Lee Elia Tirade - Chicago Cubs - 4/29/83
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Uploaded by gadushoon on Oct 21, 2006
Good article on the event here:
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/les-grobstein-knows-the-score/Content?oi...
Elia clearly regrets his ourburst. "I made some comments that I don't even know how they came out of my mouth, because they were not comments that I normally would make. Never in my wildest dreams did I think somebody would run out of there and put it on the air."
1983 turned out to be Elia's final year as the Cubs' manager. Many have argued that Grobstein's tape sealed upper management's decision to fire Elia. Grobstein heartily disagrees. He commented recently that "the tirade and my tape did not get Lee Elia fired - the team starting to suck again did."
Whatever the case, the tirade is now 25 years old, solidly entrenched in the firmament of baseball lore...and is TOTALLY AWESOME.
Enjoy.
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Unemployment was very high in the spring of 1983.Then Reagan fixed things.It won't happen again.
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1908
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LMFAO!!!! This guy is PRICELESS!!!!..makes Lou Piniella look like choir boy.
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hehehe he is one good albanian brother!!! :D
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lol 5 and 14 19 game of 162 lol
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See that 15%. Still your fans you stupid fuck.As much as I hate this guy. Dude actually gave a fucking thoughts worth about the Cubs. Dude knew Cubs fans like the back of his fucking hand.That's the truth. After he left we went to two division titles in 6 years. Coincidence ? Probably not. But I really think it woke someone up in the Tribune to actually give a shit and look at the product their sending out. They had no idea about baseball and thats why they got rid of it ! (Thank fucking God)
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Elia got fired at the end of this season, but he was partially vindicated. The Cubs won the NL East the next year.
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Listening to this actually got me pumped up to take my Chemistry exam lol
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U HEARD HIM, GET A JOB CUBS FANS HAHAHAHA
heimtime3 9 months ago 15
Wrigley Field's sign should read "Fucking Playground for the Cocksuckers" instead of "Home of the Chicago Cubs."
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