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The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.

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Tommy Lasorda
Age: 93 †
Born: 1927
Born: September 22
Died: 2021
Died: January 7
Baseball Manager
Baseball Player
Voice Actor
Norristown
Pennsylvania
Thomas Charles Lasorda
Dodgers
Angeles
Angels
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Looking
Heaven

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The worst team in baseball's history won only 55 games. The best team ever won 110 out of 160, so you're virtually guaranteed to win 1/3 of the time and lose 1/3 of the time. The difference is the 1/3 in the middle. You don't know what bucket the game you're playing falls into, so if you're smart, you'll fight like everything for all of them.
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I've never used one word of profanity in front of my wife, or my daughter, or my granddaughter or anybody else's wife.
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My God, look at the words people use today. They use profanity like it's nothing. Christ almighty.
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I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky.
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I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'
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Sometimes you've just got to let an umpire know that you're not satisfied with his decision. That they've missed the play in your opinion. Not that it's going to do you any good, but you've got to let them know.
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When I was interviewed after I got hired to replace Walter Alston, a future Hall of Famer, I was asked: “Don’t you feel pressure on you?” I said: “Want to know something, I’m worried about the guy who’s going to have to replace me.”
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