Oh, God. I was tempted to do this with a Muskbag post, but decided against it. Big news. With this post, HJE has just moved into quadruple digits in post count. This is the big 1,000. That’s an awful lot of wasted time. In that time (well, at least since I turned on Google Analytics):

  • The most popular posts (other than the Shoutbox, of course), were as follows:

    1. The Hendry luncheon
    2. The Eddie Vedder song
    3. The Izturis asshole rubbing
    4. The e-mail battle with the Mend My Heart Guy
    5. The B126 entry for Todd Hundley (he edged out Juan Pierre by about 400 pageviews)

  • Other than the various incarnations of “hire jim essian,” the most popular searches that landed you at HJE were as follows:

    1. “someday we’ll go all the way”
    2. “ted lilly kill”
    3. “bottom 126″
    4. “#70 damon berryhill hirejimessian” (how the hell someone remembered Berryhill’s spot on the B126, remembered the name of the site, and couldn’t find it is beyond me)
    5. “vorp donkey”
    6. “flannj” (quit Googling yourself, flan; you’ll go blind)
    7. “bocaj blog” (awesome)
    8. “store shop” (I would love to know what those people were actually trying to buy)
    9. “shawn estes bottom 126″
    10. “jim edmonds collie”
    11. “rick wrona ricky gutierrez” (what?)
    12. “lazy blogging video” (appropriate)
    13. “18. dave veres”
    14. “jim essian speech” (if anyone has a copy of one of his speeches, I want it)
    15. “worst 126 cubs”

  • HJE has gotten by far the most traffic from Desipio (thanks, Andy), followed by the old Fire Lou Piniella, Google, Prosportsdaily.com, and (gulp) Bleed Cubbie Blue.
  • The most visitors HJE has had in a day was on January 18, 2008, when the aforementioned Hendry post went up. First runner-up was on March 28, 2008, when Part Four of our Preseason Round Table, a Sweet Uncle Lou post about Ron Stilanovich, and a FNF between the IGH Guy and the Mend My Heart Guy slugged it out. Second runner-up was on September 18, 2008, the day after the Eddie Vedder song went up.
  • We’re well over the 10,000 comment mark. You guys are at 9,174 comments on the WordPress commenting system, and that’s not including the four months I foolishly had us using the Disqus comment system (sorry). Our top commenter (myself excluded) from the Disqus months was JackB with 145, and the top commenter over here on WordPress is CT followed, in order, by Bocaj, BigFlax, StPatrick, and TDubbs. The number of comments on the Shoutbox? Well. I have no idea, and probably don’t want to find out.
  • The most commented-on posts under the WordPress comments system are as follows:

    1. Barrett to Puck the Fadres
    2. You Gone, White Sox
    3. Meet the Mets; Their Writers Suck, Too
    4. “You Make Me” Juan “to Puke” Pierre
    5. Sweet Uncle Lou’s Friday Roundup: The “Anyone But Podsednik” Edition (BONUS: Includes A-Ram Baller’s amazing descent into madness)

It’s been a blast getting to 1,000 posts. Thanks to everyone who has been here from the beginning or who has joined up along the way. To 2,000 we go.