Deck the Halls with Lucas Duda.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Fifty years and one day ago, on the day that JFK was assasinated, Phillies Records released what would become perhaps the greatest collection of Christmas Songs in pop music. The Mets commemorate the 50th anniversary of JFK's assassination and Phil Spector's A Christmas Gift to You with this:

http://mlb.mlb.com/fan_forum/greeting_card.jsp?c_id=nym

[Edgy MD]

It's troubling, is it not?

[Benjamin Grimm]

I think it may be time to stop rooting for this team.

[TransMonk]

Wow.

[Edgy MD]

In Harvey's defense, he was really there to talk about Qualcomm.

[MFS62]

[crossout:e0kjvm7c]Its almost (but not quite) better than some of the Friday Vol. 1 songs.[/crossout:e0kjvm7c]
Ouch.
Later

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Ye gods.







Ye have abandoned us, obviously.

[Zvon]

Actually Lucas put on the best performance of the lot of 'em.

[Guest d'Kong76]

What the funk does it have to do with JFK ... enough nonsense already ...

http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/nyy/fan_forum/holiday_card.jsp
http://mlb.mlb.com/fan_forum/greeting_card.jsp?c_id=bos
http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/fan_forum/greeting_card.jsp?c_id=phi
http://atlanta.braves.mlb.com/fan_forum/greeting_card.jsp?c_id=atl
http://mlb.mlb.com/fan_forum/greeting_card.jsp?c_id=mia
http://washington.nationals.mlb.com/fan_forum/greeting_card.jsp?c_id=was

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Holy hell, I thought seeing the other team videos would make ours look better, or at least more sufferable in context.

It kinda does the other thing.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Yeah, the whole marketing department should have been
fired like two decades ago.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

Edgy MD wrote: In Harvey's defense, he was really there to talk about Qualcomm.

BAM! Bad ass.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

OK, the Yankees version is gloriously awful.

Autographed ornaments that make we question the literacy of most of the team aside, you gotta love the prominent role assigned to ARod, whom they are working so hard to jettison!

[metirish]

Hilarious it's so bad.

[G-Fafif]

Holy Hanukkah Bush.

Niese actually wasn't bad. OTOH, kind of reassuring to discover there's something Matt Harvey isn't superb at.

Besides staying healthy, I mean.

[batmagadanleadoff]

What the funk does it have to do with JFK ... enough nonsense already ... http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/nyy/fan_forum/holiday_card.jsp http://mlb.mlb.com/fan_forum/greeting_card.jsp?c_id=bos http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/fan_forum/greeting_card.jsp?c_id=phi http://atlanta.braves.mlb.com/fan_forum/greeting_card.jsp?c_id=atl http://mlb.mlb.com/fan_forum/greeting_card.jsp?c_id=mia http://washington.nationals.mlb.com/fan_forum/greeting_card.jsp?c_id=was

It's got nothing to do with Qualcomm either, but you weren't compelled to make that point. Are you the only one on this forum who needed to flush out all those other links to MLB Xmas videos to realize that the Mets song wasn't linked to JFK?

[dgwphotography]

metsguyinmichigan wrote: OK, the Yankees version is gloriously awful. Autographed ornaments that make we question the literacy of most of the team aside, you gotta love the prominent role assigned to ARod, whom they are working so hard to jettison!

The Yankees can't do anything without saying, "Bow to our greatness", can they?

In that last scene, the kids looked like they were in prison. Appropriate imagery...

[Guest d'Kong76]

Jeter does come off a bit messiahesque in their video card.

[Lefty Specialist]

In Hollywood, they bury all traces of dogs like this out in the desert somewhere.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I mean, it's better than sending out "The Day The Clown Cried" as a Passover greeting, I guess.

Plus, my kid likes it. Like, a LOT. Like, we watched it six times suck-cessively before I employed the Daddy Veto last night.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I just had to watch this four times in a row. Again.

I'm really starting to miss Anna Benson.

[MFS62]

This reminds me. If you pass a Sidewalk Santa and he looks like one of the Wilpons, it probably is - trying to get enough money for a Type A Free Agent.

Later

[seawolf17]

Am I the only person here who loves this? I think it's awesome.

[Guest themetfairy]

I love it, despite the fact that it's far from awesome. But it cracks me up.

Face it - except for David Wright (who is always a good sport) and Justin Turner (who may be high, or who just genuinely loves Christmas music), there are hostage videos that look more natural than these guys. That said, something about it just makes me laugh.

[metsmarathon]

i adore it.

[dinosaur jesus]

I think it's fine. It's embarrassing, but in a good way.

The one from the Yankees looks cheap and grandiose at the same time. Perfect.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I'd like it more if it were genuinely bad, but, I mean, d'Arnaud looks like he's been tortured into doing it. So it just misses being so bad it's good. It's so bad it's bad.

[Edgy MD]

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[batmagadanleadoff]

I'd bet that there's at least one Met with a golden singing voice, but he won't show it off because of the macho culture he exists in.

[Edgy MD]

"Oh... I could be coaxed."