Hal McRae blowup

Unless this thread is the exclusive province of baseball managers with attitudes, someone has to post the great Bob Knight meltdown when he goes off on his players for losing to Purdue. It's better than McRae and right up there with Elia and Weaver in the "classics" category.

 

The Tommy LaSorda rant when a reporter asked what he thought of Dave Kingman's performance when Kingman hit three home runs against the Dodgers is worthy of mention here.

 

You will learn soon enough.

 

yes, most royals fans are smoking rock.

 

Unable to find the audio file online, so the transcript will have to suffice, courtesy of salon.com, though it may be abridged; I seem to remember Knight ripping Greg Graham.

"Now I am tired of this shit. I'm sick and fucking tired of an 8-10 record. I'm fucking tired of losing to Purdue. I'm not here to fuck around this week. Now you may be, but I'm not. Now I am gonna fucking guarantee you, that if we don't play up there Monday night, you aren't gonna believe the next four fucking days. Now I am not here to get my ass beat on Monday. Now you better fucking understand that right now. This is absolute fucking bullshit. Now I'll fucking run your ass right into the ground. I mean I'll fucking run you, you'll think last night was a fucking picnic. I had to sit around for a fucking year with an 8-10 record in this fucking league and I mean you will not put me in that fucking position again, or you will goddamn pay for it like you can't fucking believe. Now, you better get your head out of your ass."

 

Did this actually get on over the air??? If so, I cannot believe the host kept asking the questions.

 

Not sports, but Kasey Kasem's meltdown is a classic.

http://www.fadetoblack.com/outtakes/index1.html

Fucking ponderous.

 

There are so many memorable meltdowns. I've always been partial to Kanaye West's meltdown about Bush hating black people leaving Mike Meyers looking like a jack ass with nothing to say. Classic.

 

http://bobbyknightaddressescongress.ytmnd.com/

 

Intresting case of life imitating art there. Remeber the SNL skit with Myers and Heather Locklear? Myers was an infomercial host and Locklear was hawking various products while managing to work in statements along the line of the Holocaust never happened, etc. Quite priceless.

 

I'm completely drawing a blank, but I'm hoping someone will be able to help me out. There was some band leader who would go on infamous rants on all of the member's of the band after shows. There were audio recordings of some of them, and they were great, but I'm completely drawing a blank on who it was. I feel like I heard about him on one of the extras on the Seinfeld DVDs and he inspired one of their characters. Anyone know what I'm talking about?