12/29/2003 09:37:00 AM by Rob

It appears that MLB took a holiday, too

Every day, I watched the news, waiting for something Cubs news-worthy to break in with. The most Cubs-worthy news ANYWHERE in the world was the list of what I received for Christmas, which includes but is not exclusive to:

- Prior #22 Home gamer, which even fits
- 2004 Cubs Calendar
- "Durocher's Cubs", by Claerbaut
- "Wrigley Field", by Green & Jacob
- A plaque entitled "Chicago Cubs - There Are No Other Teams", with pictures of various old uniforms at different points of the Cub timeline - very sharp
- A picture of the Wrigley marquee right before gametime with my name computer-generated in the display

All in all, a very materialistically exciting Christmas.

On the 23rd, though, we found out that my father-in-law has cancer, which has spread to his brain. Although he seems in decent health now, we are told that he has months left with us, and of course, this is about the worst news we could ever receive. The fact that it was at Christmastime, well, it just was not a joyous holiday at the Casa de Sloth.

Anyway, let's get Woody signed, let's see how much it is going to take to get Pudge up in here, and let's get this going again, OK?

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