Lasorda Bids Farewell to Dodgertown and First Inning Naps
The Los Angeles Dodgers got the heck out of Dodge. Well, technically, it’s Dodgertown. But the pun still works.
While our hardly-a-secret allegiance to the Boston Red Sox makes us darn near genetically disposed to anti-Yankee rhetoric, it doesn’t preclude us from being nice to other teams. (Unless they’re our opponents in the playoffs and/or World Series, in which case we ridicule them to the best of our abilities.)
We have a soft spot for the Dodgers because the ‘rents live in Vero Beach, home to the team’s spring training camp and thus, tailgate parties.
The Dodgers are saying sayonara to the facility, affectionately called Dodgertown, for hotter pastures in closer-to-home Phoenix. ESPN reports that a reflective Tommy Lasorda felt the weight of the memories as they said goodbye.
Now, not to ruin a moment here, but what the heck, we’re anxious to share.
In March 2007, we saw Tommy Lasorda tooling around in his golf cart before the game and even said hello. And then during the first inning, we saw him taking a nap (my parents had tipped us off to the fact that Lasorda nods off frequently during a game). The Bee’s paparazzi-style, long-lens shot didn’t catch him in the act, but here is his right after waking up . . . looking like he just woke up:
Ah, memories.
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