Was there ever a more entertaining manager than Earl Weaver..?

**ChuckyTheGoat** · 05-26-25, 04:47 PM

Originally posted by kyhawk

https://youtu.be/FrhmUGRaOwY?si=ET6y9ZjnY2mkqkOQ

Different time. Earl was a riot. But he was a good MGR, too.

I was a Sparky Anderson fan. He had a great dust-up when BALT scored the run at home-plate in 1970.

**ChuckyTheGoat** · 05-26-25, 04:49 PM

(2:10) What a line from Haller: "For fkin up World Series."

*Tommy Lasorda had some great clips, too.

**hawkwind** · 05-26-25, 05:04 PM

Tommy Lasorda & Billy Martin were pretty entertaining as well

**Headsterx** · 05-26-25, 05:35 PM

Originally posted by hawkwind

Tommy Lasorda & Billy Martin were pretty entertaining as well

Billy Martin was entertaining… Billy Ball was the best!

**stevenash** · 05-26-25, 07:59 PM

Sweet Lou was just as entertaining as the managers above-mentioned.
He's still my favorite, but that's subjective and just my opinion.

The play-by-play guy and the analyst in the booth are hilarious AF.
You can tell the analyst has some lip-reading skills, but he's careful about his choice of words.
He says, "Lou appears to be saying..." instead of "What Lou is saying..."

That's very important to me because, since the analyst doesn't know exactly what Lou is saying in that exchange with the umpire, he doesn't want his opinion to come across as fact.

**homie1975** · 05-27-25, 12:24 PM

Yes. Billy Martin. Many others also.

**ChuckyTheGoat** · 05-27-25, 12:56 PM

Originally posted by homie1975

Yes. Billy Martin. Many others also.

One guy trumps em all. Lee Elia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiVVbYK9HXw

"Let my players get destroyed every day?"

"The other 15% come out here."

"They talk about the great support you get around here."

**Snowball** · 05-27-25, 02:13 PM

Earl Weaver was famous for picking his nose

**YanisVasiles** · 05-27-25, 06:22 PM

+1 for Billy Martin. GOAT

**stevenash** · 05-27-25, 06:43 PM

Originally posted by Headsterx

Billy Martin was entertaining… Billy Ball was the best!

Billy's the last of the four-man starting rotation managers.
The 1980s began the five-man rotation.
Welcome to the six-man rotation era, where starters and bullpen each pitch five innings a game now.

Two things Billy hated were Reggie and bullpens.

**pavyracer** · 05-27-25, 07:37 PM

This guy should have been a great manager:

**stevenash** · 05-27-25, 07:51 PM

Lou Brown was funny AF

**str** · 05-29-25, 10:14 AM

Sweet Lou.

Lou Piniella 1964 Topps rookie card with the Washington Senators. Man he loved going to the track.

**ByeShea** · 05-29-25, 11:01 AM

Originally posted by ChuckyTheGoat

(2:10) What a line from Haller: "For fkin up World Series."

*Tommy Lasorda had some great clips, too.

I don't know if an epic managerial matchup like Lasorda vs. Billy Martin in a WS (1977) can happen in today's game. Miss those days, just as I miss when NL & AL only met in the series.

**ChuckyTheGoat** · 05-29-25, 11:19 AM

Originally posted by ByeShea

I don't know if an epic managerial matchup like Lasorda vs. Billy Martin in a WS (1977) can happen in today's game. Miss those days, just as I miss when NL & AL only met in the series.

Salud, Shea:
1) Yes. Lasorda vs Martin.
2) I wish the Inter-lg was very exclusive. The old World Series were special.
3) Reggie takes the ball off the hip in 1977. I don't recall if there was 0 or 1 out, this COULD have been a triple play. This HAS TO be ruled Runner Interfence (imho).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvWKWvrVfrI&ab_channel=MLB

**stevenash** · 05-30-25, 12:08 PM

Originally posted by str

Sweet Lou.

Lou Piniella 1964 Topps rookie card with the Washington Senators. Man he loved going to the track.

Sweet Lou and Mickey Rivers were track buddies.

**str** · 05-30-25, 02:23 PM

Originally posted by stevenash

Sweet Lou and Mickey Rivers were track buddies.

I had never met Mickey before but was at Saratoga and my buddy T. Dutrow won a race and Mickey and Oil Can Boyd presented the trophy. Those two were both a piece of work.
A lot of baseball guys had big personality’s back in the day. Guess plenty still do.

**TommieGunshot** · 2025-06-01T03:22:24+00:00

https://youtu.be/QWQbN0jFo_k?si=UhJLX17ytVEwVEiC

**kyhawk** · 2025-06-01T15:06:12+00:00

I doubt if these snowflakes in the media today could handle these old timers

Even YT has to clean up Earl. That video above is a classic.
And now to the manager corner with Earl Weaver.

Hi everybody, this is Earl Weaver with Manager Corner. Today I have Tom M. Oreo, broadcaster, back on the show, and I understand Tom's been getting some mail with questions that supposedly I can answer. Now what the [ __ ] are some of these goddamn questions, Tom?

Well first of all, Earl, George Moore from Baltimore is asking how much we feel the loss of Don Stanhouse.

Well Don Stanhouse was an [ __ ]. He had us in trouble, had the [ __ ] bases loaded, goddamn it, almost every [ __ ] time he went out there. He liked to ruin my health smoking cigarettes, and thank God we got Timmy Stodd coming in out the bullpen right now sticking a bat up their asses—and that's what it takes.

Well Bill Whitehouse—

Earl, that certainly is an answer. Fredrick, Maryland wants to know why you and the Orioles don't go out and get some more team speed.

Team speed? For Christ's sake, you get [ __ ] goddamn little fleas on the [ __ ] bases, getting picked off, trying to steal, getting thrown out, taking runs away from you. You get them big [ __ ] that can hit the [ __ ] ball out the ballpark and you can't make any goddamn mistakes.

Well certainly this show is going to get out in history. Earl, Terry Elliott of Washington, D.C., wants to know why you don't use Terry Crowley as a designated hitter all the time.

Well Terry—Terry Crowley's lucky he's in [ __ ] baseball, for Christ's sake. He was released by the Cincinnati Reds. He was released by the [ __ ] goddamn Atlanta Braves. We saw that Terry Crowley could sit on his [ __ ] ass for eight innings and enjoy watching a baseball game just like any other fan, and has the ability to get up there and break one open in the [ __ ] ninth. So if this coxer would mind his own business and let me manage the [ __ ] team, we'd be a lot better off.

Well certainly you've made your opinions known on the fans' questions about baseball, Earl, but let's get to something else. Alice Sweet from Noic wants to know the best time to put in a tomato plant.

Ella Sweet ought to be worried about where the [ __ ] her next lay is coming from rather than where her next goddamn tomato plant's coming from. If she'd get her ass out to [ __ ] bars at night and go hustling around a goddamn street, she might get a prick stuck in her once in a while. I don't understand where these questions are coming from, Tom.

That's about it from Manager's Corner. Go [ __ ] yourself and the [ __ ] with your show.

Coming up next on the Baltimore Oriole Baseball [ __ ] Network, the Manager's Corner with Earl Weaver is heard 20 minutes before every Orioles regular season game and was sponsored by Stuff.

**kyhawk** · 2025-06-01T15:11:46+00:00

The answer to that lady and her tomato plants is too funny. I think Bill Burr has a clip talking about these guys.

Alice Sweet from wants to know the best time to put in a tomato plant.

Ella Sweet ought to be worried about where the F her next lay is coming from rather than where her next goddamn tomato plant's coming from. If she'd get her ass out to FING bars at night and go hustling around a goddamn street, she might get a prick stuck in her A once in a while. I don't understand where these questions are coming from, Tom.

**str** · 2025-06-01T15:46:03+00:00

If any guy has not already heard that recording, it is a must listen to tape.
Earl was one of a kind.

**19th Hole** · 2025-06-01T17:23:30+00:00

Eal Wearver was entertaining for sure...
But I agree with Yanis V. and Chuck...
Billy Martin was
in a league of his own.