Bryan Price joined an impressive fraternity with his Monday rant that manages to utilize 77 F-bombs in a space of five-plus minutes, discussing and debating the various merits of the way baseball writers do their jobs.
Since baseball is traditionally a salty sport managed by salty, peppery managers, the manager’s rant has become a quirky diversion. And some of the game’s greatest practitioners — Tommy Lasorda (two championships), Billy Martin, Earl Weaver (one each) have been some of its most virulent personalities. And some of indiscriminate accomplishment (Lee Elia, Hal McRae … and maybe Bryan Price) have joined that group simply by, well, losing their temper when a live mike was in the room.
Here are a few of our favorites, with the warning: not safe for work, children or the faint of heart.
Tommy Lasorda’s ‘opinion’ of Dave Kingman
Hal McRae: Put that in your pipe
Lee Elia takes on unemployed Cubs fans
Bryan Price: WTF
Billy Martin: “One’s a born liar…”
In 1978, the always feisty Martin delivered his most unforgettable barb. Speaking of superstar Reggie Jackson and owner George Steinbrenner — frequent Martin antagonists — the soon-fired manager quipped: “The two of them deserve each other – one’s a born liar [Jackson], the other’s convicted [Steinbrenner].”
Earl Weaver loses his mind
Tommy Lasorda’s Kurt Bevacqua meltdown
