Is Tom Lasorda unfamiliar with the Chicago Cubs baseball team?

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A man sits in a tree, so upset at his team's failure to make the playoffs that he will not come down (another in a VERY long line of commercials that tell customers they are literally insane). Famously irritating blowhard Tom Lasorda, accompanied by a twee 10-year-old toy organ player, has arrived to corral him down and get him in front of the television to watch baseball - because, after all, he's a baseball fan, isn't he? "What's his team" he surreptitiously asks the man's wife, the better to make a connection with this forlorn, off-the-deep-end baseball nut. "The Cubbies," she says, amazingly without a trace of surprise or condescension, given that the MAN IS WEARING A CUBS UNIFORM AND CUBS HAT. HOW CAN TOM LASORDA NOT KNOW WHAT HIS TEAM IS.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 00:21 (nineteen years ago)

HE IS NOT VERY FAR UP THE TREE, THERE IS NO FOLIAGE IN THE WAY. HE IS ON THE FIRST BRANCH FFS.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

maybe he was kidding

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 00:24 (nineteen years ago)

NO HE IS SURPRISED AND MAKES A DISGUSTED NOISE.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 00:25 (nineteen years ago)

TS: OTMWTF vs. "TOM"?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 00:27 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qo-MW4kzgY

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 00:39 (nineteen years ago)

maybe he has bad eyesight.

― researching ur life (grady), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 00:48 (nineteen years ago)

I hadn't thought of that.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 00:51 (nineteen years ago)

or the guy in the tree's fat belly was blocking Tommy's view of the Cubs insignia.

― researching ur life (grady), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 00:52 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kkrc-pvmPEI

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 01:01 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCkXU1231Jo

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 01:05 (nineteen years ago)

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― researching ur life (grady), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 01:10 (nineteen years ago)

When the guy's wife says 'he's been up there since his team got eliminated', I always shout out 'May?'. And LaSorda's wince when she
says 'the Cubbies' is one for the ages.

Back under the sink now (I'm an Indians fan).

― Jeff Wright (JeffW1858), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

Tom Lasorda was insistent that his drag-queen son "didn't die of no gay disease," so he has many gaps in his knowledge bank.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa, you're not kidding:

Burke, who had played utility outfield and batted .254 in 169
at-bats, was furious that new manager Tommy Lasorda didn't play him after
the first game. Burke had already manifested a dark side to his personality;
he could be moody and sometimes violent, quick to anger and hard-headed.
What began as a teasing relationship with Lasorda, filled with clowning
around and practical jokes, eventually turned ugly on both sides.

Burke soon found a particularly effective way to get Lasorda's goat. He
befriended Tommy's effeminate son, Tommy Jr., who would eventually die of
AIDS in 1991. Rail-thin with wispy blond hair that fell over one eye like
Veronica Lake's, Tommy Jr. was known in the gay world of Los Angeles as
Tomasina. His straight nick-name was Spunky. Burke and Spunky became running
buddies, frequenting the gay bars of Los Angeles. Lasorda, a Christian
Bigot, was embarrassed by his gay son. As a practical joke, Burke and Spunky
planned to show up at Lasorda's house for dinner in drag with their hair in
pigtails but backed out at the last minute. "Tommy first would have shot us
both in the head. Then he would have had a heart attack and died." Burke
writes.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

what's even funnier than the ad is that the Chicago Cubs agreed to it.

(winces) "ooh!"

― manute lol (sanskrit), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

I think the Cubs probably wanted to convey that they still have at least one fan left.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

Admitting you have a problem is the first step.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

firing your terrible general manager is the next step.

hiring lou piniella puts you back three steps, tho.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

― manute lol (sanskrit), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

what's even funnier than the ad is that the Chicago Cubs agreed to it.

I think since the ad is for MLB, they can do what they want with the Cubs brand w/o permission from the CUB EMPIRE.

― researching ur life (grady), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCkXU1231Jo

There are at least three things that made me laugh out loud in that video. The guy at 0:58, so haplessly running about 2 yards to the right of the fly ball...!

― lurker #2421, inc. (lurker-2421), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

Perhaps Lasorda knows that to ASSUME makes an ASS out of U and ME.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

Like there were would really be a guy on the street wearing a Devil Rays jersey...

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

That would have worked better for the ad though. It's very easy to mistake their jerseys for mildewed horses' dead asses.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

I have taken to saying "getouttadatree" like all the time now.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

Fox promo spots should just be Lasorda's "What did I think of his performance???" tape.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

Next year, they better get Lee Elia.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

Lasorda's "What did I think of his performance???"

Totally forgot about this. So classic.

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

I never knew about this.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

TO DA TV!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

In the other ad, one of the "Cleveland" fans is wearing a Reds cap.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 27 October 2006 00:46 (nineteen years ago)

Exactly.

― researching ur life (grady), Friday, 27 October 2006 00:54 (nineteen years ago)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bBrZEHxqfyo

― gear (gear), Friday, 27 October 2006 00:59 (nineteen years ago)

Too much Slim Fast makes you funny in the head.

― Orgy of Pragmatism (Charles McCain), Friday, 27 October 2006 01:06 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

http://www.examiner.com/x-33368-NY-Baseball-History-Examiner~y2010m3d7-Tommy-Lasorda-inducted-into-Cuban-Sports-Hall-of-Fame

― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 20 March 2010 01:18 (sixteen years ago)

I had a friend who used to work in Dodgertown before it closed and said one time Lasorda had the trots and didn't make it to the bathroom, depositing soft serve all down the aisleway. I do not envy the people who had to clean up the Lasordaspill

― Cattle Grind, Saturday, 20 March 2010 03:34 (sixteen years ago)

jesus god is every thread about poop now?

― call all destroyer, Saturday, 20 March 2010 03:35 (sixteen years ago)

haha looks like it

― Cattle Grind, Saturday, 20 March 2010 03:35 (sixteen years ago)

meat sauce iirc

― ✌.✰|ʘ‿ʘ|✰.✌ (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 20 March 2010 03:35 (sixteen years ago)

ahahaha

― Cattle Grind, Saturday, 20 March 2010 03:38 (sixteen years ago)

Maybe it's funnier that way to the members of the television audience that are blind?

Such as umpires.

― felicity, Saturday, 20 March 2010 11:13 (sixteen years ago)

zing!

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Saturday, 20 March 2010 17:18 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

how many potential HOF arms did lasorda destroy?

― omar little, Thursday, 6 September 2012 20:00 (thirteen years ago)

greatest thread title ever

― blank, Thursday, 6 September 2012 20:56 (thirteen years ago)

five years pass...

90 today

― mookieproof, Friday, 22 September 2017 14:25 (eight years ago)

only the good die young

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 September 2017 14:28 (eight years ago)

two years pass...

Join us in wishing a happy 70th anniversary to @TommyLasorda and Jo! pic.twitter.com/zOMj55f6Uy
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) April 14, 2020

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 14 April 2020 20:43 (six years ago)

sheesh

― silby, Tuesday, 14 April 2020 20:47 (six years ago)

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