Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays! Enjoyable late-December afternoon!

It’s the 25th of December. That’s the day after December 24th, if I remember correctly.

Wherever you are, and however you’re celebrating during this holiday-packed season, we just want to let you know how much we appreciate your decision to check in with this little corner of the interwebs a time or two on your journeys around the sun. Red Reporter dot com is a pretty special place to us, and we’re always, always glad you choose to spend some time here with us.

The Cincinnati Reds have Yasiel Puig now, even if it’s only going to be for a blink. The starting rotation now appears to already be better than it has been in years. Joey Votto is Joey Votto, too, and I’ll wager he re-JoeyVotto’s in 2019 in a way much more like 2017 than 2018. And Eugenio Suarez is going to blow a gum bubble the size of Jupiter at some point next year, and we sure as heck hope you follow along with that with us.

We hope you’re well, you’re warm, your cozy, you’re with friends/family, and that you’re capable of figuring out which version of you’re we deliberately misused in that sentence. See, even during the holiday season we’re out to keep you on yore toes, folks.

Toss a yule log in the fireplace and have a cold one on us today. And whatever you do, take care of your shoes.