Plagiarism

Plagiarism Def- 

1. to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own

2. to use (another’s production) without crediting the source

Today over at Bleed Cubbie Blue Al took a break from his riveting “Guess this Cub players pubic mane”  series to write a post of original thought. Yellon has figured out how to fix the World Baseball Classic and wants you all to read about his “idea”. The only problem is that Dave Cameron from USS Mariner and Fangraphs came up with this idea and published it a week ago.  Since Al knows that 99.0% of his readership is either legally retarded or in 7th grade he knew he didn’t have to leave a link or even pass a hat tip to Cameron because nobody at BCB has ever heard of awesome sites like Fangraphs. Yellon had to feel real comfortable that he could rip off Cameron’s work and get away with it. Let’s take a look at some of the similarities shall we?  Al’s “work” will be in bold, Cameron’s will be italicized.

Here’s my idea. We have already seen that March, during spring training, isn’t a very good time. 

Ok, fair enough, Al isn’t the first to criticize Selig and Co. for having a tourney full of high impact games when players are usually golfing and stretching. Still, here is what Cameron had to say last week.

I know there’s no perfect time to have this tournament, but the middle of spring training simply doesn’t appear feasible.

So now that Al has established he hates the current WBC let’s get to the meat of his “idea”.

So once every three years, we’re going to replace the outmoded All-Star Game, which, even with Bud Selig’s silly “This Time It Counts” gimmick, has outlived its original purpose. Instead, we’ll turn that mid-July week into WBC Week 

As soon as I read this I knew Al had stolen all he wrote from this

So, here’s my suggestion. Cancel the All-Star Game, turn the three day break into a seven day break, and have a single elimination tournament that lasts a week. 

Wow, Al really has no shame. He stole another person’s idea, altered little to none of it and then had the gall to post it on his YAHOO SPORTS certified blog as his own. It looks like we can add some more qualities to Al’s present list of traits, racist,jackass, pervert, coward and now thief. I guess that’s why Al got the SB nation blog. From the bottom of FAY’s heart we would like to extend Mr. Yellon and Bleed Cubbie Blue the sincerest of Fuck You’s.