Ranch Wilder Quotes in Angels in the Outfield (1994)

Ranch Wilder: [hands JP a business card] Hey. I'm Ranch Wilder. The voice of the Angels.

JP: I know who you are. I heard you on the radio. You sure do have a big chin.

Ranch Wilder: Everybody's a critic.

Ranch Wilder: Whit Bass takes the mound with his oddball antics that are now well known to the fans.

Frank Gates: That's right, Ranch. This season alone we've seen him lick dirt, eat bugs, and floss his catcher's teeth in the dugout.

Ranch Wilder: [switches off Wally's mike and on his own] None of that, may I add, seems to have helped his pitching. He's 2 and 11.

Ranch Wilder: I'd say the fans seem a little bouncier today, wouldn't you, Wally?

Wally: That's right, Ranch. As we saw last game...

Ranch Wilder: [Turns off Wally's mike for the second time] Easy Wally, less is more.

Hank Murphy: Ranch?

[Ranch turns to face him, grinning as though he supported the play]

Hank Murphy: You're fired.

[exits]

Ranch Wilder: You can't fire me! I have got a contract! I AM RANCH WILDER!

Wally: [cheerfully] Easy, Ranch. Less is more.

Ranch Wilder: Bass sets... and sets... and sets again.

Ranch Wilder: And Ben Williams makes a miraculous catch!

Roger Bomman: Holy cow!

George Knox: How did he do that?

Ranch Wilder: How'd he do that? HOW DID HE DO THAT?

George Knox: Any loss is hard.

Ranch Wilder: But this one really got to you. You leave Cincinnati after ten years of winning ball clubs - although the really big one always seemed to be just out of reach - and you come out here to manage our Angels. Now, expectations were high that you could turn this team around. But that just doesn't seem to be happening.

George Knox: Season's only half-over, Ranch.

Ranch Wilder: And your club's in last place.

George Knox: You oughtta know how one incident can change the course of events.

Ranch Wilder: Well, you know, you play the game. You take your chances. Sometimes, you're just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

George Knox: Yeah, you're an expert at that.

Ranch Wilder: I could say the same about you.

George Knox: Well, actions speak louder than words.

George Knox: Gimme the ball.

Frank Gates: It ain't my fault. You need a new outfield!

George Knox: You're outta here, GIVE ME THE BALL!

Frank Gates: You want the ball? Here you go...

[makes as though to hand it over then tosses it]

Frank Gates: Go get it. Want my glove?

[repeats the gesture]

Frank Gates: Go get it!

Ranch Wilder: [broadcasting offscreen] Gates has thrown the ball and his glove into the stands.

George Knox: [jumps Gates] Get out of here! You're finished, Gates! You're washed up! You'll never pitch again!

Ranch Wilder: [flinging the stats book and pamphlet the assistant offers him aside, after Clark's first two pitches fail miserably] I'm checking to see if Dan Prince pulled a muscle during his warmup tosses. There has to be some reason why Knox would make such a radical change. I have personally checked the stats, sports fans, and Mel Clark has not started a game in this decade.

Ranch Wilder: And Williams and Norton collide, and the catch is blown.

Roger Bomman: Boy, they're bad!

Ranch Wilder: No doubt he's tiring, Wally, and Knox knows it. Ball one.