"Penne with Meatballs and Garlic Bread"

(Baseball legend Tommy Lasorda was so exuberant on a flight from St. Louis to Los Angeles that he requested a Dictaphone...so sure that wisdom would flow freely from his mouth.  It was the least we could do.)

I'm tellin' ya - that's the way we gotta play.  I mean, we're fucking it up on this road trip, and then we put it all together. 

(Mr. Lasorda went to the bathroom, returning 15 minutes later)

I told Donny Yankees that we'd do a lot more damage around here if he'd grow that mustache again.  But this is a big achievement for us.  Every time someone tells us we've done something we haven't done since I was manager, it's a big deal.  (belch)  Excuse me...yeah, turn up the air on that one.  Sweepin' the Cards...

Come on...Colorado, San Diego, a make-up with the Pirates?!  That's nothing.  Whoop - forgot to turn off my phone.  Hey - that's a text message from Dave Pearson... look what he's making for us when we return. 

Hey, Kemp...don't throw that away...it's still half full of pretzels.  Gimme those.

(Hours later)

Dave! 

So good to see you.  I tell you, those long flights really wear me out.  I'm starving.  OK, quit that recording thing or whatever.

(Mr. Lasorda then told a story in which he tossed a scrap of garlic bread to a horse at Del Mar in 1986 and "it placed at 12-1 odds.")