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Hector the Pup
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 Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 9:13 am Post subject: RIP Tommy Lasorda |
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Dladi Vidac
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RIP Tommy!
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Damn . . . Dodger Icon.
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All of us Cubs fans loved the guy. He was on Chicago radio quite often back in the day, talking to Harry in the booth when the Dodgers were at Wrigley and he loved him some Connie's pizza.
RIP legend.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 9:45 am Post subject: |
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| RIP. Seems like he was holding out just to see the Dodgers win one last time. |
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Mark_in_Tulsa
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I just cried.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 9:53 am Post subject: |
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| Larger than life legend. RIP, Tommy. |
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He bled Dodger Blue.
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RIP
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Damn, thought he was just discharged from the hospital and this? Dark week for the Dodgers Nation, losing Sandra Scully now Tommy.
 
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ChickenStu
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Not sure if I have said this on this forum before, but I met him once in 1998, when he was interim GM of the Dodgers. It was as I was boarding a plane. He was very cordial, and then perked up a bit when I mentioned that I was also Italian. We had a brief conversation about the Dodgers and he was nice enough to sign a piece of paper for me, in which he wrote "to a great Italian." I've heard that he was always gracious with people in terms of signing autographs and posing for pictures.
A true Dodger icon and legend. May he rest in peace.
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RIP A Dodger legend and quite a character.
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Had a horrible record as a Dodger pitcher, outstanding record as a Dodger manager. RIP
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| He will always be one of the most iconic figures in LA sports, RIP. |
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best Dodger ever...!
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Mark_in_Tulsa
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How did they get all that recorded? No way a manager could get away with talking like that today, with the high quality camera's we have now and the pussyification of pro athletes now.
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Man January's have NOT been kind to the Southland.
RIP Tommy!
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Awesome clip. I've never seen it.
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Just read the news while combing Twitter. I’m a born and raised LA kid so he’s one of those folks it seems like I grew up with.
RIP to a Los Angeles sports legend. |
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A Dodger legend, RIP Tommy 
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Awesome clip. I've never seen it. |
Here is one more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzjWQF1oP2M
Tommy Lasorda was and is a Dodger legend.
RIP Tommy and Thank You!
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DaMuleRules
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| jonnybravo wrote: |
Awesome clip. I've never seen it. |
When I was in junior high school, he came to our PE class. He did't use foul language, but even at that young age it was easy to see he was a salty MFer and it was fun to see an adult treat kids as peers. The quote I remember from that day was when he said, "Baseball is the only job where if you get it right 3 out of 10 times, you're doing fine."
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You thought God was an architect, now you know
He’s something like a pipe bomb ready to blow
And everything you built that’s all for show
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| Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2021 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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That tape with all the cussing bleeped out was played on sportstalk radio for years back in the day. Baseball and LA lost a unique one today. Thanks for the memories Tommy. |
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