Lasorda's grandstanding...

I remember the Monday flag-saving incident quite well. It was a Sunday afternoon game and I was driving with my cousin David the near the Long Beach traffic circle and we had the game on radio. Scully actually gave a great play-by-play of the save and resultant developments, and the game stopped for several minutes. Fans gave Monday a well-deserved, long standing ovation, and Scully was happy to relinquish the stage to Monday and the extended ovation.

But I hate hearing Lasorda's typical grandstanding version.

Given Lasorda's description, you'd have assumed he was almost neck-and-neck with Monday, racing toward those guys. Security was on those guys within a few moments of Monday saving the flag, and if Lasorda confronted those guys, it was after they were apprehended. There was a lot of commotion on the field after Monday saved the flag; I suspect Lasorda was only one of many arriving at the scene, and Monday's lukewarm corroboration simply jazzes up the whole story a bit more.

Monday was the hero that day, not Monday and Lasorda, as the blue-bleeder would like everyone to believe...