Ruben Amaro Jr. Compares Domonic Brown to The Shawshank Redemption

Last week Phillies General Manager Ruben Amaro Jr. smoked a bong then compared outfielder Domonic Brown to Mike Schmidt.

“They’re both baseball players and strikeout a lot,” was the argument Amaro Jr. made.

This week, Amaro Jr. is taking back his words and comparing Brown to something else, the classic film The Shawshank Redemption.

Like the first, this comparison has also left people somewhat puzzled and biting their own thumbs in anger. Brown had very high expectations and not lived up to them except for three weeks in 2013. The Shawshank Redemption was not overly hyped and yet remains as one of the most universally beloved films of all-time even though it came out the same year as the Street Fighter movie.

“Well, ya see, the film is about a man imprisoned and he escapes through a giant hole,” said Amaro Jr. “Brown is trapped in a prison of a batting average below .230 and the hole in his swing is as big as the one in the movie.”

Looking it over, Amaro Jr. actually has a good point.

Amaro Jr. later added, “Each time Brown goes out to left field and has to pass by his teammates it’s like crawling through five hundred yards of shit.”

Finally, Amaro Jr has grasped how everyone else feels about his team.