Red Sox right-hander Clay Buchholz, who hasn't pitched since June, admitted to WEEI in Boston on Thursday that he was part of the clubhouse drinking saga that has plagued the team. Buchholz was linked to teammates Jon Lester and John Lackey in reports that had the pitchers drinking beer and eating fried chicken in the clubhouse during games they were not starting. "Yeah, it did (happen)," Buchholz said. "It wasn't to the extent that it's being told right now. The whole chicken thing, it wasn't like the guys were sitting in there saying 'We're going to order chicken today.' It was, we'd come upstairs, there would be chicken on the table and it happened maybe three times this season. The whole beer thing, it was more of a rally-beer thing. And yeah, it might not have been right, but I feel like there have been other teams in baseball that have gone through stuff like that. Not to say it wasn't a big deal, because it was a mistake, grown men shouldn't be making those decisions like that during a baseball game, but like I said before, you've got to live with what you've done and learn from it. I'm sure it's not going to happen again because it's a lot bigger right now than everybody ever thought it would be." Buchholz also took the company line in denying the allegations that pitchers drank beer in the dugout during games. "No, never. Never," he said.