Putting the "AN" in "Santa"
by monkeyball on Dec 25, 2007 1:02 PM PST
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PrintLike many of you, I've been spending the morning unwrapping and then playing with all the new toys I got as presents.
Santa was very generous to the Monkeyball household this year, bringing almost everything I asked for. I got:
- The Allan H. "Vlad" Selig poseable action figure! With lifelike shrugging action, removable comb-over, and optional blinders. Maybe next year I'll get the accessories: Vlad's Army of Sycophants, the Ballpark Village playset (which also transforms into a spaceship with death ray!), and the SeligMobile, with lifelike reverse-odometer action. This is one gift that I know will only appreciate in value over time.
- The LEGO Officially Licensed Billy Beane Rebuilding Set. Unfortunately, half of the bricks in the set snapped in half when I tried to fit them together, the foundation set-pieces needed to construct the models in the photographs on the front of the box are really expensive, and none of it really fits together unless and until you also buy the Bud Selig Ballpark Village playset.
- Urban Myth -- the new vicious-rumor boardgame from Milton Bradley. Defamatory fun for the whole family. Backstab sis and get her kicked out of the house -- before she does the same to you!
- One-Card Monte -- the card game where every suit is black.
- A DVD of It's a Wonderful Lie, where guardian angel Clarence Wolff averts franchise disaster by discovering where Uncle Bill Beane mislaid the extra payroll checks. I always cry at the end when Jimmy Stewart says "Zaidi's petals!"
Also, thanks to an innovative joint program between AN and certain unnamed private and governmental entities, I've been able to monitor communications between certain AN'ers and the North Pole. Here's what Santa delivered to a few other AN'ers this year:
- Nico: Some more RAM for his "hard drive" (I keep telling him that's not how computers work, but he sheepishly insists that's what he wants)
- cindi: A pony!
- Poppy: A solution to the A's dilemma of how to afford extending Mark Ellis and cheaply address the injury situation
- Sal: A professional elective development kit
- Sal, Jr.: A learning kit that will help him explain to his old man how the world really works
What did everyone else get?
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I am 45 y/o and grinning like a little kid today
As we have been married for 15 years and have four kids 10 and under, we usually concentrate on gettting stuff for them, while I get my wife a gift card from Michaels and I end up picking something up for myself...
This year, I also took the kids shopping and the each picked out something for my wife, and I actually found a couple extra things for her as well...
Thank goodness I did, because I took her usual admonishment to pick out something for myself that I wanted, but that wouldnt have been nearly enough to cover the thoughtfulness of the surprise she had for me.
Though I am a middleaged man, the fact that she and the kids got me a Oakland A's build-a-bear (elephant, actually) with a recording of the kids chanting "Lets Go Oakland" and named it Stomper, with a birth certificate describing the orgin of the Elephant and the Athletics...WOW...
Beyond that, it was the fact that she had to have a friend in the Bay Area get her the build a bear Athletics uniform, as we live in Eureka, and a silly little thing like this makes me realize how great life really is, having a loving family.
My mom gave me
the 2008 calendar.
Dan Haren for January, Jason Kendall (???????) February, Marco Scutaro May, Shannon Stewart November.
A third of the year features guys no longer on the team. If you count Harden (April) and Crosby (June) that makes a full half of the calendar entirely irrelevant. And if you take the step to assume that Blanton (October) and Street (September) get traded, that makes 2/3.
It's the thought that counts, and so I appreciate it, but thing is just not going on my wall.
when i was going through my room
a couple days ago, i found the 1998 calendar...a young, young tejada, ben grieve, stanford product a.j. hinch, kenny rogers, matt stairs, a skinny jason giambi, mike blowers...hard to believe that was ten years ago.
10 Years Later
And if we're lucky, we're right back to 1998.
If it were me, the 2008 Calendar would be....
Jan = Buck
Feb = Chavez (shortest month of the year)
March = Harden (march is usually his busiest month)
April = Barton
May = Ellis
June = Crosby (June is when bobby breaks down)
July = Blanton/Street (Since both will be in every trade rumor)
August = Kotsay (Going away present)
Sept = Gonzalez (Welcome Party)
Oct = Suzuki
Nov = Eveland (It's the month of Thanksgiving. Dude eats)
Dec = Billy Beane (Since he has traded Hudson, Mulder, and Haren during the month)
by Colorado Fan on Dec 25, 2007 7:26 PM PST up reply actions
A poni!!!!!!!!!
-Cindi
P.S. Merry holidays, everybody! (Except Mr. Sharperson, and you KNOW why)
A startling sight...
...if you visit "Today's Chronicle" at SFGate.com tonight:
I wonder what we got for him???
OOPS...reading the accompanying story (about the biggest sports stories in the Bay Area this year), it looks like the headline writer can't tell the difference between a "Haren" and a "Harden":
Unhealthy approach
Beware the ides of April. That's when would-be A's ace Rich Harden left a game with shoulder stiffness. He ended up on the DL, part of an A's trend that led to 22 DL assignments and a season of disappointment. Not able to see things getting better anytime soon, the A's traded away their real ace, All-Star starter Dan Haren, Dec. 14, and decided to start over.
I got a Jacket
the official A's on field jacket.
by Amnesiac727 on Dec 25, 2007 11:13 PM PST reply actions
Aaaaw...
I really wanted some Unicorn Darts. Seriously, have you ever tried to sedate a mythical creature with regular-creature darts? It's not pretty.
(Side effects may include
complete loss of nose)
Also...
There is an "AN" in "anisocoria."
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The holiday good- Got A BP jersey from the Mrs. While I am not a huge fan of BP jerseys, hats, etc, how can I complain when she and the kids took the effort to get it for me?
The bad-with my brain still in sleepy/stoopid mode, I said how cool it would be to have a regular home jersey, especially since I could sew on the Bill King patch I got last season (my other jerseys are throwbacks). Wifey said I could exchange it, but at that point I just realized I somewhat insulted the wonderful gift she gave me.
Thank god she knows my mouth runs about 6 seconds ahead of my brain. Thats one of the many reasons I love her so.
Hope you all got your santa list filled!
My daughter
found me a vintage A's shirt on line, with the #20 on the back. Big A's logo in white on the front, and she says it's supposed to be '80s era. It's super cool.
Any ideas on who #20 could have been?
EVERYONE knows that #20 in a vintage uniform
is . Except me I guess...
by ohtobe21likehuston on Dec 26, 2007 6:10 PM PST up reply actions
I'm thinking that
Christmas was good to this sports fan.
I got the following sports items from my girlfriend:
-A plush white A's robe. Quite Comfy!
-A's cap (now I have about 35 of them)
-Kansas Jayhawks Adidas jacket
-Kansas Jayhawks Antigua microfiber Polo
My mom's gifts:
-A Kansas Jayhawks Adidas microfiber Polo
-Kansas Jayhawks ceramic coasters
-Kansas Jayhawks basketball calendar
I guess the Haren trade has really affected the purchasing patterns of the people in my life. I normally get all A's stuff.
by ohtobe21likehuston on Dec 26, 2007 6:18 PM PST reply actions
watch it monkeyball
Since I work for Lego that crack wasn't funny. You should have said megablock since their pieces don't fit perfect. Lego is the top of the line toy which takes great care to make all the pieces perfect and fit together that is why they are more expensive. The giants would be the wood block team since their pieces are old and out dated. The mets could be the mattel team looks good but gets recalled in the end.
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