UN-LASORDA VIEW OF KINGMAN.Byline: KEVIN MODESTI VERO BEACH Vero Beach (vēr`o), city (1990 pop. 17,350), seat of Indian River co., E Fla., on Indian River (a lagoon and part of the Intracoastal Waterway); founded c.1888, inc. 1919. , Fla. - Whenever I hear Jim Tracy's gentle voice, I try to imagine his opinion of Kingman's performance. Perhaps you're already familiar with the underground tape of Tom Lasorda, early in the 1978 season, venting venting, n an exit passage constructed in a casting mold to allow gases to escape during the casting process. venting Ventilation Psychology The verbalization* of one's 'emotional baggage' to another person; qvetching his frustration in response to a particularly obtuse ob·tuse adj. 1. Lacking quickness of perception or intellect. 2. Not sharp or acute; blunt. question from radio reporter Paul Olden old·en adj. Of, relating to, or belonging to time long past; old or ancient: olden days. [Middle English : old, old; see old + -en, adj. after a 15-inning Dodgers loss to the Chicago Cubs, a game in which Dave Kingman The news conference would have gone a little differently if Tracy - polite, reserved and relentlessly sunny - had managed the Dodgers a quarter-century earlier. First, here's the question and answer as it actually happened in Lasorda's day: Reporter: What's your opinion of Kingman's performance? Tommy: What's my opinion of Kingman's performance? What the bleep do you think is my opinion of it? I think it was bleepin' horsebleep. Put that in (the newspapers), I don't bleepin'... Opinion of his performance? Jesus Christ Jesus Christ: see Jesus. Jesus Christ 40 days after Resurrection, ascended into heaven. [N.T.: Acts 1:1–11] See : Ascension Jesus Christ kind to the poor, forgiving to the sinful. [N.T. ! I mean, he beat us with three bleepin' home runs. What the bleep do mean, what is my opinion of his performance? How can you ask me a question like that - what is my opinion of his performance? Jesus Christ! He hit three home runs. Jesus Christ! I'm bleepin' bleeped off to lose a bleepin' game, and you ask me my opinion of his performance? Jesus Christ! I mean, that's a tough question to ask me, isn't it? What is my opinion of his performance? Reporter: Yes, it is. I asked it, and you gave me an answer. Tommy: Well, I didn't give you a good answer because I'm mad, but I mean ... Reporter: It wasn't a good question. Tommy: That's a tough question to ask me right now, what's my opinion of his performance. I mean, you want me to tell you what my opinion of his performance is? ... Reporter: I think you just did. Tommy: That's right. Jesus Christ! Guy hits three home runs against us. Bleep. I mean, I don't mean to get bleeped off or anything like that, but you asked me my opinion. I mean, he put on a hell of a show. He hit three home runs. He drove in, what, seven runs? Reporter: Eight. Tommy: Eight runs. So what the bleep more can you say about it? I mean, I don't mean to get mad or anything like that, but bleep, you ask me my opinion of his performance. ... Bleep! Lasorda buried bur·y tr.v. bur·ied, bur·y·ing, bur·ies 1. To place in the ground: bury a bone. 2. a. To place (a corpse) in a grave, a tomb, or the sea; inter. b. the reporter in spicy language. Here's the Q and A as it might have gone if Jim Tracy
Reporter: What's your opinion of Kingman's performance? Tracy: What's my opinion of Kingman's performance? Paul, that's an excellent question. And a question that gets to the heart of a discussion that Gordie and I were having yesterday regarding the tests of character from which a ballclub will have the opportunity to grow over the course of a 162-game regular season. One of the things our staff has been preaching to our players over the past year is the importance of resiliency The ability to recover from a failure. The term may be applied to hardware, software or data. because of the simple fact that over the course of a 162-game regular season a ballclub is going to have days like this when you do a lot of things right and you have a game you think you should have won but the result turns out to be that you go home frustrated frus·trate tr.v. frus·trat·ed, frus·trat·ing, frus·trates 1. a. To prevent from accomplishing a purpose or fulfilling a desire; thwart: by a defeat. Much of the success of a ballclub over the course of a season will be determined by how it is able to bounce back bounce v. bounced, bounc·ing, bounc·es v.intr. 1. To rebound after having struck an object or a surface. 2. the day after that tough loss and is able to put a competitive effort out on the field that sends the message to one another that, hey, we believe in the things this team is built around such as sound fundamentals and situational hitting and doing the little things and not giving the opponents extra opportunities to score runs ... Reporter: So, about Kingman's performance? ... Tracy: Let me answer your question in the following fashion, which is by saying I saw a lot of positive things out there today that tell me our message has gotten through to our team, and I liked what I saw when our players came back into the clubhouse after that tough loss and didn't hang their heads or act like a team that had been shaken
Shaken (車剣, also known as kurumaken) are a type of Shuriken from its confidence that we're in the process of creating a continuing development of a ballclub that will consistently compete and contend over a period of years. Reporter: Kingman hit three home runs. He drove in, what, seven runs? Tracy: Eight. I use the words `outstanding individual performance.' Sometimes you've just got to tip your cap. Tracy - The Un-Lasorda - would have sweet-talked the reporter into the ground. The only problem with Tracy's way is that he'll never star in an underground tape. |
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