Darren Arthur Daulton (born January 3, 1962 in Arkansas City, Kansas), nicknamed Dutch, is a former catcher in Major League Baseball best remembered for his years with the Philadelphia Phillies.

Professional career

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Daulton was one of the catalysts on the 1993 Phillies NL pennant winners. Although the Phillies lost the World Series, Daulton was again an All-Star and drove in more than 100 runs for a second consecutive season.

Unfortunately, knee injuries again caught up with Daulton. He missed most of the 1994, 1995, and 1996 seasons. In 1997, after 17 years with the organization, the Phillies traded Daulton to the Florida Marlins to give him a chance to win the World Series. After the Marlins won the crown, Daulton announced his retirement.

In 14 seasons, Daulton played 1161 games, he had 137 home runs and 588 RBI. His career batting average was .245.

Legal problems

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Daulton has been arrested several times on vehicle-related charges. He was arrested for DUI in Pinellas County, Florida in 1988, and his driver's license was suspended for a year after he refused to take a Breathalyzer test. His license was also suspended in the late '90s due to unpaid speeding tickets; he received at least five during that time period, including one for traveling over 100 miles-per-hour in a 65 zone. While under this suspension, he was involved in a single-vehicle accident on January 3, 2001, causing $20,000 worth of damage to his BMW sedan. He again refused to be tested, and was charged with DUI, driving with a suspended license, and failing to appear in court. Daulton 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.[http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/5340822

Exactly two years later, he was arrested again for driving with a suspended license and DUI, after again refusing to be tested for alcohol.^*

Daulton was also arrested on domestic violence charges, accused of abusing his second wife Nicole, who subsequently filed for divorce. In 2004, he spent two months in jail in contempt of court after refusing to abide by the terms of a legal agreement related to the divorce.^*

Personal beliefs

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Daulton holds a series of unusual beliefs related to conspiracies, metaphysics, and numerology. He maintains that the universe is created and sustained by numerical synchronicities, and that all matter is charged with vibrational energy, which has escaped human perception because it is extradimensional in origin. He believes that those who are conscious of this energy can manipulate it to affect reality in different ways, such as altering the weather. He also believes that the pyramids and Mayan temples were created by a lost civilization, and that people with knowledge of the workings of the system will "ascend" at the conclusion of the Mayan calendar on Dec. 21, 2012, at 11:11 a.m. (Greenwich Mean Time), vanishing into a new plane of existence. ^* He recently claimed in a televised interview with ESPN that he has "skipped through time" and undergone "astral travel."

Popular Culture

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In reference to these beliefs about time travel, a popular colloquialism has been coined amongst college students. "Going Dutch" is used to describe a situation when one has drank so much that parts of the evening are lost, giving one a sense of time travel. - Ex. "Dude I don't remember going to the bar last night, I went Dutch"

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