I didn’t realize it was possible to rip off a parody of your own work, but some how Al Yellon has managed to do just that. A loyal Son of Jim Essian and former reader of the Boring Cubs Blog pointed out that Yellon has taken it upon himself to recreate the B126 using G-rated language. The B126 was, of course, originally created as a parody of Yellon’s ludicrous Top 100 Cubs of All Time. Observe the “coincidences” and decide for yourselves.
January 15, 2007: Hire Jim Essian (then Fire Lou Piniella) launches the Bottom 126 with its first entry, Sandy Martinez.
January 30, 2007: Just over two weeks after the launch of the B126, Boring Cubs Blog asks the question, “Who’s the Worst Cub of All Time?” Yellon credits a Marlins blog (seriously?) and a bologna-induced hallucination for the idea.
October 17, 2008: Some simpleton on the Boring Cubs Blog asks if it’s possible to make a list of the 25 worst Cubs of all time. 25? Phssssht. Coincidentally, he cites the Top 100 Cubs of All-Time as his inspiration.
October 27, 2008: Yellon launches the B126 knock-off, the “Cub Can of Worms” with Harry Chiti. Yellon even uses the phrase “Bottom 25″ at one point, yet fails to use the brilliant nickname Harry “Balls” Chiti. Lame.
October 30, 2008: Yellon releases the second of his stupid series with top B126er Todd Hundley. Does that picture look familiar? It should, if you were reading HJE on June 8, 2007. I can understand up to this point if Yellon hadn’t lowered himself to reading HJE. I suppose it was conceivable that he could have never heard of the B126. But there are two problems with that theory, and this is why I’m calling Yellon out on being the Carlos Mencia/Robin Williams/Dane Cook of blogging.
1. Yellon is a comment Nazi. You know that anyone who is pathetic enough to preemptively ban anyone on his site who reads Desipio, he reads every single inane comment on his site. So you know he read this one in which he is all but told he’s stealing my shtick.
2. Just after I saw Yellon had put up his Hundley entry, I Googled “Todd Hundley” to see where HJE‘s entry stood. I suspect that Yellon did the same when he was writing his entry. At that time, Hundley’s B126 entry was #1 on the Google search. It has since been bumped down thanks to the shitty SB Nation community. But it’s still right underneath Yellon’s entry. I suspect he’s seen it.
In conclusion, not only are you a boring, bad writer, Al, but now you’re a crook. Get bent.
There goes your invite to this year’s blogger’s luncheon, Kerm.
Al Yellon is about as cool as my Super Duper Duty F-250.
He should pre-emptively put Kevin Millar on his all-time worst armchair GM Cubs list. What a hack.
You’re gonna from Al for this, BK. He doesn’t like people that go into the future, steal his ideas, go back to the present(which is now the past), pass of his future ideas(which is now the present) as their own, and then claim they had the idea first. Al has your number and consider yourself banned from Boring Cubs Blog.
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The worst part of it is that two of the three Cubs he’s talked about don’t suck hard. Harry Chiti was just part of the shitty ’50s Cubs, and Jimmy St. Vrain just made one stupid play. So it’s not “The Worst Cubs Ever”, it’s “I’m Going To Talk About Random Players Who Have Been On The Cubs Who Aren’t As Good As Geovany Soto”.
Y’know, which is like every Cub. Ever.
Check out moral oral’s comment under Al’s Hundley article. It epitomizes the lameness of the BCB fanbase. Assholes, all of them.
@Jarritos – I saw that. For those who don’t want to click over there, he basically says the post is in bad taste, because it implies that Hundley sucked because he was drunk.
I agree. It’s in poor taste to imply that Hundley sucked because he was drunk. That’s why I just flat-out said it.
@Bad Kermit –
Damn right. Although, I can’t agree that the only reason Hundley sucked was booze. I will cite the following as examples of high-functioning baseball drunks (certainly not all-inclusive) as evidence: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Wade Boggs…and basically everybody else who was good until about 1995 or so, when ballplayers really started getting into that Jeebus guy.
Hey I don’t waste my time with other blogs. So fuck those other people
Maybe Hundley was drunk because he sucked? Ever think of that?
Or did I just blow…your…mind???
@Stop Yellon At Me –
Geez, I should use that PREVIEW button I’ve heard so much about.
Dear Kermit:
While I hate Yellon as much (or more) than the next guy, I’m not sure that you can “steal” an idea as general as “The Worst Cubs of All Time.” The timing and content of BCB supports your theory, but people have been doing this sort of thing for years.
Son of a bitch! He’s stolen our “Random Cub” idea!
@Jake – Christ I meant “Cubs of Yore”. “Random Cub” was our original working title.