The La Russa Tapes

Police release videos of the whole night, from trying to wake him up in the car to telling him the results of his breathalyzer ("Is that significant, in your opinion?").

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/1129071larussa1.html

 

Personally, I enjoyed the video of La Russa trying to recite the alphabet.

 

Yeah I gotta say, as bad a situation as that could have been, that was hilarious.

Didn't he say he only had a glass or two of wine or champagne? My ass. He was blotto.

 

I'm surprised he didn't call in a relief driver.

 

Rick Honeycutt was nowhere to be found.

 

I think he was calling for a different relief driver every three blocks, switching companies to prove how smart he was, but eventually he just ran out of options.

This will all be covered in Bissinger's next book: Three Hours In Gen Pop.

 

Crap, playthrough beat me to it!

 

Now THIS is funny.

 

Perhaps he does "dime like pay phones, yo."