If someone offers to pick up my check, I immediately reach for my wallet. Because inside is a note that says, "Say thanks."

First to be thankful not to have to invite HE WHO SHALL NOT BE NAMED to my turkey dinner out of politeness to he and the Rosie Reds who still find him “deliciously sparky”!

1. The 1963 Chevy Impala<img src=“http://rds.yahoo.com/ylt=A0WTefgGfy5JITIBDFaJzbkF;ylu=X3oDMTBrcDgzM24zBHBvcwMxMDMEc2VjA3NyBHZ0aWQD/SIG=1lbfc7t1p/EXP=1227870342/**http3A//images.search.yahoo.com/images/view3Fback=http253A252F252Fimages.search.yahoo.com252Fsearch252Fimages253F_adv_prop253Dimage2526ni253D202526va253D1963252Bimpala2526fr253Dyfp-t-3132526xargs253D02526pstart253D12526b253D10126w=40026h=18426imgurl=www.musclecarclub.com252Fmusclecars252Fchevrolet-impala252Fimages252Fchevrolet-impala-1963d.jpg26rurl=http253A252F%252F”http://www.musclecarclub.com" target="_blank">www.musclecarclub.com252Fmusclecars252Fchevrolet-impala252Fchevrolet-impala-pictures.shtml26size=16.9kB26name=chevrolet-impala-1963d.jpg26p=19632Bimpala26type=JPG26oid=dbeb66fe9399bef826no=10326tt=9,72326sigr=12o567ves26sigi=12j2p9qg726sigb=13laoq1dg"/>
2. George Foster <img src=“http://rds.yahoo.com/ylt=A0WTefjvfy5JRGABuTuJzbkF;ylu=X3oDMTBpZm5udGl1BHBvcwM1BHNlYwNzcgR2dGlkAw—/SIG=1ilakrjv8/EXP=1227870575/**http3A//images.search.yahoo.com/images/view3Fback=http253A252F252Fimages.search.yahoo.com252Fsearch252Fimages253F_adv_prop253Dimage2526fr253Dyfp-t-3132526va253Dgeorge252Bfoster2526sz253Dall26w=22226h=31026imgurl=www.baseball-almanac.com252Fplayers252Fpics252Fgeorge_foster_autograph.jpg26rurl=http253A252F252F”http://www.baseball-almanac.com" target="_blank">www.baseball-almanac.com252Fplayers252Fplayer.php253Fp253Dfostege0126size=11.5kB26name=george_foster_autograph.jpg26p=george2Bfoster26type=JPG26oid=29389c675268ff9a26no=526tt=10,67826sigr=11u2q4uln26sigi=121r5131j26sigb=131mahfju"/>
3. Harry
4. boobs
5. boobs
6. Aretha
7. Alan src=“http://assets.sbnation.com/profile_images/29025/dump_11_may_096_small.JPG”/>
8. Women’s soccer 3A//images.search.yahoo.com/images/view3Fback=http253A252F252Fimages.search.yahoo.com252Fsearch252Fimages253F_adv_prop253Dimage2526va253Dheather252Bmitts2526fr253Dyfp-t-3132526xargs253D02526pstart253D12526b253D212526ni253D2026w=18026h=25026imgurl=espn.go.com252Fi252Fpage2252Fphotos252F040212heather1.jpg26rurl=http253A252F252Fsports.espn.go.com252Fespn252Fpage2252Fstory253Fpage253Dhottest252Ffemale252Ffinals200426size=36.5kB26name=040212heather1.jpg26p=heather2Bmitts26type=JPG26oid=303405bec8990a2c26no=4026tt=30126sigr=129cl6nd226sigi=11dh0sgq226sigb=13mkbmu75"/>
9. RR
10 Family, Friends, life, love and Music

I’m thankful for:

● One last spring in Sarasota.

● Reds blogs that put up with the occasional errant Yankees fan

● Change you can believe in

● White House Chrismukkah cards

● Strangers on the Internet who e-mail you high school yearbook photos of your favorite baseball player.

● The fact that I’ve never done anything noteworthy enough that anyone would want to to post my high school yearbook photos on the Internet.

● Family, food, friends, and football! (Not necessarily in that order. ;-)

Go Cowboys!

Damn that show was good.

Taking birds-in-birds to the next level.

Oh, and for the good will of man and all that shit. :)

for my friends who are having their wedding on Thanksgiving. i never want to be with my family at times like this anyway.

Edna Parker dies at the age of 115. This Thanksgiving is a sad one in my wife’s home town.

To be serious for once…

- Bugs
- My dogs
- My friends
- My family… every once in a great while…
- Music to fit my every mood.
- Choir and Band and the families that come with them
- A future that’s starting to look bright
- That I didn’t get caught when I smuggled Vinnie from my dad’s house in Texas.
- RR and the great people I’ve “met” on it.

The Pittsburgh Pirates are signing football players:

PITTSBURGH PIRATES_Re-signed RB Najeh Davenport. Released CB Roy Lewis.

Top free-agent slugger may come cheap

Things have appeared oddly quiet for the biggest slugger on the free-agent market. That would be Adam Dunn, who may find his value isn’t quite what he had hoped (though we have to believe he doesn’t actually expect the $100 million that ex-Reds teammate Bronson Arroyo says he’s expecting).

I wonder if there’s any chance he’ll come back to Cincinnati? Maybe if they trade Arroyo…

Given a couple of hours before it’s too late.

- My kids – without them I’d be even more of a degenerate than I already am. They keep me grounded and sane, and are perpetual “perspective readjustment devices”.

- My girlfriend – Incredibly supportive of me even when she shouldn’t be, she has reaffirmed my basic trust in human beings.

- You guys – I love all of you on some level. The beauty of RR is that even though we may disagree, we generally do it in a mature manner. We also have fun, even when it’s good-natured tackiness/racism/mysoginy (if that’s possible?)

Bottom line: if we’re able to be on this site bitching about such inconsequential things as Reds baseball, we’re better off than 99% of everyone else on the planet. I’m incredibly thankful to be where I am in the world and to have the opportunities I do.

Cause every thanksgiving we get high as hell together and laugh. Apparently if Spiderman was actually anatomically spider like, his webs would shoot out of his boobs.

1. My six week-old daughter
2. My wife, for letting me pick Larkin as the middle name

the grownups are back in charge of running the world

jay bruce, joey votto, edinson volquez, johnny cueto, too

I was fortunate enough to work with Mitch on his first comedy special back in the mid-90’s. He had trouble looking up from the floor, and the crowd took a while to warm up to the unknown. The joke that finally won them over: “Man, I can’t wait to get off this stage, cause there’s a roll of lifesavers in my pocket, and pineapple is next.”

Rosenthal thinks Dunn might not even be offered arbitration. Because of the economic crisis.