Easily one of my favorite parts of the Phillies run through the playoffs is when the local news stations make their non-sports fan field reporters play host to a wacky street segment with Philly fans. They are usually meaningless fluff pieces that have no real point other than to get people to scream on camera and act all crazy and shit.
And sometimes, that know-nothing field reporter will slip up and say something so inappropriate that it prompts a blogger to record the piece and put it on his or her website for all to mock.
This example would fall under the second category.
Meet Fox 29’s Mike Jerrick. This morning, Mike’s job was to interview the founding members of the Padilla Flotilla. It doesn’t sound like such a hard task; all you have to do is ask them how and why they started that particular fan group, get them to denounce said fan group now that Padilla is pitching for the Dodgers, get them to scream “PHILLAAAAAYYYYYYYS!” real loud into the camera, and finally, introduce them to a new fan group that they could all rally around.
It was that last part that where he ran into some trouble. While asking the fellas if they were down with Carlos Ruiz, he then wanted to know if they were gonna “ride the cooch train.” Of course, he meant to say “Chooch” — as in the Panamanian superstar Chooch Ruiz — but unfortunately, Mike’s little slip of the tongue also happens to be a nickname for a woman’s vagina.
tee-hee!
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October 21st, 2009 at 10:44 am
Ya’ll are welcome to ride the Cooch train with me!
October 21st, 2009 at 10:51 am
Yeah, I’ve made that cooch typo in some emails.
I think the cooch train was Burrell’s department, anyway.
October 21st, 2009 at 10:52 am
Good stuff Meech, I just came to the site to send you this link. The guy on the far left with the normal red Phils T is my step-sister’s husband…I went to check him out on TV and witnessed this great moment in television. Outstanding reporting.
Almost as embarrassing as Steve Phillips getting caught doing a 22 year old intern. What do you expect from a former Mets exec…now all we need is for Joe Morgan to do the same thing so that ESPN suspends him too.
October 21st, 2009 at 10:54 am
I hope Hamels waits until next May to ride Heidi’s cooch train so he doesn’t go all loopy and pitch like an asshole while that little bastard baby slides out of the cooch train. Run-on sentence much?
October 21st, 2009 at 11:01 am
I’m gonna go out on a limb here any propose that Mike Jerrick rarely, if ever, rides the Cooch Train.
October 21st, 2009 at 11:02 am
I, for one, am all aboard the Cooch Train!!! And I’ll definitely second RSR’s comment…The Cooch Train is what followed Pat the Bat around for his entire career in Philly.
October 21st, 2009 at 11:04 am
If memory serves me correct, the 1st “official” time this Chooch/Cooch slip-up was done nationally was during game 3 or 4 of the 2008 NLDS on TBS. During the broadcast from Milwaukee and a Chooch at bad, they flashed some stats about him on the screen, including that his nickname was “Cooch.” I nearly fell off my sofa I was laughing so hard…
October 21st, 2009 at 11:05 am
There is only one COOCHTOBER!
October 21st, 2009 at 11:07 am
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October 21st, 2009 at 11:09 am
That was awesome!
October 21st, 2009 at 11:12 am
@ Andrew – I remember that one too, but my memory had it at game 1 of the NLCS. Either way, I think that was the first documented Cooch slip.
October 21st, 2009 at 11:12 am
poss a “ride the cooch train” shirt coming from the fightins x birdland soon?
October 21st, 2009 at 11:16 am
@Harry, or even a ChoochTrain shirt with correct spelling and Carlos dressed as a train conductor…haha I just can’t get enough Chooch shirts
October 21st, 2009 at 11:19 am
@bigmiles
thank you for pointing out the steve phillips thing. i’d like to point out that the intern in question actually is a 40 year old man in drag:
http://theproducers.weei.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/brookephillips.jpg
adding to an already staggering mountain of evidence that steve phillips has the worst judgment possible for a human being
October 21st, 2009 at 11:19 am
Mike Jerrick is a cooch.
October 21st, 2009 at 11:38 am
I hope to ride the Coochtrain AFTER the game tonight.
October 21st, 2009 at 11:39 am
I saw this article on mlb.com about chooch-tober, yet you still cannot buy any RUIZ gear unless you get it custom done. Disgraceful.
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20091020&content_id=7505406&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb
October 21st, 2009 at 11:39 am
Why can’t Cooch?
October 21st, 2009 at 11:45 am
Somebody sent an email saying “Choochtober” to post game live and Ricky Bo and Dutch shot the name down right away
October 21st, 2009 at 11:56 am
god i love how dutch is back in town. fucking love it
October 21st, 2009 at 11:56 am
Who got the cooch, baby
Who got the only sweetest thing in the world
Who got the love, who got the fresh-e-freshy
Who got the only sweetest thing in the world
October 21st, 2009 at 11:57 am
Look at THIS bullshit!
Gotta love the moron media.
October 21st, 2009 at 12:08 pm
but the cooch train smells funny
October 21st, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Oochie Coochie la la la Oochie Coochie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANZyuRh5d1o
October 21st, 2009 at 12:30 pm
From Wheels Twitter:
“THE_REAL_WHEELS: Vicente Padilla saw Balloon Boy story and thought it was his flying saucer coming to pick him up! LOL”
Can someone explain that to me? Does Padilla believe in UFOs or something?
October 21st, 2009 at 12:33 pm
cause padilla is a space cadet
October 21st, 2009 at 12:39 pm
OutlawPete- I think wheels was talking about Dutch Daulton
October 21st, 2009 at 12:53 pm
padilla is a space cadet. wheels used to rip on padilla on a daily basis. mainly because his brain and pitch location were nowhere to be found. “That Mark Loretta really has a clue out there.” a space cadet is the total opposite of that
October 21st, 2009 at 12:57 pm
The Cooch train bleeds Phillies Red. LOL LOL
October 21st, 2009 at 1:01 pm
@harry
I like the chooch/cooch train Tshirt idea…as the dad of 4 yr olds, I can see Chooches face on Thomas the train…it would be epic.
October 21st, 2009 at 1:12 pm
That is simply amazing. The awkward “dad hit mom at the dinner table” moment after he said it is classic.
October 21st, 2009 at 1:13 pm
i tink i caan i tink i caan
October 21st, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Would you look at that…
His wikipedia page is up to date: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Jerrick
October 21st, 2009 at 1:50 pm
ahahaha awesome. and the flotilla was so very polite!
October 21st, 2009 at 1:53 pm
>>I can see Chooches face on Thomas the train…it would be epic.
Gotta make it James (he’s red): http://www.lullabyebaby.com/images/gd75012_soft_james_red_engine.jpg
October 21st, 2009 at 2:21 pm
I personally like to ride the “Cooch Train” in the privacy of my own home, pool, backseat or secluded area. I will, however, ride the “Chooch Train” in broad daylight for all to see. I’m just funny that way.
October 21st, 2009 at 3:25 pm
@RSR…even better. Although James complains much more than Thomas….Sir Topham Hat is definitely Charlie Manuel too.
October 21st, 2009 at 3:38 pm
>>Sir Topham Hat is definitely Charlie Manuel too.
Yes! get that tux photo from spring training and drop a tophat on it.
October 21st, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Someone needs to photoshop Chuck’s face onto Sir Topham Hat. Immediately.
October 21st, 2009 at 4:49 pm
Oh, and James is totally Cole Hamels.
October 21st, 2009 at 6:32 pm
Riding the Cooch Train is probably the only thing that could keep me from the game tonight. Last year when the Phillies won the NLCS, I was balls deep in some cooch train. I looked up and said “hey, we’re going to the world series” and then went back to tha CABOOSE
October 21st, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Hey!!!!! Dutch wants to ride the Cooch Train too!
October 21st, 2009 at 8:02 pm
Only people from the “city of Brotherly Love” would feel the need to specify that cooch is another name for a woman’s vagina. Do you idiots get the terms confused with those for the male’s vagina?
October 21st, 2009 at 8:05 pm
The Dodgers have a left fielder who was caught taking female fertility drugs. It would seem they are the ones confused about male’s vaginas.
October 22nd, 2009 at 9:08 am
@lynnie
You can just see our bullpen as the “troublesome rail cars” causing mayhem wherever they go…Myers would be the front car….I wish I knew how to do photo shop. I would be all over it.
October 22nd, 2009 at 2:27 pm
You know, weiss, I was going to make a comment about that. Then I realized it would make me look like a giant douche, and I left it alone.