I don’t normally do this, but I feel like I need to do all my readers a favor and STRONGLY ENCOURAGE you to save your money and AVOID seeing the movie The Spirit. Let’s just say four of us went and four of us wanted our money back when we were done. It has no plot, no character development, and was the most boring experience I have had in quite a while. With movies as expensive as they are now, this can be pretty frustrating.
It has finally arrived!!! Merry Christmas friends. May you enjoy today with family and have enough time to remember what it’s all about. God is with us!
I thought I’d recruit the help of Buddy the Elf to help some of you Grinches to enjoy yourself a bit today so watch and enjoy…
I want to accurately inform you, if you are taking the time to read this, of the latest happenings with the New York Yankees. If you don’t care about baseball, feel free to stop reading now. However, if you are in the other 98% of the U.S. that hate the Yankees then you owe it to yourself to be informed of the real facts.
The Yankees have been very productive this off-season by signing Teixeira, Sabathia, Burnett, and Swisher. Now, this creates them the team that they need to compete in their division. People are eager to point out that the Yankees now have the four highest paid players in all of baseball. Which, I’ll admit, may look very bad. I have already been harassed relentlessly about this and how the Yankees are trying to “buy the championship” again. However, please read this article to see the entire story. I add a few highlights below that accurately paint the picture. This is a brilliant staffing move, and I will argue that any fan would be excited about if it were their team. And, as I’ve always argued, the Yankees are good for baseball. Would you rather have an owner that puts money back into his team to invest in the game itself, or an owner who takes as much profit as he can without putting it back into his team? We need more teams like the Yankees.
“Don’t forget that the Yankees this winter shed from the payroll high-salary guys like Jason Giambi, Mike Mussina, Bobby Abreu, Andy Pettitte (likely to return but at a lower base salary), and Carl Pavano. Add it all up, and they’ve sloughed off almost $80 million. Once the full details on Teixeira’s deal are known, it’s likely that his 2008 salary along with the annual salaries of CC Sabathia, A.J. Burnett, and Nick Swisher will amount to between $70-75 million. Even the liberal-arts majors among us can figure out that’s not an increase.”
“But the Yankees can’t be blamed for baseball’s structural inequities. The Steinbrenners’ obligations are to win games and make money. That Major League Baseball provides them so much latitude to do so is the fault of MLB, not the Yankees.”
This is just great. We all love how technology is allowing us to stay connected. Now, it appears that there are a few other groups ready to take advantage of the power of Facebook. This looks promising…
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As many of you know, I’m usually into the more aggressive music. This applies to Christmas Music as well. Which is why August Burns Red’s version of “Carol of the Bells” is my favorite Christmas song. However, after watching the movie Fred Claus (which is a great relatively-unknown Christmas movie) with my wife three times this past week (yes, you read that right), I’m hooked on very mellow version of Silent Night. It is from Sinéad O’Connor and it is definitely not my normal style. But it is absolutely perfect for this song. Here’s my recommendation to get you in the Christmas spirit: download this song, put some headphones on, and close your eyes for three minutes and forty-two seconds of pure beauty.
