While you're sitting around wondering if it's a good idea for the Nats to offer C.J. Wilson a sixth year (yes, it is), we proudly present the above photo (Photo via @cheistWTOP): indeed, it's a Christmas Miracle!
Yes, that's a shockingly skinny Dmitri Young second from left at the Winter Meetings in Dallas, flanked by LaTroy Hawkins and WTOP Washington's Craig Heist. And then there's everybody's favorite symbol of the Jim Bowden Era in DC on the far right, none other than Robert Fick.
And so Da Meat Hook has supposedly lost 70 pounds. Can we chalk this one up to that miracle masseuse, too? Heard this: Mike Rizzo is looking for a veteran left handed bat on the bench...no, not you, Fick.
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