WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: MLB Manager Meltdowns (Fri. Special) 0:00:01.000 --> 0:00:05.040 Boom. If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:08.639 minutes a week was enough, think again. He's the last 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:12.320 remnants of the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:15.440 He treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:18.720 the rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow. It's a 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:22.880 clearinghouse of hot takes. Break free for something special. The 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:29.280 Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:35.360 air everywhere, back at it. A brand new weekend is 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:38.320 kicking off. It is the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:43.280 and Danny g Radio. We thank you for subscribing downloading 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:46.919 the podcast Tell a Friend, Tell a Friend, available on 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:51.519 demand the iHeartRadio app worldwide. Wherever you get your podcast, 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:54.320 you can listen to the show. And Danny, we are 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:59.320 now into a brand new month. It's April fools Day, 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:04.280 perfect day today. We're not to April yet. We're very 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:08.320 close to it, though, no, because I on one side 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:11.920 in the studio, I have the radio equipment and then 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:15.880 I have the podcast stuff over here, but they're both 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:21.399 microphones and I just start yapping and anyway, all right, well, well, nonetheless, 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:24.120 even though it is not April first, that was my 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:26.800 early April Fool Show. I, of course, Danny, as you know, 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:32.320 never make a mistake. Everything is done intentionally wrong. Professional 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:37.000 broadcasting at its finest. That's how we roll. So we 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:42.160 have the Skipper Ripper on today's podcast, Safari Kingdom with 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:46.360 a new added feature to Safari Kingdom. And if we 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:52.720 have time, pop no, no, no, no again. I want 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:55.840 the record to show. I want the record to show 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:58.760 there there is nothing this is. This has nothing to 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:03.240 do with Animal thundered, what is going on? Nothing at all. 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:07.680 This is something totally different and really an added featured, 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:11.720 a great bonus to the podcast, just amazing. So but 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:14.679 we'll start with it. So with Major League Baseball beginning. 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:18.959 It was opening day yesterday. They get that right, Danny, Thursday, Yeah, yes, 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:22.160 where are the applause at? Here we go? How about 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:24.880 home off? I'll be here for the whole hour, or 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:28.720 at least part of it. So baseball started. I love baseball. 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:30.880 I did a couple of rants on the Overnight Show. 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:33.519 We did a couple of monologues about baseball this week, 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:36.519 which I loved. I enjoyed that. It was fine, great, wonderful. 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:41.160 There is no better way, though, to celebrate baseball on 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:46.080 this podcast than with audio gold and if you know 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:48.200 what I mean, maybe not, you might not know where 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:51.560 I'm going with this, but if you've heard me yapping 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:53.320 and Danny you know about this. We worked together a 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:57.480 one time. I love the postgame tirade. I love mascots 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:01.320 and postgame tirades there my favorite. So I would like you, 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:05.400 the consumer of this audio content, to settle in to 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:10.560 the spit and Sawdust pub inspired. This was actually inspired 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:14.200 by something that happened on the overnight show leading into 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:18.160 Opening Day because we were yapping. I was I was 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:19.799 giving some thoughts on what I thought was going to 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:22.760 happen in the baseball season, and if he didn't hear that, 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:28.200 Roberto randomly played one of the great postgame rants from 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:31.760 Tommy Lasorda, and then that got me going. We played 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:35.839 a couple other things and that I had this come 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:39.240 to Jesus moment. I said, wait a minute, like, we 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:44.160 don't have the time. On the radio show, we don't 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:46.720 have the time to play all the rants, but on 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:50.800 the podcast we can't. Now the other thing, Danny is 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:53.960 you know that I do not do list radio because 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:58.840 that would be wrong. Never never you like to put 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:04.280 your lists on top up of Mount Rushmore. I don't 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:07.120 believe in that it's lazy. I don't float on the 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:10.680 lazy river. I believe in preparing and showing up and 0:04:10.760 --> 0:04:14.120 putting an honest effort in because you, you, the listener, 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:16.320 spend time and I want to put my work in. 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:19.560 So we will not be doing a list, unfortunately you 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:22.960 call yours Mount Rushmore instead. Oh no, no, we will 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:26.320 not be doing a Mount Rushmore. Instead, we will have 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:30.600 Benny's Big Board, which is not a list. It's it's 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:34.839 something totally different's completely kosher. The Malla Militia love Benny's 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:38.560 Big Board. The Malla Militia hate list radio. They don't 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:42.080 like Mount Rushmore, but they love Benny's Big Board. What 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:46.360 it's an ET sketch. It's it's it's amazing. I'll tell 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:48.680 you what it is. I have somewhere here. I have 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:54.359 this right it's that right right there. Okay. It's like 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:59.080 a little dryer race board that probably usually says go 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:02.880 pick up food. Yeah yeah, something like that. Yeah yeah. 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:09.239 So this is going to be the quintessential big board 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:17.160 starting out twenty twenty three, the greatest manager meltdowns in 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:22.560 recorded audio history. In my opinion. In my opinion, these 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:25.040 are my hot takes. These are not your hot takes. 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:28.840 And you can add to this, Danny, as you're appreciative 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:33.279 of the rant by managers as well. So settle back, 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:36.000 get a big bucket of popcorn or whatever you're doing, 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:39.679 and this is going to be out of this world content. 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:42.520 It is going to be a toe tapping good time. 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:45.520 So we start out on Benny's big board. We have 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:50.600 a six pack. A six pack, and there were so 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:53.560 many that did not make the cut, that ended up 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:58.600 on the cutting room floor, but number six, number six. 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:04.360 We start out in Chicago with the White Sox. Let's 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:06.599 go back in the hot tub time machine. We're gonna 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:10.120 set the year to twenty h eight. The Chicago White 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:13.520 Sox are managed by a fiery guy by the name 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:17.479 of Ozzie Gien. He had played shortstop in Chicago Mike 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:24.520 North's best friend. Hey told Stowall, yes, Ozzie believed that 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:27.240 he was better than all of the media and loved 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:30.839 to love to screw around with the baseball media and 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:34.560 Mike North as well. So this is one of many 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:38.000 rants that we could have used. I would have put 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:43.240 this higher. Unfortunately, Ozzy Ozzie was ranting and raving. Some 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:45.640 of it is hard to understand. Some of it is 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:48.760 not the easiest to understand, but listening closely, this is 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:51.360 Ozzie Yan. The White Sox were on a six game 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:55.200 losing streak. Ozzie was very upset with the way the 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:59.400 media was handling things and the way that the fans 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:04.160 of Chicago we're handling the White Sox or play. So 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:08.160 let's go to the audio tape. Here's Ozzy Gian pregame, 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:15.640 ranting about the media and the fans. Oh right now, everybody, no, 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:17.680 but everybody in Chicago. It's try making line nose and 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:21.160 called these guy and called that guy. I mean, we 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:23.280 got fifty people in rothterday and we can do that. 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:27.160 I mean that what teach me? If something about Chicago 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:31.440 fans and Chicago media diff I got pretty quick a 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:34.440 couple of days ago. We wasn't invading the town. Now 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:41.239 with that's that's that's I don't get it, because maybe 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:46.640 the minch they can be that way, you know what 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:49.480 I mean, But God, le Jesus, what will it take 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:52.560 for people real races? Two thousand and seven out of 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:59.200 the months winning winning, We went a couple of years 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:02.360 ago and we old because we've been home twenty years. 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:10.000 They have the best. Okay, we're good everybody. We hold 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:12.280 you to be all the life, no matter how many 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:17.480 worsher we win, we hold we have of Chicago. Chicago, 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:20.720 we got the worser owner. The guy got set rings 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:30.480 and we are holding the owner. I mean no, he's 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:33.520 kind of got a guy or something. Talk about it 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:37.640 for years that you know, it's the way it is. 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:39.920 It's not the bodies, that what it is. He's like 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:42.560 you playing New York or you play team with two 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:46.280 you know, city with two couple of teams. But wow, 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:49.200 you know what I mean, I don't know what we 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:53.200 should do to make people believe or big excited about it. Yeah, 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:55.240 you know what I mean. You've been a couple of 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:59.000 years around and you know what I mean. Well, I 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:00.800 don't know what the say. You know in two thousand 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:02.199 and say we got a good year two thousand and 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:05.079 said we got it really really by year and were 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:07.880 never denyed it. We never did. We never did we 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:12.319 celebrate how about the cup celebrating boot? How many times 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:14.240 curse people? Now? I know, I know I don't have 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:16.320 any I will make a lot of money with my sho. 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:19.599 That's why I gotta keep going because I know in 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:22.160 the future, as it would the morning's head here just 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:25.760 ten years anniversary of my I will call marioity stuff 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:27.839 and I called what the guys and the things when 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:31.800 the radio I coached him out last year, Oh my core. Yeah, 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:37.000 you know, we gotta sell too, you know what I mean? 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:39.320 What sucks. I'm not gonna be up for ten years Bolivia, 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:43.280 my ships. My conflict is going on. Huh. A lot 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:45.520 of people to take you. I don't know about that. 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:47.760 I don't know about that, but you know what I mean, 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:51.720 Hey man, I don't know when people was finding him. 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:54.680 You know we played the real back we yes, we did. 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:58.920 We stalk for for a week. Yeah, I mean better 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:00.400 you know, I I mean, don't too far. Well, I'll go. 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:02.600 We know it was a surprisal baseball the best thing. 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:04.800 How don't they go, Wow, look at the white Now 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:07.199 this on all right there, we go back to back 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:10.480 to normal. We gotta deal with there's nothing we can 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:13.120 do about it. The lumber twenty five guys, I believe 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:16.240 we can do. That's all I care. Everything out He's like, hey, 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:21.840 that was that was enjoyable and there's a theme to 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:24.559 this list. There's a lot of a lot of Chicago. 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:29.199 There's a lot of Chicago on this. Ozzy, his most 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:31.960 famous rant was to a magazine when he got hired 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:38.000 as the Marlins manager and proceeded to endorse Fidel Castro, 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:41.240 and that went over very well. We don't have audio 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:44.679 because there's no audios I know that exists. That by 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:47.439 Ozzy again. Moving on at number five on Big Ben's 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:51.880 Big Board, we go to the heartland of Cansas City, 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:54.600 and this is a classic. I believe this is our 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:57.640 only rant from the nineteen nineties that made Big Ben's 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:03.080 Big Board of manager melt sounds. But number five is 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:06.240 how McCray Now, I'm gonna paint the picture Danny. This 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:13.000 happened in nineteen ninety three. How McCray is in the 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:16.599 manager's office. There are the Royals, I believe are on 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:21.640 the road. He's wearing long John pajamas like like you know, 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:24.720 like he's ready if you go to bed, and he 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:27.760 starts getting more and more worked up with the way 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:31.520 the questions are coming from the Royals beat writers. It 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:35.360 ends up with him throwing a phone. Now what you 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:39.120 can't see on this and this is the part we 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:42.679 have to describe for our blind listeners, especially blind Emmett 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:47.920 the Seahawk fan and blind Scott. So during this rant, 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:51.720 all of the reporters that are in the Royals manager's office, 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:55.520 how McCray, they all leave the office. So what does 0:11:55.559 --> 0:12:00.320 how McCray do. He follows them out into the hallway 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:03.600 because he's not done with his rant, and he said 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:07.000 he was sick and tired of the stupid questions. Let's 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:11.559 go to the audio tape how McCray with a masterpiece 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:14.760 where all I had to go after him? Was all 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:18.400 right and I left. So we're swinging a bat bats well, 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:19.920 so I wanted my left hand hitter as a hit. 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:24.040 Did you consider Brett for Miller with a basis Leader 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:25.560 of the Seven? No? No No, I don't ask him all 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:33.880 these stupid ass questions. No, and in the all God 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:45.079 ask questions night hit dreadful. No, Miller, Simon, he's banning stuff. 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:47.760 It just Brant not banging and stuff and it just 0:12:48.000 --> 0:13:00.240 funing back back. No, you're thinking my damn food. Yeah, 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:13.439 his thumbs stupid, Absolutely, that stupid ass. Sh I'm not 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:17.839 taking you, guys, I'm not taking no sho players. I'm 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:22.880 sacking time. I'm fan out with everything from you guys 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:27.040 players and they can do it in thing they want 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:29.520 to do. I'm sick and tired of all this bullshit. 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:38.840 Now put that in the fact of the reporters hit 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:42.080 with some of the shrapnel. Yes, yes, that's a great 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:45.600 point we should follow up as this is the quintessential 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:50.959 twenty twenty three manager meltdown rant Benny's Big Board. So 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:54.000 one of the writers was hit right above the eye, 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:58.400 and if I remember the story correctly, he actually had 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:02.000 a pretty serious inch three because when you say throw 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:05.360 a phone today people think of a cell phone. This 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:08.920 was one of those big old school landlines they still 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:13.079 used in the in the early nineteen nineties. So how 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:18.280 heavy they were, they were like little bricks, not even 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:22.680 that little. So how mccraig coming in at number five? Now, 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:26.720 number four is our first surprise on Big Ben's Big Board, 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:32.000 and we go to Seattle, the Seattle Mariners getting a 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:38.080 little love on this, and we welcome in John McLaren, 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:41.440 John McLear, do you even know about this? Rand? I 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:43.520 think you know about this, right? We played this when 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:45.840 you were there, right, yeah, yeah, I've played this on 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:51.040 your live show. Yeah, So I consider this the Swiss 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:55.040 Army Knife of postgame rants, not just in baseball but 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:58.600 in any sport. To set this up, John McClaren was 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:02.160 very unhappy at this. This goes back. I want to 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:07.760 say this happened in the early twenty tens, like twenty eleven, 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:09.920 twenty twelve. I'm not one hundred percent sure on that. 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:13.680 We'd have to go back in double check. But nonetheless, 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:15.840 it doesn't matter when it happy. It's been over ten years. 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:18.600 So John McLaren was unhappy that the team was not 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:23.400 playing well in Seattle. The media was down on the Mariners. 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:28.560 They were disparaging the team the Ohays even before. Okay, 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:31.160 so it's been fifteen years. I didn't realize it's been 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:33.960 that long. So this happened and Ozzie Gain both happened 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:38.280 in oh eight. Who knew so, John John McLaren, the manager, 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:41.920 was upset and he was trying to defend his team. 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:46.880 He gave one of the greatest raw Roz speeches of 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:53.040 all time. Take a listen to the passion from John McLaren. 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:55.960 We're playing all right every day and got nothing to 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:58.760 show for it. I'm tired of losing. I'm trying to 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:02.200 get my beating. So guys, we're got to change this 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:05.640 around and get after it. And only we can do it. 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:08.920 The fans are pissed off, and I'm pissed off, and 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:11.840 the players are pissed off. And that's the way it is. 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:15.120 There's no easy way out here, is clam Field, sorry 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:18.040 for ourselfs got to buckle it up and get after it. 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:22.480 Tr Damn losing his every night, and we bust her. 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:25.920 It's gotta be a toe team effort turn this thing around. 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:30.960 And that's it. The thing about that, Danny hearing it again. 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:37.680 The reason it's the Swiss army knife is because McLaren 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:42.920 does not reference the Mariners. He doesn't reference Seattle. He 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:46.400 doesn't reference any of his players or any coaches, any 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:49.440 of the other players, any of the other coaches. He 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:54.520 doesn't name anything. It is so generic. He doesn't mention baseball. 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:58.960 We have used this as a Swiss army knife anytime 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:02.160 a team is struggling, like I really want I think that, like, 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:05.440 let's just pick a team like the Patriots are struggling. 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:09.000 Bill Belichick really let into his team. Here's the sound 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:11.600 of Bill Belichick complaining about his team. And then and 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:14.159 there you go. It works for everything. It's a Swiss 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:18.840 Army knife of rants. So congratulations to John McLaren and 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:22.720 the Mariners your job. Coming in at number four, number 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:25.760 three a bit of a surprise. A lot of people 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:28.120 thought this would be higher, this guy would be higher. 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:36.479 Tommy Lasorda, you got a couple of the best rants 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:41.000 in the history of Rance. Yeah, Tommy is great. It's 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:44.639 and I knew Tommy a little bit passed away a 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:48.120 while back, not that long actually, but he actually makes 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:51.760 there's a double dose of Lasordi here. There's two of these. 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:57.320 And the only reason that Tommy's not number one or 0:17:57.400 --> 0:18:02.320 number two is because it's like top forty radio. Danny. 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:05.600 I've heard these so many times over the years. I'm 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:08.399 a little I'm a little burned out on him, you 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:11.920 know what I mean. It's like hearing the song featuring Acon. 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:17.160 It's just they're burned into my head. So the most 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:21.360 famous Lessorda rant, which is his gold standard, his masterpiece, 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:26.280 was about Dave Kingman's performance. This comes from nineteen seventy eight. 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:31.919 Was May fourteenth, nineteen seventy eight, Dodgers laying the mets 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:37.320 at Dodger Stadium and Dave Kingman it now one, not two, 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:43.200 but three, three home runs, and that led to Paul 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:49.720 Olden asking the most famous question ever asked to Tommy Lasorda, 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:52.520 can you give us just a few basic comments about 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:57.040 the their pianos on the game. Well, naturally, I feel 0:18:57.119 --> 0:18:59.600 bad about losing a ballgame like that. There's no way 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:05.320 you should lose that ball game, and that just doesn't 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:10.080 make sense. It's your opinion of King's performance? What's my 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:13.720 opinion of King's performance? What you think? It's my opinion 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:15.920 of it? I think it was put that in. I 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:20.480 don't opinion of his performance. He beat us with three 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:24.879 home runs? What if you mean what is my opinion 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:27.840 of his performance? How could you ask me a question 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:31.240 like that? What is my opinion of his of his performance? 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:37.440 He hit three home runs? I'm stoff to lose the 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:40.800 game and you ask me my opinion of his performance. 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:47.639 I mean that's a tough question to ask me, isn't it. 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:51.440 What is my opinion of his performance? Yes, it is? 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:54.160 I ask it and you gave me an answer. Well, 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:56.000 I didn't give you a good answer because I'm mad, 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:57.359 But I mean it wasn't a good question. It's a 0:19:57.440 --> 0:19:59.280 tough question. To ask me right now, what is my 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:03.560 opinion of it performance? I mean, you want me to 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:06.160 tell you what my opinion of his performance Isn't they did? 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:16.080 That's right. Guy hits three home runs against us. That 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:20.000 is Oh, that's a fucking good time right there. It is. 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:23.600 And Danny, I'm happy to report that I have met 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:27.480 the great Paul Olden. He's an LA radio legend and 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:30.840 he has been the public address announcer. The man that 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:33.920 asked that question has been the public address announcer for 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:38.119 the New York Yankees for many years now. He was 0:20:38.320 --> 0:20:42.679 the Super Bowl public address announcer. He's done play by 0:20:42.760 --> 0:20:45.400 play for multiple Major league teams over the years. Paul 0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:49.200 Olden is his name. We have a mutual friend, the 0:20:49.560 --> 0:20:51.840 great Ted Sobel, who used to work at Fox Sports 0:20:51.960 --> 0:20:55.119 Radio's friends with Paul. Yeah, I know t yeah, So 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:58.240 they worked together. So I have met Paul Olden and 0:20:59.040 --> 0:21:03.360 he's he went off and had an amazing career which 0:21:03.480 --> 0:21:07.280 is continuing to this day. As his sole job, he 0:21:07.400 --> 0:21:10.520 gets paid a great amount of money to be the 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:13.639 public address announcer the Yankees. He goes to Florida for 0:21:13.720 --> 0:21:16.320 a month, does spring training, and then he does the 0:21:16.400 --> 0:21:18.480 six months during the baseball season, but only when the 0:21:18.560 --> 0:21:21.680 Yankees are at home. And that's it. That's his gig, 0:21:21.840 --> 0:21:25.160 that's all he does. How great is that? What a life? Yeah, 0:21:25.480 --> 0:21:28.280 So that's not the main less sort of rant that 0:21:28.400 --> 0:21:32.199 I love. My favorite is this next rant that we're 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:34.800 going to play on Benny's big board. Tommy Lessorta coming 0:21:34.840 --> 0:21:37.879 in at number three, and that is all about Kurt 0:21:38.160 --> 0:21:44.359 Bavakua of the Padres. So the Kingman rant was from 0:21:44.440 --> 0:21:47.480 nineteen seventy eight. This one's from July nineteen eighty two, 0:21:48.560 --> 0:21:52.000 and the Dodgers had a picture named Tom needonfuer piece 0:21:52.040 --> 0:21:55.399 of crap. Yeah. He's most famous for serving up a 0:21:55.480 --> 0:21:59.720 meatball to Jack Clark and Petro Guerrero slamming his glove 0:21:59.760 --> 0:22:03.400 down on the outfield. Yeah yeah, in the nineteen eighty 0:22:03.480 --> 0:22:06.680 five National League Championship Series. But this is nineteen eighty two, 0:22:07.560 --> 0:22:11.520 and didn't need and fewer Mary like a Hollywood starlet 0:22:11.640 --> 0:22:13.760 or showgirl or something like that, if I remember correct 0:22:13.800 --> 0:22:15.720 anyway that matter, So I don't know. I hope she 0:22:15.840 --> 0:22:20.120 abused him, though, So Needon Fuor was fine. This is hilarious. 0:22:20.560 --> 0:22:23.440 Nineteen eighty two, he was fined five hundred dollars for 0:22:23.680 --> 0:22:27.720 beating a San Diego player named Jim LaFeber, who would 0:22:27.760 --> 0:22:30.399 go on and manage in the Big League. So this 0:22:30.600 --> 0:22:33.480 is just a random game. Needon Fuor gets fined. The 0:22:33.680 --> 0:22:38.720 next day, his teammate Kurt Bovacua of the Padres was 0:22:38.880 --> 0:22:42.639 quoted in the newspapers as saying the guy they should 0:22:42.680 --> 0:22:46.159 have fined was the guy who ordered Needon Fuor to 0:22:46.280 --> 0:22:50.680 throw at Joe, that fat little Italian. That was the 0:22:50.760 --> 0:22:55.359 quest that made the newspaper dann oh man, imagine if 0:22:55.400 --> 0:23:00.560 that happened today, Holy racist racist right right, you can't 0:23:00.640 --> 0:23:05.480 do that and fattest, But Bavakwa did it. And then 0:23:05.960 --> 0:23:08.439 what do you think happened? The next day the reporter's 0:23:08.680 --> 0:23:14.040 pregame asked Tommy Losorda. They said, hey, Tommy Bakwa called 0:23:14.080 --> 0:23:16.680 you a fat little Italian? What do you think about that? 0:23:17.359 --> 0:23:24.080 And Tommy Lasorda went full Hindenburg on Kurt Buffakwa in 0:23:24.119 --> 0:23:28.200 the Padres And to me, this is the greatest Losorda 0:23:28.320 --> 0:23:32.119 rant of them all, and here it is. Tell you 0:23:32.200 --> 0:23:36.120 what I think about it. I think that is very, 0:23:36.280 --> 0:23:39.639 very bad for that man to make an accusation like that, 0:23:39.840 --> 0:23:45.400 that is terrible. I have never, ever since I've managed, 0:23:45.480 --> 0:23:48.680 ever told a picture to throw it anybody, nor will 0:23:48.720 --> 0:23:55.959 I ever, and if I ever did, I certainly wouldn't 0:23:56.000 --> 0:23:58.560 make him throw at a fucking one hundred and thirty 0:23:58.680 --> 0:24:03.240 hitter black Lafae or fucking Bavakua, who could hit water 0:24:03.240 --> 0:24:06.240 if he fell out of a fucking boat. And I 0:24:06.440 --> 0:24:09.639 guarant fucking te you this. When I pitched and I 0:24:09.760 --> 0:24:11.640 was going to pitch against a fucking team that had 0:24:11.680 --> 0:24:15.480 guys on it like Bavakwa, I sent a fucking limousine 0:24:15.520 --> 0:24:17.240 to get the cocksucker to make sure he was in 0:24:17.320 --> 0:24:20.880 the motherfucking lineup, because I kicked that cocksucker's at any 0:24:21.000 --> 0:24:24.960 fucking day in a week. He's a fucking motherfucking big mouth. 0:24:25.000 --> 0:24:32.400 I'll say it. At Laudre's organization to this day has 0:24:32.520 --> 0:24:36.280 never recovered that line Bavakua couldn't hit water if he 0:24:36.359 --> 0:24:38.240 fell out of a fucking boat is one of the 0:24:38.359 --> 0:24:43.000 all time great lines that Lasorda has used, and he 0:24:43.160 --> 0:24:45.520 used the classic I'd send a limo to the you know, 0:24:45.600 --> 0:24:49.000 to pick that guy up, and oh it's hilarious, and 0:24:49.080 --> 0:24:50.960 I would like to pass on. I've mentioned this in 0:24:51.040 --> 0:24:53.359 the past, but the late great Joe McDonald who was 0:24:53.400 --> 0:24:55.600 an LA radio legend, and it was a friend of mine, 0:24:55.920 --> 0:25:00.560 and Joel was inside all the Dodger Locker Roman events 0:25:00.640 --> 0:25:03.040 from the seventies through the eighties and the nineties, and 0:25:03.119 --> 0:25:05.239 he saw and did it all in that era when 0:25:05.320 --> 0:25:09.840 Losorda was there. And he told me, and several others 0:25:09.880 --> 0:25:13.080 have confirmed it that the greatest rants by the Sorta, 0:25:13.320 --> 0:25:17.720 most of his great rants were not even recorded by microphones. 0:25:18.200 --> 0:25:23.760 That's how prolific Losorda was because after the Kingman and 0:25:23.920 --> 0:25:28.040 the Bavocua, he would check to make sure people did 0:25:28.160 --> 0:25:30.280 not have a radio microphone. He would do it for 0:25:30.359 --> 0:25:34.040 the writers sometimes, but when the radio guys were around, 0:25:34.080 --> 0:25:37.320 he would he would slow his role. So it had 0:25:37.320 --> 0:25:40.760 to be one of those little handheld recorders, right, yeah, yeah, 0:25:40.800 --> 0:25:44.080 one of those little tape recorders, the cassette tape thing. 0:25:44.280 --> 0:25:48.200 So moving on Benny's big board. This is honoring baseball's 0:25:48.280 --> 0:25:51.600 opening day. You have tuned into the quintessential, the quintessential 0:25:52.440 --> 0:25:56.080 big board greatest manager meltdowns. In my opinion, this is 0:25:56.200 --> 0:25:59.040 my list, It's not yours. This has been a great 0:25:59.119 --> 0:26:02.119 mount rushmore so far. No, no, no, no, no Mault Rushmore. No, No, 0:26:02.200 --> 0:26:05.440 we don't believe in that. That's lazy podcasting. So number two, 0:26:06.560 --> 0:26:11.359