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| Lee Elia Tirade - Chicago Cubs - 4/29/83 |
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LEE ELIA TIRADE
Elia's outburst occurred on April 29, 1983, after
the Cubs suffered a one-run home loss to the Los
Angeles Dodgers.
The rant took place during a postgame session with
reporters in his office. Elia was pissed off at
the continual booing by the Wrigley crowd (both
during and after the game) and frustrated that no
one could see beyond the Cubs' 5-14 record for any
of the progress he felt the team was making.
The fact that Elia's rant has been preserved for
posterity is something of a miracle. In the early
80s, "baseball reporters didn't work with tape
recorders. But radio guys certainly did. So it was
that Elia's outburst came to be a part of the
public domain."
Les Grobstein, aka "ubiquitous" Les, was lurking
on the edges of Elia's office, with tape rolling.
For Grobstein, graduate of Chicago's Von Stuben
High School, "it was his Zapruder moment." Elia
commented that he dearly wished Grobstein "had
gotten a flat tire on his way to Wrigley that
afternoon."
Elia clearly regrets his ourburst. "I made some
comments that I don't even know how they came out
of my mouth, because they were not comments that I
normally would make. Never in my wildest dreams
did I think somebody would run out of there and
put it on the air."
1983 turned out to be Elia's final year as the
Cubs' manager. Many have argued that Grobstein's
tape sealed upper management's decision to fire
Elia. Grobstein heartily disagrees. He commented
recently that "the tirade and my tape did not get
Lee Elia fired - the team starting to suck again
did."
Whatever the case, the tirade is now 25 years old,
solidly entrenched in the firmament of baseball
lore...and is TOTALLY AWESOME.
Enjoy.
Tags : lee elia chicago cubs tirade press conference dodgers april 29 1983 wrigley field bleacher bums baseball |
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Durée : 191 s |
| Cute white lion cubs form part of breeding programme |
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Four white lion cubs are forming part of an
extensive white lion breeding program underway at
a South African Park. For centuries rumours of
mysterious white lions circulated in South Africa.
Claims of sightings of the white lion started to
surface in 1928. Scattered reports continued but
confirmation that these animals were really white
did not come until 1975 when a litter containing
two white cubs was seen at Timbavati Game Reserve,
adjacent to Kruger National Park. Several lions
still survive from the original strain, all in
captivity, and the breeding of white lions in
various zoos around the world must be handled very
carefully.
www.itnsource.com
Reuters 12074/04
Tags : itnsource animals lions cubs babies sweet cute adorable small endangered white |
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Durée : 90 s |
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