Talk Like A Pirate

09/19/2012

Talk Like A Pirate

"We gonna get down. We gonna do the do. I'm gonna hit these motherfuckers!" — Dock Ellis (May 1, 1974)

Posted in honor of International Talk Like A Pirate Day, of course...

And speaking of the 70s Pirates, in this week's edition of "High and Tight," my weekly baseball and rock n' roll column for Rolling Stone Online, we ask the burning question: Which MLB team (from the 70s or any other decade) would you want to be a bench player on... and why? Find out what our panelists, including Alice Cooper, Steve Earle, Ben Gibbard, Scott Ian, Handsome Dick Manitoba and Steve and Scott from The Baseball Project, have to say on the subject...

Posted at 03:52 PM in Brawls, Freaky Shit, Hair, Music, Personalities, Uniforms | Permalink

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Dan Epstein

About Me
Dan Epstein is the author of Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging '70s and Stars and Strikes: Baseball and America in the Bicentennial Summer of '76, both published by Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press. He writes about baseball, music and other cultural obsessions for a variety of outlets and publications. He lives in Greensboro, NC, and is available for speaking engagements.

Big Hair and Plastic Grass

09/19/2012