European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 22, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday october 22, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 23 commentary Dorry s not the Straw to stir la. S drink the scene of this fantasy is Tom Lasorda s office Long after the dodgers clinched the world series thursday night outside the tans arc driving Oft into the night wondering How inc Brawny Hometown heroes could lose to i Csc dodgers in five games. In inc office everybody is Sill ing around eating Linguine con von Golc and listen into Lasorda talk about the great i Asla machine in the sky. The phone rings. Collect Call for or who is it. Pc razor we re kind of Busy sir who shall i say is calling All right operator i la take inc Call. Hey Whitey Herzog Nice of you to Call but whal s the idea of getting so formal and using your real name of Dor Rel listen your cardinals will be Back next year. And Don t thank me again for pitching to Jack Clark to 1985 or i won t Send Over Hose trays of Gnocchi at pesto next this in t Dorryl its i can t hear you because everybody s Yelling so loud. Of Der Rel. Der Rel Thomas. Hey great to hear from you Darrel. You played All those positions for me. My sup sub. What s up buddy this in t Der Rel it s Darryl Darryl Strawberry which Darryl Strawberry 1 know lots of Guys named Darryl with the mets. Right Field. Number 18. Local boy. Crenshaw High school. 1 used to sit in inc bleachers and Root for the dodgers Reggie Smith. Rick monday. Dusty Baker. I be been a dodger fan All my life. I be been trying to get you All during the world hey that s Nice of you Darryl. I kept telling everybody that you mels were the better team. Doc Gooden. Gary Carter. Keith Hernandez. Kevin my Reynolds. J used to hide my eyes whenever you came to the plate against us Darryl. If our playoff had gone any longer than seven games you were going to crush us. We Don t belong in your class even with out All our injuries. One writer said i was starting to sound like Uriah Hep but he must have got that wrong. I think he Mccanl 1 sounded like my secret weapon Danny that s what 1 wanted to talk to you about Tom. I was Silling Home last night watching you Guys win the series. Everybody was All excited Down Here in los Angeles. We Don t know How you did it with All your Guys getting Lasorda Lowers his voice conspiratorially glancing around the crowded room to make sure nobody listening. Look Darryl everything s just fallen into our hands. Nobody look us seriously All year. Valenzuela got Hurt. Griffin and Davis came Over and did t hit. We traded Guerrero for Tudor and now Tudor s Hurt. Then your Guy David Cone wrote that column about How Jay Howell looked like a High school Pitcher Bart Giamatti treated Howell like lie was Al Capone just for having a Little Pine tar on his Glove. Don Baylor ripped Howell. It s Tike my dear Friend Rodney Dangerfield says we Don t gel no re Spect the thing that got me was All those injuries. I mean we be had some injuries on the mels but nothing like this you said it Darryl Kirk Gibson s legs John Tudor s Elbow. Mike Marshall s Back. Then Mike Scioscia twists his knee at Sec Lardi Ond base. Bill Buhler and 1 were helping poor Scioscia into the dugout and there s Rick dumps by strapping on the mask the Chest protector and the shinguard. He s ready to go and he hits a double tonight 1 know t know. 1 was watching the pre game show wednesday and 1 heard Bob Costas say the dodgers might have had inc worst starting lineup in world series history. Thai must have made you mad what Are you talking about Darryl i to cd it. Me and Kirk Gibson and Sieve sax and Mickey Hatcher we re running around the club House cursing Abc and cursing Costas like it was Korea and they were showing the boxing episode six dozen limes a Day. Hated in i loved it. Played right into my hands. Guys were All pumped up. Scioscia twists his knee at second base. Bill Buhler and were helping poor Scioscia into inc dugout and there s Rick Dempsey strapping on the mask the Chest pro Tector and the shinguard. He s ready to it was certainly exciting watching you win that fourth game with Dempsey and Heep and Hatcher and Stubbs and Davis and Gonzalez and Hamilton in the lineup Tom. And i loved it on he television afterwards when you said Bob Costas was the most valuable player of the game. La. Is really proud of you Guy Bui what about
