Happy Holidays

Just wanted to take the time to wish everyone a safe and happy holiday, and thank you for all your nice emails and Tweets this offseason.

I feel truly blessed to have great family, friends and a job I love and appreciate you letting me into your lives, whether it’s at home, at work, on your phones, or whatever. You’ve made it fun for me in my rookie season on the beat and I look forward to continuing –and stepping up Orioles coverage — even further in 2011.
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Not much in Orioles’ related news is expected in this next week, as most teams are relatively quiet in the time between Christmas and New Years. I wrote about Nick and Christina Markakis’ holiday endeavors on Orioles.com and you can read that story here. Some pretty great stuff they’ve got going on there through their RightSide Foundation.

Here are two pictures from Tuesday’s shopping spree event, courtesy of the RightSide Foundation…

BACK ROW: Shelly Farrar-Wynn, Ella Farrar-Wynn, Christina Markakis, Jacqueline Bassett & Nick Markakis
FRONT ROW: Harry Farrar-Wynn, Troy Holly & Anthony Farrar-Wynn (young boy in the wheel chair)

Nick Markakis helps Harry Farrar-Wynn fit all his new stuff into the shopping cart.