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[soxhop411]

http://boston.cbsloc...nce-of-cocaine/


pretty amusing, i thought we knew this though?

[Rough Carrigan]

According to his L.A. Dodger teammates, Steve Howe pitched after having done coke several/many times and never had a bad outing when he was under that particular influence.

[jon abbey]

And of course Tim Raines said he used to slide headfirst to protect the coke in his back pocket.

[Oil Can Dan]

Cocaine's a hell of a drug.

[Captaincoop]

Am I imagining things, or did Oil Can come out and rip Beckett, et al for drinking beer during games?

[Robert Plant]

For a couple of hours at a time cocaine actually could help athletic performance. Perhaps during longer outings Boyd was doing lines between innings to keep his buzz going.

The acute effects of cocaine probably, overall, would impair and not enhance performance. But within a two-hour window, you may actually have some enhancement - overcoming fatigue, reaction time, and so on.

-Dr. Gary Wadler author of the book Drugs and the Athlete-

http://www.aolnews.c...enhancing-drug/

Edited by Robert Plant, 08 February 2012 - 11:20 PM.

[Adirondack jack]

Cocaine's a hell of a drug.

Sure, I guess, if you're into putting a cattle and pig dewormer up your nose (or whatever ones prefered method may be).

http://www.thestrang...ent?oid=4683741

[moondog80]

I'm not saying this never happened, but keep in mind that Oil Can is promoting a book here. Things get exaggerated.

[Monbo Jumbo]

Doc Ellis had chunks of Oil Can in his stool.

[brienc]

Doc Ellis had chunks of Oil Can in his stool.

Pitching a no hitter while tripping on acid has to go down as one of the greatest athletic feats ever.

[jkempa]

Sure, I guess, if you're into putting a cattle and pig dewormer up your nose (or whatever ones prefered method may be).

http://www.thestrang...ent?oid=4683741

Though it's highly doubtful that it was cut with levamisole when Boyd was pitching.

[behindthepen]

Sounds like the headline should read "Oil Can admits to occasionally pitching not under the influence of cocaine".

[maufman]

My friend e-mailed me this story. The subject of the e-mail was "least surprising revelation ever." Pretty much says it all.

[Ramon AC]

Where's the outrage? People were so pissed off about the free beer and chicken after September but this is cute? TTo be very clear I thought the moral panic about last year's clubhouse was totally overwrought, and Oil Can is so thirty years ago . . . but does a non-strung out Boyd pitch and win Game 7? Does he win Game 3 of the ALCS and keep the series from going 7, saving the pitching staff and putting the team in a better position for the WS?

[Lose Remerswaal]

According to his L.A. Dodger teammates, Steve Howe pitched after having done coke several/many times and never had a bad outing when he was under that particular influence.

Somewhere I have a copy of the book Steve Howe wrote (or someone wrote for him) autographed by Steve, and dedicated "To Oil Can".

This news may have doubled it's value to $.50!

[mt8thsw9th]

Where's the outrage? People were so pissed off about the free beer and chicken after September but this is cute?

Yes. The Red Sox likely make the playoffs if Lester and Beckett were blowing lines instead of getting fat. Josh in particular could probably use a coke habit, especially in his typically poor "even year".

[Batman Likes The Sox]

I'm not saying this never happened, but keep in mind that Oil Can is promoting a book here. Things get exaggerated.

I hope it's titled Can of Coke

[Judge Mental13]

In the 70s and 80s if you weren't blowing coke in the dugout/clubhouse you weren't a team player. In fact, if you didn't have a crippling drug addiction the Pirates wouldn't even invite you to Spring Training

[someoneanywhere]

Pitching a no hitter while tripping on acid has to go down as one of the greatest athletic feats ever.

Doing it on horse ain't no athletic feat.

Do it on some red chicken. Then I'll call it an athletic feat.

[The_Powa_of_Seiji_Ozawa]

There go his HOF chances...

[SumnerH]

Pitching a no hitter while tripping on acid has to go down as one of the greatest athletic feats ever.

[Dehere]

Pitching a no hitter while tripping on acid has to go down as one of the greatest athletic feats ever.

Dock Ellis is one of my favorite players of all time. Everybody knows about the LSD game but this is my favorite Dock Ellis story. I'm sure I've read about this game dozens of times and it never fails to make me laugh:

"Perhaps Ellis’ most startling act occurred on May 1, 1974, when he tied a major league record by hitting three batters in a row. In spring training that year, Ellis sensed the Pirates had lost the aggressiveness that drove them to three straight division titles from 1970 to 1972. Furthermore, the team now seemed intimidated by Cincinnati’s "Big Red Machine." "Cincinnati will bullshit with us and kick our ass and laugh at us," Ellis said. "They’re the only team that talk about us like a dog." Ellis single-handedly decided to break the Pirates out of their emotional slump, announcing that "We gonna get down. We gonna do the do. I’m going to hit these motherfuckers." True to his word, in the first inning of the first regular-season game he pitched against the Reds, Ellis hit leadoff batter Pete Rose in the ribs, then plunked Joe Morgan in the kidney, and loaded the bases by hitting Dan Driessen in the back. Tony Perez, batting cleanup, dodged a succession of Ellis’ pitches to walk and force in a run. The next hitter was Johnny Bench. "I tried to deck him twice," Ellis recalled. "I threw at his jaw, and he moved. I threw at the back of his head, and he moved." At this point, Pittsburgh manager Danny Murtaugh removed Ellis from the game. But his strategy worked: the Pirates snapped out of their lethargy to win a division title in 1974, while the Reds failed to win their division for the first time in three years."

[joyofsox]

Can you imagine the holier-than-thou sportswriters' heads exploding if Pedro decided to "do the do" against the MFY?




(And that game where he hit the first two batters does not count. Both batters hung out over the plate, Pedro worked inside, and Jeter actually swung at the pitch that hit him.)

[URI]

Can you imagine the outrage if the Red Sox had Rose, Morgan, Perez, and Bench in the top 5 of the order and Danny fucking Driessen was hitting 3rd?