Christmas HaloLinks!

Welcome to Christmas Day, everyone. For all our members, I sincerely hope that everyone is having a fantastic holiday season this month.

Now that our Gentile members have caught up with our Jewish clan on the gift-giving thing, let’s do our annual thing of sharing good cheer and swapping stories of the best LAA stuff that you gave, or got, for the season!

A very Merry Christmas Day to all.

Tyler Skaggs giving the greatest gift of all...........

Paid subscriber access, but for those who are...an updated scouting report on Kevin Maitan..........

All day marathon on Fox Sports West full of the best of LAA 2017...........

The Twins are active, sniffing around Yu Darvish...........and also looking at keeping alive whatever juice is left in Mike Napoli’s career............

Darvish was supposed to be inking with the Cubs, but called baloney on the MSM reports...........

The Yankees are about to get Gerrit Cole..........No they are not..........Yes they are..........No they are not............

Speaking of final juices, Bartolo Colon (!) is willing to take a minor league deal with the Mets..........And, yeah, you are really really old, because Dante Bichette JUNIOR is trying to hang on to any hope for a real pro career...........

The Mess in Miami didn’t have to be that way. The alternate bidders would not have pillaged the MLB roster to rebuild............This is something that Manfred denied knowing about beforehand..........and then got caught lying about it.............And then Manfred sicced his attack dogs on LeBetard via the ESPN brass...........

MLB is looking to expand into China. Sabermetric diplomacy?..............

Jeff Sullivan (of FanGraphs), the big Mariners booster, trolls the official M’s twitter maven hard..............This was the bestest tweet in the exchange...........

Personally, I would prefer that the MSM reporters remain objective, and neutral, and leave the attitude and idiocy to us...............

The BBWAA Hall of Fame voting has become ever more shriveled up old prunes of increasingly high standards, and the HoF needs to step in and fix it with better instructions...........