A Dodger victory parade ... let's do it in San Francisco

The subject, however, is the San Francisco Italian-American Parade, coming up Oct. 12. The grand marshall: Tommy Lasorda.
He's Italian. He's American. What's the frickin' problem?
The San Francisco Chronicle reports (linked here, thanks to a link from The Big Lead, linked here) that San Francisco Board of Supervisors member Michela Alioto-Pier wants organizers of the deal to give Lasorda the big Italian boot.
"We can't have Tommy Lasorda come to San Francisco for the Italian American parade!" Alioto-Pier wrote in a resolution she hopes to pass at the next board meeting on Tuesday. "He's like enemy No. 1 right now. If you don't think this is important, you should move to L.A."
She also accuses Dodger fans of being "boastful and smug," lumping Lasorda with boastfulness and smugability, which simply isn't true.
"Furthermore, there are "many other distinguished local Italian American athletes" like Giants pitcher Barry Zito "or even Joe Montana" who could do the important job.
She's referring to Zito, the former USC and Pierce College star who grew up in Santa Barbara, and Montana, who now lives ... let's just say, his son goes to Oaks Christian High in Westlake Village.
By the way, we found that picture of Lasorda (and friends) chowing down on his favorite Italian spot in L.A., Buca di Beppo, the chain restraunt (maybe because Little Joe's has long closed down). He says his favorite spot in all of San Francisco (according to a blog posting in 2006, linked here) is Fior d'Italia - "The best Italian food in the entire city. They've been cooking pasta since 1886!" (a link here to the restaurant's site).
Maybe next time we're in S.F., we'll stop by Fior d'Italia. Or maybe not. Depends on if we're welcome.

==A link to a 1993 story about how Lasorda's pasta sauce business came and went very quickly due to, of all things, poor management (linked here).