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May
26
2009
Carlos Ruiz is the .gif that keeps on giving
Posted by at 11:29 pm ET 11 Comments

Ever since my SCATHING critique of Carlos Ruiz a couple weeks ago, the Panamanian catcher and master of calling games has simply been on fiyah! at the plate. Up until the 12th of May, Chooch was batting a humiliating .161 with ZERO home runs, ZERO runs batted in, and ZERO runs scored. Since then? How about .389 with a .500 OBP, one homer, three runs scored and eight RBI. Now that’s the Chooch we know and love!

Oh yeah, and he’s also starting to throw runners out on the base paths regularly again. Such an occurrence from Sunday actually prompted my favorite 3-second clip of the young season:

Many thanks to .gif master Tug Haines from Long Drive for the animation assist.

His much funnier ice cream remixed version can be found ATJ.

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  • John

    ice cream!

  • dlhunter

    Cholly knew that there was one way to make underachieving Panamanians live up to their potential: Ice Cream.

  • http://phillieslongdrive.wordpress.com/ Tug Haines

    wanna lick? Syke!

  • http://www.thefightins.com How do you spell retard?

    Tug Haines: Honorary Rogue Fightins’ Staffer

  • mike

    my friend had a great line after seeing ruiz double, homer, and steal a bag against the yanks friday: “we’ve replaced carlos ruiz with a real baseball player…let’s see if anyone notices”

  • http://www.superfantabulousblog.blogspot.com maria

    My favorite Panamanian.

  • RSR

    I want to see that as a tee shirt worn during warmups!

  • Eminencegirl

    Meech, the only reason the guy has been any good is because of your scathing criticism. Truly. Last year I used to curse him. RUIZ YOU SUCK! etc, etc…at the top of my lungs in the ball park. People would look at me like I was evil. Then he would actually do something and I would have to explain to them that it was necessary for me to heckle him, because every time I did, he would actually catch fire. Looks like its still true today.

    I was saying Boooo-iz. (last year’s carlos ruiz inside joke)

  • Mr. Bryan

    I love Chooch!

  • will.H

    the ice cream gif made me laugh, thats amazing.

    i love his brett hart shades

  • Dutch

    No shit, this theory is actually based in fact. As my poor beleaguered girlfriend can tell you, everytime you call Chooch “Carlita” or the Pussy from Panama he gets a hit. If it’s a real clutch situation then I recommend breaking out the big guns…tell him you wish Amaro would trade him for Bo Diaz post-satellite dish. That worked in the WS.

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