John Kruk gains fame outside baseball for his epically hilarious on-air musings

Phillies fans haven gotten quite comfortable with former Philadelphia Phillies player John Kruk in the booth during games. You never truly know what will spill out of the West Virginia native's mouth night in and night out. His ability to squeeze in stories from his past life experiences can truly be a work of art.

Kruk's comedic relief in the booth has given balance to the broadcasting crew with the occasional need to get Kruk back on track during the play on the field. Kruk's unique ability to give insight into what it's like being a ballplayer adds fuel to the fire in his own amusing way.

John Kruk gains fame outside baseball for his epically hilarious on-air musings

His on-air musings have inevitably caught the attention of a late-night show with some overlapping clips of his storytelling in recent years, per Gabriela Carroll of The Philadelphia Inquirer. During a recent episode of Last Week Tonight, a montage was put together by host John Oliver of some of Kruk's golden moments in the booth. Some of those moments included stories about prison baseball, men's chest hair and even giraffes.

The soliloquies that Kruk goes off on almost seem scripted with the cadence and how easily these stories just seem to pop into his head. He shared a story with play-by-play announcer Tom McCarthy in April in San Diego about him once playing against a prison team during winter ball in Mexico.

That may go down as one of the craziest stories he's ever cooked up while on the NBC Sports broadcast. If you haven't heard the story, you can catch it in the Last Week Tonight clip. Apparently, while mid-at-bat during this exhibition game at a Mexican prison, Kruk was impressed with the pitcher he was facing at the time. He turned and asked the catcher about him and was given a dose of reality.

"I asked the catcher, I said, 'What did he do?'" Kruk explained. "He goes, 'Oh he found his girlfriend cheating, he burned up her car with her and her boyfriend in it.' Very uncomfortable at-bat."

At the end of the day, these are stories that only the great John Kruk could have lived through and found time to share with the audience during a baseball broadcast. Kruk has become a Philadelphia and national treasure and has a true love for the game. That passion can be heard being yelled through the TV when a big moment happens during the Phillies' games. There may never be a better person to fill the airwaves than Phillies' legend John Kruk.