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As a follow-up to yesterday’s post about my New York Mets Christmas tree, I proudly present my list of the Top 10 Mets Christmas Ornaments I don’t (yet) have on my tree:

#1 – Mets Nutcrackers [link]: While watching the Nutcracker Suite, I never imagined the Nutcracker prince watching Mets games, but he had to be doing something while hiding around in that giant present.

#2 – Mets Hat: This ornament is cool because it has the actual Mets hat texture. I might just have to pick one of these up.

#3 – Homemade Mets Sweater: Jennifer from Major Knitter knitted up this homemade beauty.

#4 – Mets Christmas Tree with Santa [link]: The best part of this ornament is the Santa putting the Mets star on top of the Christmas tree. Told you Santa was a Mets fan!

#5 – Mets Santa Bear with Mets Santa Hat: No Christmas tree is complete without a Santa bear and no Santa Bear is complete without a Mets Santa hat!

#6 – Mets Snowman with Scarf: There are many Mets snowman ornaments out there, but this one has the large Mets logo and matching orange and blue scarf and hat.

#7 – David Wright and Pedro Martinez team up with Santa: Okay, fine. Pedro isn’t exactly a Met anymore, and we’d rather see a Wright and Santana team up with Santa ornament, but the spirit behind this ornament is in the right place, so it made the list. Not sure which position Santa plays though…

#8 – David Wright: Okay, so if you couldn’t stomach the Pedro part of the last ornament after his turn to the dark side (ahem, Philadelphia), then this David Wright ornament is for you. Too bad none of the player ornaments actually look anything like the players they are supposed to represent.

#9 – Mike Piazza Shiny Christmas: This ornament kicks it old school in a I-didn’t-just-jump-on-the-Mets-bandwagon sort of way. Plus, Piazza is one of my favorite Mets ever… too bad this ornament can only be found in baseball card packs from the 90′s.

#10 – Mets mini stocking: Jennifer from Major Knitter is at it again. Am I happy she uses her knitting skills for good and not Yankees stuff evil.

What other Mets Christmas ornaments have you found that you think should be on this list? If you take a look, there are actually many more around than you would ever think of around the web or on your neighbor’s Christmas tree.

At least they can keep our minds off of the injury debacle of 2009 and allow us to focus on the presents waiting for us in the 2010 season!

Thanksgiving is just around the corner this year and I was reminded of that in the funniest of ways: chocolate turkeys.

It wasn’t going into Walmart or Target and seeing all of the Halloween candy go to 75% and then 90% off.

It wasn’t seeing them pick out the Rockefeller Christmas tree to go on it’s trip to New York City.

Or the early-bird specially-priced tickets to the Radio City Christmas Spectacular.

It wasn’t the sudden chill in the air, nor the leaves flying by as I stepped out of my car at the end of a long work day.

Or even glancing at the calendar and seeing it was already November 12th.

It wasn’t reading about Thanksgiving on a Twitter post, Facebook status, or MySpace update.

You might think it was because I already had a cool Christmas tree idea in the works for this year and all of the necessary lights and ornaments already purchased. But no.

It was chocolate turkeys:

Chocolate turkeys — rare creatures that only come out in the weeks preceding the holiday and no time else. They are more elusive than chocolate bunnies for Easter, chocolate Santas for Christmas, and chocolate hearts for Valentine’s Day.

These turkeys only come out in November. And that’s a good thing, because they are so delicious and I would be eating chocolate turkeys all year long if I could…