The 30 MLB Teams as Christmas Items: AL EAST Edition

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Now, on to today's post:

I'm gearing up for my annual 12 Days of Christmas - a tradition I started last year and since I'm planning on doing it again this year I can call it "annual," right?!  Anyhow, as my mind has been in the Christmas mode for a bit now let's start the season of joy a little bit early by describing all 30 MLB teams as Christmas items.  

Like ESPN, I'm going to focus on the AL East first and foremost - so buckle up and enjoy my picks for what Christmas item best describes each team in the AL East.  Of course, I'd love to hear your picks for any of the teams as well!  

AL East:  

Bells - Boston Red Sox

Loud, bold, brash...but ultimately much more bluster than bite, the Red Sox are the ringing bells of MLB.  Oh yes, they'll make the presence known wherever they are but in the end it's usually easy enough to ignore them.

Gingerbread man - Baltimore Orioles

Who better to be represented by a man who's literally designed to feed others than the perpetual AL East farm team, the Orioles.  After all, it's the Orioles that the other teams in their division get to feast on all season long for those delicious W's...and usually around late July it's almost every other team in MLB that comes to the feast the is the Orioles looking for their own Gingerbread man player to pry away and feast on.  

Snowflakes - Tampa Bay Rays

They say that no two snowflakes are the same and I say that same thing can be said for Rays teams.  In fact, much like snowflakes - if you get a bunch of them together they become indistinguishable, the Rays have the same characteristic.  Year after year, you can expect the Rays to play extremely smart baseball and have plenty of players who can field multiple positions.  The names of the players each year change but the overall look of the team remains remarkably consistent...much like a snow covered field each winter.  The individual snowflakes may change but the end result looks remarkably the same.

Tinsel - New York Yankees

Tinsel may have been the rage many years ago but now it's mostly seen as over-the-top gaudy and generally undesirable.  For all the supposed sparkle and shine, the reality is that tinsel has no lights...and without lights, it's nothing more than fancy tin foil.

Wrapped gifts - Toronto Blue Jays

It must be great to be a Blue Jays fan because it sure seems like they constantly have some new, shiny gift to unwrap and add to their team.  Whether it's yet another young stud hitter brought up from the minors or perhaps a star free agent signing, the Blue Jays have no shortage of gifts under the tree.  Unfortunately, like many Christmas gifts - the one thing that Blue Jays fans really want (a Championship) never quite seems to be underneath the tree.

That does it for the AL East.  I plan to do similar posts for the other five divisions - but it'll keep getting harder and harder since I don't want to repeat any of the Christmas items!  Let me know what you think of my choices here!