Jim Healy lives!

There's hopefully some Californians on SportsJournalists.com who will dig this find, but for most of the rest of you, you're going to be exposed to the late L.A. radio icon Jim Healy for the first time. Take some time with this link and, above all, enjoy!

Here's the link: http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/healy.swf

 

This. Freakin'. Rocks.

CFC, I haven't read every one of your 2,489 (and counting) posts, but this is unequivocally your most brilliant. Awesome, awesome find.

I know for a fact that "This F****** job isn't that F****** easy!"

For those of you who aren't familiar with the late Jim Healy... well, your loss. He was a radio icon in SoCal for eons, doing a sports show on the old KMPC-710 AM from 5:30 p.m. to roughly (that's right, roughly) 6:10 p.m.

He would cover the sports news of the day and intersperse funny clips like Tommy Lasorda ranting about Dave Kingman's performance ("What the @#^%&# do you think was my opinion of his performance? He hit three F*****g home runs against us!"), Don King waxing illiterate about the American justice system ("In this country, we have a system of justice, of Jewishprudence..."), Al Michaels channeling Howard Cosell ("Who goofed? I've GOT to know..."), the late Jerome Brown discussing World War II ("Did the Japanese sit down and have dinner with Pearl Harbor before they bombed them?") and a Myron Cope montage ("NOW What's going on down there?")

They need another show like this, only with updated soundbites.

 

Before I got married, I used to have Lasorda's Kingman rant (the version with the bleeps) on my answering machine, followed by my voice.1:23 worth of a volcanic Lasorda and a petrified Olden.

When I'd discuss interviewing in my college class, I'd often play that clip and watch the students' eyes bug out. Then, I'd ask them what they'd do in that situation.

One of my bosses just turned 60. As a gift, a family friend put together a CD of his life, with Healyisms interspersed throughout. I listened to it driving home a couple weeks ago and it was the first time I'd heard many of these since Healy died. A really, really clever work.

 

Thanks for the great stories, Birdscribe. Too bad one of the Healyisms wasn't the Final Jeopardy item on the second day.

 

Wait for the dreaded tone.....