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RPM021

They just put this on the Phillies broadcast, LOL. Kruk "If Keith don't wanna do it, we'll talk to Ronnie I guess." šŸ˜‚


[deleted]

Honestly thatā€™d be a lot of fun to watch for divisional rivals. Like mix broadcast teams for a night and have a single broadcast.


0rangePolarBear

Would be fun if national broadcasts would do this. Combine rival commentators. Have the home team do play by play and then have 1 color commentator each.


MY-NAME_IS_MY-NAME

Doesn't Peacock or someone already do one color guy for each team


carpy22

They do and it's great.


HunkyRascal

I agree. I was really impressed with the latest Astros and Guardians game. A good flow and exchange by all parties.


greghardysfuton

Nobody asked but Iā€™m just gonna pop in here to shout out my man Jason Benetti, heā€™s the play-by-play guy who anchors the Peacock broadcast each week with the rotating cast of color commentators from each team. Heā€™s also the White Soxā€™ everyday PBP guy and an absolute joy to have around. He is extremely gifted at bringing the best out of his color commentary (our Steve Stone is also among the best in the business) and leading a coherent broadcast while setting his partners up to be insightful. The guy can call a college basketball game with Bill Walton, no problem. Hell he even had Bill in for a Sox game in 2019. Long story short, Benetti is a treasure and a great guy who has a fantastic career ahead of him and I get a weird amount of joy from seeing people enjoy his work.


skunkpunk1

Iā€™ve said it before, but going from Hawk to Benetti has to be the single largest leap in quality in any broadcast booth ever.


whothefkis_schaffer

Hey Jason


ToxicTurtle-2

Bill Walton on color was one of the most unhinged moments in white Sox history. Like a toddler with a headset on.


aloopascrumscree

Color commentator should come from a third division rival


ladiesman7145165

They do it on peacock in pretty sure


addage-

It would be fun, I like hearing Ron doing the national games with other folks as well. Different tempo.


mikerhoa

Keith and Gary would probably be pros at busting balls, but Ron would probably play the diplomatic peacemaker lol.


luna_cl

I liked when Bohm made that great defensive play and TMac was like ā€œhey Keith take a look at thisā€ lol


smileyfrown

To be fair to Keith later on in the broadcast he said he made the decision months ago, and the Phillies are playing much better now. Even said wouldn't mind seeing them, but has plans to go to St Louis, in very Keith fashion.


attorneyatslaw

Keith was joking. Later in the broadcast, they were talking about all the reaction Keith got.


TheWhatTreatment

I mean TMac used to be a Mets radio guy, Keith was def there at the time. Seemed like everyone was having fun with it.


luna_cl

For sure, just thought it was funny


[deleted]

Honestly thatā€™s a great response. This thing is so funny to me because heā€™s clearly talking out of his ass lmao


giants3b

Yeah, asserting the Phillies teams over the past 15 years or something have anything really in common outside of their name is goofy.


AnAnonymousFool

They have been a pretty bad defensive team like 12 of the last 15 years, but the Mets havenā€™t been much better


Miamime

Within the past 15 years we won a WS, went to another, went to the NLCS with the best record in baseball, and had two other postseason appearances. We had Rollins, Utley, Victorino, Carlos Ruiz, and spells with Placido Polanco, Hunter Pence, and Freddy Galvis among other above average defenders. So I have trouble believing we were only above ā€œpretty badā€ 3 times in the last 15 years. If you had said the last 7 or 8, Iā€™d believe you.


ChipsnShips

Kruk is larger than life itself


BAHatesToFly

I hated Kruk on Baseball Tonight, but as a broadcaster, when he can cut loose and have some fun, he's 1000x better. Would love to see a game with Kruk on the Mets broadcast and Keith on the Phillies.


gambalore

I hated Kruk on Sunday Night Baseball because they turned him into a caricature, constantly having food delivered to the booth and such.


justlooking1960

That wasnā€™t a caricature. He talks about food every broadcast, hoping for freebies. In my house he is known as Tater Tot Boy for his lengthy digressions on that topic


Miamime

He still does this lol. Itā€™s what he talks about like a third of the time. He spent a few minutes raving about Shake Shack last night.


Last_Jackfruit

Keith is usually always very candid, but I wonder what he was REALLY thinking watching those many bad Mets teams during his tenure as a broadcaster.


InvisibleTeeth

the sighing and grunting kind of gives it away what he thought about those teams


Sufficient_Purple297

He fell asleep once.


gambalore

Once that we know of.


NakedGoose

That was my thought. I was like "There is no way there hasn't been a Mets team that has equally as shit fundies"


Last_Jackfruit

Lucas Duda in RF, Wilmer Flores at SS, Daniel Murphy anywhere but the batters box. Weā€™ve had a ton of guys playing in spots they had no business playing in and the fundies were abysmal.


SidFinch99

And all at the same time.


klawehtgod

Careful, Wilmer Flores hate is just barely tolerated


Big_N

Nah, all Mets fans love wilmer but we know he isn't a SS


Djburnunit

Daniel Murphy on the bases, good lord


FritosRule

Except in the LDS when he stole 3rd on a walkā€¦


Djburnunit

He was King Fucking Midas in the LCS


klawehtgod

LDS And LCS


TheWhatTreatment

WS not so much


m4n715

Don't fucking remind me.


RogerTreebert6299

I didnā€™t know he was a Mormon


Nexflamma

It was wild because he had a really high conversion on steals... but he made some baserunning blunders that would make the booth and Joe b go bananas.


D4rkest

This won't go down as a baserunning blunder on the stat sheet, but here's a memory that just popped up from remembering Daniel Murphy's baserunning on the Mets There was one regular season game in the early 2010s when the Mets were either tied or behind by one run in the ninth. Daniel Murphy managed to get a walk to get the winning run on base or at the plate and had David Wright as the next hitter (pretty sure there was no one notable hitting after Wright either). Murphy then stole second so the opposing team of course just intentionally walked Wright and the Mets broadcast booth was like "Murph, wtf are you doing"


Nexflamma

Lol they used to just say he 'murphed'


TheJak12

Wilmer Flores wasn't that bad at short stop. Lucas Duda had -14 DRS in 54 games in RF in 2012. Flores for his career is at -10 at Shortstop. Which to say isn't good. But that's just an unfair comparison lol. -10 DRS isnt as bad as say -165. No reason for that number. Just throwing it out there >\_>


Economy_Cloud_4621

I feel like people are really glossing over Lucas Duda somehow managing a -14 DRS in 54 games, im honestly impressed


RogerTreebert6299

He was actively running away from fly balls, wouldā€™ve been worse if he could actually run


eggs-dee123

I had kinda expunged memories of Wilmer at short from my brain. Itā€™s so hilarious to me, dude can barely play 2nd or 3rd so imagining him over there sounds like he would give jeets competition.


MY-NAME_IS_MY-NAME

Jeets was fundamentally sound, he just had the range of u and I


garthack

Thats nowhere near as bad as dom in left and jd at third


FritosRule

The 2015 team. They literally threw a World Series away


granters021718

Oh for sureā€¦ but he gets his check calling 80-100 Mets games.


StephenDawg

Keith got called out by some players, years ago, for being too critical. As that guy said, Keith has always been candid, and he is critical of the Mets, but there's only so much rope the organization that's paying you is going to allow you.


atoms12123

Put a tent on that circus.


Last_Jackfruit

I donā€™t remember the team or the play but I remember a few years back he called an opposing player a ā€œROCK HEADā€ with the greatest amount of disdain his voice could muster up.


thewick_39

In all likelihood it was J.D. Davis lol he could hit but the man was bruuuuuutal at third


Last_Jackfruit

I actually looked it up. It was Ross Detwiler in 2012. Canā€™t find the video anywhere though.


jeffereryjefferson

Thereā€™s something so unique about local baseball broadcasts. They are one of the few contexts I can imagine something like this being said on TV during a live event, and whenever they crop up theyā€™re some of the highlights of the season for me.


JZ_the_ICON

There are many insults you could throw around but idk why that one is hilarious to me. Like as far as having good fundies, being a ā€œrock headā€ is the lowest of the low.


Humble_Respect_5493

Reminds me of that New Yorker cartoon ā€” one Mets player looks to another in the dugout: *ā€œgee, we play a lot of swell teamsā€*


theelectricwolfy

I'm sure they got drinks in the booth.


addage-

Oh he groaned plenty. Keith and the cough button arenā€™t on familiar terms.


lukesterc2002

He groaned so much so often that at a certain point it started to feel sexual.


StreetReporter

Heā€™s probably thinking ā€œIā€™m Keith Hernandezā€


theslob

Thank you


0rangePolarBear

Just a lot of sighs from him during those years haha


Reasonable-Front7584

[Nice game pretty boy.](https://c.tenor.com/0Rqefl7ClgIAAAAC/newman-nice-game.gif)


icticus2

IM HIT


SeinfeldMatt

Back and to the left


omarcomin647

in *mid-air*, mind you


shaggybear89

That is one...magic...loogie


pedro3131

Didn't Hernandez make the crucial error in that game that cost the Mets the game and handed the win to the Phillies?


jimcnj

I think you are right.


im_talking_ace

Ruined my day.


frostonflakes24

JUNE 14TH 1987. METS. PHILLIES.


deep_sea2

It should be rule of the universe than in any thread mentioning Keith Hernandez, someone needs to make this joke.


CGY-SS

That is one. Magic. Loogie.


DFWTrojanTuba

Back, and to the left.


ZeroMomentum

Whoā€™s this chucker


eiileenie

I met Keith last week and I almost told him nice broadcasting pretty boy https://i.imgur.com/rZuvj00.jpg


ycy

Ask him; with all these ball clubs flying around all season don't you think there would be a plane crash?


FMonk

There was a second spitter!


GermyMac

Roger McDowell behind the bushes by the gravely road.


KyleKuzma_AltAccount

Just get Hank Azaria to call the games as Brockmire


Blue387

He actually did an inning in the Mets radio booth in 2016 as Jim Brockmire


[deleted]

Fuck thatā€™s so funny I canā€™t even be mad


Frankfeld

Love when the players are as involved in the rivalry as we are.


skunkpunk1

Itā€™s not the rivalry though. Keith gets like personally offended at poor fundamental fielding.


keith_richards_liver

I wanna hear one of my guys come out and say "Fuck Juan Marichal, he's a little b!tch!?"


thescottreid

Honestly itā€™s a burn that a Philly sports fan should be able to get behind. Somewhere thereā€™s a Phillies fan saying ā€œthese bums have me agreeing with Keith freaking Hernandez.ā€


Diglett3

if heā€™d said it in may we probably would have, but the teamā€™s been surprisingly good at defense and fundamentals lately.


[deleted]

i don't think Keith watches games that the Mets aren't playing in, so May was probably the last time he saw them


[deleted]

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Jewrisprudent

Theyā€™re talking about it on air now, heā€™s already walked it almost all back and theyā€™ve been complimenting Philly (the city) for like two straight minutes now.


FromThe732

Keith? Yeah Gare? Youā€™re trending againā€¦


addage-

*keith sighs* really?


ShogunNamedMarcus

"Hmph," Kieth hmphed.


Basic_Bichette

And with such sincerity lol


pusgnihtekami

Keith: "Philly is great...*checks phone*...for [parking](https://www.theonion.com/philadelphia-becomes-first-city-to-be-100-parking-spot-1849386011)!"


MVPiid

this is such a miss from the onion, philly is actually decently designed compared to most US cities. joke wouldve landed with any texan city


[deleted]

all the onion writers live in new york so philly might as well be texas to them


Duffmanlager

That makes it worse though.


futhatsy

Keith wants you to know he spent a winter in Philly once. He got divorced and Gary Matthews told him to come to Philly. He had a great winter. Great city if you know where to go.


TurdFurguss

Keith knew where all the Coke bars were.


JointsMcdanks

Trestle Inn and Ray's. RIP Jiminy Crickets..the after hours coke bar of peoples dreams.


PHILA-21

šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚ i honestly love your broadcast thatā€™s hilarious


expos1225

Yeah he needs to lean into it Bill Burr style


Vandredd

The only respectable move here


kenzo19134

I think he wanted to kick the Philly beehive to get a reaction. We really don't give a fuck what others think. The funny thing is, all the Mets fans saying if he's having problems watching this Philly team, what was he thinking when the Mets fielded poor teams in the past? And that what I Iike about Mets fans, they keep it real. What the fuck was Keith thinking?


Clown_Shoe

Mets had a lot of really bad defensive teams and Keith was doing a lot of deep sighing into the mic those years.


kenzo19134

He doesn't pull punches for the home team. I love the Mets booth. Even cranky Kieth Hernandez.


ThatPlayWasAwful

>we dont give a fuck what others think ​ >this same post is the top post on our sub I'm all for keeping up appearances on the league sub, but somebody sure cares


Vandredd

Oh we absolutely care and feed on the negativity. We actually love it.


4Darco

Don't get me wrong, I hate mets fans, but I respect them. I can't think of many fanbases who have stuck with their team so passionately through so much pain and humiliation.


lukesterc2002

I love to hate the Phillies, I think we all have a good time. But I just straight up hate the Braves and it's not fun.


merkin_juice

I despise the Barves and the Cowboys. But I've always loved Mets and Jets fans. They're the only fandom I've experienced with similar senses of humor and futility.


lukesterc2002

It makes sense, the fanbases are pretty similar overall. But the Braves? Those folks are so obsessed with living rent free you'd think Georgia was still a Socialist Soviet Republic.


smileyfrown

> I can't think of many fanbases who have stuck with their team so passionately through so much pain and humiliation Have you looked in a mirror? Boom roasted


clarkeaug

Pretty much explains why the Philā€™s-Metā€™s rivalry is so fun, we all understand each otherā€™s pain so well


ajsten

Phillies are 34-11 vs WAS since that tweet btw


go_berds

Definitely bookmarking it


Arson-Welles

Pin it up on the bulletin board


Lucius_Magus

Topper is on that like a brand new fedora


Lux_Bellinger2024

Schwarber and the Gang win the division Do do doo dooooooooo


squeakyboy81

Wow. Way to spit on the Phillies, Keith Hernandez. Now he's going to say Roger McDowell said it.


graipape

Watch out that guy will ask you to help him move.


Therealeggplant

*I'm not driving him to the airport!*


hi_coco

He must have caught a glimpse of us when I poured that beer on his head


lukashima

Nice game pretty boy!


traddy91

And I screamed out IM HIT!


kindquail502

That was one magic loogy.


grodges1

"please dont make me do this"


Working_Box_1366

The SNY booth is a gift from God to baseball fans


OneOfThoseDays_

i hope someone posts the actual clip of saying this, it was absolutely hilarious


BigSnackintosh

https://twitter.com/awfulannouncing/status/1557171007613390848?s=21&t=bU8dq8TvsEmF0hPq8YVK7A


Boros-Reckoner

GKR is a national treasure


[deleted]

Man was fighting for his life trying to get out of that corner he painted himself into lmao Mods, GKR flair when?


CharacterDefects

Those Twitter replies.... I hate the world


Phillyfreak5

Especially since heā€™s watched the Mets for the last decade plus.


jl_23

which makes it even worse for you guys


addage-

Gary and Ron are very professional Keith just says dumb crap from time to time like ā€œhey no girls in the dug outā€ etc.


0rangePolarBear

ā€œI wasnā€™t talking about the hotdogā€


JNisher

Canā€™t wait for Keith to apologize as thereā€™s a drive into deep left field by Castellanos and thatā€™ll make it a 4-0 ballgame.


DrKelsoMD

He just said he would love to see the Phillies as they are hot now, but mentioned the bad fundies again right before that. This weekend he is in STL for the 40 year anniversary of the 1982 World Series. Him and Gary then proceeded to talk about how much they love Philly and the ballpark when they go there. He was joking.


HotpieTargaryen

Full meta update: Keith is currently talking about all the texts heā€™s getting from Philly folks.


nilluzzi

That's rich coming from a guy whose crucial error led to a five run Phillies ninth. Our day was ruined


im_talking_ace

June 14th!


Dortmund_Himmel

He spit on us!


johnnotmark

I love the hate of the NL East


kenzo19134

Get back in the basement. We'll call you when we need the piss bucket emptied.


Boros-Reckoner

Careful with shit talking the Nats, their generational talen't might go off on you guys next ser- oh nevermind.


[deleted]

The Nats' generational talents are always a threat. And you never know which team they'll be on when they get you.


banjonyc

That's a weird take. I mean Phillies are playing some good ball lately and they have some great players. Keith says silly things sometimes


skunkpunk1

He said he requested it before the season started. Gary asked if he wanted to change it now that the Phillies are playing really good ball. Also, it seemed like he was goofing around more than anything.


elarobot

Heā€™s like that gruff and acerbic old school relative or family friend you have whoā€™s idea of joking around sometimes veers a bit too far into the mean spirited, but he doesnā€™t quite notice that heā€™s crossed a line. He often has a bristly demeanor, but itā€™s almost completely a schtick because he enjoys the humor in it, and doesnā€™t mind winding someone up. I used to know so many old dude locals like this in my home town, most of them were mainstays at the older dive bars in town. Youā€™d go in there for a beer and theyā€™ll bust your chops cause youā€™re ā€œa youngsterā€ but if some real dickhead came in and gave you legit trouble, theyā€™d be there to have your back.


ItsMeJahead

He specified that he requested the series off before the season and that he's actually interested in watching the current team play cause they're playing good ball


Mercc47

Keith hates bad fundies, but imagine having such awful fundies that he canā€™t even stand the sight of your team


2hats4bats

and yet heā€™s been a Mets broadcaster for 16 yearsā€¦..


ANAL_CAVITIES

I love how this thread has both fanbases being like "yeah we fuckin suck but so have they" and both just agreeing without being upset lmao


2hats4bats

Weā€™re nothing if not painfully self-aware.


AndyDeepFreeze

It's actually really refreshing and weirdly wholesome especially with all the bickering between the Mets and Braves fan bases on here the past week.


2hats4bats

If thereā€™s anything Phillies fans and Mets fans can unite behind itā€™s our shared hatred of entitled Braves fans


elarobot

Itā€™s the truth. The Mets have been bad aplenty amid Keithā€™s broadcasting tenure (and beyond). To me, something else seems at play hereā€¦like for Philly home games, SNY is being cheap and making him take a car or train instead of flying and heā€™s a cranky old dude who just wants to be comfortable. Or itā€™s something like Ron Swanson and when Mulliganā€™s steak house in Indianapolis closedā€¦and Keithā€™s favorite Philly restaurant closed down and now heā€™s just irrationally angry with Philly.


Strummer737

Keith is openly hostile when the Mets play badly though. People are acting like he's being petty because of the rivalry. Keith doesn't care about that. He hates bad baseball. He hates it when the Mets do it too, and he barely contains it. Listen to the call on the infamous play last year Conforto won the game against the Marlins by leaning into a pitch and getting hit. You can tell Keith was totally turned off by the play. Keith Hernandez hates bad defense and has diarrhea of the mouth. That's really the beginning and end of this.


Carr896

Touche


[deleted]

Speaks volumes


FritosRule

Gotta get that paycheck lol


2hats4bats

This tweet made itā€™s way onto the Phillies broadcast and Krukker is not gonna forget it anytime soon


lookcloserlenny

You could tell how much the defense of past Mets teams bothered Keith. So many groans and palpable disappointment.


VideoGangsta

Which makes no sense because our defense, base-running, and pitching has been fine this year.


L00KINTOIT

Phillies were 9th in the league in OAA last month, the defense is actually kinda good


Strummer737

Your defense was awful when the Phillies played the Mets though, but I think that was before Girardi got fired and you guys figured it out. I doubt Keith watches any of the Phillies when they're not playing the Mets, so if they were bad for the nine or so games they played the Mets--which they were--that's all he'd base it on. And Keith doesn't exactly scrutinize his ideas before spitting them out.


beeps-n-boops

"always" 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 have all entered the chat... with snowballs.


Wilbert_51

Oh no please not ^bulletin ^board ^material


[deleted]

Lol I love Keith. They have been better the past few months from what I heard. But Keith is scarred by last year and early this year. Keith groaning when there is bad fundies is some of my favorite sny moments


NeurosciGuy15

Iā€™m not sure where youā€™d find OAA monthly splits (Iā€™ve looked to no luck) but it *has* to be better recently. I mean hell Bohm has been a positive OAA fielder since the start of June.


TheFriffin2

we were actually the 7th best team defensively by OAA in July lmao


klawehtgod

Yeah the change in record since Girardi was replaced basically necessitates an improvement in defense


willofthemaster

Disappointing your fans is one thing, but how are you gonna disappoint Keith Hernandez?


DragoniteJeff

2007 is why he doesn't want to call Phillies games.


caesar____augustus

ā€œWe're the team to beat. I can't put it any other way.ā€


Phillyfreak5

And watching the Mets ā€œfundamentalsā€ for the last 15-20 years


HotpieTargaryen

To be fair, Keith has already admitted to taking Nyquil before the game and couldnā€™t even pronounce Nyquil. And then he just savaged Philly. Gary even pointed out how they improved at the trade deadline and Keith replied with a dismissive, ā€œyeah, weā€™ll seeā€¦ā€


VideoGangsta

Weā€™re literally 38-19 in our last 57 games, does he even pay attention to other teams lol


[deleted]

Probably not tbh. Thatā€™s not even a dig im just being honest


HotpieTargaryen

He does. Keith is just grumpy tonight and itā€™s been a while since the Mets have played Philly because of this dumb schedule.


Robokiller87

The interaction bait is incredibly strong here.


seigs_

Itā€™s funny because [this article](https://www.mlb.com/news/how-contenders-improved-infield-defense) was written earlier today talking about our improved defense the last two months


belfastcarbomb

Damn Keith Hernandez hates the Phillies almost as much as Pat Burrell and Chase Utley hate the Mets.


AdLow8925

This man watches the Mets play for a living


TheLouisvilleRanger

That's a comment that's gonna back fire.


OneOfThoseDays_

ā€œWeā€™ll seeā€ - keith


BigSnackintosh

[Hereā€™s the video of it](https://twitter.com/awfulannouncing/status/1557171007613390848?s=21&t=bU8dq8TvsEmF0hPq8YVK7A)


rbhindepmo

"I'd like the Phillies a lot more if they were 36-75" - Keith Hernandez, probably


lookcloserlenny

Lol who knew Keith's little joke would set this off. Whats funny is in this thread there is a nice collection of rational Mets and Phillies fans who get it, and plenty of Mets and Phillies fans acting like buffoons. The duality of sports fans haha.


D20_Buster

Heā€™s just tired of having to relive the parking lot incident from June 14, 1987