, Boggs is very much alive, and, given that he’s out of the woods in terms of his health, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia fans are coming out of the woodwork to pay their respects to his memory. In the It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia subreddit, a post about Boggs’ bell-ringing recently shot to the top of the front page with the title, “Even in Death, Wade Boggs Beats Cancer. Congrats and RIP.”
“May he rest in cancerless peace,” another user concurred.
“Again, Wade Boggs is alive and well living in Tampa Florida,” one more Always Sunny and Boggs fan reminded us of Boggs’ immortal soul and undying legacy.
Thankfully, it’s no longer macabre and bad taste to repeat Charlie’s recurring line in “The Gang Beats Boggs” about the titular legend himself, and, now that Boggs has beaten cancer, his only hurdle left is to finally catch those Duke boys.
