What Hall of Fame Baseball Player Was Freaking Out About Jews, Black Helicopters in '94?
What Hall of Fame baseball player - a Lefty, coincidentally - said all this for a 1994 magazine profile?
And no, it wasn't Dave Dravecky, Eric Show, or Mark Thurmond.
"The Revolution is definitely coming." He believes in the Revolution, only he isn't precisely sure which of a myriad of conspiratorial groups will begin it. Possibly, he says, it will be started by the Skull and Bones Society of Yale University. Or maybe the International Monetary Fund. Or the World Health Organization. There are so many conspiracies, and so little time. Sometimes all those conspiracies confuse him and he contradicts himself. One minute he'll say, "The Russian and U.S. governments fill the air with low-frequency sound waves meant to control us," and the next he'll say, "The Elders of Zion rule the world," and then, "The British MI-5 and-6 intelligence agencies have ruled the world since 1812," and, "Twelve Jewish bankers meeting in Switzerland rule the world," and, "The world is controlled by a committee of 300 which meets at a roundtable in Rome." The subterfuge starts early. Like the plot by the National Education Association to subvert American children with false teachings. "Don't tell me that two plus two equals four," he once said. "How do you know that two is two? That's the real question."
The answer, plus postscripts by the article's author and editor, are online here.
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Oh for fuck sake, I thought every knew that the American Medial Association was going to start it.
Medial Medical
Fuck I hate it when I make such a dumb mistake.
Obviously it was the fnord Illuminati.
Immanentizing the Eschaton?
EXACTLY!
That CT is so 90s - pre-Truther.
Now Glenn Beck and his ilk spew the CT.
When did Connecticut get involved?
Fuck you and the estate you Rhode Island on.
I don't recall Glenn Beck spending the last year plus telling us that everyone sticking up for the Second Amendment is part of some sinister cabal headed by the NRA and gun manufacturers.
Nor do I recall him scaremongering by constantly referring to an imaginary "War on Women".
Nor do I recall him making baseless claims about Monsanto poisoning everyone.
And I'm pretty sure it was Obama who was making asinine claims about defeating phantom "powerful interests" when he was re-elected, not Beck or his ilk.
Who says that?
There is certainly left-wing CT. Like how the "banksters crashed the economy to take peoples homes/savings".
Most CT originates on the right though.
[citation needed]
That's a blatant lie. Both sides are about equal. The only difference between left and right wing conspiracy theories is that the left-wing has theories regarding corporations and the right has theories regarding government. That's the only difference.
Don't forget all those doctors amputating healthy bits just to jack up insurance bills.
The War on Women should be the War on Privacy Rights.
Conservatives hate contraception, no question. From the RCC to the Fundie-Nuts.
Look, Shreek doesn't buy into dopey conspiracy theories (CTs). Besides, if it wasn't for the crazy right-wing Christfag movement, the world would be a wonderful place for real libertarians to live.
Religion is the ultimate CT.
How is religion a conspiracy theory? Words have meaning, Shrike. You can't just throw words out there willy nilly and just kind of hope they mean what you think they mean.
Followed very closely by the wingnuts who think the Christfags are out to get them.
NEEDZ MOAR CHRISTFAG
"Twelve Jewish bankers meeting in Switzerland rule the world,"
The Gnomes of Zurich never win, it's pain in the ass raising enough money.
Expect a visit from the Servants of Cthulhu for your blasphemy.
who has the ring that binds them?
One of the Rothchilds
3 for elves, 7 for dwarves, 9 for men. And 1 to bind them.
IIRC, that is the correct total, the gnomes got nothing.
I cant win as the Gnomes, but I see them win all the time.
I like spending money too much messing with people to play the gnomes.
Now, Bermuda, that is different. I have an awesome win rate as the Triangle.
Carlton?
He had the greatest season of any pitcher in MLB history, imo.
27-10 for a horrible Phillies team that didn't win 60 games all year.
Well, go figger - like his nickname shouldn't have tipped us off?
Or - wait - is it the other way around? I can never tell these days.
Back then they didn't yet know about the Trilateral Commission. What a sweet, innocent time the 90's were.
Its the Pentavirate.
Like the plot by the National Education Association to subvert American children with false teachings.
Definitely right-wing.
Are you saying you don't know how to read?
I'm amazed he even knows how to breathe.
he doesn't read, he just listens to the voices in his head.
The teacher stands in front of the class
But the lesson plan he can't recall
The student's eyes don't perceive the lies
Bouning off every fucking wall
His composure is well kept
I guess he fears playing the fool
The complacent students sit and listen to some of that
Bullshit that he learned in school
I guess Rage Against the Machine is a right-wing band, then.
"How do you know that two is two? That's the real question."
How do you know anything's anything? And I'm going to say Steve Carlton, for some reason.
Huh. My money was on Lenny Dykstra. Both tough and as smart as nails.
Ah shit. As albo mentions below, Daulton was the nutjob. Sorry for the libel, Nails.
Carlton has always been nuts, everybody knows that.
But look up Darren Daulton some time. He's even nuttier. Very New Age woo woo.
Here's a link to another story by Pat Jordan for Inside Sports.
http://www.bronxbanterblog.com.....-paradise/
It's a great profile of Steve and Cyndy Garvey. I remember reading that as a kid. I was a subscriber to Inside Sports from issue 1; what a great magazine.
I delivered some antique furniture to Steve Garvey's house back in 1999. He still has forearms the size of Easter hams. Cocky as shit. And he didn't tip me for the delivery.
Were there approximately 5000 of his children running around?