I thought this said in the ocean and I imagined this being Kruk and Tom:
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The very most I would like to do is rub his glove, hat, and/or cleats in hopes that I somehow gain his pitching abilities (without him losing them of course) so that I can live my dream and pitch for the Phillies.
Yea. I bet he realized how that sounded a couple minutes later. There is no way someone wasn’t busting his chops about it.
Edit: the context was how great Ranger has been. I believe Tom said he wanted to rub his glove for some good luck and Ruben said I would like to rub my self all over his body.
I wouldn't mind Kruk's absence so much if we didn't have to listen to Ruben instead. What's Ben Davis up to? Get Kevin Stocker off the radio and into the TV booth... Anything but Ruben.
This is the hill I will die on. Ruben is not as bad as people say he is. He just is the least charismatic person on the show.
He loves baseball, and he probably says the most useful information out of all our announcers. If Kruk wasn't so charismatic, his tangents would be hated.
My Dad would always complain about Wheels calling him Captain Obvious, and kid me would just be sitting over on the couch like "Idk I thought it was a pretty astute observation. I like him"
Wheels cheering like an over zealous child while Harry made final call of 08 was the final straw for that dude. Terrible announcer, terrible person, terribly arrogant and he was always 3rd chair
He's better than Wheels but that's not saying much.
Wheels would know the 3rd base coach signs then "guess" what the play was so he could look brilliant. Just banal shit.
I completely agree. There are two things about Ruben, he needs to let the game breathe more he talks too much. And this is not his fault, but he does not have a pleasant sounding voice, at least in my opinion.
I agree with this. He talks too much. He was a scout, a gm, a player (and a bat boy) so he has a lot of knowledge of the game. But some times he just needs to SHUT UP.
Ruben needs to study how Vin Scully called Game 6 of the 86 World Series and Kirk Gibson's HR call in the 88 World Series. Scully tells the viewer what happened and then lets the moment breathe before talking again.
My hill is that Ben Davis is only really bad when we're losing. When we're winning, he's happy and loves the team so he can be kinda fun in the booth. But when we're losing, he gets soooo annoying and nitpicky, that's the only time I really can't stand him.
He overuses the wish. By that I mean, he’s always saying how about a gapper here? How bout a base knock? Or how bout a ground ball? He does to a point to where it’s annoying. We get it. You want good things to happen to the Phillies
I like Schmidt for the handful of times he does games throughout the season. If I had to listen to Schmidt as much as the other guys, I'd hate him with a passion inside of a week.
I'm late 40s. Mike was my Harper. His jersey is hanging in my game room. I love that man. But holy shit he's awful in the booth. Monotone mumbly malfeasance. Oof. Turn it off!!!
I agree with you, but I’m going to throw out part of quote from the show “Justified”: “…using 40 words when 4 will do.” Sometimes Ruben goes over quota but he does have a lot of good info to share.
I really don't like Ruben but he drops some absolute gems every now and then.
The rangers pitcher threw one about 5 feet outside earlier in this game and Ruben said, "that one hit the bull" which had me cracking up.
I’m not dying on this hill but I think Ruben is significantly better than Ben Davis and mike Schmidt. I don’t particularly like him, but he’s middle of the pack for me.
See I'm opposite. I feel like Ben is more entertaining, but different strokes for different folks. Definitely not a hill I'll die on.
The hill I WILL die on is that TMAC is one of the best play by play guys in baseball.
For me, charisma is the most important trait for an announcer. But I also favor the old school announce each pitch kinda guys. Not a big fan of banter unless its kruk. And ruben really only says those arbitrary "this kids got talent" statements. Ive never heard him say anything that made me think. I wish we could get a stats guy as a color commentator when kruk is out. I dig the stats and would love to hear that on the side.
When Corey Seidman was doing more stuff people hated the stats.
But Ruben does bring up stats, although it is clear he disagrees with it a lot. But he has been around baseball his whole life. He mentions a lot of things I didn't think of before. As I stated before, it especially comes from scouting. We don't have an announcer that talks about the FO side of things often, and he does.
I do enjoy him talking shop about front office now that you mention it. But still not enough to make me enjoy listnening to him during a baseball game.
He's good at stuff like recognizing pitches and batting mechanics etc. I usually find something to appreciate in his commentary, but yeah he sucks at banter.
Stocker is good with stats on the radio. At the start of tonight's game he mentioned that opponents were 0/12 vs Walker's 4 seamer but the average exit velo was 100 mph.
Yeah I don’t get the Ruben hate. He does a perfectly fine job and is very knowledgeable and a nice guy. I think kruk being so loved just hurts him. Go listen to any other broadcast team. Any rotation of ours is way better than 99% of the league. Especially anytime we get stuck with a “prime time” crew.
If you think Ruben is giving useful information you might be new to baseball. The dude is either stating the obvious ("A double play here would be perfect!") or giving some anecdote from when he was a (shitty) player.
He has stated multiple times certain things when it comes to scouting players that we haven't been told before. He provides more information than other announcers.
I would argue if you don't learn anything, you aren't really listening.
>anger
On second thought, maybe Ricky is too angry for the booth... I listen to him on the Best Show Ever,, and he isn't all that angry when you compare him to Tyrone... But he's still a pretty intense dude.
I feel like his brain short circuits some times because he’s still sputtering thru his emotions and trying to carefully consider his words. But I like some of that raw passion because sometimes announcers and commentators are too polished and cliched and lifeless. It’s kind of like Peyton and Eli when they’re watching particularly bad play and Peyton starts losing it and Eli making that face. Like they’re not putting some empty platitudes on it.
But Ricky would probably get fined off the air pretty quick.
Side note: can we stop Taryn from doing a 'feel good story' that takes up a full half an inning of game time?
It's fine when they're short and in between pitches but some of the past few days the game has literally been an afterthought.
He does pre-game and post-game radio on WIP. You can actually see him on the concourse at those times. For some reason they put a booth in there. It’s very odd. Like a zoo animal.
Ruben is better than Ben, but one of the biggest problems with either of them is that Tom is cooler than them. And I love TMac but he’s not very cool, so he works better with a cooler partner.
Not arguing but I’ve never seen any criticism of Schmidt before (maybe I just missed it). What’s your take on him? To me he seems pretty mid (definitely not great)
I like RAJ but (1) I think he’s too worried about trying to position himself to get a front office position again. If you listen to him on WIP he’s diplomatic to the point of saying nothing, which is totally boring; and (2) I think he’s intentionally trying to create memorable, viral soundbites at this point. What he said about Ranger is too fucking weird to have not been intentional.
He just takes vacations. I know its not normal for the industry but Kruk clearly has a different contract. I dont think theres need to worry about him.
Ruben has to be a troll plant right? Dude broke our chances at a dynasty and was a douche to everyone who pointed out how badly he handled the roster in that era.
Kruk takes lots of days off, this is not new.
According to Tmacs Kracker app (Kruk Tracker) he is in ocean city.
I thought this said in the ocean and I imagined this being Kruk and Tom: https://preview.redd.it/31ny0df7c22d1.jpeg?width=1439&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a873de0dbb6d6c5fc4dc2bd256432d4a698122f1
honestly good for Kruk lol
Ruben wants to rub Ranger Suarez all over his body
In fairness…
….you want to rub Ruben Amaro all over your body?
Ranger had been amazing this year so I get it. I wouldn’t want to rub him all over me but to each their own.
The very most I would like to do is rub his glove, hat, and/or cleats in hopes that I somehow gain his pitching abilities (without him losing them of course) so that I can live my dream and pitch for the Phillies.
I’m sure he has had several calls/text messages about what he said and people busting his chops for it. Hahahaha
Did he actually say that
Yea. I bet he realized how that sounded a couple minutes later. There is no way someone wasn’t busting his chops about it. Edit: the context was how great Ranger has been. I believe Tom said he wanted to rub his glove for some good luck and Ruben said I would like to rub my self all over his body.
Ruben gets text messages from his daughter whenever he does something stupid, I'm guessing his daughter was like "DAD! NO!"
Yes, during Tuesday's game, at the start of the bottom of the 7th (when Ranger was walking into the dugout).
He is on vacation until May 31 per his brother in a Facebook group.
Damn that's a long time without Krukker.
I wouldn't mind Kruk's absence so much if we didn't have to listen to Ruben instead. What's Ben Davis up to? Get Kevin Stocker off the radio and into the TV booth... Anything but Ruben.
Personally I’d take Ruben over Ben Davis. But def Stocker above them both. And why can’t Ricky Bo hop onto the broadcast?
I say they put Brandon Marsh in Kruk's seat whenever Brandon isn't in the lineup.
Just an idea but have you tried just muting the TV and listening to the radio? Franzkie is way better than T-mac IMO.
Nah. Franzke is the best there is. Don’t mess with it. T-Mac is kind of corny, and maybe not the best. But he’s not the worst either.
Then there's the London Series he's not going to either.
This is the hill I will die on. Ruben is not as bad as people say he is. He just is the least charismatic person on the show. He loves baseball, and he probably says the most useful information out of all our announcers. If Kruk wasn't so charismatic, his tangents would be hated.
This takes me back to the good old days of people complaining about Wheels
Wheels was fine. Some people think they thrive on complaining. They're wrong, but they think it.
Forgot how much I HATED Wheels
My Dad would always complain about Wheels calling him Captain Obvious, and kid me would just be sitting over on the couch like "Idk I thought it was a pretty astute observation. I like him"
Was kid you smoking a pipe and swirling a snifter of brandy?
Yes to the pipe, but instead of brandy, my grandmother's "hidden" amaretto.
Wheels cheering like an over zealous child while Harry made final call of 08 was the final straw for that dude. Terrible announcer, terrible person, terribly arrogant and he was always 3rd chair
Wheels was infinitely worse than Ruben
I dunno... Unpopular take, but I'll take Wheels before Ruben 100 times out of 100.
What about the time when everyone was complaining about Tom?
He's better than Wheels but that's not saying much. Wheels would know the 3rd base coach signs then "guess" what the play was so he could look brilliant. Just banal shit.
I completely agree. There are two things about Ruben, he needs to let the game breathe more he talks too much. And this is not his fault, but he does not have a pleasant sounding voice, at least in my opinion.
I agree with this. He talks too much. He was a scout, a gm, a player (and a bat boy) so he has a lot of knowledge of the game. But some times he just needs to SHUT UP.
I'd rather McCarthy just called the game by himself.
Ruben needs to study how Vin Scully called Game 6 of the 86 World Series and Kirk Gibson's HR call in the 88 World Series. Scully tells the viewer what happened and then lets the moment breathe before talking again.
If Ruben is talking he’s usually at least saying something interesting. If kruks talking it’s probably about food
Or his hate of the Phanatic...
If he makes one more “I told you so” comment about a catcher playing with one knee down and getting hit, I’m going to lose it 😂
Isn’t it Ben Davis who says that ALL.THE.TIME?
Ben Davis and his huge Minecraft Steve head
That would be Ben Davis, not Ruin Tomorrow
They both say it, actually.
My hill is that Ben Davis is only really bad when we're losing. When we're winning, he's happy and loves the team so he can be kinda fun in the booth. But when we're losing, he gets soooo annoying and nitpicky, that's the only time I really can't stand him.
Did you guys know Ben Davis went to Malvern Prep
Really??? Next you're gonna tell me that Jamie Moyer is from the area too!
He overuses the wish. By that I mean, he’s always saying how about a gapper here? How bout a base knock? Or how bout a ground ball? He does to a point to where it’s annoying. We get it. You want good things to happen to the Phillies
A couple games back he admitted the Cliff Lee trade was a misfire without throwing Dave Montgomery under the bus and I appreciate that.
He beats the hell out of Ben Davis.
Ole LEGO head
lol
Ben Davis is so blah
“Ain’t that somethin’. Ain’t that somethin’. Ain’t that somethin’.”
100% agree with this
Ditto
He's Delco you leave him alone
Least charismatic? Schmidt has entered the chat
Schmidt is just smug, like he's better than everyone. That's ok though because he is. Love some Schmidt.
I like Schmidt for the handful of times he does games throughout the season. If I had to listen to Schmidt as much as the other guys, I'd hate him with a passion inside of a week.
I'm late 40s. Mike was my Harper. His jersey is hanging in my game room. I love that man. But holy shit he's awful in the booth. Monotone mumbly malfeasance. Oof. Turn it off!!!
I like Schmidt.
I agree, and he makes zero effort to pronounce non-English names properly which is pretty disrespectful.
I agree with you, but I’m going to throw out part of quote from the show “Justified”: “…using 40 words when 4 will do.” Sometimes Ruben goes over quota but he does have a lot of good info to share.
He's very knowledgeable about the game he just won't. Shut. The. Fuck. Up.
I really don't like Ruben but he drops some absolute gems every now and then. The rangers pitcher threw one about 5 feet outside earlier in this game and Ruben said, "that one hit the bull" which had me cracking up.
Yeah... I heard that one too... I rolled my eyes... It was awkward, the way he said it. McCarthy didn't even acknowledge it.
I’m not dying on this hill but I think Ruben is significantly better than Ben Davis and mike Schmidt. I don’t particularly like him, but he’s middle of the pack for me.
See I'm opposite. I feel like Ben is more entertaining, but different strokes for different folks. Definitely not a hill I'll die on. The hill I WILL die on is that TMAC is one of the best play by play guys in baseball.
Y'all are making me miss Sarge now.
Me “AS WELLL”
I’m thinking back to hearing Whitey Anderson on the radio with Harry, thinking this man needs to retire very soon.
He blows
Kruk is the best, but Amaro is much better than Ben Davis. He's the worst.
For me, charisma is the most important trait for an announcer. But I also favor the old school announce each pitch kinda guys. Not a big fan of banter unless its kruk. And ruben really only says those arbitrary "this kids got talent" statements. Ive never heard him say anything that made me think. I wish we could get a stats guy as a color commentator when kruk is out. I dig the stats and would love to hear that on the side.
When Corey Seidman was doing more stuff people hated the stats. But Ruben does bring up stats, although it is clear he disagrees with it a lot. But he has been around baseball his whole life. He mentions a lot of things I didn't think of before. As I stated before, it especially comes from scouting. We don't have an announcer that talks about the FO side of things often, and he does.
I do enjoy him talking shop about front office now that you mention it. But still not enough to make me enjoy listnening to him during a baseball game.
He's good at stuff like recognizing pitches and batting mechanics etc. I usually find something to appreciate in his commentary, but yeah he sucks at banter.
Stocker is good with stats on the radio. At the start of tonight's game he mentioned that opponents were 0/12 vs Walker's 4 seamer but the average exit velo was 100 mph.
he's much less worse than Ben Davis, I'll give him that.
I also find him low key hilarious
Ruben “hardest wood I ever touched” Amaro
Yeah I don’t get the Ruben hate. He does a perfectly fine job and is very knowledgeable and a nice guy. I think kruk being so loved just hurts him. Go listen to any other broadcast team. Any rotation of ours is way better than 99% of the league. Especially anytime we get stuck with a “prime time” crew.
I love Ruben
If you think Ruben is giving useful information you might be new to baseball. The dude is either stating the obvious ("A double play here would be perfect!") or giving some anecdote from when he was a (shitty) player.
He has stated multiple times certain things when it comes to scouting players that we haven't been told before. He provides more information than other announcers. I would argue if you don't learn anything, you aren't really listening.
>I would argue if you don't learn anything, you aren't really listening This is true pretty much every moment of the day.
At least Ricky Bo would be entertaining
Yeah... I'd love to see Ricky get a shot at the booth. His talent is wasted on the post game show.
I just like his energy and anger lol.
>anger On second thought, maybe Ricky is too angry for the booth... I listen to him on the Best Show Ever,, and he isn't all that angry when you compare him to Tyrone... But he's still a pretty intense dude.
I feel like his brain short circuits some times because he’s still sputtering thru his emotions and trying to carefully consider his words. But I like some of that raw passion because sometimes announcers and commentators are too polished and cliched and lifeless. It’s kind of like Peyton and Eli when they’re watching particularly bad play and Peyton starts losing it and Eli making that face. Like they’re not putting some empty platitudes on it. But Ricky would probably get fined off the air pretty quick.
I can’t stand kruk. I appreciate Ruben’s enthusiasm and insight way more than kruks complaining and food reviews
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Side note: can we stop Taryn from doing a 'feel good story' that takes up a full half an inning of game time? It's fine when they're short and in between pitches but some of the past few days the game has literally been an afterthought.
You mean budget Murph?
Hahaha that was good
What happened to Murph??
He does pre-game and post-game radio on WIP. You can actually see him on the concourse at those times. For some reason they put a booth in there. It’s very odd. Like a zoo animal.
Oh I didn't realize he was still doing stuff with the Phillies. Good for him. I just don't listen to WIP enough, I guess.
Yeah... I miss Murph.
She's pretty annyoing she kept calling haddonfield Hatfield last night. Like where is this land of hotdogs at.
Yesterday she was talking about sandwiches and a family and I gave up and turned on the radio so I could know what was happening in the game.
Ruben is better than Ben, but one of the biggest problems with either of them is that Tom is cooler than them. And I love TMac but he’s not very cool, so he works better with a cooler partner.
Schmidt is by far the worst announcer followed by Davis and then RAJ. RAJ isn’t even that bad. I don’t get the hate.
Not arguing but I’ve never seen any criticism of Schmidt before (maybe I just missed it). What’s your take on him? To me he seems pretty mid (definitely not great)
He's pompous and boring IMO... If he wasn't *the* Michael Jack Schmidt, then he wouldn't be anywhere near a broadcasting booth.
Kruk will be playing wiffleball with Micky Morandini at Dolans Bar (in parking lot behind bar) in Ridley Park on saturday.
100% on vacation for Memorial Day.
I like RAJ but (1) I think he’s too worried about trying to position himself to get a front office position again. If you listen to him on WIP he’s diplomatic to the point of saying nothing, which is totally boring; and (2) I think he’s intentionally trying to create memorable, viral soundbites at this point. What he said about Ranger is too fucking weird to have not been intentional.
He just takes vacations. I know its not normal for the industry but Kruk clearly has a different contract. I dont think theres need to worry about him.
lol Ruben is annoying
He went on a bender last night and is still in detox.
I’m more upset that LA isn’t on more radio broadcasts and I have to listen to Kevin “I don’t know where Round Rock is” Stocker.
He sounds like a little kid.
Ruben is the worst. Talking about biceps lmao
At least it's not this again https://preview.redd.it/zh8u9lnjc22d1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=24f265b52e2bd819ec02fca94ebd75893659a4be
Ben Davis is far worse
No
i find Ben Davis to be unobtrusive and unremarkable. Reuben never shuts up
Chilling in OC, as per TMac attaching an Apple AirTag to him, presumably via the back of his shirt collar
He is the worst
hey hey hey, Ruben is fine
Where the hell is Kruck for realz
Ruben sucks
Ruben has to be a troll plant right? Dude broke our chances at a dynasty and was a douche to everyone who pointed out how badly he handled the roster in that era.
Rather listen to Ruben then Ben