To tide us over the long, dark and largely baseball-free Christmas period (though Fox Sports Arizona are having a marathon on Christmas Day, but more on that tomorrow...), let’s go back the idea we did last year, and rewrite the 12 days of Christmas with a D-backs theme, appropriate to 2016. In case, for some inexplicable reason you’re not aware of this song, the lyrics end up at (more or less - there are apparently regional variations!):
On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love sent to me:
- Twelve Drummers Drumming
- Eleven Pipers Piping
- Nine Ladies Dancing
- Eight Maids a Milking
- Seven Swans a Swimming
- Six Geese a Laying
- Five Gold Rings
- Four Calling Birds
- Three French Hens
- Two Turtle Doves
- and a Partridge in a Pear Tree
For reference - and to avoid particularly shameless repetition of the 2015 verses!