Tommy Lasorda

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Where is the Phillies Phanatic?
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L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 08, 2021 11:47 am Where is the Phillies Phanatic?
Are you making an accusation, LJAM?
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Lasorda has always reminded me of my maternal grandmother.
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Walter Alston immediately to Tommy LaSorda was a hell of a run. I’m sure it’s happened, but the list of franchises in sports that had two consecutive coaches serving at least twenty years each, with a winning record and multiple titles each, has to be pretty short.
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L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 08, 2021 12:14 pm Walter Alston immediately to Tommy LaSorda was a hell of a run. I’m sure it’s happened, but the list of franchises in sports that had two consecutive coaches serving at least twenty years each, with a winning record and multiple titles each, has to be pretty short.
Steelers have 3 guys with 15+ seasons.

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Yeah, I think Torre + Girardi with both having a decade is probably near the top of the modern list. Twins probably had longer tenures for Kelly + Gardenhire but I'm not sure the latter was over .500.
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mister d wrote: ↑Fri Jan 08, 2021 12:05 pm Lasorda has always reminded me of my maternal grandmother.
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1.) Espn's headline "Tommy Lasorda loved baseball and being Tommy Lasorda" is exactly what I think of when I think about him. If Baseball's national team job was more like soccer I would have said give him the full time US job.
2.) Wonder how many papers had a Tommy Lasorda obit already in the can ready to go. 93 is a long run for a guy of that shape.
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Him winning the Olympics with a bunch of non-prospect minor leaguers was an underrated achievement.
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Just read Ray Ratto's story on Defector....I had forgotten how terrible Lasorda was to his son, who was gay and died of AIDS.
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I'm with Irwin M. Fletcher on this one.
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I am in a group photo with him, buried in one of my wife's photo albums.

But, I also agree with Mr. Fletcher.
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He was the first person to make me realize how stupid it is baseball managers wear a uniform.
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