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It is that time of year.  All the executives should be toting their favorite team pencil and get ready for a letter to old Saint Nick.

The Winter Meetings have concluded, and as of right now, the Cubs went four hours without acquiring someone so the rest of the league can quickly exhale for a few minutes.

This is the lull of the offseason right now with not much happening from right now all the way through to the Baseball Hall Of Fame Vote.

Speaking of the Hall of Fame – do you think Pete Rose does autograph signings in Vegas on Dec.25 – before gambling the winnings at the craps table right after?  Okay sorry Pete.

As a Dodgers fan – would it be rude to suggest we should go back to the Ned Colletti era where we can sign Free Agents? I mean seriously, lets just wait until the D’Backs sign every pitcher we need. Haven’t they also learned that inking a Japanese or Korean pitcher is not prudent after 3 years in the big leagues?

Also can we go one week without saying that Yasiel Puig is the worst teammate and guy on earth?  I mean we have guys that have lied their butts off the Biogenesis scandal, domestic abuse cases – and even former players that have been arrested for fare more heinous crimes than what Puig has done.  Give the dude a chance to grow up.

Speaking of growing up.  The Nationals have Bryce Harper emerging as an all world player – and these guys are just hell bent to sign every reliever on the planet.  To be fair they did aggressively pursue Jason Heyward before his signing with the Cubs.

I am sure the Nats fans are thrilled about trading Yunel Escobar away so they can receive a steady dosage of Danny Espinosa of Trea Turner next year?  You better have more moves up your sleeve Mike Rizzo.  The Nats fans want to host a World Series game in 2016.

The Mariner fans should ask the jolly fat man for their own time machine to transport back to the last time they hosted a World Series game.. Wait…They never have…oh….

Boston fans should hope Santa gives David Ortiz a microphone for Christmas so he can do speeches in all away parks during his last year saying “This is not my effin city”.

San Francisco Giants fans should just ask for their World Series Championship t-shirts right now as this is an even year.

Tampa Bay is asking and hoping to draw under 800,000 fans in 2016 so they can invoke the Major League movie’s clause that they could be able to leave right fter.

Miami fans should ask for the gift of Jeffrey Loria being thrown out of ownership of the franchise so that someone new can spend some dough on the team.

The Mets already received their Christmas gift last night when Michael Cuddyer retired from his contract and forfeiting $12.5 MIL in salary back to the squad. Best get out of ‘financial jail’ card since the Alex Rodriguez’sfull year suspension of 2014.

The Oakland A’s management should ask Santa if Turner Field can just be magically moved to Oakland after the 2016 (Sully’s idea not mine).  Oh, and a nice size new chalkboard of all the players of the league so Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill can decipher who they can use at 1B next year.

The Los Angeles Angels are hoping to pay an elite level player a top 50 MLB contract (like Cespedes or Gordon) to patrol their outfield.  Another wrong mistake by me.  They are paying $26 MIL+ for Josh Hamilton to play in Texas this year.  Would it be too much trouble for the elves to grant Albert Pujols some new feet as well?

The New York Yankees request that they can breeze through another year without signing a Free Agent Pitcher and not have it cost themselves a playoff spot the next season.

Toronto would love it if Santa could grant them the exchange rate on the $ from 2008 – 2014 – rather than the .75 cents per USD it is at right now.  Another great gift would be some non alcoholic case of champagne so they don’t blow the #1 seed with a 2 game hangover from the AL East Division clinch.

Detroit finally rid itself of its Phil Coke problem in 2015, and now they would love to have a Bullpen who don’t register numbers that would are similar to a heavy shake on the Richter scale.

Cleveland would love if a Free Agent player they signed wouldn’t perform at a negative WAR rate – and then get flipped to another club soon thereafter.

Minnesota must ask that between now and the end of next year – that Ervin Santana doesn’t unknowingly take any foreign substances.

The Kansas City Royals humbly request that they be kept as the underdog in every playoff series they encounter as the only 2 series they have not been the underdog in (2014 World Series in which they lost) and the 2015 ALDS (they were pushed to the brink by Houston before winning) were on the opposite end of the rest of the series where they won as the dog.

Texas is asking for Prince Fielder not to have the precipitous fall in production that his old man had once he hit his early to mid 30’s.  Also another year of not having 20 DL players on the shelf at the same time would be nice.

Houston fans would just love another chance to carry a nice lead in a postseason series and not declare it over like they did in a 6 – 2 Game 4 lead versus the Royals in the ALDS during 2015.

The Philadelphia Phillies simply request that they can have a Starting Pitcher lead the team with more than just 6 wins like what happened in 2015.

Atlanta has to be hoping that Michael Bourn and Nick Swisher somehow don’t qualify for their 2017 Vesting Options.  Also, for their pending Free Agents all to be healthy so they can be dealt in the summer.

The Cardinals fans should be loathed to ask for any kind of Christmas wish with the amount of success they have had since 2000, however maybe it is that the Cubs will not sign or acquire any more players for the rest of the winter.

Pittsburgh has to ask that Michael Morse can outperform Pedro Alvarez in 2016.

Cincinnati just wants any other trade commodity not to be arrested between now and the trade deadline in 2016.

Milwaukee is hoping they can fly under the radar without spending much money – and that they can rebuild their team by the Houston Astros method without the league intervening.

San Diego Padres are just wishing for one of the clubs that are winning the 2015 offseason to bust like they did after the 2014 winter, so that they aren’t the freshest example of a way not to build a contending team.  The Cubs or Diamondbacks busting out in 2016 are the early favorites so far.

Colorado fans are hoping for every team to adopt a policy to implore a humidor in the stadium to hold all of the baseballs like at Coors Field.  Also would it be too much to ask Santa for a Starter or a Reliever to hold the other clubs to an ERA under 4 – with significant Innings?

Coors Field is a beautiful ballpark and often ranks in the top 10 among extreme ballpark chasers. The park even has $4 Rockpile tickets.

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