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42 years ago - Dock Ellis (no Mormo content)
Jun 12^th, 2012 at 9:22pm

Forty two (42) years ago, Pittsburgh's blackest son, Dock Simon Ellis, pitched a no-hitter while under the influence of LSD. That's something to consider.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgOqHLeKGH0

High as a Georgia pine.....

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Re: 42 years ago - Dock Ellis (no Mormo content)
Reply #5 - Jun 13^th, 2012 at 11:46am

I can only remember bits and pieces of the game. I was psyched. I had a feeling of euphoria. I was zeroed in on the (catcher's) glove, but I didn't hit the glove too much. I remember hitting a couple of batters, and the bases were loaded two or three times. The ball was small sometimes, the ball was large sometimes, sometimes I saw the catcher, sometimes I didn't. Sometimes, I tried to stare the hitter down and throw while I was looking at him. I chewed my gum until it turned to powder. I started having a crazy idea in the fourth inning that Richard Nixon was the home plate umpire, and once I thought I was pitching a baseball to Jimi Hendrix, who to me was holding a guitar and swinging it over the plate. They say I had about three to four fielding chances. I remember diving out of the way of a ball I thought was a line drive. I jumped, but the ball wasn't hit hard and never reached me.

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Re: 42 years ago - Dock Ellis (no Mormo content)
Reply #8 - Jun 13^th, 2012 at 1:31pm

lotsajizz wrote on Jun 13^th, 2012 at 7:09am:

Perhaps the single greatest individual athletic accomplishment.

It is. And what an inspiration to our nation's kids. Junior highers across America knowing if they work hard and get a good connect, they too might be able to throw a major league no-hitter while tripping.

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Brainbell Jangler Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 1,331 Portland, OR Gender:	Re: 42 years ago - Dock Ellis (no Mormo content) Reply #9 - Jun 13^th, 2012 at 6:07pm Some Guy wrote on Jun 13^th, 2012 at 11:55am: I always thought this was an old wives tale. It's a verified sports legend. It's even weirder when you consider this: Dock Ellis=Ellis, Dock=Ellis, D. ("LSD" Get it?) Brainy
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Pdog Rocks Off Regular Offline Posts: 6,130 aTx Gender:	Re: 42 years ago - Dock Ellis (no Mormo content) Reply #10 - Jun 13^th, 2012 at 6:59pm lotsajizz wrote on Jun 13^th, 2012 at 7:09am: Perhaps the single greatest individual athletic accomplishment. just taking lsd and getting out there is enough...
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sweetcharmedlife Rocks Off Regular Offline Do the horrendous to that if you can Posts: 11,943 San Mateo Gender:	Re: 42 years ago - Dock Ellis (no Mormo content) Reply #11 - Jun 13^th, 2012 at 11:56pm Who cares. Matt Cain just threw a perfect fucking game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: 42 years ago - Dock Ellis (no Mormo content)
Reply #13 - Jun 14^th, 2012 at 8:06am

Brainbell Jangler wrote on Jun 13^th, 2012 at 6:07pm:

Some Guy wrote on Jun 13^th, 2012 at 11:55am:

I always thought this was an old wives tale.

It's a verified sports legend. It's even weirder when you consider this: Dock Ellis=Ellis, Dock=Ellis, D. ("LSD" Get it?)
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Re: 42 years ago - Dock Ellis (no Mormo content)
Reply #14 - Jun 14^th, 2012 at 8:11am

sweetcharmedlife wrote on Jun 13^th, 2012 at 11:56pm:

Who cares. Matt Cain just threw a perfect fucking game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Fuck you Gazza, Will ya?

Does it count though cause it was the Astros?..........Yankees coming into DC..I'll see how good my Nats really are.....think they have peaked too soon and with their hitting will swoon soon,

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sirmoonie Rocks Off Regular Offline Posts: 3,479 Gender:	Re: 42 years ago - Dock Ellis (no Mormo content) Reply #15 - Jun 14^th, 2012 at 12:38pm Apples and oranges. Ellis was just as capable as anyone of throwing a perfect game. Instead, he chose to throw a no-hitter ON ACID. Road less traveled. Shades of Peary. Shades of Balboa. Shades of Laika.
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Re: 42 years ago - Dock Ellis (no Mormo content)
Reply #16 - Jun 14^th, 2012 at 1:00pm

sirmoonie wrote on Jun 14^th, 2012 at 12:38pm:

Apples and oranges. Ellis was just as capable as anyone of throwing a perfect game. Instead, he chose to throw a no-hitter ON ACID. Road less traveled. Shades of Peary. Shades of Balboa. Shades of Laika.

I'm not sure you can say he CHOSE to do it...he thought he had the day off!

Shades of Leary. Shades of Kesey. 50 Shades of Gay.

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FPM Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 697 Right here in the USA Gender:	Re: 42 years ago - Dock Ellis (no Mormo content) Reply #18 - Jun 14^th, 2012 at 1:51pm "I started having a crazy idea in the fourth inning that Richard Nixon was the home plate umpire, and once I thought I was pitching a baseball to Jimi Hendrix, who to me was holding a guitar and swinging it over the plate." Nope...sounds like a distinctly non-bunk type sitch.
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Bingo Rocks Off Regular Offline Exiled from IORR Posts: 942 Gender:	Re: 42 years ago - Dock Ellis (no Mormo content) Reply #19 - Jun 14^th, 2012 at 2:41pm Sounds like the sht I took in Worcester 84, I couldn't tell the difference between Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia, the floor of the Centrum had very large hills that I had to climb. lol
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Re: 42 years ago - Dock Ellis (no Mormo content)
Reply #21 - Jun 14^th, 2012 at 6:57pm

Edith Grove wrote on Jun 14^th, 2012 at 1:34pm:

sirmoonie wrote on Jun 14^th, 2012 at 12:38pm:

Ellis was just as capable as anyone of throwing a perfect game. Instead, he chose to throw a no-hitter ON ACID.

But do we know the quality of the acid he was on? Heck, it could have been bunk. Oh no! not you again

This has been debunked.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vUhSYLRw14

Listen to his account above:

"I'm high as a Georgia pine."

"I had got in the middle of the morning and took some more acid....."

"The opposing team and my teammates knew I was high, but didn't know what I was high on."

"It was easier to pitch with the LSD because I was used to medicating myself."

See also his descriptions of wavering ball sizes. All of the above are Ellis' admissions against his own pecuniary and penal interests. The appropriate indicia of reliability is present. I will allow this in. Proceed.

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Re: 42 years ago - Dock Ellis (no Mormo content)
Reply #23 - Jun 14^th, 2012 at 10:46pm

gimmekeef wrote on Jun 14^th, 2012 at 8:11am:

sweetcharmedlife wrote on Jun 13^th, 2012 at 11:56pm:

Who cares. Matt Cain just threw a perfect fucking game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Fuck you Gazza, Will ya?

Does it count though cause it was the Astros?..........Yankees coming into DC..I'll see how good my Nats really are.....think they have peaked too soon and with their hitting will swoon soon,

Yeah it counts. The experts are calling it the second all time greatest regular season game ever pitched behind Kerry Woods 20 K 1 infield hit game.

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Re: 42 years ago - Dock Ellis (no Mormo content)
Reply #24 - Jun 15^th, 2012 at 8:44am

sweetcharmedlife wrote on Jun 14^th, 2012 at 10:46pm:

gimmekeef wrote on Jun 14^th, 2012 at 8:11am:

sweetcharmedlife wrote on Jun 13^th, 2012 at 11:56pm:

Who cares. Matt Cain just threw a perfect fucking game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Fuck you Gazza, Will ya?

Does it count though cause it was the Astros?..........Yankees coming into DC..I'll see how good my Nats really are.....think they have peaked too soon and with their hitting will swoon soon,

Yeah it counts. The experts are calling it the second all time greatest regular season game ever pitched behind Kerry Woods 20 K 1 infield hit game.

The "experts" are fucked in their muffbiffing heads, and have obviously never done LSD. Nothing compares to what Ellis did. I don't need some goddam twit who writes about baseball for a living telling me who the Bhudda is. Enter:
http://blog.wfmu.org/.a/6a00d83451c29169e2011571d8a7ca970b-250wi

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