From least ridiculous to most ridiculous.

9. Carlos Marmol – Marmol isn’t even a closer and he is jumping around, fist pumping out of control when he strikes people out.  There isn’t much else to say about him; he is good and strikes a ton of guys out. Out of everyone on the list he probably keeps his cool the most but if you look at the picture below he kinda looks like a monkey with the placement of his fist pump and those huge ears.  I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that once Marmol becomes closer, his new celebration will be flapping his ears so fast the he will fly off of the mound until he reaches the dugout.  Then of course he must lower himself so he doesn’t hit his head on the dugout ceiling.

8.  Carlos Zambrano – Zambrano is Chris’ boi because Chris just loves how pumped up he gets and how animated he is during games.  Again, here is another player without a specific memory of excessive celebration but you see it all the time in highlights how crazy Zambrano gets.  He is always fist pumping and cursing at people and a lot of the time at himself.  Many times he becomes so happy with his pitching performances that he hits water coolers.  I heard that this calms him down, hey whatever works for you Carlos.

Hot-head Zambrano.

7. Jose Valverde – Not much say about Valverde, he is basically K-Rod Jr. as far as celebrations go.  He yells, he screams, and he points to the sky.  I’d say 9 out of every 10 saves he will somehow windup on or near the ground as well.  The guy is good at what he does for the most part, but to emphasise his amazingness, the Astros shoot off fireworks from Minute Maid Park after victories which just fuels Valverde to continue his ridiculous antics.

6. Grant Balfour – Grant Balfour vs. Orlando Cabrera.  What a matchup, how can anyone forget that last year?  Balfour may be the craziest player in Major League Baseball.  He talks to himself on the mound so much it’s like he’s at the dinner table explaining to his wife and kids who his day was.  Who is he talking to?  Is it sane to talk to oneself as much as he does?  Cabrera took offense to that last year when Balfour was mouthing off and he kicked dirt Balfours way.  Well, that fired him up even more so, and he struck out Cabrera on a 97 MPH heater and was screaming curses to Cabrera until each of them reached their respected dugouts.  So unnecessary, yet so awesome.  I would love to have a guy like that on my team as long as he was good.  John Rocker anyone?

Nice pump there Balfour.

5. Jose Reyes – Why is it that Jose Reyes takes 45 seconds on his hand shake celebrations with EACH one of his teammates.  If this were basketball, it would be a delay of game every time.  There is no need to slap hands and play patty cake with every player sitting on the bench for as long as Reyes does.  We get it, you are excited, now get over it, and pay attention to the game.  Reyes is a great player with no leadership and not much class.  In my opinion he doesn’t respect the game and he takes it for granted.  Only New York would put up with crap like that though.  Imagine if he did that in Pittsburgh.  People wouldn’t understand what the hell is going on because they’ve never experienced someone so flashy who needs to celebrate so much in the last 15 years.

A Japanese celebration at it

4. Joba Chamberlain/Aubrey Huff – This is a combined celebration because they both celebrated at each other during ’08 and continued to ’09.  Joba may be more obsessed with a fist pump than wack himself silly Papelbon.  In the most insignificant innings, so to speak, Joba is fist pumping for strikeouts.  Really Joba?  Last year Joba had a double fist pump after he struck out Aubrey Huff of the Orioles and boy did Huff get back at Joba this year.  Huff hit a huge HR in Baltimore just a couple weeks ago off Joba and Huff was fist pumping as if he were Kirk Gibson trotting around the bases.  Once Huff crossed homeplate, I don’t know who he was, but it was awesome.  It was like a combination of a Tiger Woods fist pump combined with a Sammy Sosa fist pump to the chest of his teammates.  Pure bliss.  Isn’t there a Joba rule instated that he can’t fist pump?  If not, the Yankees should make one.

3. Lastings Milledge – Milledge’s excessive celebration still cracks me up to this day.  In 2007, and still a rookie with the Mets, Milledge thought it would be a great idea to slap high fives with the fans along the right field foul line.  A bit too excited maybe or its possible he thinks he really is that good?  Regardless, this celebration is definitely overdoing it but hilarious nonetheless.  Players don’t interact with fans in the crowd like that; they can’t be bothered and I’m sure they aren’t allowed.  Mileage was obviously reprimanded after that bonehead play.

2. Jonathan Papelbon – This kid is starting to really piss me off.  First, he pitches for my 2nd least favorite team which is already a strike against him, next, he is filthy and most of the time unhittable and I just can’t take it. Lastly, he does this repeated fist pump after a lame 3-run regular season win as if he won the World Series or something.  Oh wait, he’s done that already so why does he need to continually fist pump like an idiot after a save?  I hope that one of these days he loses control of that right fist and punches himself in the face…oops, then what would he do?  I’m just thankful he isn’t a starter or he would do that crap after every inning.

No explination needed.

1. K-Rod – Anytime this man gets a save in a baseball game it’s like he has saved the world of war or solved the economic crisis we are in…well at least that’s how it makes it out to be.  After completing a save, K-Rod shoots both hands up into the air pointing all over the place and just constantly yelling and screaming a bunch of meaningless stuff.  The best though is when he actually gets down on his knees and does the same exact thing.  Who is he talking to up there?  He can’t be thanking God after EVERY save that excessively, can he?

Why, why?

Who do you think should have made the list?  Leave a comment and let me know!