Per My Old Buddy Tommy Lasorda

[Yankeefan5545]

Old Tommy once stated:

A Team will win 1/3 of their games because they deserve to.

A Team will lose 1/3 of their games because they deserve to.

Its what a team does with the other 1/3 that separates champs from chumps

That was seen in this series, Yankee win game one because they deserved to. Yankees lost game 3 because they deserved to. It's how they played game two with the bull pen choking up the lead that mad them series chumps, pathetic display of baseball.

 

[yankeesince59]

Old Tommy once stated:

A Team will win 1/3 of their games because they deserve to.

A Team will lose 1/3 of their games because they deserve to.

Its what a team does with the other 1/3 that separates champs from chumps

That was seen in this series, Yankee win game one because they deserved to. Yankees lost game 3 because they deserved to. It's how they played game two with the bull pen choking up the lead that mad them series chumps, pathetic display of baseball.

^^^thank you.

 

[Messiah717]

Sums things up nicely.

 

[Yankeefan5545]

Not much I ever agreed with from Lasorda but he pretty much got that theory of a baseball season progression right online.

 

[yankeesince59]

Not much I ever agreed with from Lasorda but he pretty much got that theory of a baseball season progression right online.

...I think I read a similar quote than may have been by Lasorda or a another skipper from the same era...but it read something like " a team will lose 1/3 of its games regardless of what the coach does, and will win 1/3 of its game regardless of what the coach does....but it's how well the team does in the other remaining 1/3 of its other games that determines how good a coach really is".

 

[Yankeefan5545]

...I think I read a similar quote than may have been by Lasorda or a another skipper from the same era...but it read something like " a team will lose 1/3 of its games regardless of what the coach does, and will win 1/3 of its game regardless of what the coach does....but it's how well the team does in the other remaining 1/3 of its other games that determines how good a coach really is".

Actually the quote in your post is the exact one Tommy made. I did a self paraphrase. For sure not a Dodger Fan remembering when they played in Brooklyn but Lasorda did do a damn nice job of managing that team. His history against the Yankees went from the '50's on up into the '80's.

 

[stampedehero]

Old Tommy once stated:

A Team will win 1/3 of their games because they deserve to.

A Team will lose 1/3 of their games because they deserve to.

Its what a team does with the other 1/3 that separates champs from chumps

That was seen in this series, Yankee win game one because they deserved to. Yankees lost game 3 because they deserved to. It's how they played game two with the bull pen choking up the lead that mad them series chumps, pathetic display of baseball.

Don't feel bad You could be an O's fan where our team chumps every other day.

 

[Mattingly23NY]

Old Tommy once stated:

A Team will win 1/3 of their games because they deserve to.

A Team will lose 1/3 of their games because they deserve to.

Its what a team does with the other 1/3 that separates champs from chumps

That was seen in this series, Yankee win game one because they deserved to. Yankees lost game 3 because they deserved to. It's how they played game two with the bull pen choking up the lead that mad them series chumps, pathetic display of baseball.

love the quote but-

one of my all time favorite movie clips....