An amazing and hilarious animated short about Doc Ellis and the no hitter he pitched while on LSD. Narrated by the man himself. Via SHOEMERDE
Category Archive: baseball
Oct 08
Roy Halladay: Unmix Your Feelings
A lot of Toronto fans have a lot of mixed feelings about Roy Halladay. Some are rooting for him, some are indifferent, some bitter and some still find it tough to look at him in another uniform. A lot of people have all these feelings at the same time. Two things seem to be agreed …
Oct 05
How Mariano Rivera Dominates Hitters
Even if you don’t like baseball, this is an amazing video and well worth watching. It explains how Mariano Rivera has become the most dominant closer in the history of baseball on the strength of just one pitch. It’s also a glimpse into just what is happening at the plate and into the very nature …
Aug 27
Baseball Dominican Republic
pic nicked from here “The D.R. is baseball’s puppy mill. The buscones develop and sometimes feed and house these teenage players, with the intent of selling them to the highest bidder, a major league team willing to fork over thousands, if not millions, of dollars to secure a prospect. As a reward for their work, …
Aug 05
Fuck Cleveland
pic nicked from here But, at the same time, looking at those hats, I can’t decide if baseball needs less racism or more.
Jul 18
If You Can’t Pitch Right . . . Part Two
It’s the ninth inning and your team has a lead so slim it’s anorexic. The bad guys have the bases loaded and their best hitter at the plate. He’s been tearing the cover off the ball all night and looks ready to do it again. This is exactly the sort of situation he thrives in. …
Jun 07
Access Denied (Mike Wilner)
It’s a subject I’ve often gone on about here: That access is used as bludgeon and bait to control media opinion. It happens with big subjects, it happens with little ones but I was surprised to see it happen in baseball. Mike Wilner, who hosts the Fan 590′s post-game, baseball call in show was suspended …
Jun 05
Hill and Fred
I know we beat the Yankees today but FUCK YOU ARIZONA!!! There’s no way that you should have the All Star game. If MLB had any balls at all, you wouldn’t. Races that play together win together. So you can take all that white supremacist shit and shove it up your ass. Cheers.
PURCHASE
"This ultra-sharp, darkly satiric, hyper-speed novel is set in a world where multi-level mega malls serves as city states and everything on the outside lies in ruin. On the lower red levels, gang violence and media saturation and bio-tech designer drugs rule. During the weekend, slummers from the green levels leave their safe lives of jobs and families to partake in risky, sometimes deadly, fun on the red levels. And on every level, TV and advertisements literally penetrate the mind. Death is easy and life cheap, until that life is your own or your beloveds. Extreme stylization, great characters, and a high-level of intensity is maintained throughout. This is a whip-smart, truly violent novel that has at its core a still very human pulsing heart."
In the basement . . .
May 20, 1990: Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson’s remarkable Kenyon College commencement address on creative integrity.
川流不息 Endless stream by Singer 晴哥 on Flickr.
