LASORDA: `NO IDEA' ON RETURN.Byline: Tim Brown Timothy Donell Brown (born July 22, 1966) is a retired wide receiver, who played in the National Football League. He spent sixteen years with the Oakland Raiders, during which he established himself as one of the League's most prolific wide receivers. Daily News Staff Writer Dodgers manager Tom Lasorda said Friday night that he cannot guarantee he will return to the bench. Reached by telephone at Centinela Hospital Medical Center, where he is recovering from the heart attack he suffered earlier this week, Lasorda was asked if his condition might force him to retire in this, his 20th season. ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. ,'' he said. ``I have no idea. I'll see how it all goes. I'll see what the doctors tell me and see what the story is. The only thing I can visualize is that I will be OK. When, I don't know.'' Lasorda, 68, underwent an angioplasty angioplasty (ăn`jēōplăs'tē), any surgical repair of a blood vessel, especially balloon angioplasty or percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, a treatment of coronary artery disease. Wednesday morning to open a partially blocked coronary artery coronary artery n. 1. An artery with origin in the right aortic sinus; with distribution to the right side of the heart in the coronary sulcus, and with branches to the right atrium and ventricle, including the atrioventricular branches and . The procedure and its effects on his lifestyle are serious enough, Lasorda said, to cause him to consider his immediate future. It often was said that they would have to tear the uniform from Lasorda's back in order for him to leave the game. On Friday, the task sounded less daunting daunt tr.v. daunt·ed, daunt·ing, daunts To abate the courage of; discourage. See Synonyms at dismay. [Middle English daunten, from Old French danter, from Latin . He has done some soul-searching. ``Absolutely,'' Lasorda said. ``I've had a great life. That's the thing that I've said. When the time comes Adv. 1. when the time comes - at the appropriate time; "we'll get to this question in due course" in due course, in due season, in due time, in good time and I have to step down, I'll have so many great memories from this game.'' The goal is to get healthy again. Lasorda said he has not been told when he will be discharged. ``I feel good,'' he said. ``Once we get a couple of things straightened out, I'll be able to go home. Possibly in the next couple of days I'll be let go. ``I feel good. I feel real good. They say my heart is strong and that it's all taken care of.'' Already, though he has been away from the team for only four games, Lasorda said he misses the game and his players. ``Real bad,'' he said. ``You wonder why is this happening to me. This has never happened to me before. No. 2 is, I'm here watching my team, and I'm just helpless. (Thursday) night I felt so bad for them. ``I miss everybody. I've been getting letters and flowers from all over the world. It's unbelievable. I feel like I'm the luckiest man in the world. I have so many people reaching out to me. That makes me awful proud.'' For a time, it was frightening, however. The stomach pain that convinced him to enter the hospital suddenly was life-threatening. ``I was shocked when I heard it,'' Lasorda said, ``because I didn't think anything like that could happen to me.'' He was reminded that he often said in jest for mere sport or diversion; not in truth and reality; not in earnest. See also: Jest that he would prefer to die on the field, with his spikes spikes see peplomer. on. Lasorda laughed. ``Yeah, but not at this age,'' he said. ``At around 98, 99, something like that. A hundred.'' |
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