Oh, hey, it's December. That means a lot of things to a lot of people, but to me it mostly just means not being able to go 30 seconds without hearing a song with bells in it or seeing a themed list. Since I have no musical (or any other discernible) talent, my seasonal contributions are limited to the latter. Hence this.
I went through the list of all 887 guys who have played for the Padres, and plucked out all the names that are even remotely Christmasy. I thought it would be a list of Chrises with a handful of other dudes sprinkled in, but the ratio shifted the other way. Here are all the Padres with even slightly seasonal names, broken into categories:
White Christmas
Henry Blanco
Wade LeBlanc
Rondell White
Matt Whiteside
Wally Whitehurst
Foodstuffs
Aaron Cunningham
Atlee Hammaker
Erik Hamren
Justin Hampson
Goose Gossage
Adam Eaton
Johnny Grubb
Candy Sierra
Rick Sweet
Glenn Dishman
Reppin' the colors
Gary Green
Khalil Greene
Tim Redding
Christmas bells
Derek Bell
Heath Bell
Mark Bellhorn (bonus instrument!)
Brian Boehringer
Decorations
Mike Ivie
Jon Garland
(and you'll need one or two of these if you want boughs of holly in your halls)
Jaff Decker
Marty Decker
Presents
Milton Bradley
Dave Cash
Rob Bowen
Brad Boxberger
Randy Byers
Saints
Nick Hundley
Nick Vincent
Uncategorized
Angel Bravo
- tree-topper
Storm Davis
- like, a snowstorm
Rob Deer
- the rein- variety, of course
Leon Everitt
- "Leon" is "Noel" backward. Thanks, Ellen Raskin.
Irving Falu
- because of Washington Irving
Wiki Gonzalez
- because I used Wikipedia to double-check that Washington Irving is who I was thinking of
Jesus Guzman
- shares a name with the marquee newborn
Drew Carpenter
- because of the occupation the baby took when he grew up
Dirk Hayhurst
Ray Hayward
- manger padding
Gaylord Perry
- don we now our Gaylord Perry
Iffy ones
Jerry Manuel
- Jerr-Emmanuel
Al Santorini
- the closest name to 'Santa'
Dick Sharon
- sharin' is carin'
Mark Wasinger
- wassailing/singer
Pete LaForest
- where you get la tree
Jason Bartlett
- partridge in a pear tree
Rick Wise
- just need two more wise men...
Actually, that gives me another, better idea.
Three wise men
Chris Young
Craig Breslow
Ross Ohlendorf
Lastly, the Chrises
Chris Brown
Chris Burke
Chris Cannizzaro
Chris Denorfia
Chris Gomez
Chris Gwynn
Chris Hammond
Chris James
Chris Jones
Chris Krug
Chris Nelson
Chris Oxspring
Chris Robinson
Chris Stewart
Chris Welsh
Chris Young