L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 08, 2021 11:47 am
Where is the Phillies Phanatic?
Are you making an accusation, LJAM?
Re: Tommy Lasorda
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 12:05 pm
by mister d
Lasorda has always reminded me of my maternal grandmother.
Re: Tommy Lasorda
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 12:14 pm
by L-Jam3
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.
Re: Tommy Lasorda
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 12:19 pm
by Pruitt
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.
God damn that team.
Re: Tommy Lasorda
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 12:49 pm
by mister d
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.
Re: Tommy Lasorda
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 12:49 pm
by Johnny Carwash
Re: Tommy Lasorda
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 12:52 pm
by rass
mister d wrote: ↑Fri Jan 08, 2021 12:05 pm
Lasorda has always reminded me of my maternal grandmother.
It tickled when you kissed them?
Re: Tommy Lasorda
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 1:02 pm
by wlu_lax6
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.
Re: Tommy Lasorda
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 1:19 pm
by Johnny Carwash
Him winning the Olympics with a bunch of non-prospect minor leaguers was an underrated achievement.
Re: Tommy Lasorda
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 2:51 pm
by DaveInSeattle
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.
Re: Tommy Lasorda
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 4:25 pm
by brian
I'm with Irwin M. Fletcher on this one.
Re: Tommy Lasorda
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 4:37 pm
by DSafetyGuy
I am in a group photo with him, buried in one of my wife's photo albums.
But, I also agree with Mr. Fletcher.
Re: Tommy Lasorda
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 5:19 pm
by sancarlos
Re: Tommy Lasorda
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 5:35 pm
by Giff
He was the first person to make me realize how stupid it is baseball managers wear a uniform.