Merry OT: Super Awesome Kickass Gift Thread

Cubs Ice scraper, another pair of Cubs sleep pants, bat case for my autographed D Lee bat….a Cubs bottle opener…..I think that was it for the Cubs related items…Happy Holidays!

Cubs gloves
Cubs clock
Cubs calendar
Cubs candle
Cubs t-shirt
Cubs checkbook holder

Nothing too terribly extraordinary, just solid Cubs paraphanalia to add to the collection.

A blue alternate Mark Grace jersey with a Harry Caray patch on the sleeve (just like in ’98), a plaque with photos of Soriano, Lee, Ramirez, Wood, Zambrano, and Fukudome with a June 20, 2008 ticket stub inside, and signed photos of Theriot, DeRosa, Dempster, Marmol, and CC Sabathia was also tossed in. I had a GREAT baseball haul this year.

I also got a new digital camera, a new DVD recorder, NBA 2K9 on 360, Blackhawks tickets for January 4th, Chinese Democracy, Genesis’ 1983-1998 box set, Journey’s “Revelation,” and some nice new sweaters and jeans. Great holiday!

…Call me crazy but I loved the fact that they showed a Cubs game and a yearly recap today. For a few hours I forgot it was cold outside and I hung on every pitch, even though I already knew the outcome. I suppose that’d be instinct kicking in.

Thanks Comcast.

get the DVD package of the Cub games. Watched Woodys 20K game. Never saw the game before. My kids were shocked to see so many empty seats.
 I miss Sandy Martinez almost laying down behind the plate to set a good target for Woody. Woods stuff was just scary, but we know how his career went, just stinks he is not with this club, Yankees spend 430M on three players and the Cubs can’t cough up 10M for 1 year, Oh I digress
 I did forget that Phil Regan was the pitching coach.

BEST GIFT EVER! Will look nice alongside my 1969 Banks Road Jersey.

Every year my sister in-law makes me a Cubs themed gift. One year it was a blanket. When our twins were born, she made twin Cubs blankets. She made us a Cubs collage last year in a frame that was pretty cool.

This year, she painted a big cement block with the Cubs Logo on it. Not sure what the hell I’m supposed to do with this, but I suppose it’ll go well in our garden.

I had TiVo’d the ESPN Classic rebroadcast last March of the June 23, 1984 “Sandberg Game” on NBC Game of the Week. I have a friend who regularly talked about it as being the best regular season Cub game of all time (his distain for the Cardinals is equal or superior to mine). I burned it to DVD to give to him at Christmas. Unfortunately he died unexpectedly two weeks ago — truly a hearbreaking event. I gave the DVD to his 16 year old daughter as a rememberance of her dad’s favorite game. She really does not care much about baseball, but I hope that she’ll watch it some time in the future and think about her dad.

A Cubs beanbag
“Reel” Baseball
Cubs calendar
“Cubs win” shirt
Cubs zip up hoodie
Cubs authentic hoodie
Cubs Playoffs 2008 hoodie
Cubs “W” flag
SportsSync Radio

A nice stash if I do say so myself!

Kerry Wood 2008 All Star Jersey, that I will
ware to… Spring Training! My best gift….
Trip to Spring Training including tickets to 3 games.
One in Goodyear for Cubs/ Indians, and then
two more in Mesa as soon as they go on sale.

but my friend who has Yankee season tickets and feels really bad that I got laid off is offering me his extra ticket
for BOTH Cub/Yankee games. I will actually try to get one of the cheap bleacher/grandstand seats so he can take someone who gives a rats ass about the new Stadium to one of the games.

A framed picture of the 1902 Chicago Orphans and some old matchbooks from the ’30s that have pictures of players like Stan Hack and Gabby Hartnett and Charlie Grimm.

The Cubs Legends DVD set – already watched the Sandberg game again – and some Cubs golf accessories

Cubs watch
Cubs commemorative Opening Day (1927 vs the Red) baseball
Cubs hand-made stadium model w/clock.