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

[kyhawk]

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

[ChuckyTheGoat]

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]

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

*Tommy Lasorda had some great clips, too.

[hawkwind]

Tommy Lasorda & Billy Martin were pretty entertaining as well

[Headsterx]

Tommy Lasorda & Billy Martin were pretty entertaining as well

Billy Martin was entertaining… Billy Ball was the best!

[stevenash]

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]

Yes. Billy Martin. Many others also.

[ChuckyTheGoat]

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]

Earl Weaver was famous for picking his nose

[YanisVasiles]

+1 for Billy Martin. GOAT

[stevenash]

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]

This guy should have been a great manager:

[stevenash]

Lou Brown was funny AF

[str]

Sweet Lou.

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

[ByeShea]

(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]

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]

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]

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.