David Stagg

AI: The Answer. Photo courtesy of You Been Blinded

There isn’t anything quite like watching a coach or player get riled up after a game and going off in a press conference. It makes the stuff of legends. It’s so awkward for the interviewee. Getting out there on a podium under a white-hot spotlight right after you’ve suffered an embarrassing loss and you’re supposed to keep it together??

It’s always so much better when you don’t.

5. “Practice? We talkin’ about practice?”—Allen Iverson

And don’t forget to check out the remix when you’re done.

“Press Hop”—the Steve Porter Remix

4. “I’m a Man! I’m 40!”—Mike Gundy

This one is like a snowball. He starts off slow and you wonder how on earth he got to where he did.

3. “Playoffs? Playoffs?!?”—Jim Mora

The Coors Light ads have brought this one back. But there’s no way I can have this list without Mora. He’s got other good ones, too.

2. “Don’t call me Chris, OK!”—Jim Everett

How awesome is this. Jim Rome has been calling Jim Everett “Chris” for years on his radio show in reference to him being a girl (Chris Everett was the world’s number one female tennis player) and Jim finally gets sick of it and leaps the table at him. Classic.

1. Phillip Wellman goes beserk

This one is just amazing. I can only hope that one day I’ll be at a game where this happens. Phillip Wellman is the Mississippi Braves (AA affiliate) baseball team’s manager, and apparently he didn’t like a call. He comes out in a normal tirade, but somewhere flips his lid and starts covering home plate, ejecting the umpires, throwing a base into the outfield, even military crawling across the infield. Incredible.