Wally %$&#*!@ Backman Unleashed

[Piggiestomatoes]

Classic...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlsVr1ykBqQ

[TransMonk]

That is pretty classic. Well said, Wally!

[soupcan]

That's fuckin' funny!

[Edgy MD]

Wally's an unhinged maniac and was moreso back in his (brief) Peanuts days, but I'm sure that sort of motivation is more typical than we'd hope.

[HahnSolo]

Who'sthe 39-y.o. former major leaguer? Wally was so heated i couldn't understand him.

[Edgy MD]

Fuckin' 39-year-old Desi Wilson.

[ashie62]

I liked it. A little hard to take seriously when his jersey says "Peanuts."

[Farmer Ted]

Over 40 FBombs in that short amount of time. Fairly mild by Wally standards.

[Guest The Second Spitter]

"Minor League Motherfucker is what you are!"

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I <3 Backo!

[Edgy MD]

Love is good, but that sort of act has a short life expectancy at the top of a club.

[duan]

why do people tolerate that shit?
I mean I can understand someone coming out to argue, but the gratuitous insults I mean c'mon, it isn't big, it isn't clever.

[Ceetar]

is it reaching a point where if he doesn't come out yelling obscenities people are going to say he's not fighting for his players anymore?

[Guest The Second Spitter]

duan wrote: why do people tolerate that shit? I mean I can understand someone coming out to argue, but the gratuitous insults I mean c'mon, it isn't big, it isn't clever.

Fuck you, Backo has a fucking ring. He fucking earned it. Fuck you.

(I'll hazard a guess and say if he didn't, he wouldn't carry on like that. I don't think he's malicious. Just unhinged. And responses like "What are you talking about?" are going to unhinge somebody like Backo pretty quickly.)

[Edgy MD]

I don't know where the border between malicious and unhinged is. Nor do I know if the Wally depicted there is representative of the man he is now, but Wally remains the only manager I know of in history to get kicked out of a game after a tirade, and then storm into the broadcast booth threatening to beat up the broadcaster.

If a trace of that guy remains, I'm not interested in him as our next manager.

[batmagadanleadoff]

The Second Spitter wrote: "Minor League Motherfucker is what you are!" [youtube]kkELZza3QjA[/youtube]

...so said the other Minor League Motherfucker.

[Frayed Knot]

duan wrote: why do people tolerate that shit?

Well, the ump clearly did NOT tolerate it.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

As with "The Bachelor" or bootleg video of amateur "bumfights," I never really understood the entertainment appeal of "watch our manager go crazy-go-nuts." If it's real, it's embarrassing-- a fifty-year-old throwing a tantrum. And if it's a put-on? Well, then, it's even more embarrassing, isn't it?

[Edgy MD]

Well, it's not really bootleg footage, but clips from Playing for Peanuts. The Mets, rather than promote it, pulled it off SNY.

[Guest The Second Spitter]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: As with "The Bachelor" or bootleg video of amateur "bumfights," I never really understood the entertainment appeal of "watch our manager go crazy-go-nuts." If it's real, it's embarrassing-- a fifty-year-old throwing a tantrum. And if it's a put-on? Well, then, it's even more embarrassing, isn't it?

Coercion is the most efficient form of motivation.