Oh, Al Yellon. You’re such a predictably insecure nitwit. It boggles the mind and boils the blood that anyone in their right minds would ever value your opinion about the Cubs or, for that matter, anything else that isn’t either a hair growth product or a thinly-sliced piece of bologna. Why the sudden ire for a blog I’ve read probably a total of twelve times in my left? Well, here is some backstory for you.

I received a couple of e-mails today informing me that the Winter Meetings Preview video was making the e-mail rounds. Since I know you regulars don’t actually read the articles here, I was curious to see who might have picked up and passed on the video.

In investigating the matter, I noticed that I was getting a modest amount of traffic from four different links all originating at Bleed Cubbie Blue. Interested, I followed the links.

The first one? Broken. 404 page. Must have been a mistake.

The second one? Broken. 404 page. Hmm.

Third one? Same deal. Maybe Al needs to hire a tech guy. Also, some interesting writers who aren’t completely self-absorbed.

The fourth was actually a “good” link, if there is such a link that points to BCB. The link WAS “http://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2008/12/18/696822/will-everyone-who-wants-th” (maybe time to consider shortening those hyperlinks, Al), which is the start one of the lines from the Winter Meetings video.

Someone on BCB had posted a link to the video. The first couple of comments mentioned that a similar link had been posted the previous day and had been promptly removed. I can second that, as the THREE previous links which had gone up netted a total of only eight hits. Considering the number of simpletons who eat up the dreck at that site, that was a scant few. That means the links must have been taken down almost immediately. This post had been up for somewhat longer, presumably because Al was taking a carefully-timed shit in order to ensure that the Cubs have success in 2009.

Conversation turned to why Al might have taken down the original links. Initially, I suspected that Al had been upset that I had used his image in the video without his permission. But maybe that’s not the case. Click to enlarge the below image to see how the conversation (briefly) went.





Not ten minutes later, the link was gone, and I received this message.





I didn’t even get a nice explanation like, “Considering the context of your comment, I know that banning you is the absolute pinnacle of sweet irony, but I cannot tolerate dissonance on my site, especially not from you, since we’re now doing humor (LOL! Bravo!)! Besides, I can’t have links to your site driving traffic away from my vast PORTFOLIO OF PICTURES OF UNION WORKERS BUILDING A HOCKEY RINK! Some people might consider it CRAZY to have five posts in three days about the building of a hockey rink, especially on a baseball blog. Or on a hockey blog. Or on an engineering blog. But not me! Maybe you’re just mad about my completely ‘original’ (wink) idea to start a list of bad Cubs players! Or perhaps you’re upset that you didn’t have the idea to pathetically pander to people who run good sites that don’t make everyone’s eyes bleed!”

Christ, all those links were just on the first PAGE of that eyesore of a site. In “honor” of Al, we’re going to celebrate Bleed Jimmy Essian Day arond here tomorrow. We’re going to have a brand-new guest blogger who goes by the moniker “Aldolf” doing most of the work around here. Stay tuned!