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A writer on yahoo complied a list of what MLB are most thankful for, i like the soriano one the best

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=Ak9F...=yhoo&type=lgns

Don’t think that just because baseball players make millions that they’re good-for-nothing brats who don’t appreciate their fortune. Why, of course they do! And to prove so, some of baseball’s best and brightest started the holiday season with the gift of giving: They helped Yahoo! Sports put together a list of all for which they are thankful.

Let me set the tone for everyone else by saying: I’m thankful that Major League Baseball and its cast of characters gives me so much to write about.

• Miguel Cabrera(notes) is thankful for turkey. Wait. What’s that? Ohhhh. Got it. Miguel Cabrera is thankful for Wild Turkey.
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• Jim Leyland is thankful for the loving embrace of a Marlboro in the throes of a collapse.

• Sin taxes are thankful for the Detroit Tigers.

• TMZ is thankful for Frank and Jamie McCourt.

• Tim Lincecum(notes) is thankful for NORML.

• Manny Ramirez(notes) is thankful somebody talked him out of taking those female fertility drugs. It would be a shame if he had to go through Mannypause.

• Mark McGwire is thankful he can forget about the past for, oh, another three months or so.

• Ozzie Guillen is thankful for his knowledge of the English language, thus doubling the number of ways he can call somebody a stupid (expletive).

• Alex Rodriguez(notes) is half-thankful for that kindly old stable hand who brushes his coat and clips his hooves.

• Derek Jeter(notes) is thankful that his girlfriends are always hotter than A-Rod’s.

• Chase Utley(notes) is thankful for L.A. Looks. And you know what? So are we. Grease on, Chase. Grease on.

• Barry Zito(notes) is thankful for the two sexiest words to baseball players: guaranteed contract.

• Alfonso Soriano(notes) is thankful that Barry Zito exists, thus absolving him from the worst-contract-around title for at least a few years.

• Vernon Wells(notes) is thankful he plays in Toronto and no one knows that from 2011-14 he’s scheduled to make $21.5 million a year.

• Roy Halladay(notes) is thankful that by this time next year, if not sooner, he will have to worry about the Canadian exchange rate only a couple times a year.

• Jamie Moyer(notes) is thankful President Obama put off those death panels for a year.

• Ryan Howard(notes) is grateful he decided not to spend Thanksgiving at Jared’s this year. Turkey sandwiches? Blergh.

• Adrian Gonzalez(notes) is thankful he plays in San Diego, because if you strip away the balmy weather, he might as well be in Cleveland.

• Ichiro(notes) is thankful for Cleveland . OK, no he isn’t.

• Matt Holliday(notes) is thankful for his cup.

• Holliday is also thankful for Scott Boras.

• Scott Boras is thankful for Scott Boras.

• Zack Greinke(notes) is thankful for Negro Leagues Day, because he can pretend for one game that he’s not pitching for the Royals.

• Milton Bradley(notes) is thankful those anger management classes worked.

• Umpires Tim McClelland, Phil Cuzzi and Randy Marsh are thankful for half-off exams at LensCrafters.

• Aroldis Chapman is thankful for America, where the virtues of greed and disloyalty immediately absorb into the bloodstream upon entry.

• Jair Jurrjens(notes) is thankful for the letter J. Otherwise, his name would be Air Urrens.

• Joe Mauer(notes) is thankful the Hennepin County prosecutor does not go after people who steal signs.

• CC Sabathia(notes) is thankful for the slimming effect of Yankee pinstripes.

• Pablo Sandoval(notes) is thankful for the eventual evolution of his nickname once he loses weight this offseason: Panda Express.

• Mark Buehrle(notes) is thankful for DeWayne Wise(notes).

• DeWayne Wise is thankful for the Chicago autograph shows that will keep his 1040s full long past retirement.

• Barry Bonds(notes) is thankful that the American justice system works in such expedient fashion.

• Joe Maddon is thankful his team missed the playoffs this year, so he wasn’t forced to wear that awful Ed Hardy gear again.

• Albert Pujols(notes) is thankful that nobody has found out his real identity: Trebla Slojup, from the third moon of Enihcam, where they manufacture robotic baseball players.

• Even if Bud Selig oversees a sport full of spoiled millionaires, greedy owners, steroid freaks, horrid TV announcing and bad umpiring, he is thankful that he doesn’t have an impossible job, like trying to defend the BCS.

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Scott Boras is thankful for Scott Boras.