Holiday "Wishes"

It's probably too late to be making this list since it is Christmas Eve. You've got to give Santa a little more time than this. So let's instead make this a New Years wish list which better suits those of my readers that do not celebrate Christmas anyway. What follows then is a list of wishes for the new year.

The Fan wishes:

• That Bobby Cox can finish out his Atlanta career with a playoff appearance.
• The Cubs would make a managerial and general manager change because they are way off course.
• The Blue Jays have a breakout season from one of their new prospects to take the sting away from Halladay.
• The Royals make a leadership change because what they have isn't working.
• Zack Greinke has another outstanding year.
• Derek Jeter would get 200 more hits.
• Matt Holliday stays with the Cardinals so Pujols get something to hit once in a while.
• Hideki Matsui has a very good year. Thanks again, Godzilla.
• The Bay Rays finish higher in the standings than the Red Sox.
• Junior Griffey hits higher than .270
• Adrian Beltre has a terrific year. He played gamely with no shoulder for half a season and deserves it.
• David Wright would have a bounce back season power-wise.
• The Rangers or Mariners win the AL West.
• The Pirates or someone like them has a breakout season with more than 81 wins.
• Barry Zito would win 20 games and put an end to the miserable sniping about his contract.
• Someone would hit 75 homers in the post-PED era (supposedly).
• Strasberg would turn out to be the real deal for the Nationals.
• Kerry Wood has a good season.
• Matt Wieters becomes the player the hype predicted.
• Francisco Cervelli gets a chance to be the next Posada at the plate (he's already better behind it).
• Some old veteran would come out of the woodwork and put up an amazing season. Dontrelle?
• Joe Torre would get to one more World Series.
• Jason Marquis wins 15 or more games with the Nats.
• Scott Feldman would prove that 2009 wasn't a fluke.
• Josh Hamilton would come back strong professionally and personally.
• Burt Blyleven would get elected to the Hall of Fame.
• Mark McGwire would get elected to the Hall of Fame
• Fred McGriff would get elected to the Hall of Fame.
• Tim Raines would get elected to the Hall of Fame.
• Roberto Alomar would get elected to the Hall of Fame.
• Grady Sizemore has a strong comeback season.
• Mariano Rivera has one more good year. Couldn't bear to see him finally show his age.
• Peter Gammons is more accessible on MLB than he was on ESPN.
• The Brewers would have a monster year so we could see Fielder and Braun on national television more often.
• Dan Uggla is traded and forced to move off of second base.
• Joey Votto has another good year with no emotional issues.
• Edinson Volquez and Johnny Cueto can finally figure out how to be consistently awesome.
• Ozzie Guillen would have one meltdown too many.
• Adam Lind would has another great season.
• Wandy Rodriguez wins 20 games this coming season.
• Both Joba and Phil Hughes have good seasons.
• All of New York falls in love with Granderson's smile.
• Roy Halladay wins 25 games.

Here's hoping all of your wishes come true this holiday season. Enjoy and be safe.