Comments on: Documentary about psychedelic pitcher Dock Ellis

By: noah django

noah django — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:25:00 +0000

ｍ（．＿．）ｍアリガト

By: Mantissa128

Mantissa128 — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 01:12:00 +0000

Obligatory. For those who haven't seen it: it's a gas.

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:21:00 +0000

Jeez, I didn’t know that story, they just keep adding up! Guy was not just a little nuts, but aggressive as well.

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 23:00:00 +0000

A baseball post on Boing Boing!

A no-hitter is like Fight Club, tradition (superstition) states that teammates do NOT talk about it. Then and only when a guy is tripping balls while pitching one, there’s always a bad-vibe guy like Dave Cash, playing mind games with Ellis during the game by repeating “You’ve got a no-no going!”

Another contemporary psychedelic player that comes to mind is Red Sox pitcher Bill Lee, aka The Spaceman.

Then there were anti-establishment guys like Vida Blue, who got fined $250 for an altercation with an umpire, and paid up with nickels and dimes. “I tried to pay it all in pennies, but they’re hard to come by”. Well yeah, $250 in pennies would be… 25,000 coins.

Once the 80s kicked in, cocaine became the drug of choice, Tim Raines even admitted to always sliding headfirst so that the cocaine bag would not fall out of his pocket, in the playing field, damn.
Then for the 90s onward it’s all about performance enhancers.

By: Teller

Teller — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 22:14:00 +0000

If you like baseball or headhunting, check out Dock’s May 1, 1974 game against the Reds. Will never be duplicated unless there’s a crazier pitcher.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dock_Ellis

By: Rickenbacker4001

Rickenbacker4001 — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 19:11:00 +0000

I also pitched a no hitter, tripping on Lsd in 1988. It was Bases Loaded for the Nintendo. Things were simpler then…..my opponent was my little brother.

By: terrycarroll

terrycarroll — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:50:00 +0000

Musically, Dock Ellis belongs to Barbara Manning. With the SF Seals in 1993, she produced the first, best, and definitive sonic representation of Ellis’ great day. You can hear it here:

http://www.myspace.com/music/player?sid=35979158&ac=now

By: Goodfinger

Goodfinger — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:36:00 +0000

Remember in primary school when the teacher would call attendance using the last name first and then the first letter of the first name?

“Ellis, D.”

By: Radiodiffusion Internasionaal

Radiodiffusion Internasionaal — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:24:00 +0000

A “no hatter”? Was no one wearing a hat?

By: saint_al

saint_al — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:14:00 +0000

”…who in 1970 pitched a no-hatter for the Pittsburgh Pirates while tripping balls on LSD.”
No hat? Oh, hwell, game is legendary and even Alex Grey later put Ellis’ face in one of his paintings. Yerp, you can sometimes play flawlessly while stoned. Not a consistent path, though.

By: alfanovember

alfanovember — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:03:00 +0000

Don’t miss Todd Snider’s song about Ellis, ”America’s Favorite Pastime”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG2SPjcKM4M