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.
The band Talk Hard started their first record by sampling that entire monologue.
Posted by: noah | June 06, 2006 at 12:52 AM
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.
Posted by: Grant | June 06, 2006 at 01:42 PM
The subject of the tirade, Dave Kingman, was a putz who once presented a female sportswriter with a dead rat.
Posted by: Bill W | June 06, 2006 at 01:54 PM
hahahaha. This is hilarious. I don't know how I never heard this one either.
-b
Posted by: Bob | September 12, 2006 at 04:14 PM