Ohh please please please ship his lard ass out of town. Or just burn him at the stake. Either way.

Ohh please please please ship his lard ass out of town. Or just burn him at the stake. Either way.

"Ralph is an asshole."

Water is wet, the sky is blue, the sun is warm.

How did Ralph ever get a job in radio anyway? His voice grates like a rusty cheese slicer applied to nude scrotum.

Ralph gets pretty bad at times. He feels like it's his obligation to draw a "clear" answer from his interviewees. Last week they had the GM of the Sharks on and he was prodding him repeatedly to say whether or not the other Wilson (head coach) was on the chopping block. Wilson repeatedly says that the team is still in it's evaluation stage, and he can't say either way.

Ralph vs. Sabean is always a fun back-and-forth to listen to. After any bad Benitez outing, their conversation/interview turns into a shouting match. It's the only time I think you'll ever get to hear Sabean yell/scream/argue loudly.

All of his annoyances (constant prodding, beating dead horses' corpses, his voice, etc), he's a pretty good radio host. He knows the kind of questions to ask, unlike a lot of the other media heads that get their opportunities at Sabean and fire questions Sabean can easily duck and run from.

I thought Sabean was gonna hang up on Ralph there. I would have cheered if he did. Ralph is an absolute ass -- people near to me have had to deal with him personally, and he's even worse.

Anyway, kudos to Sabean in advance. The whole "knee injury" thing is a crock and everyone knows it. It's just an excuse to keep him off the mound in New York while they figure out what to do with him. The Giants are horrible at lying sometimes.

>The whole "knee injury" thing is a crock and everyone knows it. It's just an excuse to keep him off the mound in New York while they figure out what to do with him. The Giants are horrible at lying sometimes.

It's been said before (at least a few times) that Benitez has arthritic knees. I'm pretty sure this could lead to "fluid in the knees" if the knee is irritated enough. When he was warming up before the game we shall not speak of, he was favoring a knee. I noticed it, but figured it was just my imagination until my girlfriend pointed it out as well.

I know that phantom injuries are a regular thing in baseball (and most sports). But the Giants said they actually drained the kneed, didn't they? They usually don't go to that length if the injury isn't there.

I'm not saying it can't be all made up. I'm just saying it's off-base to assume that the injury can't be real.

I hate Benitez as much as the next guy, but perhaps he really is injured? If he is, that should really dwindle down Sabean's choices.

Actually the Sun is scorching hot and that's how hot under the collar Ralph can get sometimes. His confrontations with Sabean have been classics, too bad I missed this one, I'll have to catch the replay. I agree, it's the only time I see Sabean act uncomfortable or lose his cool, when he has his chats with Ralph. Like waiting for the train wreck.

I agree, Ralph can be a good interviewer - when he isn't sucking up all the air time with his long involved questions that is usually self-referential in some way. He needs to keep himself out of the interview. But at least he asks the tough questions that need to be asked and the interviews are usually good overall.

Thanks Jefferson for sharing your friends' experience with Ralph. That makes sense to me given the way he acts on air - more sense than the image he projects with his "angels fly because they take themselves lightly" show ender, which is ironic because he never ever takes himself lightly - so I guess he's no angel? :^D Do you know if it is some sort of perverse internal joke to him or something?

And is Tolbert really as friendly with Ralph as he seems on the air? Or is it just something he does in order to do his job? In other words, is he so laid back, that Ralph can explode, and it's water off his back, Ralph can't touch Tolbert.

The funny thing to me is that Ralph was clearly (audibly) uncomfortable with Tolbert when Mr. T first joined the show and was for a while, but now is in this easy, friendly relationship now, like two old pals just chatting on the air and goofing. I wonder what Ralph was saying to all his buddies (buddy?) when he was mad about the arrangement...

I would agree with sfgfan about this injury. If they want to give a lame excuse, they can just play the arthritic knee card, but to actually say that his knee got drained, why make that up if you can easily say "arthritic knee"?

I would agree with sfgfan about this injury. If they want to give a lame excuse, they can just play the arthritic knee card, but to actually say that his knee got drained, why make that up if you can easily say "arthritic knee"?

Tom Cruise, Charles Nelson Reilly, Ralph Barbieri, Roberto Alomar, not that there is anything wrong with it.
I guess the Ortiz contract and Benitez are a wash, this year at least.

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