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Video: 1983 Dodgers Prank Sports Journalist Dick Schaap

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Before we get too heavily into the week and start force-feeding you your news and current affairs vegetables, here's a Monday morning muffin. Not that we ever want to deflate your pure antipathy for all things Los Angeles Dodgers, especially this year, when the Giants have become the Boys of Bummer. But this is pretty funny. It was posted by former TV sports producer Douglas Warshaw, and it shows the late sports journalist Dick Schaap with the 1983 Dodgers team in spring training at Vero Beach, Fla. We're not going to tell you what it's all about, only that ...

1) There's a lot of profanity
2) It sort of makes you like longtime Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda, just a little.

Go ahead, watch ...

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