Jim Healy

The LA sports radio icon died 20 years ago today. Bill Dwyre wrote a nice piece in the LAT this morning.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-jim-healy-dwyre-20140722-column.html

For those not from LA, or too young to remember, before there was so much blathering sports talk radio, Healy did a daily 30-minute sportscast that relied heavily on sound bites, many of which became catchphrases in the region.

He was the first to air Tommy Lasorda's classic "What's your opinion of Kingman's performance" rant.

Here are some clips

http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/healybytes.html

 

I still miss those Healy shows.

 

Only slightly related, but "What's your opinion of Kingman's performance?" is a great question by Paul Olden.

Open-ended, neutral, elicited a GREAT answer.

 

In today's world someone would have written that Lasorda should have kept it to himself.

 

That was a fun time, listening to Healy.

 

When Healy would take days off, his fill in was usually Dave McClelland, voice of the National Hot Rod Association, who did a straight sports report.

I went to college with Dave's son and told him I clicked off the show whenever his dad hosted.

When Dave showed up at an event I introduced as "MTM, who turns off the radio whenever you fill in for Healy."