CSTV: Lasorda upbeat on Hawk future

No…I was expecting some dovetales.

Lasorda, on the steroid policy…You know people say to me, ‘Why did Congress get involved with baseball?’ And I said, ‘I’ll tell you why Congress got involved in baseball. Because this has been documented that there are 500,000 young high-schoolers taking steroids.’ That’s the ones they’re concerned with. We’ve got to stop those youngsters from taking it. These guys up here, they’ve taken it. You can’t do very much about it. But those youngsters down there, those are the ones we have to get to quit taking them. And, I think, we finally got a drug rule that’s going to be very, very effective.

On playing for coach Jack Dahm of Iowa…..I can say this, honestly and truly. If I had a son, I would be sure to send him to play for this guy because he loves what he’s doing, and he’s just not interested on what the players do on the baseball field; he’s just as interested in what they do in the classrooms.

Nice touch, Tommy…nice touch.