some body please give pacino a few good hard slaps.

After a game in which Dave Kingman hit three homers to beat the Dodgers, Tommy was asked by a reporter what he thought of Kingman’s performance.

Reporter: What’s your opinion of Kingman’s performance?

Lasorda: What’s my opinion of Kingman’s performance? What the BLEEP do you think is my opinion of it? I think it was BLEEPING BLEEP. Put that in, I don’t BLEEP. Opinion of his performance? BLEEP, he beat us with three BLEEPING home runs! What the BLEEP do you mean, “What is my opinion of his performance?” How could you ask me a question like that, “What is my opinion of his performance?” BLEEP, he hit three home runs! BLEEP. I’m BLEEPING pissed off to lose that BLEEPING game. And you ask me my opinion of his performance! BLEEP. That’s a tough question to ask me, isn’t it? “What is my opinion of his performance?”

Or another time, when a Dodger pitcher was fined for hitting a San Diego batter and Padre outfielder Kurt Bevacqua said: “They ought to fine that fat little Italian, too. He ordered it.” Soon Lasorda was asked his opinion of Bevacqua.

Lasorda: BLEEPING Bevacqua, he couldn’t hit water if he fell out of a BLEEPING boat. And I guaran-BLEEPING-tee you this, when I pitched and I was gonna pitch against a BLEEPING team that had guys on it like Bevacqua, I’d send a BLEEPING limousine to get the BLEEPER to make sure he was in the mother-BLEEPING lineup because I’d kick that BLEEPER’s ass any BLEEPING day of the week. He’s a BLEEPING mother-BLEEPING bigmouth, I’ll tell you that.