I would have chosen a different caption

MLB.com chose "Actor Jim Belushi leads Cubs fans in a song during the rally."

I would have chosen Bart Simpson's classic line of "Come on, snipers! Where are you?!?!"

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I call shennanigans

Checking out Fire Joe Morgan today, I found out about this--a bracket-style polling competition to determine the "Sports Blog of the Year."

Remarkably, we were overlooked by the people at Busted Coverage. So as any dignified person would do when passed over in a silly popularity contest, I'm here to bitch and moan and accuse them of arbitrary bias.

Are we not edgy enough? Or Jewish enough? Too racially insensitive? Is it beacause we're not a bunch of mysoginist drunks who load up our site with pictures of scantily clad women to attract visitors? Evidently, you need "readers" to get recognized by other people.

Well, Busted Coverage--Fuck. You. And to all our readers out there, if you're a true fan of YCS, you will never, ever go to Busted Coverage. And if you do, I have a special super-secret way of tracking the internet activity of every IP address that's ever visited here, and if I find you've been reading that blog, I will block you from this site forever and mail you a letter bomb. So don't do it.

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