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Tommy Lasorda: Clinically Delusional At Any Altitude
For those who think that Tommy Lasorda should pack up his follow-the-flag, I-love-the-good-ole-USA act and ship off to a nice assisted living community, here's more evidence to have him sent away....
Tommy Lasorda Is Not Familiar With Your Fancy Scientific Terms
The Dodgers Triple-A affiliate introduced Tim Wallach as their new manager. First, Lasorda has a couple questions about the team name. [NBC Los Angeles]...
Lasorda Back With Dodgers; Still Fat
To help us to get into shape for baseball's opening day, here's a mini Closer. I promise I will not take out the catcher ......
Uncovering The 19th Century Version Of 'You Dead, Dawg'
Well, this just makes me miss Deadwood all the more: It seems that raunchy language was such a problem in professional baseball in the late 1800s, that the league actually handed out a document telling players to knock it off. It lists several examples of banned expressions, which are absolutely fil...
Joe Torre, All Hollywood Now
Joe Torre took his triumphant first bow as manager of the Dodgers yesterday, but as anyone who sees this picture can tell you, he was mostly just there to channel Enrico Palazzo....
Happy 80th Birthday To The Swirly Move
Tomorrow, friends, is a great day for a great American; it's Tommy Lasorda's 80th birthday. We revel in the memories....
It's Best To Be Aware Of Who Is Playing Santa
This photo is from Alyssa Milano's MLB Blog, and it features Alyssa sitting on Tommy Lasorda's lap....
What Tommy Lasorda Dreams ...
This is Tommy Lasorda during a Dodgers spring training game yesterday, dozing off during a spare moment and having visions, of course, of "swirly moves."...
Book Excerpt: Tommy Lasorda Knows What He Likes ... Sweet Heavens, Does He Ever
SportsByBrooks has grabbed a hold of some of those excerpts from that madam book involving Tommy Lasorda and ... uh ... holy crap....
Tommy Lasorda Wants You To Know He Doesn't Pay For Sex
There's disturbing, there's terrifying, there's soul-destroying ... and then there's learning that Tommy Lasorda is mentioned in a new book as a frequent customer of a call-girl service....
Your 2007 Los Angeles Dodgers: Taste The Excitement
The Dodgers on Thursday threw up a smoke screen to hide a rise in ticket prices, and it's a pretty effective one. A ticket in the right-field bleachers has gone up four bucks, to $10, but with that you get all the Dodger Dogs you can eat. Eric Gagne for an endless supply of weiners? Sounds fair to u...
Heavy Is The Head That Wears The Fitted National League Cap
This story isn't totally new, but it's the first we've seen of it. And we have to warn you in advance that all sides here are quite possibly insane. Charles Littleton, 22, was tackled, tasered and hauled off to the hoosegow last week for refusing to remove his Los Angeles Dodgers cap during a Sagina...
Tommy Lasorda Is Not "Smart"
Big ups to Sports By Brooks, which has unearthed a gem of an audio clip: Our pal Tommy Lasorda absolutely freaking out on a radio host for, uh, pointing out that he was sleeping during a baseball game earlier this year....
Time To Get Your Taste Of Lasorda Love
In case you haven't been paying attention, a very old man is demanding that you cancel your plans this weekend to stay home and watch the baseball playoffs. It's Tommy Lasorda, of course. You know, the guy who decided to pitch to Jack Clark in the ninth inning of Game 6 of the 1985 NLCS. Suddenly he...
Tommy Lasorda's World Still Quiet, Full Of Penne
The Los Angeles Dodgers are very close to hiring a new general manager, the team leaning toward current assistant GM Kim Ng or assistant San Francisco Giants GM Ned Colletti to succeed Paul DePodesta, according to the Los Angeles Times. Of course, in the latest post over on his blog at MLB Blogs....
Dodgers Rid Themselves Of Tweedy Math Dork
Not surprisingly, the sabermetric-friendly Web is all abuzz this morning after the firing of Dodgers GM Paul DePodesta on Friday evening. As always, Baseball Musings is on top of the story, looking at the aftermath of the move, tracking the journalists trying to make sense of it and ultimately set...
Tommy Boy Returns!
World Deadspin Headquarters — usually a dank, gloomy sort of place, not unlike Dracula's castle or the DMV — feels like Disneyland today. That's because Tommy Lasorda is back at the controls of his MLB Blog. We can hardly contain our excitement. Tommy, who is supposed to be running the site's sig...
Anarchy Reigns At MLB Blogs
Has anyone seem Tommy Lasorda? We're starting to get a little worried — he's supposed to be running the flagship blog at MLB Blogs, but hasn't posted since July 27. One imagines his tan Sierra found abandoned in Laurel Canyon, the driver's side door hanging open suspiciously and a trail of fast fo...
Today In MLB Blogs
We'd like to introduce a new feature, because features are fun and make the day just fly fly fly by. In case you missed it, former Sportingnews.com "new media" dropout Mark Newman has resurfaced at MLB.com to help Bud Selig sell something that you absolutely cannot find anywhere else (particularly...
Today In MLB Blogs
Take a look at the above photo, actually existing on MLB Blogs at this moment. A couple of possibilities here:...