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GIF Tournament II: ‘Running Water Bottle’ Vs. ‘Sheepish Apple’

Day 2 of SB Nation’s second-ever GIF Tournament is underway. You helped elect these GIFs into this tournament, and now we’re going to determine a champion. Vote, and help us decide.

GIF TOURNAMENT II -- FIRST ROUND
MORTIFIED MICHIGAN PUNTER REGION

(6) RUNNING WATER BOTTLE vs.
(11) SHEEPISH APPLE

(6). Hi. I am RUNNING WATER BOTTLE.

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Automatic bid. Finished first in Week 11 of THIS WEEK IN GIFs with 216 total votes.

And everything about me makes perfect sense.

(11) Hello there, I’m SHEEPISH APPLE.

Apple

Automatic bid. Finished first in Week 7 of THIS WEEK IN GIFs with 201 total votes.

I am perhaps the most adorable GIF of the tournament. Someone in the Mets’ control room errantly activated the Home Run Apple when the Mets weren’t even at bat. The game was delayed while the Apple made its shameful retreat.

Did I say control room? Mm. The Mets don’t seem to me like the sort of organization where they would actually designate a room for the purposes of operating things or making decisions. I’m seeing a giant warehouse in Flushing with a giant lottery wheel, and a gaggle of nine-year-olds chucking M-80s at a Buick, and Gregg Jefferies sound asleep on a pack mule being guided by the reins by a clown, and Kevin Elster shrieking about plans for opening a chain of affordable motels to compete with Howard Johnson, and Steve Trachsel trying to make snow angels in a kiddie pool. I don’t want to see that ever again.

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