got into it with New York Post hockey writer Larry Brooks. As you can see Tortorella was the clear winner of this exchange.

My favorite part of the series comes at the 40 second mark when Tortorell tells Brooks that he probably got beat up at the bus stop a lot. At this point a fellow reporter laughs in the background and Brooks looks back to see who would dare laugh at that thought. Check it out, it’s gold.

I don’t know a lot about Tortorell and I know even less about Brooks. What I do know is that while there should be no place in profession sports for stuff like this, it does make for good entertainment.

Watching this spar between coach and reporter makes me think back to a couple of years ago when 610 radio jockey Howard Eskin got into it with Charlie Manuel. Eskin got into it with the Phils skipper about not showing enough fire in front of his players, to which Manuel responding by saying he could show Eskin that fire in a fight.

Needless to day, the encounters always happen when a team is on hard times. You don’t see coaches and reporters go at it when a team is on a nice winning streak. These are acts of frustration. The coaches aren’t happy and the media isn’t happy.

However, when it comes at the expense of the Rangers, we Philadelphia fans couldn’t be happier.