Former Giants player destroys Dodgers spring training facility live on broadcast

On Wednesday, as the Dodgers were over in Scottsdale visiting the Diamondbacks for their fifth spring training game of the year, the White Sox hosted the Reds at Camelback Ranch. LA and Chicago has shared the spring training facility in Glendale since 2009, and it's also home to both the ACL Dodgers and ACL White Sox, along with the Arizona Fall League's Desert Dogs.

While the Dodgers were busy winning their game against the Diamondbacks to remain undefeated in Cactus League play, the Reds and White Sox played a rather unremarkable nine innings. Cincinnati got all of their scoring done by the end of the third inning; it was just three runs, but Chicago couldn't make up the difference.

There was no reason for Dodgers fans to concern ourselves with that game ... until Reds announcer Jeff Brantley decided to drag the Dodgers into some of his commentary.

"We're just playing in a big ditch," Brantley said of Camelback. "Dusty, nasty. I hate this place. Can't believe the Dodgers are here. What are they thinking? Maybe that's why they're saving so much money, they're playing in this joint."

And that wasn't all: "This is one of those ballparks that if you picked it up as a blind date you would leave before you walked into the restaurant. No conversation. No nothing."

Former Giants pitcher, current Reds broadcaster Jeff Brantley absolutely roasted Dodgers' Camelback Ranch on air

We can't even be mad. His comments were way too funny to get mad about them.

Brantley was a reliever for the San Francisco Giants for the first six years of his career, and he even picked up the one and only All-Star nod of his career in 1990, when he pitched 86 2/3 innings for a 1.56 ERA and 19 saves. The Giants were unremarkable that year, finishing third in the NL West behind the Reds and Dodgers.

It wasn't the first time Brantley had groused and griped about a Dodgers facility, either. Last year, when the Reds visited the Dodgers in August, Cincinnati play-by-play announcer Jim Sadak said, "The other thing that I hear all the time, from Reds pitchers and from other pitchers, they all speak about the mound at Dodger Stadium."

To which Brantley said, "That's the only good thing about this joint."

Old rivalries die hard, we suppose. Brantley did debut on the 1988 Giants team that finished fourth in the division while the Dodgers won their sixth World Series title. Can't really blame the guy for being salty about that.