I’m sick of hearing about steroids and performance-enhancing drugs in baseball. It’s all anyone ever talks about — Is A-Rod juicing? Bonds should be thrown out! Where are those asterisks?? Show me those asterisks!!
Seriously. Who the fuck cares.
Thankfully, someone has finally taken a moment to push aside this performance-enhancing hoopla and highlight one of the greatest sports achievements ever. Dock Ellis throwing a no-hitter while tripping balls on LSD. To date, there have been only 263 no-hitters ever thrown in the Big Leagues, and you can spend all day long wondering how many of those were aided by steroids.
But you know what? I would bet my life that only ONE of those was thrown on acid. And this animated short does a hilarious job capturing that moment. It takes real bits of audio from Dock Ellis talking about the incident and brings it to life in fantastic, LSD-infused visuals. Try throwing a no hitter on this…
What an amazing man-achievement. They should force all players to play at least one professional game in acid. It certainly couldn’t make the game any less boring.
props to Doozy for dropping that hit
