Best A's Related Christmas (Or Other Occasion) Gifts
by baseballgirl on Dec 18, 2009 7:15 AM PST
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PrintHappy Friday!
Okay, so you can't all be finished with your shopping yet. And all of us should know a special person who is craving an A's gift this year. My discussion questions of the day are: What is the best A's gift you have received and what A's (or baseball) gift would you love to receive?
I'll go first. I think the best and most surprising gift that I have received was this painting, done by a friend of my parents. She had traveled to the Coliseum to paint this for me as a gift.
A gift that I always have wanted to receive was this (warning: adorable A's baby items link):
Keep in mind; I do not have a baby. I just think it's the most adorable thing on the planet. Any chance I can pretend it's wind chimes?
I had to add one more, just for fun. I am a huge A's fan, but even I have to admit; this might be going a little far:
(Yes, that's actually carpet.)
Feel free to discuss upcoming plans, vacations, presents, and all A's-related merchandise here.
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the carpet, hands down
especially if it comes with that stunning woodwork, varnish and beige wall combo. (the painting is really nice, except for that macafee thing in the corner).
That carpet looked like vinyl at first.
Now that’d be tacky.
Your day breaks, your mind aches.
You find that all her words of kindness linger on
when she no longer needs you.
The carpet
reminds me of the awesome Stomper Home Depot commercial a few years back. “Pick me!” :)
don't grow up too fast / and don't embrace the past / this life's too good to last
Ditto
Sold.
HEYYYY, BOBBY. HEYYYY, BOBBY. C'MON, BOBBY. HEYYYY, BOBBY. HEYYYY, BOBBY. LET'S GO BOBBAYYYYYYYYYY!
by OaklandNative on Dec 19, 2009 11:19 PM PST up reply actions
maybe.
Sock puppets have never been able to successfully attack castles. -NM
by Leopold Bloom on Dec 18, 2009 9:04 AM PST up reply actions
I'm going to get a large one on my back
of Jack Cust sliding into home. CMON!
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
I almost got one, too
of Crosby breaking (pick any bone) sliding into (pick any base).
HEYYYY, BOBBY. HEYYYY, BOBBY. C'MON, BOBBY. HEYYYY, BOBBY. HEYYYY, BOBBY. LET'S GO BOBBAYYYYYYYYYY!
by OaklandNative on Dec 19, 2009 11:20 PM PST up reply actions
I have a design that I've almost finished
I went in for a consultation with a very good artist, and I was told it would be around $1500. So no, I don’t have an A’s tat.
"Sorry guys, I’m not going to try and hit (Douglas) Murray anymore. It doesn’t work." - Steve Ott, Dallas Stars.
by SwisherThresher on Dec 18, 2009 4:35 PM PST up reply actions
My A's Christmas wish list;
Incentives loaded 2yr deal based on games played and plate appearances for our new DH;
Former slegnA known as “Big Daddy Vlad”. I want Rex Hudler to cream in his pants, with Vlad as comebacj player of the year and out to finish his personal agenda as he focus to slaughter the Angels for letting him go and what better team to do it with than the Oakland A’s…
Hey, it is my Christmas wish list! Heavily optomistic on Vlad being healthy…
I'm fairly certain mb got that mobile for little mb.
or was it sal?
Sock puppets have never been able to successfully attack castles. -NM
Does anyone else think that mobile makes it look like the elephants are being hanged?
"And Julio Franco is batting right-handed!" -- Wayne Hagin, A's radio play-by-play, mid-80s
I got it this year for my new baby, works like a charm
It puts him right to sleep
Chris Carter is the next Hank Aaron right?
by streetisclosedin08 on Dec 18, 2009 4:04 PM PST up reply actions
Andrew Bailey Jersey
A friend of mine wants an Andrew Bailey jersey…getting too late to get on on-line. Where’s the best place near El Cerrito to pick one up?
Bailey...
Do it on line and ship it straight to your friend.
I don't want to do it on-line
I want to go to a real store.
Then try...
…Mary & Joe’s at San Pablo, south of Solano. Or Sports Authority. It may be tougher than you think, the fact that the A’s team stores aren’t open year round at the ballpark really make it challenging.
I was in El Cerrito yesterday
33 revolutions cafe is closing down!
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
I left my wallet in El Cerrito.
Sock puppets have never been able to successfully attack castles. -NM
by Leopold Bloom on Dec 18, 2009 11:37 AM PST up reply actions
WOAH!
Wait. Elaborate. Huh? How? Why?
HEYYYY, BOBBY. HEYYYY, BOBBY. C'MON, BOBBY. HEYYYY, BOBBY. HEYYYY, BOBBY. LET'S GO BOBBAYYYYYYYYYY!
by OaklandNative on Dec 19, 2009 11:21 PM PST up reply actions
My GF would kill me if I got this
But it would be worth it if I had $900 laying around
"Do I talk to myself? No, I just remind myself of what I'm trying to do. You know, I never answer myself so how can I be talking to myself?" - Rickey
Totally worth it, though.
The logo is removable.
HEYYYY, BOBBY. HEYYYY, BOBBY. C'MON, BOBBY. HEYYYY, BOBBY. HEYYYY, BOBBY. LET'S GO BOBBAYYYYYYYYYY!
by OaklandNative on Dec 19, 2009 11:22 PM PST up reply actions
BBG, that painting is awesome! So cool that your friend did that for you!
"And Julio Franco is batting right-handed!" -- Wayne Hagin, A's radio play-by-play, mid-80s
You know I just thought about it
and I’m the only A’s fan I know. All my friends in California are either Giants or Dodger fans and members of my family are Giants fans.
Most of my friends outside of California are either Royals,Rangers or Cardinals fans so any A’s gift I buy would have to be for me.
I’m pretty sure my girlfriend would kick me out of the condo if I tried to put down A’s carpet so I might have to think smaller.
Since all the current players get traded within two years I don’t think I’ll go with a current player’s jersey. I have a Marcus Allen Raiders jersey (favorite football player) so I think maybe a Carney Lansford jersey would be cool. (favorite baseball player)
Would LOVE for the A's to sign VLAD as the DH
VLADDY!…..Stick it to the Angles and sign with the A’s…..2 year…12 million….getter done!…
Crap….The M’s just unloaded Fat Boy C. Silva for Milton Bradley….I know bradley has “issues” but atleast he has a ton of talent….Silva is horrible….M’s are getting good….and fast
That's frightening
You should look for A’s facemasks or something and tell you don’t want to catch whatever makes them gnats fans
"Do I talk to myself? No, I just remind myself of what I'm trying to do. You know, I never answer myself so how can I be talking to myself?" - Rickey
by cuppingmaster on Dec 18, 2009 10:15 AM PST up reply actions
I know I love my friends and familiy
but the whole Giants fan stuff is a bit much. Of course they put up with me so I guess I’ll have to let it slide.
I actually stopped dating a woman my sophomore year when I found out she was a Broncos fan (well that and she was crazy but mostly because she was a Broncos fan).
A Zito replica away jersey
For my birthday. There are 3 reasons for why this is the “best”.
1. At the time, Zito was my favorite pitcher (I know he’s not the best, but I didn’t care, and he was still good then!).
2. He was still on the team (04 or 05, I think it was).
3. It’s the ONLY A’s-related gift I’ve ever been given.
I’ve bought myself plenty of A’s related merchandise, but those were more “I need that” or “Hey, I’d like to have that” as opposed to “This is my Xmas gift to myself”.
Then again, do you REALLY need a reason to get A’s stuff?
Kind of a different take....
I’ve got closets and drawers stuffed with A’s themed apparel. My kids and wife buy me A’s stuff for Christmas, Fathers day, my birthday, etc etc all the time. It’s gotten to the point that I’m constantly wearing some sort of A’s swag on a daily basis.
But I don’t mind.
"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat."--The Boys of Summer
I had a friend who lives far away make a comment recently
That in every photo he has seen of me in the past several years, and every time we have gotten together, he has only seen me in A’s gear.
I took it as a compliment.
"Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it?"-Steve McCatty
A's jersey bottle coozee
I have the best wife in the world. For Christmas, she gave me a set of these A’s jersey bottle coozees:
Now, I look forward to my evening beer more than ever…
Those are for bottles? Oops...
"And Julio Franco is batting right-handed!" -- Wayne Hagin, A's radio play-by-play, mid-80s
because there's only one O in cozy
nick, you were (probably) doing the right thing. and nickolai, even a set, if only at the end of the year, might not qualify her the best wife in the world.
just saying.
don't care if i ever get back.
by AV on Dec 18, 2009 3:39 PM PST up reply actions
I thought it was Lance Armstrong's
OK, bad joke
It's not officially an A's product... but it's perfect for an Oakland fan.
I got this t-shirt as a gift, and I wear it everytime New York is in town.
"The only way I'm going to get a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint." - Reggie Jackson
I bought my brother
the khaki shorts, the tie and the DVD from the site this year.
Sock puppets have never been able to successfully attack castles. -NM
Last year for my birthday
LongTimeFan gave me the best gift — the chance to be her “plus one” at a meet-and-greet with rickey, stew, rudi, and campy at a very, very small gathering at the coliseum. Died and gone to heaven, that was me. I’ll never forget it.
Losing this team would be a huge failure for this city and an affront to Oakland’s great sports legacy.
How about a Uni Watch membership card with an A's uniform theme?
More on Uni Watch memberships here. (And, no, that’s not my card and I don’t have one…this was just the first A’s-themed one I found on their flickr stream.)
There is no "i" in Teamocil. At least not where you'd think.
by GreenNGoldSooner on Dec 18, 2009 12:27 PM PST reply actions
i'm still upset with myself
for leaving Modell’s in NYC w/o my A’s statue of liberty. I didn’t want to carry it around the city with me all day, and was going to return for it later, but forgot it. And I haven’t been able to find one since, other than the life size one at the coliseum.
My wife bought me a personalized A's jersey with my last name on it for my birthday
I love my Bill King calling Hattybergs HR to win the 20th game of the streak bottle opener (which gets used rarely since I don’t drink beer)
One year my sister bought one of those giant foam A’s cowboy hats while at the game and somehow hid it under her sweater without me noticing (perhaps I was paying too much attention to the game and my girlfriend)
I also have a ton of A’s T-shirts and usually when I’m wearing a t-shirt it is an A’s one.
I love the season recap videos from the late 80’s and early 2000’s, I miss seeing those. I don’t think they have made one since 2002 or something, they should have made one for 2006. I also have the A’s World Series collection DVD.
I use my A’s freezer mug all the time, my wife dropped it on accident and it broke but I just bought a new one from Amazon for $5.
And it’s not the A’s but for my bachelor party all my friends signed a baseball for me.
Oh, oh, oh, who else had those photo cards that you get for buying a newspaper at the game? My room at my parents house used to be covered with those.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
Last year, for my 40th
which was also the A’s 40th in Oakland (almost to the day), my co-workers got me over $200 in mlb.com gift cards…which was all spent on the A’s.
Also every year, my wife gets me the Extra Innings package for my birthday…which coincides with the start of the season.
What would I like to get? Catch the A’s next season at Wrigley with my two boys.
In 1975 I received an A's pocketwatch. The fob was a small A's batting helmet
It’s sort of cheap & plastic, but it has the A’s logo with “the swingin’ A’s” written in italic script across the face. Almost 40 years later, it still works.
My Christmas gift? A site full of committed A’s followers who speculate, argue, celebrate all things green & gold, 365 days a year.
JJ Martin
The best way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then pick it up. ~Bob Uecker
There's a Rotowire blurb about the Gnats being interested in Cust
My A’s-related gift, then, would be for them to sign him, so we can have many good laughs next year watching him “play” right field, and listening to the Gnats fans complaining about all the strickouts.
Hey Al, just go away, baby.
This is what I'm subtly hinting for this year
Wouldn’t mind some of that gaudy carpet either lol
Is this the real life-
Is this just fantasy-
Caught in a landslide-
No escape from reality-
I really, really want this
It is ridiculously priced, though.
will crosby spread his legs so far apart at bat that the games will have to be rated nc-17 -- emperor nobody
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