A belated Merry Christmas to the small handful of folks who have found this little corner of the internet!!!

Since there has been a dearth of Phillies news, I’ve been spending more time building out the site. An upgrade to WordPress’ latest version, adding the ability to embed audio, and a Photo Gallery were on The Shibe Times’ Christmas list.

Check out the photo gallery here. I will be formatting it in a more organized fashion, but for now it will do. Pics from my last trip to Cooperstown, seeing the Phils at Wrigley Field in 2006 and the last game at the Vet are among the galleries available for your perusal.

One final note: it was a decidedly Phillies Christmas in our home, as I’m sure it was in yours. Hats, books, memorabilia and DVDs commemorating the franchise and the ’08 World Series were everywhere you looked.

One last Christmas gift arrives on Jan. 1 at 6 pm when the MLB Network launches. For those in the Philly area on Comcast, it’s on Channel 280 and there are a couple hours of content that they are running on a loop, including old footage and behind-the-scenes footage of the creation of the channel. This looks like my new dafault channel when there is nothing else on.