Former Phillies' star gets metaphysical




Former All-Star catcher Darren Daulton has been spending his time spreading his message — and it has nothing to do with baseball.

A popular Phillies player during his baseball career, and the leader of the 1993 World Series team, has become a metaphysics advocate, according to the Philadelphia Daily News.

Daulton reportedly has described metaphysics as anything beyond sight, smell, touch, sound and taste — living in different dimensions, reincarnation, out-of-body experiences and numerology.

As the Daily News says, it has nothing to do with the world around us.

"I see life in a different perspective than I used to, in a way that's different from how most people see it," he said after a recent round of golf in Dunedin, Fla. "There's so much going on that we're not really aware of. Some people are privy to this. It's spoken of in the Bible. Some people are awakened to what's taking place."

This is quite a stark contrast from the way in which most baseball fans remember Daulton as a player — rugged, stubborn and willing to play through pain of multiple knee surgeries.

"We only know what we can perceive with our five senses. I have been, for whatever reason, awakened to other realms that are achievable by all of us. All I want to do is try to convey to everyone what I have witnessed.

"I don't care if people believe me or not. If people want to take and run with it, fine. If they don't, that's fine, too."

Apparently these ideas have been stewing for years. And the Daily News says he put them on paper while serving three months in jail last summer.

He even has completed a 32,000-word manuscript, which is tentatively titled If They Only Knew.

The 44-year-old Daulton said he first realized that more was happening than what meets the eye during the 1997 season after he had been traded to the Florida Marlins.

He recalled getting a game-winning hit against the Cubs at Wrigley Field.

"That was the first time I realized it," he said. "I remember coming out of the stadium and I started crying. (His second wife Nicole, whom he is divorcing) said, 'What's wrong? You just got the game-winning hit.' And I said, 'I didn't hit that ball. Something happened, but it wasn't me.'"

Daulton retired at the end of the 1997 season after helping the Florida Marlins win their first World Series. Since then, Daulton has had numerous problems away from baseball — including a horrific January 2001 car accident that led to a drunken driving arrest.

Daulton reportedly claims the accident was a result of getting run off the road in lieu of a business deal with ties to the FBI and the White House.

In boiling down his beliefs to one sentence for the Daily News, he said: "We need to stop judging each other. Because every one of us is on a different path."

But there's more ... Daulton is convinced that the day of reckoning is coming. Specifically, on Dec. 21, 2012, at 11:11 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time, he told the Daily News that the chosen will simply vanish from this plane of existence.

"That will be the end of this dispensation," he said. "I really don't know how to explain it. I don't know what words to use so people won't think I'm goofy. But by Dec. 21, 2012 (the last day recorded on the Mayan calendar), people will have a pretty good idea. It's all about consciousness and love. We have the ability to create whatever we want. We're all made of energy."

And monkeeys fly out of my butt.

Sidenote I do live right by Aurora, IL

See kids, this is the reason why you don't do loads of steroids. Turns the brain in to mush.

I was thinking the same thing when I was reading the article.

I have a Darren Daulton rookie card. He was easily my 2nd favorite player on that '93 team behind Nails, but c'mon Darren... you used to be such a pretty boy. Don't turn into a raving psycho.

I love how the tease for SportsCenter tonight is "...plus, find out how Darren Daulton thinks he can travel through time."

if Napoleon can.... so can Darren!

i just saw this on sports center. he's still one of my favorite baseball players ever.

Well, he was on Pros Vs. Joes...

I actually think a lot of what Dutch is saying is true. I think however that he's interpreting metaphysics in a way that I've never seen it before (just based on the interview I saw on SC). Is he nuts? Well, I don't know, but the stuff he is saying is far from "psycho."

He didn't just pull that date out of his ass, folks...

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Maybe he's trying to tell people he's a Scientologist.

I'm going to pretend it didn't happen, and remember him as one of my favorite players on my favorite team.

I was stuck in O'Hare last night and caught this on ESPN. Totally strange piece. I like how Kruk backed him

kruk is another guy who can do no wrong. i'd join either of these guys cults.

when he was on letterman and letterman asked him, have you ever played with a corked bat? he answered, played? nah, maybe fondled, but i never played with one.

that earned him a lifetime funny pass in my book

NAILS! I confidently bet $50 (despite the fact that I was 13 and didn't have that kind of cash) back in '94 that the Phillies would make the playoffs - even though they were something like 22 games out of first at the time - because "they still got Nails". Fortunately the strike prevented me from having to live that one down.

I don't think I've ever liked a team that wasn't from my state as much as the '93 Phils.

Wonderful. The world will end on my 26th birthday.

the legend grows

They were a lovable bunch... still my favorite baseball squad of all time. I still have a baseball signed by David West, Larry Anderson and Pete Incaviglia sitting on my desk.