Happy Birthday to a Precocious Five Year Old

[Willets Point]

The Crane Pool Forum was born on May 20, 2001. Any ideas on how to celebrate its (our?) fifth birthday go in this thread.

[TransMonk]

5 years? Wow...I'm getting old.

[seawolf17]

Sometimes we even act our age, don't we? I've been here about a year and a half, and I've had a lot of fun. Thanks to the mods for keeping this place afloat.

[Willets Point]

What about the rockers? We helped too.

[Willets Point]

For some reason I thought this would garner more interest than it has.

[Guest Hillbilly]

Willets Point wrote: The Crane Pool Forum was born on May 20, 2001. Any ideas on how to celebrate its (our?) fifth birthday go in this thread.

How about with our second staright win against our cross town rivals?

That would be a celebrotory event.

[Centerfield]

After five years you'd think we would have run out of things to talk about.

[Frayed Knot]

The CPF only sort of existed for it's first six months or so.
I always treat November 1st, 2001 as it's birthday as an ongoing forum. For whatever reason it started to pick up steam during the belated WS that year.

[Willets Point]

Yes, for the first six months the CPF was intended as a place for regulars at Metsonline Fan Forum to bug out when the MOFo was overrun with Yankees trolls. It didn't get used much during that time. Then there was the Great Forum Wars and since CPF was already here a lot of people just started posting here regularly.

[Guest holychicken]

I don't know about you guys, but I am going to celebrate by getting real drunk tonight and then tearfully apologizing to my gf for getting so drunk.

[Guest KC]

One of the things I find sentimentaly amusing is some of the terminology
that has grown out of doing this for so many years. Paulie a post, The
Great Forum Wars, NOW!!! - and plenty of people know exactly what you
mean.

[Willets Point]

Not mention assclown, lousy cheapass organization (lcao), . (for Avi), and suckitude.

[Frayed Knot]

"Yes, for the first six months the CPF was intended as a place for regulars at Metsonline Fan Forum to bug out"

Not all the regulars, just you elitist swine who wanted to talk about others behind their backs. Where's that cross avatar when you need it?


Actually, October 30th looks like the date things started to get rolling

Of course, I like to think of November 7th as the day it really became a forum because, well until I started posting what good was it?

[Willets Point]

Special prize to anyone who can find the first thread from May 2001 at Ezboard (if it still exists).

[Frayed Knot]

This is the earliest I can find - having already found MY first post.

[Willets Point]

I'm pretty sure there was one earlier one with comments on the brown & mustard orange color scheme that was used for the first couple of days. It must be lost to the ether.

[Guest KC]

How could I forget assclown? Jeez, I use that word at work two three
times a day.

[Centerfield]

Sometimes I think back about all those forum arguments and have trouble believing they actually happened. It all seems so silly now. I mean, it seemed silly then too, but many years removed I can't even remember what the hot topics were.

In any case, it seems to have all ended well as MOFO ended up generating two successful spinoffs. Now posters can choose a forum that best suits their tastes.

[Willets Point]

Three actually if you count the Overtime.

[Farmer Ted]

We need a guest appearance by 52. Now THAT would be intriguing.

[Centerfield]

I was counting Overtime as one of the spinoffs, CPF being the other. Is there a third?

[Guest Bret Sabermetric]

KC wrote: How could I forget assclown? Jeez, I use that word at work two three times a day.

I carry a photograph of a caustic fucktard on my driver's license.

[metirish]

Happy Birthday to the CPF, glad I found it,I used to post at Mets.com ,what a nightmare,I remeber one poster telling people that he was going to commit suicide,this went on for weeks.....I hated that place.

[Willets Point]

Centerfield wrote: I was counting Overtime as one of the spinoffs, CPF being the other. Is there a third?

The NY Sports Daily or whatever they're calling themselves these days.

[Centerfield]

Oh, I was still calling that the MOFO.

[Willets Point]

Ah, I see the Crane Pool Forum, The Overtime and NY Sports Daily all as spinoffs of the dearly departed Mets Online Fan Forum. I guess the NY Sports Daily Mofo and the Mets Online Fan Forum are akin to Starship and Jefferson Airplane. There's a continuity and some of the same members but really they're different bands.

[Guest Edgy DC]

We built this city on Rauch and Kroll.
http://www.rndng3rd.com/NYMHall/players/K/Garkro.jpg

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

KC - "One of the things I find sentimentaly amusing is some of the terminology
that has grown out of doing this for so many years. Paulie a post, The
Great Forum Wars, NOW!!! - and plenty of people know exactly what you
mean."

Willets - "Not mention assclown, lousy cheapass organization (lcao), . (for Avi), and suckitude."

Though it started on Brian's Metsonline site, I still like to remember "the plan". I'm sure it has more meaning to most of us than it does to the members of the other MOFO spinoffs.

[stevejrogers]

Farmer Ted wrote: We need a guest appearance by 52. Now THAT would be intriguing.

I tried reaching out to him, he just lurked and never signed up.

I saw him on AOL IM and said I referred to him in a post about that Mets Fans Hall Of Fame they did back in the early 80's that DIDN'T include the Original Sign Guy. Well he read it, and I guess didn't feel the need to sign up

Ah well...

[stevejrogers]

Willets Point wrote: Three actually if you count the Overtime.

Whats The Overtime?