Friday Night Fukudome: Lee Elia vs. Lou Piniella
Posted by Bad Kermit on Fri, Apr 25, 2008
Despite my desires to ignore the whole thing, it looks like Tuesday’s 25-year anniversary of Lee Elia’s rant is going to be shoved down all of our throats. Might as well embrace it. Who had a better Cub meltdown? Elia or Lou Piniella? You be the judge.
Tags: Lee Elia, Lou Piniella
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April 25th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Oh God, there’s some great lines in that Elia rant. “They can kiss my ass, right downtown, and PRINT IT!”
April 25th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
I’ve used pieces of the rant as a ringtone. It’s pretty fantastic. Lee’s angry speech ranks up there with Clark Griswold’s in “Christmas Vacation”.
April 25th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
I don’t know how Elia stacks up at Kicking the Hat (Lou appears to hit each of his attempts with a Jedi-like leg control) but I don’t know how Lou could have dropped more ‘fu#$s’ while he chatted with the umpires. The radio interview was quite the stream of consciousness, wasn’t it?
OK – ‘fess up – are any of the mighty 3,000 cocksuckers that he mentioned here on HJE? Or maybe you know someone who was at the game…
Thanks for posting both of those – they’re grrrrreat.
April 25th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Despite my desires to ignore the whole thing
Embrace it, Kerm.
April 26th, 2008 at 12:00 am
I’d kind of like to see Lou go an a similar tirade against all the Chads and Trixies, the It’s Gonna Happen guy, and every douche bag frat tard on a cell phone waving to his friends on the teevee
April 26th, 2008 at 3:30 am
Yeah, that’s the first one I always think of too.
April 26th, 2008 at 3:33 am
Elia, because he pronounces it “criterier” and misuses “negate.” And because of the oft cited phrase “this is a real disheartening situation.”
April 26th, 2008 at 7:30 am
Both of them are legendary. I had to vote for Lou’s explosion, though, because it turned the 2007 entire season around. And kicking dirt is hilarious.