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I wonder if Gilligan and Lincecum hang out together?

If I had to choose, I'd rather have a pot head as a teammate vs an alcoholic.

No doubt...
I guess everyone is going to rip on Lincecum now after making excuses for our Alchie...

Nothing like double standards!

Yeah, Dock Ellis showed that a pitcher can throw a no-hitter on acid. It's very difficult to perform great baseball feats when you're passed out on the floor of a hotel bar.

There's no proof Tim inhaled.

Signed:
William Jefferson Clinton

There's nothing wrong with smoking a little weed here and there.

At least it's the offseason.

< http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kqmCIrq9Jw

You can put your weed in it!
lol

Yup, that Pot-Head Jeff Weaver's career worked out really well.

If that was an actual attempt at humor by the Damus, please be advised that it failed miserably, and please don't try it again.

No humor intended!!
Sorry to disappoint you.

I guess that means 'Failed Miserably" now becomes a resounding successful post - since injecting humor in that post never came into play with me.

Thank you for the compliment sicko-hopper!!

Actually Jeff Weavers pitching woes came AFTER the institution of scheduled and random drug testing by MLB. He pitched better when he was a pothead.

I'll take either, so long as they put up the numbers.

It's not what goes into a man's mouth that defileth him, it's what comes out."

I had never heard of the Ellis-LSD thing before...unbelievable.

Here's his recount of the no hitter...

"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."

LOL

On an avg of 760k/yr with Detroit, what would you expect?

Matters-not to me either Ty. We will see what being busted does to Tim's future pitching career. Being forced off the weed may even hurt his performance level.

I know of a couple semi-pro golfers who swear their game is better when enduring thru nasty hangovers resulting from getting drunk the night prior.
Head throbbing pain keeps their body/head more still -- which normally aids a golfers swing.

A no-hitter shouldn't count if it's thrown against a guy batting with a guitar and called by a crooked president--although given the number guys Ellis walked, it doesn't seem like Nixon was helping him much.

The best part is that he didn't know he was scheduled to pitch that day until he read it in the newspaper (he had taken the LSD with his girlfriend early that morning). It's a pretty amazing story. If I found out they were going to show that game on ESPN Classics, I would get cable.

The only time that one hit ended in a no-hitter.

I just wanted to post this and watch the same posters that rip on the Detroit Tiger players, defend this guy from a different team.

Guaranteed... if TL played FOR the Tigers, you Tiger hater's tune would be different. It would be exactly the same venom and hate you spew toward Cabrera.

You haters are so predictable it's funny.