Posted on 07/23/2021 7:37:09 PM PDT by conservative98
I didn’t know they had beaches in the Czech Republic.
Not Guilty
It the deflated ball symbolic of their Olympic hopes?
Many, many athletes turned in the performance of a lifetime while sick.
Tom Dempsey was crazy hungover when he kicked the 63-yard field goal. Michael Jordan was puking (it was food poisoning) when he helped the Bulls win Game 5 in 1997. Kurt Schilling was bleeding on the mound when he beat the Yankees. You never know.
Dock Ellis pitched a no-hitter on LSD.
Seriously — a no hitter on LSD. That is quite impressive. I did not know that.
He did walk eight guys, though, LOL.
That may be the greatest athletic achievement of all time.
I am just trying to put it together how he held it together with a hallucinogen on board that stimulates serotonin. I guess he had a good trip — otherwise I can only imagine what the hallucinations must have been like.
Out of curiosity (and I love your knowledge of sports) — how was this discovered — did he out himself? Drug testing?
Its a hell of a story either way.
I knew about MJ puking through game five — tons of athletes have played unbelievably when physically compromised, but this is an absolute curiosity to me how someone can make it through nine innings with his mind altered. Wow.
“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. 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.” - Dock Ellis in Lysergic World (1993)
Thats totally amazing. Thanks for the information. I am stunned.
I've scoured the interweb for footage of that game but to no avail. I'd love to see it.
Comer a long way from that in 1993 to the revelation of the Cleveland Guardians today — I think I would like it better if the pitchers were stoned instead of woke.
I wonder if afterwards he told the guys about it. “Yeah - so there was this funky image right where the batter’s box would be. And every time I threw the ball there was, like a trail or something showing where the ball went - it was SO easy dude!”
Years later the TV technology caught up with his trip.
So one of the players tested +. Does that player not want to play? They are all healthy athletes so low chance of a serious or fatal issue. Do the other players care or have a problem? If not, then why cancel?
Now THAT is a bitchin' tag line!!!
Japan will regret how bad they are screwing this up.
The phony FR "doctor" gas_bag disagrees with you. I myself will use his "opinion" as toilet paper.
Yea, well, that may be but lose two friends to Covid in a seeming blink of an eye and it becomes serious.
The new strain seems to be very quick if someone is going to die from it.
There is no way the girl was sick . When are people going to understand covid only a problem if you are very old or very sick
That’s a stupid comparison. Ebola is not an airborne virus, and is restricted to a few localized hotspots in Africa.
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