Don Lagreca "Ed Kranepool" Rant - 5/30/18

[@brandona2023]

Who else comes back to this rant when they need to feel good

[@MrSpeed-lt8gr]

Im doing that today 🤣

[@briangravino9087]

Haha it’s such a classic. “When David Wright was breaking 3B records, he was breaking Ed Kranepool’s records Michael! ED KRANEPOOL! Peter, have you ever heard of Ed Kranepool? I’m not mocking ya!”

[@mikekester9514]

I bet Ed Kranepool does

[@Heene1028]

That’s why I’m here today…. Every 6 months gotta post on Facebook!😂🎉

[@billl.2441]

Whenever I need a laugh

[@VeeMediaTV]

Who else came on here to check out Don's rant after hearing about Kranepool's passing?

[@MMingE]

Me

[@Heene1028]

What better tribute 🎉❤

[@SenorNerd]

As soon I saw his name trending on Twitter and see he had passed away, I ran to this video😆!

[@josephlinnell9855]

I honestly have not heard this rant until now. I'm a met fan who was not in the area in 2018 and could care less about Kay. I just came across it. It's classic and it's true. Rest in Peace No.7 God Bless❤

[@Patriots92]

Pete Alonzo

[@SerenityNow9015]

RIP Ed Bleepin’ Kranepool, who has passed on at the age of 79 🕯️

[@alexandriaocasio-smollett5078]

I’m not even a New York sports fan and I watch this every few months whenever I need to laugh. This is epic. I think why it has stood the test of time as his greatest rant is because it felt natural. It didn’t feel contrived at all, like some rants on sports talk radio seem to be. He was perfectly calm at the beginning. He built on that until he exploded and talked himself into being pissed off. This is so friggin amazing

[@randomteacher6199]

Without question the climax of this rant is Don shouting "ED KRANEPOOL" over a picture of Tom Seaver's 300th win as a White Sox. Perfect imagery.

[@WaltGekko]

Which was on of all days "Phil Rizzuto Day" at Yankee Stadium. GEORGE as I remember was furious about it, so much so they eventually did a second "Phil Rizzutto Day" (though the Yanks did invite Lindsey Nelson to call the 9th inning of Seaver's 300th). One of the biggest ironies of Seaver's career that he got his 300th in Yankee Stadium. Another irony was four years later he actually was calling play-by-play for the YANKEES.

[@ChipJones421]

​@@WaltGekko"That's baseball, Suzyn"

[@Metsfan2019]

RIP Ed Kranepool. Don said his only regret about this rant is that it came across to some as though he was mocking Ed, when Ed was actually one of his all-time favorite Mets (as he says towards the tail end of this video.) Still remains one of the greatest radio rants of all-time -- and clearly comes from a genuine place of affection for Kranepool and the Mets franchise, rather than the usual contrived sports radio "hot takes."

[@10menwhen]

“We’re still waiting for Thor, the dark knight is out of the door” unintentional bars spit 😂.

[@wavnino1]

Bro when he said that I had to the “mmmm” like they do in battle rap after a bar 🔥

[@ShempDavidNiven]

All-time great rant, completed by the deranged pinnacle moment: *"They killed Gil Hodges!! Nothing good! There's nothing good!!"*

[@ndep93]

Mets have been killing me slowly since 1998 (when I started watching), so maybe Don wasn't so out of line here! lol

[@georgebarbosa9893]

@@ndep93 Ditto

[@Bubbles23XI]

WS champion, lifelong Met, and thanks to him, Don gave us one of the greatest rants in sports radio. Rest well, Ed.

[@michaelrichter6199]

I heard this in the gym while doing bench presses. I laughed so hard I almost killed myself because I could not hold up the bar! Just a great, great rant!!!

[@fli13]

Kay did nothing to talk Don down from the ledge!! He definitely egged him on with corrections and mentioning Tom Seaver!! LMFAO!!!

[@patrickgray5633]

Did you have a spotter??? Lol epic rant. Love the part Tom Seaver against the Yankees.

[@michaelrichter6199]

No spotter - bad mistake..! I still have to laugh at this rant!

[@Mr.BMC2763]

@@patrickgray5633 AND WHAT DID HE DO MICHAEL? MICHAEL WHAT DID HE DO?! Michael: 300th win! Against who?! Michael: against the Yankees! IN HIS HOME TOWN!

[@felixmalamud5022]

This rant was so good that it was featured in the "Once Upon A Time in Queens" 30 for 30 😂

[@garydizzine]

They mentioned Ed Krannpool in that documentary but they didn’t put in Don screaming his name

[@dirty.dan37]

@@garydizzine audio yes clip no

[@SerenityNow9015]

“Do you remember what he did? DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT HE DID!?!?” 😂

[@ledzep9943]

😂😂😂😂

[@LadyJay114]

This is the greatest FACTUAL rant in the history of sports radio.

[@RandomGuy285]

My man threw in Andujar and Bird as "forever" Yankee players lmao

[@jpetersgoyanks]

@@RandomGuy285 at the time it was a possibility

[@JC_2311]

@@jpetersgoyanks It does show how things can change in just a few short years. At least he was right with Judge and he's got a point that the Yanks have a Monument Park of forever players and the Mets really have none so far and it probably shows the history of a relatively mis-managed/dysfunctional organization

[@jpetersgoyanks]

@@JC_2311 he was adding names to help make his point, he was being hyperbolic.

[@alexandriaocasio-smollett5078]

Yeah I can get on board with that. I agree.

[@avtic1]

I come here once a week, just to appreciate the severity and the intensity of this once in a lifetime rant. I also go up and down the messages, sometimes at the same time as the rant is picking up steam, like a tsunami, and you guys in the comments are just as good. The guy who almost died at the gym, the one that brilliantly encapsulated his up and down the Yankee roster in full caps. The internet sometimes, can be the best form of therapy I swear.

[@pauliebots]

I'm doing the same! The rant does not lose its power.

[@iamjacksalias6071]

Sometimes i think I am Don here. Hope you still come around, avtic1

[@jw7665]

I will do the same with the Evan Neal rant 😂

[@avtic1]

@@jw7665 Lol I love it! 😝

[@elementrypenguin3116]

😊

[@UltimaKeyMaster]

Rest in peace Ed, you indirectly contributed to the best radio rant of all time.

[@zekethefreakmashingupgeek]

"They killed Gil Hodges!" LMAO!

[@thedominatior39]

That’s when I lost it 😂

[@fli13]

hahahahahahahahhahahaha!!!

[@patrickgray5633]

Lol WOW

[@lagosfury5142]

KidLantern67 I didn't expect that,lol

[@raymondpmartinez5783]

When he said they killed gil hodges I was rolling

[@brianlambert8955]

Heard it on the radio live😂😂😂 COULDN'T STOP LAUGHING while driving hahahaah!!

[@kdonovan221]

When he goes Ed Beeping Kranepool!!!! I almost spit out my coffee

[@theabsoluteWOAT]

"strawberry won 3 championships with the yankees, don"

[@jking3166]

Michael just had to correct him bout strawberry winning 3 with the Yankees 😂😂

[@Mr.BMC2763]

He did that to add fuel to the fire

[@MrSpeed-lt8gr]

That was a softball to stoke the fire 🤣😂

[@SugarRayTaylor]

Don's face when he did that 😂

[@Thurs1t0]

That might have been the best part. Got him overboard

[@benisrood]

@@Thurs1t0 He knew Don needed a bit more winding up.

[@allstarchris1]

OMG!!!!! This rant is what every Met fan screams every day. "They killed Gil Hodges" Jesus Christ that was hilarious RIP to Hodges though, LMAO!!!!!!!!! Oh why did I become a Met fan?

[@advaita114]

allstarchris1 yeah so this is nothing new to a long suffering Mets fan. Of course lagreca feels the need to remind us all, in his signature red faced rant. Count how many times he repeats himself with mindless drivel. #lazy

[@CookerSeven4]

If you became one the same day I did, then it was forced upon you at childbirth by Met parents😂😂

[@wa2k99]

What about the Lord??????

[@ralphabreu5022]

I love Don Lagreca rants

[@MrBlick76]

Ralph Abreu no one rants better than lagreca

[@TheMan750]

MrBlick76 check our his brother Dave

[@RobertHall85]

Yeah I am a fan of his brother. And thought he was a hothead. But now I see it runs in the family.

[@RBlair69]

Dave can bring the heat, but Don is in a class by himself.

[@high.steaks]

Who’s watching this after degrom just left for Texas?

[@extremeredtv5728]

Here!

[@high.steaks]

@@extremeredtv5728 😂😂😂

[@JustSomeDude2161]

OMG I just remembered he left the Mets to come to Texas. 😂😂😂

[@playahdub5287]

​@@JustSomeDude2161 and his career ended 😂

[@Orca75]

"Do you remember what he did? DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT HE DID!!!!?????!!!!??????!!!!"

[@jessejames8774]

300th win!!

[@41Brother2]

@@jessejames8774 AGAINST WHO????

[@jessejames8774]

@@41Brother2 yanks!!

[@yaakovmarks1241]

@@jessejames8774 RIGHT HERE IN NEW YORK!

[@MrSpeed-lt8gr]

This was the funniest dialogue to me. LaGreca was going berserk 😂🤣

[@santhyapillai9734]

Oh my God, this is hysterical! This is how I feel about Dolan's mismanagement of the Knicks. He sounds like Chris Farley in that motivational speaker sketch on SNL when he screams "IN A VAN, DOWN BY THE RIVER"!!!

[@xman2738]

Santhya Pillai tell me about it.. ugh!

[@jonathanwilliams0824]

Yeah. James Dolan really needs to get the heck out of New York, right now, quick, fast, and in a hurry!!!!!

[@rstevens1836]

Exactly what I've been thinking. R.I.P. Chris Farley. R.I.P. Don LaGreca if he doesn't go easy on his blood pressure!

[@cecilwilson8984]

I love this show....Don Lagreca is by far one of my favorite radio hosts. What gets me everytime is the fact that Michael and Peter are just dying in the background.

[@lynos1970]

Cecil Wilson bestt

[@Blues05216]

I like how this was added near the end of part 4 of the ESPN Docu-series "Once Upon a Time in Queens".

[@salvatoresultana4058]

Same 🤣

[@tomdadwell]

I was fortunate enough to catch this rant live on the air on a day I NEEDED a laugh. I almost had to pull the car over because for a moment I couldn't see through the tears. Best rant I've ever heard anywhere.

[@Spasq]

The part about Ed Kranepool picking up someone at the airport gets me every time.

[@DrakathDrago]

"DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT HE DID" gave me chills at the unfiltered anger escaping this man

[@michaeljohnson5720]

How does he go from Jeter and Pettitte to Andujar and Torreyes lmao

[@PhillipG34]

I think he meant Torres

[@Mr.BMC2763]

He couldn't think of anybody else... he said Bird.. 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

[@jaylock9twenty5]

Skipped over Rivera, Sabathia, Mattingly

[@costellotocustelow03]

@Steve M we know

[@tulrid7550]

@@Mr.BMC2763 Bird was good in the beginning.

[@ducky920567]

Just discovered this today. This is amazing and so accurate

[@TuMalditaMadre]

This video really makes me question why I'm a Mets fan. I hate myself for this. They killed Gil Hodges.

[@rustykuntz94]

It's a tough road to ho bro. Mets fan since 84, the best I'll ever see was when I was 10 years old

[@miajackson41]

This Is Beyond The Best Im Still Listening 2020 🤣🤣🤣

[@matthewfortuna3443]

Me too in 2021

[@mmtoss6530]

Best Mets rant I ever heard

[@gocharules]

This is a classic along with Chris Russo's rant about his SF Giants losing to the Marlins comedy gold.

[@RDLeon4]

I think one of the most underrated parts of this rant is the, “Michael he didn’t make it…” part when Don talks about Dave Magadan. It’s so sad I love it.

[@spider_hoss]

I used to watch this show called NHL Live on the NHL network, and Don used to be the host of that show. He was so low key and so chill I would never have thought this could come from him.

[@w.l.graves7228]

we thank you for don lagreca for finally giving ed kranepool his due !! as he most assuredly was due ! thank you ED , for everything you did for us met fans and the community , we need to retire #7's jersey right now. rest in peace ED . 9/9/2024

[@JimmyKing-i1t]

"Hey dude, what's your name?" I almost had a stroke

[@michaeldzema4272]

Ed Bleeping kranepool

[@dougjb7848]

And he REALLY wanted to swear.

[@inaudibleshout1714]

@@dougjb7848 ED FFFFBLEEPING KRANEPOOL

[@dougjb7848]

@Nick Woodard THAT’S AWESOME, DUDE!!!

[@41Brother2]

Can he take me to Midtown?

[@jessejames8774]

Nolan ryan!!!! 7 no hitters!!!! Not one of them as a met!!!!

[@bronxhitter4081]

I will never get enough of Don LaGreca’s rants. This is by far his best.

[@flipnaman]

Don’t even bother having Drop Madness next year. This wins!

[@brucecohen9315]

Nelson Judan Which drop though? There's so many good ones from this rant lol

[@freudgv]

All time upset

[@Left-sh1db]

Rest in peace Ed🙏🏿🙏🏿 Not a met fan but your a met legend a radio legend and a NY legend 🙏🏿

[@TheMav41]

One of the funniest rants I have heard in a long time! Mr. Met truly is David Wright since he retired at the end of 2018.

[@mijuget3567]

I was driving and was cracking up, too hilarious.

[@toneriggz]

As a Mets and Knicks fan, I'm on suicide watch all year round.

[@jessejames8774]

And they rock the same colors lol

[@jww112093]

With this rant, I can die a happy man.

[@PeteGrk-eb5ck]

Ed Kranepool is famous again!

[@SourDiesel69]

I watch the michael kay show almost everyday and just recently looked up the ed kranepool rant. It’s good enough to watch a few times. It has replay value.

[@Stevedrums741]

"They killed Gil Hodges!!' Funniest line I've ever heard on radio and that includes Howard Stern's prime!!!!!

[@bobjones8321]

Yes!

[@Bearsaredumb]

greatest ever... I almost pissed my pants listen to this Wednesday live... they killed Gil Hodges😂😂😂😂😂😂.

[@slapshot68]

Who’s here after hearing the news of Kranepool’s passing?

[@Reaper0305]

I’m still dying laughing here watching

[@mturley8414]

I love Don and I love how he doesn't hold back on the team he loves

[@LeonHarvey]

THAT’S AWESOME DUDE!! 😂😂

[@fli13]

THEY KILLED GIL HODGES!!! LMFAO!!! This is one of the best rants EVER!!!

[@brotherdandy]

Don’s meltdown is Vesuvius level🌋

[@chalkbunt81]

Is it fair that I watch this regularly to lower my blood pressure by laughing when Don is hypertensively giving himself a stroke?

[@FrankTacopina-kt9xx]

I'm in tears, from laughter, and because he's right

[@hafaball]

Don is the rant king, he's the only reason I listen to this show.

[@Tj11813]

This is great. I always come back to it.

[@kevinwholey947]

“Did the astros win because of free agency?” Nah they just cheated

[@excelboy5402]

ED KRANEPOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!

[@Trippy_solutions]

Love that’s he’s trying to climb over the monitor 😂

[@jetman80pops]

Happy one year anniversary to this epic rant

[@djbuttonups]

They killed Gil hodges sent me everytime I re-watch this

[@smashchamp117]

I listen to this once a week.

[@SHEEM973]

If you guys watch this is no act he feels this way he loves the mets

[@MrBlick76]

SHEEM definitely not an act! La grecas as passionate and real as they come

[@KingofNewark]

Not even Jacob deGrom is a forever Met. ED KRANEPOOL

[@emob9246]

“THEY KILLED GIL HODGES! NOTHING’S GOOD!”

[@netanelweber6066]

Periodically come back to this rant for the great laughs, as well as to see all the things that Don got wrong moving forward.

[@michaelrood4529]

i love don this might be his longest rant in a long time

[@gregoryyoung5386]

One of his Best Rants Ever!!!! LMAO!!! Almost drove off the road when I heard this on the radio!

[@robertopanameno479]

Thanks for uploading this!

[@daveidmarx8296]

I remember all these players that he mentioned. I had Kranepool baseball cards back in 1979! Dave Magadan.. didn't he go 4-4 in his first game as he replaced Keith Hernandez at first who wasn't feeling well that night and everyone was calling Keith Wally Pipp (a reference to the guy Lou Gehrig replaced at first)? As a long-time Mets fan, I remember all these guys, and Don was right on the money with his rant. None of home-grown talent ever really panned out for us. Darryl + Doc having World Series wins and no-hitters with the Yankees was just one more twist of the knife. Reyes jumping ship as soon as he won a batting title only to come crawling back when no other team wanted him was another. If ever an organization in baseball was snakebit, it has to be the New York Mets. From their inception through today, no other team has been plagued by bad leadership, bad trades, bad karma, bad everything than this team.

[@daveyskylark9219]

Omg how wrong they were with severino, torres and Sanchez Jesus Christ

[@insanehooligan]

Fantastic tribute to Kranepool’s career

[@lombardo141]

This was the best rant of all time.

[@scottsteel4230]

LEGENDARY.

[@seanno9744]

As hysterical as this is, he’s making a great point

[@jamesmolinaro4461]

Everything besides the Yankees forever players those didn’t pan out 😂😂

[@joecastellanos4122]

The Mets have had two great championship years. Some teams have zero years. So what no great player played his whole career with them. I guess David Wright is the closest for them. Loyalty is great but it rarely happens... players to team/ teams to player. I get the lifelong Met fan frustration... but considering the pressure cooker that town is, their history is no surprise. From "69 to '86 is probably their best stretch, overall.

[@jmpunk1114]

Tears rolling down my cheek. Don with a classic epic rant. Ed Kranepool!!!!!!!!!!

[@reapercuss]

Luis Severino now being a Met is hilarious after saying he was a forever Yankee 🤣

[@CenkZappa]

"Nothing's good, there's no good, not one thing is good!" 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@SuperJerzeyboi]

REST IN PEACE ED

[@wyndhamone]

I do..with so many terrible things going on in the world politically... really needed to see this tonight! Such great passion!

[@neilmiranda6739]

Ahhhh, the good ole days when Gary Sanchez looked like a surefire forever guy.

[@JeffreyBeckerPhotographs]

The best part is that Kay keeps inserting comments to intentionally poke the bear and make it go on even better!!! LOL

[@tonyphillips3719]

THAT WAS A GREAT RANT BY DON!!! ED KRANEPPPOOOLLL!!!⚾️⚾️⚾️

[@SotoStuff]

So about those forever players. Ronald Torreyes left the Yankees about 4 months after this rant. Greg Bird was gone a year later. Clint Frazier (not mentioned but was a big part of that group of young Yankee players that never panned out) was DFA'd in 2021. Miguel Andujar and Gary Sanchez were both off of the team by the end of 2022. In 2023, Luis Severino left the Yankees to go pitch for The Mets (lol), and by the end of 2024, Gleyber Torres will most likely be playing for another team too. The only actual forever player on that team was Aaron Judge, who, funny enough, came pretty close to becoming a San Francisco Giant in 2022. Both of the Nationals forever players were gone within 4 years of this rant, and for the Stros, Correa and Springer both left to go play for new teams too. Turns out, "forever" is a pretty hard bar to meet. Time works in funny ways. RIP Ed Kranepool 🙏.

[@adamredfield]

Ok, that's about the funniest damn thing I've ever seen. What's great is how it never stops building. "THEY KILLED GIL HODGES!"

[@dompaonessa5783]

Do you remover what he did micheal! DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT HE DID!!!! 😭🤣🤣😂🤣😭🤣😂

[@stanleyapollon1318]

R.I.P Tom "Terrific" Seaver. Nuff respect ⚾️⚾️⚾️⚾️⚾️⚾️

[@studogable]

When he got to "they killed Gil Hodges", I knew he was serious.

[@gregcostello237]

Happy opening day.....this will forever be a opening day tradition for me 😆🤣

[@blakkat4126]

This is a year ago but still relevant. I’m dying from laughter...tears ... and I’m a Mets fan

[@WildfireWiffler44]

RIP Ed Kranepool 🙏

[@nicholascampanella5329]

Rest In Peace Ed Kranepool

[@seanbudin7957]

RIP 🕊️

[@christiansmith1389]

“They killed Gil Hodges! NOTHING’s GOOD!” 😂😂😂

[@rstevens1836]

In the 30 For 30 doc about the 86 Mets (part 4,) some of Don's rant about Kranepool, Doc & Daryl, Carter and Hernandez was featured! 👍🏻

[@aaaooo792]

Don worn out and leaning over the monitor and microphone while they say 76 days 😂

[@benisrood]

Literally spent, better than sex

[@wa2k99]

After every horrible loss, this is my therapy

[@djmcflurry4038]

Imagine everybody going to the Mets game wearing an ed Kranepool Jersey in memorial for the team struggles to make it in the post season that ought to send a message