OTL: The Long, Strange Trip of Dock Ellis

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=Dock-Ellis

by k33n • 14 years ago

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slater• 14 years ago

The future of online media is annoying parallax effects?

pan69• 14 years ago

I actually enjoyed browsing through this. I can see how a well researched and written article augmented with media elements such as video can be something people are willing to pay for. I think I would.

Edit: But you can say, so can any other page on the web. What I actually appreciated about this was the care that had gone into preparing the content. It would also mean that content becomes more individual rather than placing text in a box standard framework like a typical news website does.

Edit 2: I can see how e.g. a news site can have publicly available content and content behind a pay-wall that is prepared like the content illustrated in this example. More magazine style content.

petercooper• 14 years ago

I hate parallax/scrolling effects and.. this is perhaps the least offensive version I've seen. It seems useful as a way to draw attention to quotations and high res photography that's relevant to the narrative, rather than just being flashy.

I hope people don't take it too far, but I'm impressed by this. If everyone started to do it? I might change my mind ;-)

rosser• 14 years ago

The linked ... article? Media? Whatever it is, isn't loading for me; after more than ten minutes, I'm still just seeing the "buffering" dots.

In the interim, assuming it's about the same thing, here's a fantastic animated short about Dock's famous no-hitter, pitched on LSD:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vUhSYLRw14

EDIT: The problem may have been Chrome, or the extensions I'm using there; it loads right away in Firefox.

Tichy2• 14 years ago

Can anyone explain to a Non-American what the fuss is about? Did he play a very well game on LSD? Or a very bad game? Is it so inconceivable to play a good game while tripping that it warrants a long fawnish article? What is it about?

spc476• 14 years ago

In baseball, a "no-hitter" is a game were one team prevents the other team from hitting the ball all game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-hitter) and is quite a rare feat. That Dock Ellis was able to pitch a no-hitter while on LSD is even more remarkable. The article is more about Dock and his life than that one event.

Tichy2• 14 years ago

Thanks, that makes it more clear!

stuaxo• 14 years ago

Using the cursor keys to try and scroll on that site is really aggravating.

OTL: The Long, Strange Trip of Dock Ellis

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