OXNARD, Calif. — The Lasorda Chronicles.
Garrett: “You gotta tell these guys the Sandy Koufax story.”
Lasorda: “Okay anyway, Koufax. [In 1954 when I was a pitcher] I have a god---- good spring training with the Dodgers, trying to make the ball club. We go into Brooklyn to open the season, and I get a call from Buzzie Bavasi, the general manager, to come to his office. I walk in and he said, ‘Tommy, I’ve got a problem.’ I said, ‘What’s the matter Buzzie? One of your relatives sick?’ He said, ‘No, I have to send somebody out. I have to cut one guy out of this ball club, Tommy.’ I said, ‘You didn’t bring me in here to tell me that! No! I won 17 games in f---ing Triple-A last year! What do I have to do to show you I can pitch here? You’re going to keep Koufax over me? No!! He’s a f---ing guy who can’t throw a ball and hit a f---ing barn door! And you’re going to keep him over me?!’ He said, ‘Look Tommy, you’ve gotta go.’ So, I went. So like I say, it took the greatest left-handed pitcher in baseball to knock me off of that Brooklyn team. That was my claim to fame.”
King: “Seems like the rivalry is missing from baseball now. Football too. Guys are pretty friendly.”
Dalrymple: “Our guys pray with the other team on the field after the game.”
Lasorda: “If I saw my players ever talking to the other players, I would chew their ass out. Get the f--- off the field! Don’t talk to them SOBs! You might have to go break up a double play and knock him off a base, and you’re talking to him? They hug each other and everything now. I would never shake hands with the f---ing other team when they beat us. Why shake hands? We are trying to beat their ass, we ain’t shaking hands with the enemy!”
(MMQB.SI.com)
Monday, August 24, 2015
That's A Great Question
Would Anyone in America Miss Professional Motorsports?
So, my question is: if INDYCAR and NASCAR folded tomorrow, would anyone notice and/or care? Outside of Charlotte and Indianapolis, I think not. At best, it’s a regional sport with limited demographic appeal and virtually none of the “diversity” that everything appears to be required to have as of late. Neither sanctioning body has figured out how to appeal to that craved 25-34 group, and I fear that will ultimately be the death of Auto Racing as a spectator sport in our great nation.
(TheTruthAboutCars.com)
So, my question is: if INDYCAR and NASCAR folded tomorrow, would anyone notice and/or care? Outside of Charlotte and Indianapolis, I think not. At best, it’s a regional sport with limited demographic appeal and virtually none of the “diversity” that everything appears to be required to have as of late. Neither sanctioning body has figured out how to appeal to that craved 25-34 group, and I fear that will ultimately be the death of Auto Racing as a spectator sport in our great nation.
(TheTruthAboutCars.com)
We Need Her Show Aired Here In The US!
Why Jodie Kidd passed on Top Gear
While she says she'd love to be a part of it, Kidd, a single mother, basically tells the interviewer that she is already quite busy and has plenty of projects that she loves and is deeply involved in, leaving very little time to dedicate to Top Gear. And a dedication it would be – Kidd suggests such an endeavor would be "all-consuming." Auto-obsessed fans can still get their Jodie Kidd fix, for what its worth, on The Classic Car Show on Channel 5 in the UK.
(AutoBlog.com)
While she says she'd love to be a part of it, Kidd, a single mother, basically tells the interviewer that she is already quite busy and has plenty of projects that she loves and is deeply involved in, leaving very little time to dedicate to Top Gear. And a dedication it would be – Kidd suggests such an endeavor would be "all-consuming." Auto-obsessed fans can still get their Jodie Kidd fix, for what its worth, on The Classic Car Show on Channel 5 in the UK.
(AutoBlog.com)
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