Victorious USA Baseball Skipper Leyland: ‘Just Trying to Make America Great Again’

Newsbusters ^ | 03/23/2017 | Matt Philbin

[DFG]

Could Jim Leyland be any different from Colin Kaepernick?

Last night, Team USA dominated Puerto Rico 8-0 to win the World Baseball Championship for the first time. Leyland, 72, the Hall of Fame-bound manager and baseball lifer who came out of retirement to manage the U.S. team got emotional in a post-game interview.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Its called the World Baseball Classic. Not to nitpick but that’s the name of the tournament.

[Bitsy]

Bravo

[Buckeye McFrog]

Jimmy Leyland a great guy. Think he still lives in Pittsburgh as his wife is from here.

[M Kehoe]

Good job Mr. Leyland.

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[Billthedrill]

Leyland grinned. “Well, like I said in my pregame, we're just trying to make America great again.”

Heh heh. Congratulations, team!

[dfwgator]

Hopefully they’ll get to visit the White House.

[Bigg Red]

God bless him.

[Former Proud Canadian]

The only problem with Leyland’s career is that it wasn’t all with the Tigers organization.

[notdownwidems]

The only problem with Leyland’s career is that it wasn’t all with the Tigers organization.

I remember back in late 80s early 90s when he was managing the Pirates, the camera would show him in the dugout he'd be smoking a cigarette, trying to hold his hand over it so nobody could see but the smoke would be billowing out from around his hand...classic!

[Former Proud Canadian]

The joke in Detroit was that if you made a mental mistake Leyland would fine you two cartons of Luckies.