Soft Rain is Always Drizzling

[G-Fafif]

Bob "Soft Rain" Klapisch just told Steve Somers he was surprised that the Angels made the MFYs work a little in the playoffs. Indeed, it was quite a stunner that a division champion didn't roll over and die at the mere thought of being on the same field as Derek Jeter.

[ashie62]

Hard Rain Scioscia said it was a "joke" how many days went by with no baseball

[metirish]

Speaking of soft rain.......Jeter is on The Biggest Loser tonight talking about the importance of teamwork.....

[G-Fafif]

Klap just said "Rivera's not perfect." Take away his BBWAA card!

[G-Fafif]

MFY fan calls Somers after Klap leaves and tells us "Metropolitan" fans should be ashamed of themselves because of 9/11 -- we all have to stick together.

Prove to me Philadelphia attacked the World Trade Center, and I'm with you, pal.

[Fman99]

MFY fan calls Somers after Klap leaves and tells us "Metropolitan" fans should be ashamed of themselves because of 9/11 -- we all have to stick together.[/quote:22kmjwxs]

That is "flat Earth society" level stupid right there.

[Guest Edgy DC]

See, we all have to stick together is the exact reasoning that makes it so easy for me to root for Philadelphia.

[metsmarathon]

seeing as how philly was, like, a fairly important place during the founding of our nation - you know, that thing that was actually being attacked during 9-11 - i'm inclined to join with edgy.

arrogant yankee fans thinking al queda was actually out to put a stop to the yankees' dynasty!

[metirish]

I remember the WS against Arizona and a Doctor I work with aghast that I was rooting hard for the D-Backs ...." how could you after what happened?"......very easily I said

[G-Fafif]

The 2001 World Series was objectively perfect. The MFY fans got a seven-game "distraction" from all that was going on (that was the line, that this set of baseball games was important because it provided a respite from all the bad news facing New Yorkers/MFY fans, who were mistakenly thought to be the same thing) along with three home wins, two of them breathtaking (or disgusting). The rest of us got a glorious ending. The whole thing lasted seven games and it was chock full of drama. Couldn't ask for a better or longer distraction, more memorable highlights and, at last, a more thrilling conclusion to the dynasty nonsense.

So much of the country had pledged "we're all New Yorkers now." I saw nothing wrong with returning the favor to Arizona for the duration.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Game six featured a severe beatdown on the Yankees and Game Seven featured four of the best pitchers of their generation (plus Mike Stanton!) and a ninth-inning come-from-behind victory. Thank you, God.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Fall of '01 were crazy times. I remember watching Game 1 with Bubba Sponge on the UWS, the beatdown game with Edgy at the Bull Moose, and game 7 at my local with Tom the Yankee Fan.

In between games 6 & 7 I remember seeing "America's Mayor" (boy I hated that) Rudy Guiliani parade around during the NYC Marathon despite having been in PHX for the game the night before.

Oh, and the CPF was under attack.

[Frayed Knot]

Oh, and the CPF was under attack.

Those board wars weren't until later on that winter.

In fact it was mostly during the 2001 WS that the CPF was more or less born as a full-time board. It had existed for several months as a retreat board for a select few but it was around the time of the Series that the retreaters just started to hang out on their own and discuss baseball on the nascent CPF rather than just only using it to talk about how tough it was becoming to talk intelligently elsewhere.
Which kind of reminds me that I later retroactively assigned November 1st (right in the middle of that 9/11-delayed WS) to be the CPF's unofficial/official birthday - so this weekend will make it 8 years of Cranepooling.

The board wars came a few months later when word leaked out about the up-to-then secret board and its subterfuge recruiting efforts.




oe: http://thecranepoolforum.yuku.com/topic/2392/t/Check-out-the-rennaissance-here-in-the-Crane-Pool.html

[seawolf17]

oe: http://thecranepoolforum.yuku.com/topic/2392/t/Check-out-the-rennaissance-here-in-the-Crane-Pool.html[/quote:2q28x66h]

Hey! I remember the flying toast avatar! I didn't come around until much later (2004?), though.

[Frayed Knot]

My debut was a week later -- http://thecranepoolforum.yuku.com/topic/2366/t/Punks-in-the-forum.html
I wasn't part of the original secret society