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Ray Ratto

@RattoIndy

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@RattoIndy
Ray Ratto
5 years
In news you don't actually need, I have completed my tour of duty at NBCSports Bay Area en route to whatever the next thing is. Regards to those I worked with for 8 1/2 years; you're all pros and friends . . . except for four of you.
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Ray Ratto
4 years
Buster Posey's decision to put his family's health and safety ahead of baseball's half-assed masterplan is a dangerous precedent that will only provide support and satisfaction to sensible people.
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Ray Ratto
6 years
Sharks are in position to be first NHL team ever to clinch a playoff series on the Golf Channel.
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Ray Ratto
5 years
Right now, the Seattle Mariners
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5 years
@RattoIndy which team is golden states greatest threat??
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Ray Ratto
8 years
Anyone who doesn't want Harriet Tubman $20s can send them to me. I like history, I like money, and I like bilking the ideologically stupid.
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Ray Ratto
6 years
This will be quite the press release explaining how nobody knew anything about it.
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BREAKING: Major League Baseball donates $5000 to Cindy Hyde-Smith @MLB
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Ray Ratto
7 years
Disappointing news from Levi's Stadium, as both teams have taken the field for the second half.
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Ray Ratto
8 years
ATTENTION YOUTH: Arnold Palmer is why you learn history other than what you remember. ATTENTION OLDTH: Jose Fernandez mattered. A lot.
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Ray Ratto
4 years
NBC has done a terrible job load-managing Kornacki. This could seriously jeopardize their playoff run.
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Ray Ratto
5 years
Yankees lose out on Gausman, sign Cole in desperation.
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Ray Ratto
6 years
The last time the Giants lost 11 straight games, they won the National League pennant by finishing the season winning 39 of their last 47. This year, they'll have to win 39 of their last 15.
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Ray Ratto
6 years
Sharks' failure to win Stanley Cup in first hour of Karlsson deal is worrisome.
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Ray Ratto
4 years
Now let's see the nooses in all the other garages, since this is so "normal."
@JennaFryer
Jenna Fryer
4 years
NASCAR has released this photo of the discovery in Bubba Wallace’s garage.
Tweet media one
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Ray Ratto
6 months
The best team in baseball history is all the free agents the Giants were allegedly "in on."
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Ray Ratto
8 years
I will always remember this game as the one that convinced Marshawn Lynch to retire.
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Ray Ratto
4 years
1. Trust no league when it counts test results. 2. Trust no team when it comes to obeying protocols. 3. Trust no commissioner under any conditions. 4. Trust nobody applauding any league for figuring it out. 4. Do not underestimate pure dumbassed luck when it comes to the virus.
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Ray Ratto
5 years
No
@MikeWiseguy
Mike Wise
5 years
Name a singer or a band you saw before they ever got famous.
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Ray Ratto
3 years
Buster Posey leaves on his own terms. Nothing else needs be said.
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Ray Ratto
5 years
@WindhorstESPN Such gaps aren't that unusual. Warriors haven't seen Capers since Game 14. Plus Warriors don't like Foster either. Point is, NBA sent two sure Finals officials to a second round second game, so they're taking it seriously.
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Ray Ratto
6 years
Messi and Ronaldo have both been tied 1-1 by Iceland in recent tournaments, which means that Iceland is actually the best player in the world.
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Ray Ratto
5 years
The NBA just bent the knee to the Stanley Cup.
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Ray Ratto
8 years
To summarize: Orioles don't use best reliever, lose on three-run homer. Mets do use best reliever, lose on three-run homer. Math that.
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Ray Ratto
4 years
A decent human being would have not posted this until my death, which is still loosely scheduled for March 27. And frankly, your kids deserved better as well, you human mudslide of a parent.
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Ray Ratto
4 years
I don't normally give much a damn about commemorative awards and what they are called, but it seems to me that the WNBA ought to name its MVP trophy after Maya Moore.
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Ray Ratto
4 years
If you run a news site and you're still putting your COVID stories behind a paywall, you are profiteering. No alternate explanation is allowed.
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Ray Ratto
5 years
He also died at 33, and who’s to say there wasn’t post-crucifixion sepsis?
@zandywithaz
haunted tweet
5 years
She’s with Stupid
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Ray Ratto
1 year
Gwen Knapp was an underappreciated giant in the journalism gig, and that was the least of her attributes. She was just a solid sender as a human being, and that’s more than good enough for me. Rest well, you goofy hero.
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Ray Ratto
5 years
I would like the NBA to review the Stephen Curry travel call and put out a press release that says, "Of course James Harden does the same thing all the time, but we like him and we hate you, so piss off."
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Ray Ratto
5 years
Humans bring out the worst in social media. It's not the tool, it's who wields it. In other words, people are vile.
@BizballMaury
Maury Brown
5 years
Not often that I say this, but social media absolutely brings out the worst in humanity.
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Ray Ratto
2 years
Now fucking play to the humiliating tie you all deserve, you criminals.
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Ray Ratto
5 years
This is San Jose's proudest moment since Santana Row.
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Ray Ratto
6 years
I'm starting to think Brett Kavanaugh bet a ton in Vegas on not getting confirmed, and is simply throwing the hearing.
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Ray Ratto
5 years
If the A's are actually rooted in Oakland, a uniform patch or armband for Frank Robinson is required. Not suggested. Required.
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Ray Ratto
6 years
The White House will always be there. Most average Americans can wait this guy out.
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Ray Ratto
6 years
Good news, everyone. Raiders-49ers is being flexed to Etch-a-Sketch.
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Ray Ratto
6 years
Go on, hate baseball. It still owns your soulless ass.
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Ray Ratto
4 years
Unwritten rules take another beating, as Phillies blow 7-0 lead to lose to Jays.
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Ray Ratto
8 years
A quiet 33 from Abdul-Rauf tonight.
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Ray Ratto
8 years
Please note that Joe Buck has been silent to let the scene tell the story. A tribute to Vin Scully, and a very wise move.
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Ray Ratto
5 years
In all of sports, nothing is more satisfying that a stadium full of sad people leaving and vowing never to return -- seven consecutive times. And no, this is not because it's the Astros. This is just being pro-sadness.
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Ray Ratto
4 years
This right here is the real work. Read it twice so no words escape your notice:
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Ray Ratto
5 years
This game is exactly what the Wheat Thins people were hoping for.
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Ray Ratto
5 years
I hate the way the Blues celebrated these extraneous goals.
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Ray Ratto
8 years
49ers open as 9 1/2-point underdogs at Bye.
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Ray Ratto
10 years
If New York has any dignity at all, Lundqvist eats and drinks for free forever
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Ray Ratto
8 years
I hereby declare that Cavs should play Blazers in Eastern final.
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Ray Ratto
5 years
The Nationals have just announced that they are moving the franchise back to Montreal.
@GeoffRBennett
Geoff Bennett
5 years
⚾️ Trump says he’s going to the World Series game on Sunday
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Ray Ratto
5 years
Everyone who writes, speaks or watches basketball officially knows nothing. All knowledge is anti-knowledge. Reason is a lie. We are all doomed. Merry Christmas, bitches.
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Ray Ratto
6 years
From what I am gathering on Twitter, Sue Bird is winning a basketball game by herself while chain-smoking Parliaments and holding a tumbler of Glenmorangie in her non-shooting hand.
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Ray Ratto
7 years
So let's see here -- Mayweather-McGregor isn't the event of the summer, it's a gigantic bake sale for the IRS. Please, o meteor, come soon.
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Ray Ratto
5 years
Warriors are also announcing they will be without Wilt Chamberlain (dead), Rick Barry (old, but day to day) and Joe Barry Carroll (missing, assumed well).
@TheDunkCentral
NBACentral
5 years
Update: Steve Kerr says Draymond Green has a torn ligament in his left index finger and will miss the next few games
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Ray Ratto
7 years
This game will be won in the 17th inning on a home run hit by Ken Giles, thrown by Ken Giles.
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Ray Ratto
9 years
Giants last offer: $6, 195 years. Might have been a clerical error.
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Ray Ratto
5 years
Being retweeted by a train is both a new high, a new low and a new weird. My next goal is a horse-drawn cart in Amish country.
@Amtrak
Amtrak
5 years
Just gonna leave this here... 🏈
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Ray Ratto
6 years
@paolaa_janet The best thing is that nobody yelled at her to sit down because she was blocking the screen.
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Ray Ratto
6 years
I am pleased at the bitterness and unhappiness of a large fan base, and comforted in the knowledge that there will be eight more just like it.
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Ray Ratto
10 years
That 2019 second rounder the Nets got is, if they play their cards right, an eighth-grader. Jason Kidd got traded for an eighth-grader.
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Ray Ratto
6 years
@E_Reid35 I'm starting to wonder how they forgot the other eight times.
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Ray Ratto
1 year
Let’s Go A’s.
@whiteygleason
Kevin Whitey Gleason
1 year
Anybody got any slogans for your 2023 San Francisco Giants?
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Ray Ratto
7 years
Remember the Chargers the next time someone tells you you must support "your" team. And then respond, "It's not mine. Some rich guy owns it"
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Ray Ratto
6 years
@richeisen It's a great idea, with the caveat being that the replacement hitter and the manager be devoured by tigers if the game isn't tied as a result.
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Ray Ratto
4 years
It will feature a lengthy discourse on how he made the USFL better by killing it.
@JGolden5
Jess Golden
4 years
The White House says POTUS will do a phone call with major league sports Commissioners on Saturday at noon
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Ray Ratto
8 years
A great game, with this aside: After Warriors tied at 89, teams combined to go 1-for-17. Irving is the 1.
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Ray Ratto
4 years
ESPN has thoughtfully reduced my need for viewing by one half-hour five days a week. I'll miss High Noon, but at least I can add 30 minutes of "God, television eats metric tons of rhino ass" to my daily litany of complaints.
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Ray Ratto
4 years
@johnpavlovitz Doc Emrick. Doc Martin. Dock Ellis. And in a creditable fourth place, Doctor Who.
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Ray Ratto
8 years
Ali: The man, the boxer, the icon, the incandescent representative of our finest selves. @CSNAuthentic :
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Ray Ratto
7 years
@RapSheet If you're lying, I will strike you.
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Ray Ratto
5 years
Thornton remains in the holster, and a sport dies.
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Ray Ratto
8 years
Central truth about polling: It is an anti-science that elevates a series of small sample sizes who don't mind lying about their preferences
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Ray Ratto
8 years
If Kerr has a shred, even a shredlet of human dignity, he leaves Thompson in for the rest of the game.
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Ray Ratto
5 years
There needs to be no more speaking today, as this is the best it's going to get.
@reesewaters
Reese Waters
5 years
The day Megan Rapinoe became President (no prompter)
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Ray Ratto
4 years
I always knew not having the checkmark would be a good life choice
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Ray Ratto
7 years
Until this very moment, I did not care if Colin Kaepernick ever played football again. Now I very much demand it:
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Ray Ratto
3 years
To those who have seen this before with the Raiders, keep in mind that you will see it again.
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Ray Ratto
5 years
Raiders announce they have re-signed Antonio Brown to run their video department. The deal is for three years, with an out after lunchtime.
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Ray Ratto
2 years
Vin Scully remains the only person to beat Twitter by being impervious to gratuitous insult.
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Ray Ratto
8 years
Chris Collinsworth just birthed a pig.
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Ray Ratto
5 years
Todd.
@ChristinaKahrl
Christina Kahrl
5 years
What should a Portland MLB team be named?
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Ray Ratto
7 years
@JaValeMcGee34 Even though I'm sure you've done the research, I'll still need confirmation.
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Ray Ratto
8 years
Early projections: Warriors go 78-3, with one team simply not showing up, and win title in 13 games while winning Stanley Cup on the side.
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Ray Ratto
7 years
Stephen Curry: Two rings, two MVPs, good family and a angry President. Now that's a life well lived. @NBCSAuthentic :
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Ray Ratto
4 years
Wrong question. It's why do we as a country refuse to take virus seriously.
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Ray Ratto
8 years
So ends the Jim Tomsula Era -- going out as he came in, an overmatched scapegoat for an owner and general manager who remain holograms.
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Ray Ratto
3 years
Arizona State
@MaxBretosSports
Maximiliano Bretos
3 years
Where does one get certification to be a lover boy?
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Ray Ratto
8 years
Your new candidate for Coach of the Year, All Sports:
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Ray Ratto
5 years
Poll: Who are the Warriors better without? 1. Durant 2. Curry 3. Green 4. Thompson 5. Iguodala 6. Speights 7. Barbosa 8. Floyd 9. Chamberlain 10. Naismith 11. When does this idiocy cease? 12. No seriously, when?
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Ray Ratto
6 years
And remember, Warriors did all this without Pachulia.
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Ray Ratto
6 years
Six of the most agonizing seconds of Kerr's life.
@ZachLowe_NBA
Zach Lowe
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It will never stop being amazing that Steve Kerr was choosing between the Warriors and the Knicks.
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Ray Ratto
8 years
And now, let's all head to Flames-Oilers to remind us that sports is a merciless daily slog, and that Cardinals-Packers was merely a fantasy
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Ray Ratto
7 years
Last year one man's protests during anthem allegedly lowered TV ratings. Sunday, rampant protests during anthem raised ratings. So, yeah.
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Ray Ratto
6 years
@AdamSchefter This dramatically changes the Jets' plans for world domination.
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Ray Ratto
6 years
Attention everyone who is complaining they need to go to bed but can't because of the game: You CAN go to bed. The laws are clear on this. They are also clear about not whining to strangers about needing to go to bed. Go to bed or shut your flap.
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Ray Ratto
10 years
It is complete madness for Utah to consider John Stockton as its new coach. He has absolutely no broadcasting experience.
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Ray Ratto
4 years
Things are shitty. You're welcome.
@JasonKirk_fyi
Jason Kirk (buy my novel)
4 years
Has anyone explained the toilet paper frenzy yet
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Ray Ratto
7 years
Fans booed Giants trainer for deciding that Buster Posey's brain might be worth looking at after being beaned. Nice look, you cannibals.
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Ray Ratto
4 years
That glass of scotch is clearly the best supporting actor.
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Ray Ratto
8 years
78.09% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.039% carbon dioxide, and small amounts of other gases. Like always.
@BayAreaBias
Pat O'Rourke
8 years
@RattoCSN what can you tell us about what the atmosphere was like that night?
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