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Just as Tim Wallach, right, was being introduced Wednesday as manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ top farm team, his old boss jumped in. “I’d like to ask a question. What does that stand for? What is an Isotope?” former manager Tommy Lasorda asked. Isotopes president Ken Young explained the nickname comes from an episode of “The Simpsons,” where Homer Simpson tried to prevent the fictional Springfield Isotopes from relocating to Albuquerque. “But what is it?” Lasorda asked. “What is an isotope?” “It is an aberrant element, OK, where there aren’t the same number of protons and neutrons,” Young explained. “Oh, I understand that. I’ve got all that down now,” Lasorda said. The Associated Press
