TLR plays the telephone game during game 5 of the WS

[JET15]

Who's buying TLR's telephone gate story?

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/columns/bernie-miklasz/article_8305d4d0-febe-11e0-8872-0019bb30f31a.html

 

Gotta love this line from the article:

I was, however, surprised when the pizza-delivery man showed up on the pitcher's mound with a large pepperoni (extra cheese) in the bottom of the eighth.

I just wish TLR had these brain farts during out series!

 

[MJLiverock]

I laughed out loud in my office when I read this description of the game from Jeff Passan on Yahoo Sports:

 

"All of it was too funny to believe. The malfunctioning bullpen phone. The bullpen coach not hearing a name, then confusing the name “Motte” with “Lynn.” Intentional walks distributed like Halloween candy. Using the pitcher who was told before the game he wouldn’t be used. Sending a left-handed pitcher against a right-handed hitter who destroys southpaws. And everything in the same inning no less, an eighth La Russa wishes he could stick in a sepulcher and forget it ever happened.

 

And that doesn’t even include the “mix-up” on the basepaths or the three ill-timed sacrifice bunts or any of the other bits of bizarro baseball that saw La Russa’s managerial IQ degrade as the game wore on, like he was Charlie in “Flowers for Algernon.”

[NYChez]

What happened is the Rangers turned up the brightness in the park's ribbon board, it got magnified by LaRussa's glasses, and fried his brain.

[dlk9s]

Next he'll blame Buffalo Wild Wings.

[hawing]

He heard "Written in the Stars" once. too. often.

[RightFieldCoder]

From the article

Others in the bullpen offered a different version of events [than those offered by LaRussa] of the phone calls and instructions, so who really knows what happened?

I would love to hear from the bullpen about what LaDrunk was really doing.

[markedman5]

So Larussa said "Motte" but the guy heard "Lynn" (who TL said before the game was unavailable)?.....

 

Hard to keep stories straight when you are covering your ass.

[CheezWizHed]

Excellent. A new variation on "someone is stealing my signs!"

 

Maybe they should take a cue from the NFL and wear those ear-muff headsets and cover their mouth with the playbook.

[reillymcshane]

"I ran out of gas. I had a flat tire. I didn't have enough money

for cab fare. My tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in

from out of town. Someone stole my car! There was an earthquake! A terrible

flood! Locusts! It wasn't my fault, I swear to God!"

 

For those who want to see the original

 

[sdcheezhd]

Nice snark by Boswell in the Washington Post: "In LaRussa's postgame version of the snafu, an account that may change with time, the manager says . . ."

 

Carpenter's account of the incident with Nyjer changed, of course, with time.

[hawing]

For the record, here's a link to the Boswell story in the Washington Post.