Every year, as Christmas passes, we ask gathered Bauxites to share with everyone here -- taunt us, really -- with what your best baseball-related Christmas/Winter holiday gift was this year.
Whether it be a new Rawlings ball glove, Louisville Slugger, or new set of cleats, season tickets in your favourite section of Rogers Centre, a complete, mint condition 1976 Topps set of 660, a traditional Strat-O-Matic baseball game or the new EA Sports MLB edition -- or whatever -- 'fess UP! What'djaget???
Happy Ho Ho, Bauxite Nation!! Today, it's a look back at arguably the greatest pitcher in Jays history and a few tales in this picture purrfect episode of the POTD!
Seriously.
He's on his way to Seattle and he gets the spotlight in the latest episode of the December Double POTD!
Anyway - Roy Halladay finishes his Blue Jay career (not that I've actually reconciled myself to this!) a solid second (sometimes third) in pretty well every significant career pitching category. And that, assuming I eventually get over what's happened this month and am able to look at all of this with a clear eye and a cold heart, is probably just about right where he stands in the overall picture.
I used to rule the world
Seas would rise when I gave the word
This song got a fair bit of airplay at the Rogers Centre from April to late July. The player who used this song before stepping into the batter's box is the subject of our December Double POTD +1.
What have we missed in the past few days? Well ...
- Sorry, Rangers fans ... Mike Lowell isn't going anywhere (except maybe the hospital) ...
- Nick Johnson has returned the Bronx, likely to DH and to hit second ...
- Nothing official yet, but Coco Crisp appears headed to Oakland. Can we start the "Coco/Beane" pun contest yet?
- Ex-Jay Scott Rolen restructured his deal with the Reds and will earn $6 million in 2010, plus a $5 million signing bonus ... The club, in return, extended Rolen's contract through 2012. He will earn $6.5 million in each of those two seasons.
- Mike Gonzalez got a two-year extenstion from the Orioles ... The Phillies exercised the 2011 club option on SS Jimmy Rollins ... Javier Lopez signed with the Pirates, LaTroy Hawkins with the Brewers, Juan Pierre with the White Sox and Hideki Matsui with the Angels ...
- What else did we miss? And what do you think of these or any other possible moves around the sport?
Well, the Seattle Mariners hope the old board-game-maker's slogan holds true on the ballfield, too. The M's acquired embattled CF Milton Bradley from the Cubs today in exchange for nearly-as-embattled SP Carlos Silva plus $9 million.
Thoughts?