Tommy Lasorda News, Pictures & Buzz

Eli Drinkwitz’s debut season comes down to these four games  Rock M Nation

5 On Your Side Countdown: The 10 worst trades in St. Louis sports history  KSDK.com

Funeral Mass for restaurateur Charlie Gitto Sr. to be held Thursday  STLtoday.com

1977 World Series - Dodgers and Yankees  The Daily Advocate

Remembering legendary St. Louis restaurateur Charlie Gitto Sr.  St. Louis Magazine

Coeur d'Alene Press  Coeur d'Alene Press

Famed St. Louis restaurateur Charlie Gitto Sr. dies  St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Nine ways MLB can enhance how fans watch games on television  Los Angeles Times

Tim Kurkjian's Baseball Fix: Major League Baseball gave us plenty of reasons to despise it, but here are 100 reasons it's OK to still love it  ESPN

Ian Desmond to Skip MLB Season; Cites COVID, Racism, Sexism, Homophobia  Gay City News

Ben Goldberg Exits Long Beach, Now Nearby Refugee In OC  LBReport.com

Padres history (June 30): Bevacqua vs. Lasorda begins  The San Diego Union-Tribune

A Career In Full: A retiring golf writer reflects on his dumb good luck  Golf Digest

Mariners Moose Tracks, 6/29/20: Glenn Burke, PED suspensions, and 60-man rosters  Lookout Landing

Trip down Northwest sports' memory lane starts with baseball, hockey upgrades  Sports and Weather Right Now

Egger: Will the Reds' short season have meaning and legitimacy? Absolutely  The Athletic

Vietnam Veterans Baseball Los Angeles Dodgers | Connecting Vets  Connecting Vets

Morning Briefing: Yoenis Cespedes Raring To Play This Season  metsmerizedonline.com

MLB mascot rankings: From the furry to the famous, the flops to the Phanatic  The Athletic

This Day In Dodgers History: Sandy Koufax Makes MLB Debut Vs. Milwaukee Braves  DodgerBlue.com

billpickle6: RT @RichFranklin: You can wake up every day and make today better than the last. – Tommy Lasorda

SlaterWouldGo: @TedStryker - That's a cool story but where's that Tommy Lasorda baseball now?? #StrykerAndKlein @StrykerAndKlein @KROQ

The_DAPowell: @KeithOlbermann Also all media about Kingman should include Tommy Lasorda’s thoughts @^ his performance...

Abacus^#ytics: @LeBatard_Reddit Great paraphrasing of the Legary quote from Tommy LaSorda.

Gary_Loper: The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a pers*&'s #determinati*& ~ Tommy Lasorda

If Lasorda takes over how long will it take to win the world series? Lasorda still has it because he led the american team to the gold medal in the 2000 olympics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6Q6HT4CQ94

Tommy LaSorda vs. Earl Weaver

I finally got with the times and got Tommy Lasorda baseball for my Sega Genesis, but I don't know how to hit a home run. How do I do it?

With his 84th birthday yesterday, and his honorable coaching of the Dodgers, people have been talking about the guy like he was a spectacular legend who did nothing but good during his time in the MLB (other than the occasional profanity filled rant). The reality: He hated his son because he was gay, and after his death from AIDS, refused to acknowledge that he was gay or died of AIDS, and insisted he died of Cancer. Now there's a lot of evil things baseball players have done over the years, but I can't think of one worse than this. Manny, Ty Cobb, Pete Rose, Barrry Bonds, Rafael Palmeiro, among others, all get criticized to a ridiculous extent for taking steroids, cheating, and egos, but fans don't care about someone who hates his son for homophobic reasons and lies about his death from AIDS? Ty Cobb hated blacks, anti Jackie Robinson people hated them too. What Lasorda did is nothing but homophobia, I remember reading he didn't like having a gay player on the Dodgers either. And it's all the same isn't it? Hatred for a Race is the exact same as hatred for a sexuality. I don't care if it was popular to have those kind of opinions in those times, you could say the exact same about Cobb.