Happy New Year!

It's been kind of slow around these parts the last few days, and I don't expect this day to be any different.

Thus, I'd like to take this opportunity to wish you all a happy and healthy New Year! 2008 was not a great year for the Yankees, but it was another great year for this blog. Of course, I'd be nowhere without you, the reader. And for that, I am extremely grateful.

In case you missed some things, let's take a moment to look back at some of the memorable things that happened over the course of the blog year.

The blog title was mentioned in a newspaper article. I got many Yankees fans drunk during baseball games (you have Michael Kay to thank for that). I became a Rays fan. I made an unofficial soundtrack of infamous Yankee Stadium music (it's like the place never closed!). The Yankees signed CC Sabathia, A.J. Burnett (prompting me to make this picture) and Mark Teixeira (on Festivus, no less). I'm sure other things happened along the way, but these are what I can think of off the top of my head.

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Let's make 2009 a great year, both for the blog and for our beloved New York Yankees. Once again, thanks for taking time out of your busy day to come here and talk Yankees baseball. Happy New Year to all!

Yankees' New Year's resolutions

First and foremost, Happy New Year to all Scott Proctor's Arm's readers. If no one was reading, I probably wouldn't be writing (which would make some people happy, I'm sure). As I said in the Festivus post, blogging this year has been a lot of fun, and I hope it's just as fun in 2008.

Anyway, don't ask how, but I got a hold of some players' New Year's resolutions.

Robinson Cano: I will listen to our General Manager when he tells me to only play in six winter league games (he was later seen writing this on a blackboard 150 times in a Dominican Republic classroom).

Chien-Ming Wang: I will finally step up and win a playoff game.

Roger Clemens: I will not make another comeback.

Derek Jeter: I will learn how to field ground balls to my left. I will learn to regain my clutchness that has seemed to vanish.

Mike Mussina: I will have an E.R.A. under 5.00 this year. I will not complain about pitching on abnormal rest (I really believe that...).

Chris Britton: I will lose 25 pounds.

Edwar Ramirez: I will learn another pitch.

Chase Wright: I will learn how to induce ground balls.

Kyle Farnsworth: I will become a reliable eighth-inning reliever.

New York Yankees: We will win the 2008 World Series.

Happy New Year everybody! See you in 2008!