November 23, 2005
Can I Interest Anyone in a Used Lasorda?
Jon Weisman at Dodger Thoughts is wondering if Tommy Lasorda was used as a pawn to get rid of Paul DePodesta, and now has no power.
Will Lasorda now go around Dodger general manager Ned Colletti to voice his concerns about Colletti's interest in Black to Dodger owner Frank McCourt, the way he went around former Dodger general manager Paul DePodesta's last month?
Or was the entire controversy over DePodesta's managerial targets a smokescreen for a general desire by the anti-Depodesta contingent to push DePodesta out? The timing of DePodesta's firing suggests that it was his managerial search that was the final straw (reportedly his interest in in-house candidate Terry Collins). But once DePodesta was fired or replaced, did that render Lasorda irrelevant? And did Lasorda know it?
Of course, there's nothing about this at Tommy's blog.
Posted by David Pinto at
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Although I can now see how you'd read it this way, I wasn't wondering so much whether Lasorda was a pawn, as whether his period of influence was entirely temporary - that he's simply no longer the flavor of the month for McCourt.