Who $h!t on my patio?!?!?

more great things coming from yourway transport

whenever you’re transporting pharmecutical supplies across the country, you need a good company to do so.  founded in 1997, yourway transport is quickly becoming the company of choice for people in need!

this year, it has been announced that they are sponsoring the midwest clinical supplies group annual conference – april 26-29, in phoenix, arizona.  representatives from pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and clinical research companies will be on hand for the conference, which provides the most affordable educational programming specifically designed for the Clinical Supply professional.

if you’d like to read more about why yourway transport is quickly becoming a household name in the transportation industry, you can view the complete yourway transport press release.

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Seems this great company was just recognized as a minority business enterprise.

It’s great to see companies like yourway transport doing great things for minorities and women.  It’s about time, and hopefully more companies will follow suit.

To read the full story, check out this yourway transport press release.

This is the funniest thing I have ever seen…

Another one, for the morons from Philthadelphia…

A fitting image for our Sillies fan friends…

I love this one…

TODAY IS THE BEST DAY OF THE YEAR!!!

No, not Valentine’s Day – PITCHERS AND CATCHERS.

Pitchers and catchers report to Port St. Lucie today.  Spring Training is here.  BASEBALL IS HERE!!

The first day of the Johan Santana era has finally arrived.

WHAT A WONDERFUL DAY!

Today is a wonderful day…

This site has magically reappeared in the Google index.

Thank you to everyone who has worked so hard to make this a reality – most notably my co-workers, and myself.  Also, praise to God for allowing this to happen.

Good day to you all.  More posts will now be forthcoming.

Google banned this site for NO REASON…

…OK, it’s been a few months now.  I’m still sufficiently pissed off enough that I decided this particular blog needed to be written.

A few months ago (through mid-November), I was happily rolling along here at outfielder.org with my very own blog.  I was enjoying myself posting my thoughts on all things I saw fit, whether they involved baseball or not.  If I saw something that I felt the need to blog about, I blogged about it.

No rules, no censorship, just my own random thoughts.  The best part was that I was ranking well for a bunch of search terms, and at the same time developing a loyal group of readers.

That all came to an end on November 14th.  A bunch of us had gone to lunch, and when we came back I decided to check my rankings – just as I had done a million times before.

NOTHING.  My site had completely disappeared from what our monkey of a president once called “the Google.”

What bothers me the most is that I have not been able to figure out why I was banned.  I was not doing anything that was considered black-hat.  All I had was a little blog, with some RSS feeds of current Mets and current MLB news (from MLB.com, which I credited as being from such) and one of the current MLB and MLB WildCard standings.  RSS feeds are there to be used.  This is not in any way considered to be a dubious practice – plenty of sites do it.

The only thing that we have come up with that could possibly have caused me trouble, is that I had linked to my own Digg story from another post on this blog.  In other words – I was linking to a Digg story which was then linking back to my site, a reciprocal link of sorts.  I still have yet to see anything on Google’s site indicating that this against their guidelines, but it’s the only thing I can come up with that might have caused problems.

So, I removed the Digg link.  Hell, I even took down the RSS feeds – even though I’m certain they were not the issue.  I wanted to take down EVERYTHING but my simple little two-page blog.  I mean, if all I had up was just a blog of my own thoughts, why would that not be included in the index?  I would certainly be re-indexed within a matter of weeks, if not days, I thought. Google couldn’t possibly have a reason to ban me – right?

WRONG, I suppose.  It was over a month and a half ago that I removed everything from my site except my simple little two-page blog.  I am still not listed in Google’s index.

What ticks me off even more about this is that GoogleBot still hits my site every damn morning according to my server logs.  The damn bot can see that I am not doing anything black-hat – not anything even remotely black-hat – yet I’m still not re-indexed.  Still not listed – for absolutely no reason that I can see.

Making things even more confusing is the fact that I am still listed in Google BlogSearch.  My posts can indeed be found from there.  Why the hell am I banned from the main Google index, but still available in blog search?  It doesn’t make sense.

I was averaging a little over 400 visitors a month to the point where my site was dropped from Google.  Not great, but not awful either considering I had just started the blog up in June and was just building my rankings up.  Since then, I have been lucky to get 100 visitors in a month.  No, that’s not a typo.  A MONTH.

To get visitors and traffic, I’ve had to resort to posting nonsense like stories about my boss’s haircut on Digg.  Everyone enjoys making fun of an awful haircut.  Be honest, you know you love it.  Still, that’s not the point.  This is supposed to be a blog about baseball (of course I’ll also spend time blogging about other random miscellanous nonsense, but that’s not supposed to be the main focus).

So if you’re out there reading this blog (and you’re probably not, since you probably can’t find this site), beware of “the Google.”  One day, they might just ban your site for no reason too.

HAPPY REPEAL DAY!

Today, December 5, 2007, is the 74th anniversary of the repeal of prohibition.

Congratulations, America!