CPF Annual Winter Meetings

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Oh, that's no good. If Artie doesn't have her late-morning Maker's Mark, then naptime's fouled.

We'll find a workaround.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Don't be a slave to nap-time!

This has been a public service announcement.

[Gwreck]

In.

[Willets Point]

Edgy DC wrote: Don't be a slave to nap-time! This has been a public service announcement.

Sez the guy with no children.

[Chad ochoseis]

1/29 is a no go for me - my hiking club has a board meeting that day.

Darryl's Sports Bar in Douglaston.

Or, as we Jerseyites like to call it, "the butt end of nowhere." But I'm good for a road trip any weekend in March - see you then at Strawberry's.

[Fman99]

Edgy DC wrote: Don't be a slave to nap-time! This has been a public service announcement.

You've got it all backwards. The real reason I have kids is that I was trying to justify more naps in my life.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Willets Point wrote: Edgy DC wrote: Don't be a slave to nap-time! This has been a public service announcement. Sez the guy with no children.

Sez the guy who loses all his friends once they have children.

[seawolf17]

Out for 1/29, in for March. I'll nominate 3/13, as it's nice and close to my birthday, for Darryl's. Less likely to conflict with squatters looking for college basketball action. I'll volunteer to coordinate the reservation as well, unless JCL is already on it.

[G-Fafif]

March sounds good if largely unknowable from here. January's a maybe. And what else has Darryl got to do anyway?

[Guest Kong76]

seawolf17 wrote: Out for 1/29, in for March. I'll nominate 3/13, as it's nice and close to my birthday, for Darryl's. Less likely to conflict with squatters looking for college basketball action. I'll volunteer to coordinate the reservation as well, unless JCL is already on it.

Thanks, sea ... coordinators are always welcome.
I'll figure a roll call when 1/7 approaches for the 1/29 date.

I'm good for 3/13 ... as good as anyone can be 2 1/2 months
in advance. Thanks for not picking the 3/6 ... my pedicure girl
has a rigid schedule through June already.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Edgy DC wrote: Edgy DC wrote: Don't be a slave to nap-time! This has been a public service announcement. Sez the guy with no children. Sez the guy who loses all his friends once they have children.

Someone needs a nap.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

3/13 is good here too. The SABR meeting is the weekend before, I believe.

[ashie62]

like 3/20 better but this works.

[Willets Point]

Edgy DC wrote: Edgy DC wrote: Don't be a slave to nap-time! This has been a public service announcement. Sez the guy with no children. Sez the guy who loses all his friends once they have children.

Offer to babysit from time-to-time and you'll have a ton of friends.

[Guest Kong76]

Bumperoo for a 1/29 reminder. Noon at Virgil's, probably
sitting by 12:45. Those not wanting to post their intentions
please feel free to email or PM me.

[Guest themetfairy]

D-Dad and I will be there, probably with MK as well.

[stevejrogers]

I'm down for it.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'll be up for the Screaming Jayhawkings concert the previous weekend. I don't know that I can swing that two weeks in a row.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Edgy DC wrote: I'll be up for the Screaming Jayhawkings concert the previous weekend. I don't know that I can swing that two weeks in a row.

Well, not 4 nothing but the Official Winter Meetings are March 13 at Strawberry's.

This double event thread is bound to confuse.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Not me. Today's one of my smart days.

[stevejrogers]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Edgy DC wrote: I'll be up for the Screaming Jayhawkings concert the previous weekend. I don't know that I can swing that two weeks in a row. Well, not 4 nothing but the Official Winter Meetings are March 13 at Strawberry's. This double event thread is bound to confuse.

For no apparent reason other than it just came to mind...

Let me take you down cause I'm going to
Strawberry's Bar and Grill
Cranepool Forum deal
On March 13 so come on out...

(ducks rotten vegetables)

[Guest Kong76]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Well, not 4 nothing but the Official Winter Meetings are March 13 at Strawberry's. This double event thread is bound to confuse.

Edgy DC wrote: Not me. Today's one of my smart days.

Which meeting is it we toss Jeets out of a large building? That
was fun last year, never saw anyone bounce like that.

[stevejrogers]

Kong76 wrote: Which meeting is it we toss Jeets out of a large building? That was fun last year, never saw anyone bounce like that.

I'm all for throwing a certain 'Pooler who hasn't posted in a while from the South West out a large building to see if he can bounce!

[stevejrogers]

Come to think of it, can we toss Ollie from a tall building?

Or just for the symbolisim of it, Oliver Perez baseball cards? That could be fun!

[Benjamin Grimm]

What happened in Tuscon the other day makes me wonder if it's inevitable that some crazed fan won't some day try to assassinate an unpopular local athlete. The sports rhetoric on the Internet and on the radio (and in the ballpark) can be every bit as bad, if not worse, as what we get from Washington.

[stevejrogers]

Geez, way to turn that around Ben!

I agree it is troubling, but the shooter was in league with the likes that would shoot an entertainer because of a mental unbalance and a need to be "famous" himself. I'd think those types don't need the constant yapping on internet communities and sports radio call in chatter to fuel their desire to do whatever it is they think they "have to do." I mean He Who Shall Not Be Named didn't need some snarky Twitter feed or some internet fourm to feed into his need to kill John Lennon.

[Guest Edgy DC]

No, but in trying to look at the broad effect should mean looking beyond a single case.

It certainly seems to me that when the mainstream moves toward the fringes in any cultural experession --- or when the media over-covers the fringes to make them seem more mainstream --- what previously were the fringier elements move even further beyond the pale.

When everybody is getting a tattoo, the guy who previously would have been proud of his bicep tat gets a full sleeve, and the guy who previously would have gotten a full sleeve is hard at work at inking up his whole torso. Shit like that.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Also, when everyone sounds as crazy as you are (even if they really aren't) it can validate your feelings and make your insane actions seem more reasonable. And that can be the tipping point between thoughts and action.

How about we do our part by not calling for the assassination of any Mets*, even in jest?




*Or anyone else!

[Guest Edgy DC]

Yeah, that's a pretty solid way of putting it.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Talking up my ideas to put Ollie Perez to work outside of a pitching context doesn't amp up the coarseness-level, does it? (See: "Ollie Rides a _____")