Tommy Lasorda still loathes the Phillie Phanatic following 1988 incident

Tommy Lasorda sure knows how to hold a grudge.

The legendary Los Angeles Dodgers skipper is busy doing the media rounds promoting his new biography "My Way" and things got heated during an appearance Friday on "Breakfast on Broad" on the Comcast Network.

The topic of mascots was introduced, forcing Lasorda to recall an August 1988 incident with the Phillie Phanatic.

"I was always upset about him always taking my shirt and putting it on some dummy and then running over it," Lasorda said. "I didn't particularly like that and I told him. I said, 'I don't want you to do that anymore.'

"The next time I saw him he still put my shirt on so I went after him and I bopped him down a little bit and I said, 'if there weren't all these people here I'd really rip ya.'"

Lasorda's hatred for mascots, especially the Phanatic, is very apparent in his new book.

"I hate the Phillie Phanatic," Lasorda writes. "In fact, I am not very happy about mascots in general. I think they take away from the game on the field."

Lasorda, now 87, has a reputation of being one of the more charismatic managers of his time. He led the Dodgers to a pair of World Series titles and was named National League Manager of the Year twice. Lasorda was also enshrined in the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown in 1997.