because this is bluesky, nop iam not saying being alcoholic is cool, I think being so incredible at your sport that youre the best thing its ever seen while smash drunk is wild

"Oh, George, where did it all go wrong?"

You would love baseball then. www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/j...

'I'm high as a Georgia pine': Dock Ellis's no-hitter on LSD, 50 years on

Baseball’s great psychedelic myth took place five decades ago, but the man behind it was far more than an amusing sidenote in the sport’s history

Someone I know who’s in recovery once remarked how mindblowing it was to think what Robert Pollard of Guided By Voices could have created if he’d been sober, given that he’d written so many debilitatingly great songs while being constantly blotto.

Luka not being slowed by gaining 50 lbs of cheeseburger weight while playing Overwatch

The only thing wilder is Doc Ellis

Gronk would reportedly party all night, nearly every night, then go directly to the training center & pass out on a cot. When the med-techs got in they knew to run an IV on him so he could be up and ready for practice at 6:30 AM.