David Eckstein is a teetotaler. Well, not totally—he'll drink the sauce on special occasions, like when he wins a World Series. Consider it a new rule of sports: Win a title, and no-booze rules are drowned with the champagne and the tequila.

Here's Sports Illustrated's Tom Verducci on World Series MVP Eckstein's celebration after the Cardinals clinched in Game 5:

#0133;it was the churchgoing, teetotaling Eckstein gleefully getting a shot of tequila poured down his throat in the clubhouse by teammate Scott Spiezio. Eckstein last had so imbibed in 2002, when he and Spiezio won a world championship with the Angels. "Right now," Eckstein said in the jubilant clubhouse, "I don't feel a thing."

Last month, after Europe won the Ryder Cup, the victors drank long and hard. Here's Golf World's John Huggan:

At The Belfry, European skipper Sam Torrance proclaimed that he had "led his team to water and let them drink" en route to its famous win over the Americans, Tiger Woods and all. Then, two days later, the Scot led a few of them—Paul McGinley, Lee Westwood, Darren Clarke and Thomas Björn were sighted—to the bar in St. Andrews' Jigger Inn, where they partook of liquid a wee bit stronger than that found in the Swilcan Burn. Even the teetotaling Padraig Harrington—who eventually would prevail once the preludes gave way to the golf—was part of the general merriment.

In St. Louis, it wasn't just wee shortstops joining in the fun. Yahoo Sports' Jeff Passan spotted a very European celebration—kids drinking:

Only here, in the land of the improbable, can two girls, cute little blondes no older than 10, double-fist bottles of beer, douse one another and win knowing glances from everyone else who is too drunk on euphoria to care.