JIM GANTNER BIRTHDAY QUOTE OF THE DAY RALPH KINER PROTEGE

No Mets players born today so I am making a stretch to the Milwaukee Brewer's Jim Gantner. The great Mets announcer Ralph Kiner was not the only one who could turn a phrase. Jim Gantner was a protege of Kiner in his ability to say funny quotes by mixing up words.

Gantner turned 63 today. He played his entire career with the Brewers from 1976--1992 and had a solid lifetime batting average of .274. He was also a terrific second baseman and is 44th all-time in assists from a second baseman and 27th all-time in double played turned by a second baseman.

Both as a player and a broadcaster, he had a reputations for changing around phrases and that's why he gets our Ralph Kiner Mets Baseball Quote of the Day

"I must have had ambrosia."
Jim Gantner, on being late for a radio appearance