Wally Backman’s masterful rant got me in the mood to dig up Tommy Lasorda’s eloquent response to the accusation that, as manager of the Dodgers, he was telling his pitchers to throw at various Padres.
NSFW due to profanity-laced wittiness. Enjoy.
(NSFW due to sublime use of profanity.)
Currently the manager for the South Georgia Peanuts, Backman is widely know for his days with the NY Mets. Here’s his bio for those who can’t quite place him.
We missed f*cking megasigns.
(Via With Leather)
Attention NBA bigshots: David Stern is listening to your tweets, and he’s not happy!
David Stern’s NBA has long been known for nailing any league employee who questions a referee’s calls (or pretty much anything else having to do with the NBA). Usually the perpetrator slips up during a post-game interview, and that slip-up comes out in print or on television. But this time it happened on Twitter, courtesy of basketball mastermind Marc Cuban:
how do they not call a tech on JR Smith for coming off the bench to taunt our player on the ground ?
But Cuban isn’t the only NBA personality to get carried away with Twitter during a game. Milwaukee Bucks forward Charlie Villanueva tweeted at halftime during a huge victory over the Celtics. A few days later, Phoenix Suns center and former rap star, Shaquille O’Neal, aka @the_real_shaq, followed suit, cleverly shushing the entire Twitterverse at the 3rd quarter break of a game versus Washington.
Shaq of course received no punishment or rebuke of anykind…nothing – just like when he used to body slam my cousin Arvydas during the NBA playoffs, using nothing but his ginormous rear. The absence of any punishment was as Shaq predicted:
Yogi was once asked what he’d do if he found a million dollars. He replied:
“I’d find the fellow who lost it, and, if he was poor, I’d return it.”
