A Bird After Our Own Hearts

[G-Fafif]

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June 6, 1975.

[Edgy MD]

Killer.

[whippoorwill]

Do cranes have those head things?

[MFS62]

I hope they bring back banner day.

Later

[kcmets]

=whippoorwill post_id=50648 time=1605367747 user_id=79]Do cranes have those head things?

[Edgy MD]

Big Krane was hitting .412 following a 3-4 day and the lone RBI in a 1-0 win in a June 4 win over Houston. Jerry Koosman went the distance for the win in a cool two hours and 12 minutes.



On June 5, presumably as Gallo was drawing this, Ed went 0-3 with an intentional walk and his average fell to .398.



On June 6, the day the cartoon ran, he followed up with an 0-4, falling to .379. He would rebound as high as .385 a few days later, but no higher, and would end the season with a career-best .323 average.



No one since has been able to explain the mystifying Curse of Gallo.

[whippoorwill]

Aw that's sad!

[G-Fafif]

Honest to Jackson Todd, when I first saw “Crane Pool,” I assumed it was a reference to this cartoon, the image of which I recently tracked down anew to accompany my http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2020/11/13/18-and-life/Eddie Kranepool essay on FAFIF (the finale to our A Met for All Seasons series), but the memory of which has stayed with me for 45 years.

[kcmets]

I should know this, and remarkably I do not, if Crane Pool was Edgy's brain child

or that of the poster formerly known as Doc G. Paging E. Md!!

[Edgy MD]

My idea. I pitched it to Doc and we spitballed who we wanted to invite over.

[kcmets]

And here we are decades later lol.



I recall meeting you and Dog C in Manhattan I'm gonna say when things were in

their infant stages?

[Edgy MD]

I've met him in the flesh several times. (Six?) Once or twice with you there. Me and the dog get along fine to this day, except here. I dunno.

[kcmets]

Yeah, me as well.

[Frayed Knot]

=kcmets post_id=50726 time=1605544744 user_id=53]
And here we are decades later lol.

[Edgy MD]

In other words, we've improbably had a more enduring career than our namesake.

[Frayed Knot]

At some point he began to lose playing time at a faster clip than we were losing participating members.

[kcmets]

19 years sounds about right. I was definitely still mofo'n during the 2000 playoffs

and even Opening Day 2001 joking about raising pennant flag kinda sucking. I guess

things then seriously deteriorated that season.



19 years, that's a third of my life!

[Frayed Knot]

It was really during the (9/11 delayed) MFY/ARZ WS that traffic started to pick up over here to the point where a bunch of folks realized that is simply made more sense to use this place as their full-time board rather than just as a refuge for complaining about the head-bashing idiocy at the old joint. Hence Nov 1 as the (more or less) anniversary date.

[kcmets]

I'm laughing a little about the short-lived Sergio Ferrer Forum.

[Edgy MD]

Sergio needs a SABR bio.

[Frayed Knot]

=kcmets post_id=50763 time=1605560719 user_id=53]
I'm laughing a little about the short-lived Sergio Ferrer Forum.

[Frayed Knot]

http://archives.thecranepool.net/17000/f1_t17083.shtmlhttp://archives.thecranepool.net/17000/f1_t17083.shtml

[MFS62]

=kcmets post_id=50763 time=1605560719 user_id=53]
I'm laughing a little about the short-lived Sergio Ferrer Forum.

[G-Fafif]

[Lefty Specialist]

So the CPF is now 20? Another year and it'll able to drink.......

[The Hot Corner]

Only seems fair, since pulling for this team tends to make one want to drink.

[whippoorwill]

What was the GSS Forum?