Christmas Break: Enjoy whatever it is you do over the next two days!

by Slyde on Dec 24, 2008 2:10 PM EST in Off-season Comment 29 comments

Barring any breaking news or major crisis, things will likely be quiet here on the front page for the next two days. I'm going to spend some time with my various families and eat like it's going out of style. I encourage you all to do the same!

Before I log off for a day or so, I did want to say that I've enjoyed the last couple of months here on the site. Things were dragging there at the end of the season, so it's nice to see some life breathed back into the site. Hopefully we can keep things going and you guys will all stick around (get it?) in the new year.

Enjoy your Christmas - even if you don't celebrate it!

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Cheers!

"I'm standing at the plate thinking, Where are my hands? Where's this, where's that? Before I know it, the pitch is there and I'm completely out of rhythm." -
-- Adam Dunn

by Joe Nolan's Glasses on Dec 24, 2008 2:36 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Cosby Show!

Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas, kiss my ass. Kiss his ass. Kiss your ass. Happy Hanukkah.

by Willie Mays Hayes on Dec 24, 2008 4:08 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Night Court!

"I'm standing at the plate thinking, Where are my hands? Where's this, where's that? Before I know it, the pitch is there and I'm completely out of rhythm." -
-- Adam Dunn

by Joe Nolan's Glasses on Dec 24, 2008 5:07 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Family Ties!

"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."

by jch24 on Dec 24, 2008 10:31 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I can't say it any better than did Slyde.

Not that Slyde’s all eloquent or anything. I just can’t say it any better. Merry Christmas to you all.

We Are ... Marshall!

by Thundering Turtle on Dec 24, 2008 4:37 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I was hanging up stockings on the mantle

And I accidentally knocked over part of the nativity set that was up there, spilling some of the figures onto the brick hearth below. Splitting baby Jesus in half is a good omen… right?

by Brendanukkah on Dec 24, 2008 4:41 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Solomon might think so.

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. - Bill Veeck

by PeteyHendrix on Dec 24, 2008 7:09 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

You'll shoot your eye out!

Merry Christmas, fellow RRers. Maybe if we’re good, we’ll find a scrappy, speedy CFer with a good OBP in our Red stockings.

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by BubbaFan on Dec 24, 2008 7:43 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Taveras, Festivus.....they rhyme.

Coincidence. I. THINK. NOT.

"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."

by jch24 on Dec 24, 2008 10:32 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Merry Christmas

I wish you all the best! Have a great Christmas and Happy New Year . And get ready for a Central Division Championship in 2009!!

Remember if a Democrat wins it's a mandate, if a Republican wins it's a law suit

by Caleb on Dec 24, 2008 9:41 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I lurv you guys

There, I said it.

"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."

by jch24 on Dec 24, 2008 10:33 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Merry Christmas everybody

Now if the Reds can give me my Christmas gift and trade for Adrian Beltre, we’d be all set.

"My wife ain't never ran and got me no pheasant." - Fistbands

by BK on Dec 25, 2008 12:05 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

The year in photographs

Some amazing photos here. Including some sports.

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by BubbaFan on Dec 25, 2008 6:22 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

wow

thank you for linking to those amazing photos. Merry Christmas

Reds Win! Reds Win! Oh my God the Reds Win!! When did we become the Indians?

by Caleb on Dec 25, 2008 10:21 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

First the Cubs, now the Red Sox...

New York Times may sell Red Sox stake: report

NEW YORK (Reuters) — The New York Times Co is trying to sell its stake in the holding company of the Boston Red Sox baseball team, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the discussions.

The sale, which could give the Times desperately needed cash as newspaper advertising revenue falls and its debt payments loom, could involve its 17.5 percent stake in New England Sports Ventures and possibly the struggling Boston Globe daily newspaper, the Journal reported.

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by BubbaFan on Dec 25, 2008 9:58 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

christmas is fun for me

i’m not christian much less Catholic and I spend this time with my Catholic side of the family. The prayers are the worst because I never know what is going on.

"It is a damn poor mind indeed which can’t think of at least two ways to spell any word."-Andy Jack

by justin007000 on Dec 25, 2008 10:58 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Peace on earth, goodwill towards men

Those can generally be counted on to be relevant.

by Brendanukkah on Dec 25, 2008 12:27 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I don't mind Catholic services

They’re generally shorter than Protestant services. And you move around a lot – standing, sitting, kneeling – which keeps me from falling asleep. It reminds me of sitting in the pep section at a school football game. “Lean to the left, lean to the right, stand up, sit, down, fight, fight, fight!” ;-)

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by BubbaFan on Dec 25, 2008 2:26 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

mostly i don't like it

because i don’t know when to do the hand gestures and stick out like a Unitarian around a bunch of Catholics, mostly because I am a Unitarian around a bunch of Catholics.

"It is a damn poor mind indeed which can’t think of at least two ways to spell any word."-Andy Jack

by justin007000 on Dec 25, 2008 2:58 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I don't mind

I’m an atheist, and religious types tend to be so happy I’m actually going to church they don’t mind if I don’t know much about it. :-)

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by BubbaFan on Dec 25, 2008 4:37 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

okay, enough peace, joy, love, and all that

Did anyone have Eartha Kitt?

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by BubbaFan on Dec 25, 2008 5:20 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Adam West in 1964

by Red Menace on Dec 26, 2008 11:50 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Just in case you were wondering how Jay Bruce's holiday is going

Here’s an article he did with MLB.com. And I’m really hoping he delivers on his Christmas gift this year:

MLB.com: If you could put one gift under the collective Reds fans’ holiday tree, what would it be?

Bruce: A World Series. You think they’d be all right with that?

Why yes, Jay, I think we would.

"My wife ain't never ran and got me no pheasant." - Fistbands

by BK on Dec 25, 2008 8:30 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Here in NY

The Yankees ground crew put a Christmas tree on the mound. Seriously!

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by BubbaFan on Dec 25, 2008 11:19 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

David Coniferous?

(sorry)

by Brendanukkah on Dec 26, 2008 1:48 AM EST up reply actions 2 recs

that one was bad enough to be a joke that I came up with

rec’d

Think of me what you will...I gotta little space to fill

by chandrathan on Dec 26, 2008 8:50 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

At least it wasn't Wrigley Field

You wouldn’t want Lou Pine-iella kicking it over.

"My wife ain't never ran and got me no pheasant." - Fistbands

by BK on Dec 26, 2008 9:55 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

And how

would Fir-guson Jenkins pitch?

by ctnyc on Dec 26, 2008 10:36 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

they might prefer a Festivus pole in Chicago

Festivus display at Illinois Capitol

The debate over religious displays in the Illinois Capitol’s rotunda took a farcical turn this week when a student at a Lake Forest boarding school put up an aluminum pole to honor Festivus.

…Michael Tennenhouse, 18, said he was home in Springfield on winter break, taking in impeachment hearings at the Capitol, when he came across a nativity scene, a menorah and an atheist group’s display in the rotunda. The exhibits have stirred up controversies, all of which struck Tennenhouse as silly.

“This is grown adults arguing about something nobody could really prove,” he said. “Religious displays should not be in public buildings.”

So Tennenhouse filled out an application to put up the Festivus pole (“the lady burst out laughing”), which was approved the same day.

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by BubbaFan on Dec 26, 2008 7:13 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs