Adding Extra Blue to the Dodgers

Today we celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda's infamous post-game tyrade, which lived on in cassette form until the internet bolstered its immortality. The future frozen-dinner marketer and namesake of the "Tommy Lasorda Burger" at Alice Cooperstown Restaurant in Phoenix paints broad brushstrokes of hyper-insane profanity over the Los Angeles skyline here (MP3). Besides providing some high hoo-haw moments for many, the tape also acted as a good template for interview protocol for generations of sports reporters to come. When a player whips a team with three home runs and 8 RBI's, it's probably not a good idea to ask the losing team's manager what he thought of that person's performance.

Comments

[noah]

The band Talk Hard started their first record by sampling that entire monologue.

[Grant]

Oh man! I'm not sure how I never heard this before, but I hope this is what he sounded like when Vlad Guerrero tipped him over in the third base coach's box in that one All-Star game.
Genius.

[Bill W]

The subject of the tirade, Dave Kingman, was a putz who once presented a female sportswriter with a dead rat.

[Bob]

hahahaha. This is hilarious. I don't know how I never heard this one either.
-b