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by Scott Christ on Dec 22, 2006 7:27 AM EST in News & Rumors

You know what I like about Christmas? Everything.

My family Christmas this year is early (in fact, it starts in about four hours), and then myself and my ridiculous roommates are having a Cosby Sweater Christmas party tomorrow, plus exchanging OUR gifts, and then Sunday is Christmas Eve and Monday is Christmas Day, so I don't know how much I'll be around for the next four days. Enough that I should be able to update, but if something happens and I don't get to it, fire a diary in there, give it the mustard, strike one on the outside corner.

This weather is decidedly not Christmas-y, however. It sort of feels like Christmas, but it looks like a crappy Halloween.

I decided to buy CC.com two presents, too: B-R.com sponsorships for the pages of Brian Roberts and Adam Loewen.

I wish everyone that visits and especially all you regularly contributing ladies and gentlemen a great holiday weekend.

And by the way, the definitive recording of "Silver Bells" is Dean Martin's.

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and to you, sir...

a merry new year.

hope you saw the sun this am. lots of interesting nuggets in the gibbons article.

-talks w/ craig wilson are gaining steam

-shannon stewart looks like a possibility

-huff talks continue, his asking price his dropped by about 3 million a year

by jq higgins on Dec 22, 2006 9:45 AM EST reply actions

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I support Wilson. Huff not as much. Stewart not at all.

"I don't want any credit. I'm not looking for credit. You know what? I don't want any blame if we're horse shit, either." -- Jim Leyland

by Scott Christ on Dec 22, 2006 9:56 AM EST up reply actions

sweet

nice job for with the B-R sponsorships

by dtran2k3 @ Camden Chat on Dec 22, 2006 11:50 AM EST reply actions

Nice

The sponsorships are awesome, although Roberts's doesn't seem to be up yet. The Loewen one is both hilarious and accurate.

Thanks!

by Joltin Joe Orsulak on Dec 22, 2006 12:31 PM EST reply actions

Rain

If this rain were snow my life would be just about complete right now.

except for this carpal-tunnel flare-up i'm getting.

by pipkin on Dec 22, 2006 1:06 PM EST reply actions

Ya

Happy birthday to Me!
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Portland,Oregon loves the O's

by westcoastOfan on Dec 22, 2006 1:48 PM EST reply actions

Warm wishes-- too warm, in fact...

There's something a little scary about the degree to which this not-Currier-and-Ives thing is playing out this "winter."

Anyway, a heartfelt generic holiday greeting to all-- or as the immortal Dickens character, Vertically Challenged Tim, inclusively put it: "[Supreme Being / Natural focus of reverence / Cosmic void] bless us, every [gender-neutral individual]!"

And a Merry Christmas, too. There, I've said it and I'm glad!

Cheers,
M.I. Titov

p.s. And you holiday e-card-senders out there: Do remember that because of the difference between the Julian and Gregorian calendars, Russian Orthodox Kwanzaa is celebrated on January 8.

by Titov on Dec 23, 2006 2:35 PM EST reply actions

Phew!

Your advice came just in time. I was about to hit "send".

Mama always told me not to look into the eyes of the sun
But mama, that's where the fun is...

by zknower on Dec 23, 2006 10:16 PM EST up reply actions

Silver Bells

Actually, I gotta go with Bing Crosby for Silver Bells. When I was a kid growing up about a block and a half from Memorial Stadium, my parents had the Crosby Christmas album -- an actual old ALBUM, a bunch of 78's in a book! Today I have it on CD & Christmas is not complete without it!

"Killing a Yankee fan -- is that illegal in this state?" -- Homicide Life on the Street

by BirdFanLA on Dec 23, 2006 11:25 PM EST reply actions

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I've actually got that book of 78s, it's really great. I prefer Dino's version simply because he sounds sloshed.

"I don't want any credit. I'm not looking for credit. You know what? I don't want any blame if we're horse shit, either." -- Jim Leyland

by Scott Christ on Dec 24, 2006 7:53 AM EST up reply actions

When didn't he sound sloshed.....

That was the beauty of Dean. He could be solid gold sober at 8am and still sound sloshed..Kinda like my uncle.
Anyway, everyone here at CC have a glorious Christmas, and a glorious any other holiday you may celebrate. Let's all get what we asked that jolly old elf for...and then some. I know all of us would just love to have a winning season for the first time in like a decade..but that may be just too much to ask for .

Cheers, everyone.

"Mama tried to raise me better but her pleadin' I denied, that leaves no one but me to blame cause Mama tried"

by elktonfan on Dec 24, 2006 9:46 AM EST up reply actions

Happy Christmas!

by Stacey on Dec 24, 2006 12:32 PM EST reply actions

Merry Christmas everybody!

"Jaret Wright will be the missing piece in the Orioles quest to return to respectability." --- Jaret Wright's Mom

by BrianS on Dec 24, 2006 4:02 PM EST reply actions

Randy Johnson to Orioles?

Sure, right after we re-sign Sid.

No, what I really wanted to say was: How long do you think it will take somebody in Arizona to try to retroactively rationalize this self-evidently stooopid Unit acquisition with a phrase involving the term "innings eater"-- which will be accurate, of course, as long as you think of, say, 3 1/3 innings as a nice big dinner. Um, I don't.

What a bunch o' desert dopes. Make you feel a little better about the Orioles' FO?

by Titov on Dec 26, 2006 8:50 PM EST reply actions