So what did YOU get?

Me, I got a book and the chance to buy more books thanks to a Barnes & Noble gift card.

Why, yes, the Blob is a Good God You're Boring zone.

If I were more adventurous, and less tethered to the constraints of reality, I would have asked for and gotten other stuff. Like, say, new ownership for my Pittsburgh Pirates -- who, after a brief interlude of competence, are currently being poorhoused once again by the present lien-holders.

Ah, well. Maybe all the corporate welfare that just got thrown the leisure class' way will compel the present lien-holders to trickle the windfall down to the baseball team. Speaking of not being tethered to reality.

But, no, in Sportsball World, the gifts to the Blob were a bit more concrete.

For Kevin Durant, for instance, it was being allowed to mug LeBron James with impunity in the late going on Christmas Day, a defensive strategy that allowed the Warriors to hold off the Cavs. And for me?

Well. As one who's increasingly bored by the NFL, it was the opportunity not to watch a single second of pro football on either Sunday or Monday. Matter of fact, I even forgot they were playing games (this is largely because I forgot Sunday was Sunday, being Christmas Eve and all.) There were simply more important matters to attend to over the weekend than watching half the league tank in pursuit of a higher draft position. Sorry about that, Rog.

I will say this, though: The NFL did provide the best moment of the Sportsball Christmas weekend.

That would have been the moment when, after his Chiefs beat the Dolphins on Christmas Eve, their Jolly St. Nick-doppelganger head coach, Andy Reid, showed up dressed for the part.

Well played, Coach. Well played indeed.