Comments on: Recreating the Dock Ellis "tripping balls" no-hitter on XBox on LSD http://boingboing.net/2011/07/13/recreating-the-dock.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Mujokan http://boingboing.net/2011/07/13/recreating-the-dock.html#comment-1162243 Mujokan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1162243 Check out the YouTube link above (I would've posted it if sauce didnt'!) Check out the YouTube link above (I would’ve posted it if sauce didnt’!)

]]> By: DaveP http://boingboing.net/2011/07/13/recreating-the-dock.html#comment-1165316 DaveP Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1165316 s/Aim/Am/ s/Aim/Am/

]]> By: sauce http://boingboing.net/2011/07/13/recreating-the-dock.html#comment-1162035 sauce Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1162035 Cant remember if this was posted here before, but it is a great short film animating Doc Ellis' narration of what happened on that great day. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vUhSYLRw14 Cant remember if this was posted here before, but it is a great short film animating Doc Ellis’ narration of what happened on that great day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vUhSYLRw14

]]> By: hassenpfeffer http://boingboing.net/2011/07/13/recreating-the-dock.html#comment-1161806 hassenpfeffer Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1161806 Heh. Bob Smizik is still a sports reporter for the Post-Gazette, which absorbed the Pittsburgh Press after a strike/shutdown kinda thing. Perhaps the current Pirates roster is tripping on acid, given that the team is above .500 for the first time since, oh, the Reagan Administration or so. Heh. Bob Smizik is still a sports reporter for the Post-Gazette, which absorbed the Pittsburgh Press after a strike/shutdown kinda thing.

Perhaps the current Pirates roster is tripping on acid, given that the team is above .500 for the first time since, oh, the Reagan Administration or so.

]]> By: Blaine http://boingboing.net/2011/07/13/recreating-the-dock.html#comment-1162066 Blaine Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1162066 Is that the one where he's talking about hanging out with "a cat named Al Rambo"? Because for the past 10 years everytime someone mentions Doc Ellis, I immediately think of him sitting on a couch with a tabby wearing a belt of bullets around its chest. Is that the one where he’s talking about hanging out with “a cat named Al Rambo”? Because for the past 10 years everytime someone mentions Doc Ellis, I immediately think of him sitting on a couch with a tabby wearing a belt of bullets around its chest.

]]> By: Modano http://boingboing.net/2011/07/13/recreating-the-dock.html#comment-1162340 Modano Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1162340 It is true! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dock_Ellis#June_12.2C_1970_no-hitter Not to be too harsh but it sort of amazes me that someone with internet access would type out a long question like that, when you could find out that info for yourself with even less typing. It is true! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dock_Ellis#June_12.2C_1970_no-hitter
Not to be too harsh but it sort of amazes me that someone with internet access would type out a long question like that, when you could find out that info for yourself with even less typing.

]]> By: hassenpfeffer http://boingboing.net/2011/07/13/recreating-the-dock.html#comment-1162342 hassenpfeffer Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1162342 Yes, it probably was, but aren't anabolic steroids currently banned? Taken a look at the number of athletes on trial for doping right now? Yes, it probably was, but aren’t anabolic steroids currently banned? Taken a look at the number of athletes on trial for doping right now?

]]> By: emmdeeaych http://boingboing.net/2011/07/13/recreating-the-dock.html#comment-1161843 emmdeeaych Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1161843 Aim high folks. Aim high folks.

]]> By: irksome http://boingboing.net/2011/07/13/recreating-the-dock.html#comment-1162361 irksome Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1162361 In an interview, he talked about only being able to see the catcher's mitt and knowing that's where the ball is supposed to BE. As an ex-'70s acidhead, I consider this the greatest achievement in professional sport. As to some hipster on acid with an X-Box, I say "meh". In an interview, he talked about only being able to see the catcher’s mitt and knowing that’s where the ball is supposed to BE. As an ex-’70s acidhead, I consider this the greatest achievement in professional sport.

As to some hipster on acid with an X-Box, I say “meh”.

]]> By: drkptt http://boingboing.net/2011/07/13/recreating-the-dock.html#comment-1162375 drkptt Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1162375 The feat inspired songs by both Chuck Brodsky http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg9DXRP4Ywo and Todd Snider http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG2SPjcKM4M Chuck's take seems to be coming from a baseball fan; Todd's from an fan of acid. The feat inspired songs by both Chuck Brodsky http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg9DXRP4Ywo and Todd Snider http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG2SPjcKM4M

Chuck’s take seems to be coming from a baseball fan; Todd’s from an fan of acid.

]]> By: MacBookHeir http://boingboing.net/2011/07/13/recreating-the-dock.html#comment-1162149 MacBookHeir Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1162149 I'd never heard this Dock Ellis story. Is it true? I mean, I've never, ever come across it before until now. Maybe I was out of the country. Did he really take acid? And play baseball? What a trip! I’d never heard this Dock Ellis story. Is it true? I mean, I’ve never, ever come across it before until now. Maybe I was out of the country. Did he really take acid? And play baseball? What a trip!

]]> By: jeligula http://boingboing.net/2011/07/13/recreating-the-dock.html#comment-1161940 jeligula Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1161940 Am I misremembering or was not LSD criminalized in October of 1968? Not that that means very much, as I once had an existential crisis with a 7-11 chicken sandwich in Eugene, OR. The ecclesiastical claims the chicken sandwich was making weren't that hard to deal with, but the tile on the floor kept moving me away from the heat cabinet. I grabbed the sandwich and just barely remembered to pay for it before continuing the conversation in the van, but it had nothing to say at that point. So I ate it. Damned thing had the nerve to taste like chocolate cake, stupid sandwich. Am I misremembering or was not LSD criminalized in October of 1968? Not that that means very much, as I once had an existential crisis with a 7-11 chicken sandwich in Eugene, OR. The ecclesiastical claims the chicken sandwich was making weren’t that hard to deal with, but the tile on the floor kept moving me away from the heat cabinet. I grabbed the sandwich and just barely remembered to pay for it before continuing the conversation in the van, but it had nothing to say at that point. So I ate it. Damned thing had the nerve to taste like chocolate cake, stupid sandwich.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/07/13/recreating-the-dock.html#comment-1162465 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1162465 Alternate title: What not to do for your first LSD experience. :) Alternate title: What not to do for your first LSD experience. :)

]]> By: dculberson http://boingboing.net/2011/07/13/recreating-the-dock.html#comment-1161971 dculberson Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1161971 Three dozen thumbs up, would trip again. Three dozen thumbs up, would trip again.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/07/13/recreating-the-dock.html#comment-1161978 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1161978 The NYO story is painfully grayfaced. The NYO story is painfully grayfaced.

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