On the painful awkwardness scale, this Chicago Tribune Live interview with Tommy Lasorda scores a 10. It has everything: Technical difficulties, dumb questions (“Were you ever not a baseball ambassador?”) and a guest who is clearly neither interested in nor capable of carrying on a conversation. Gosh, poor Tommy. I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt and believe he was just sleepy or trying to do his Harry Caray impression for the guys back in Chicago…but no, he’s wasted on something. Or perhaps just distracted by lingering memories of when Jordin Sparks sat on his lap?
