Last week, we pointed out that Regular Jim Traber is now openly asking for businesses to sell ads on his website. We were curious about how much an ad would cost, so we sent him an email asking for rates.  His reply was a very simple and blunt ”LOL.”  Knowing that Regular Jim probably wouldn’t share his ad rates with us, we asked our readers to try to find the rates instead.  Fortunately for us, that’s exactly what a reader named Brain decided to do.  From the mailbag:

Dear The Lost Ogle,

I recently read your article about Jim Traber’s website which wasn’t even worth the effort of laughing at.  So I decided to follow your advice at the end of the article in hopes that I would be able to provide some good insight.  So I fabricated an elaborate story and got a response from Jim.  I think both you and your readers will be appalled at the response…

Hope you enjoy it.

- Brian

Here’s the email that reader Brian sent to Jim:

Jim,

Big fan.. listen to your show every afternoon. I am one of your 50/50 listeners. Agree with you half the time, respectfully disagree the other half. The reason I am e-mailing you is because I am in process of opening a new restaurant in North OKC with the hopes of expanding to Bricktown within a couple of years. Hopefully, once I get going, I can get you out for a remote! Anyhow, I am on a limited budget, but would like to purchase some ad space on your website. I’m staying away from radio and TV ads for now because of the high expense. I’m hoping that your rates aren’t as high as they are. Can you give me an idea at what your rates would be, or at least get me in touch with someone who can provide this information? Thank you in advance for becoming a future business partner. I look forward to hearing from you and, if all works out, working with you.

Devoted Fan,
Brian

Here’s Regular Jim Traber’s reply:

From: the.truth@mail.citcomm.com

Hey Brian, Rates On jimtraber.com range between 250 to 500 dollars per month. Send me Your cell number, and we can talk! Jim

$250 to $500 for an ad on Jim Traber’s website?  Now that’s what I call “LOL.”

Seriously, I’m not even sure what is funnier. The fact that an ad can cost up to $500, or the fact that Jim Traber’s work email address is the.truth@mail.citcomm.com.  Next thing you know, we’re going to find out that Bob Barry Jr.’s email is knowledgeable@mail.citcomm.com and Al Eschbach’s address is handsome@mail.citcomm.com.

Also, what does the Sports Animal think about Jim selling ads for his personal and competing website on a company’s email account?   That would be like Ed Kelly selling ads for a Tea Party message board from his OPUBCO email.

Anyway, since $500 for an advertisment on a really obscure website like JimTraber.com seems kind of steep, we’ve come up with a list of better things you can purchase for $500 while still being able to associate yourself with Jim Traber.   The first few are below, the rest are after the jump.

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4: Courtside seats to a Tulsa Shock Game

The only thing worse than going to a WBNA game would be masturbating to a WBNA game.  And the only thing worse than masturbating to a WBNA game would be listening to Jim Traber complain about a WBNA game.  The only thing worse than listening to Jim Traber complain about a WBNA game is hearing Jim Traber breathe heavily on the air.

Anyway, I’m not sure what all that means, but the point is I think $500 would be better spent on courtside WBNA tickets than listening to Regular Jim Traber.   That’s not rocket science.

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684: Square-feet of cheesecloth

Regular Jim Traber is obsessed with many things in life, and draping a cheesecloth on a Turkey is one of them.  With all this cheesecloth, you could have a Thanksgiving like Regular Jim.  In fact, you could have hundreds of them like Regular Jim.  Did you know in human years, 684-feet of cheesecloth would take care of several hundred Thanksgivings?   In Regular Jim Traber years, that would cover one Thanksgiving, one Christmas and a snack.

P.s. -Don’t forget to make his brother’s famous turkey soup and to wash it down with some Iron City Brew.  Also, don’t forget to play the Jim Traber Drinking Game.

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In addition to having a pathetic and contrived radio show show, Regular Jim Traber also has an incredibly boring website. At the this site you can see picture galleries of Regular Jim, including his family’s best attempt at making bad stock photography, his trading cards, and someone named “Card Board Jim Traber.”  Seriously.

The site also includes other pointless things like an event calendar from 2009 and an “About Us” page that, get this, claims that Regular Jim was inducted into a mysterious “Baseball Hall of  Fame in its first year of existence.”    Regular Jim doesn’t clarify which Hall of Fame this is, but I can only speculate it’s either the Mendoza Line Hall of Fame or the International Bad Baseball Player Hall of Fame and Museum.

The “cash cow” of Regular Jim’s website is a message board where people with user-names like mingusX5, Patriot Girl and da_greek_poke bicker and have pointless discussions about sports.  I’ll admit, I frequented the message board for a bit during the mid-Aughts.  I think I was married at the time, so clearly I wasn’t in the right frame of mind.  Marriage is my excuse for nearly everything that happened in the mid-Aughts.

The reason I bring all this up is that a reader notified us yesterday that Regular Jim is now looking for new advertisers on the bustling website.  Regular Jim’s website is pretty obscure, so I sent him the following email to see what his rates were:

Mr Traber -

We would be interested in purchasing advertising on your website. It would be similar to the one we have on your baseball stats page. Please send us a rate sheet.

Thank You -

For some reason, Regular Jim never got back with us.  So I decided to do my own research and visit Alexa.com, which ranks all the websites in the world based on traffic.  JimTraber.net, the actual host page for his forum, has a rank of 6,774, 124. That means there are over 6.5 million websites in the world with better web traffic than Jim Traber’s.  To put that number in perspective, our traffic rank is 330,000, DailyThunder’s rank is 361,000, and OklahomaRock’s is 1.5 million.

Based on that information, I would estimate that an add on Jim Traber’s site should cost a pack of Iron City Brew, a dozen Johnsonville Brats and a cheesecloth.  But since Regular Jim does have a identifiable name, I would estimate an add would cost $50 – $100 a month.

Anyway, since Regular Jim Traber will not respond to our email, I challenge our readers to get rates for his website.  That way we’ll know if we can afford an ad on his site and if Jim Traber is possibly charging his advertisers too much money.   You can email Jim by clicking here.

When you get a reply, either email it to use or post it in the comments.   It should be fun.  Maybe Jim will even meltdown on the radio.  That would be cool.

Update: The un-ultimate replied “LOL” to our email.  Not sure what that means.