Ray Ratto needs to retire- he is an old curmudgeon

9erred · 2018-02-09T18:49:20-08:00

Just saw the Jimmy G signing and great press conference with John Lynch and Kyle Shannahan. Afterwards they interview Ray Ratto and the sky is falling, takes all of the positive momentum and is just negative. He reminds me of my mother, if she says all these bad things can happen, when they do she states " see I told you so." when they go positive she says " this is wonderful as bad things could have happened. I guess it is all how you view the world. I simply think that Ray Ratto needs to step down and no longer cover the Niners. He is a downer, a curmudgeon and a waste of air time. We have our franchise qb, a great qm and coach, lets look forward to a great off season. end of story, mic drop

Feb 9, 2018 at 7:11 PM

stunder49
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Ray Ratto bought a 100 million dollar donut that went after bad after two years, he still ate it

[ Edited by stunder49 on Feb 9, 2018 at 7:12 PM ]

Feb 9, 2018 at 7:13 PM

Bluesbro
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I actually sort of like Ratto. The curmudgeon bit can get old sometimes. But he is well spoken, and is an eloquent devils advocate type of talking head. Makes for good TV when paired with another sportscaster or two.

Feb 9, 2018 at 7:18 PM

stunder49
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Ray Ratto is good for the 49ers, he makes the fan base not get to ahead of ourselves or else we would be more annoying then patriots fans

Feb 9, 2018 at 7:26 PM

DonnieDarko
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I dont mind ray fatto, hes harmless

Feb 9, 2018 at 8:42 PM

gold49digger
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Originally posted by stunder49:
Ray Ratto is good for the 49ers, he makes the fan base not get to ahead of ourselves or else we would be more annoying then patriots fans

yeah he deflates the fan base to a happy medium. He pisses us off yes but he's no cohn.

Feb 9, 2018 at 9:02 PM

jcs
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Originally posted by stunder49:
Ray Ratto is good for the 49ers, he makes the fan base not get to ahead of ourselves or else we would be more annoying then patriots fans

Or eagles fans who are already talking dynasty...after just 1 SB win....

Feb 9, 2018 at 9:10 PM

Ezekiel38
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If we win the SB next year we will be talking dynasty too.

And with Jimmy locked up for the long term that would make a lot of sense.

Feb 9, 2018 at 10:07 PM

AXEGRINDER
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He made his bones off being cynical. He's smart and he's good at it.

Why change now.

Feb 10, 2018 at 12:42 AM

Hopper
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Originally posted by stunder49:
Ray Ratto is good for the 49ers, he makes the fan base not get to ahead of ourselves or else we would be more annoying then patriots fans

Ratto takes pessimism to another level though. I'm not trying to hear it all the time.

Feb 10, 2018 at 1:14 AM

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JTsBiggestFan
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Ray Ratto is a good voice when things get legit murky -- aka, when the Harbaugh/Kap era started to get some question marks starting in 2013 and esp 2014.

But not after the 2011 NFCC, or 2012 run.

Feb 10, 2018 at 10:51 AM

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