A Decade of Cranepooling

[Benjamin Grimm]

No, that was someone else.

[Edgy MD]

"was I someone's unwanted asshole?" would be a great sig line.

It's important to have at least one asshole, I've always said.

[Ceetar]

Edgy DC wrote: "was I someone's unwanted asshole?" would be a great sig line. It's important to have at least one asshole, I've always said.

do you go around saying this a lot?

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Question for those of you who've joined in the last few years: How'd you find us?

G-FAFIF interviewed me for a "meet the blogger" post. And now it's hard to remember a non-Pool life!

Good people post here.

[dgwphotography]

Frayed Knot wrote: There was even a third board involved for a time (remember GSS folks?)

I lose IQ points just thinking of that place...

[G-Fafif]

Caught myself lurking when I discovered JCL was kindly talking up the then-new FAFIF. Then I asked myself, "Why am I lurking?"

[Edgy MD]

metsguyinmichigan wrote: Question for those of you who've joined in the last few years: How'd you find us? G-FAFIF interviewed me for a "meet the blogger" post. And now it's hard to remember a non-Pool life! Good people post here.

We should do more of these. Pay it forward, man.

[Farmer Ted]

I still hat all yous guys.

[Edgy MD]

The NL East in the Greater Crane Pool Era.

	Tot.					Avg					Post- Seas.
Team	W	L	PCT	GB	NGB	W	L	PCT	GB	NGB	Divs.	WCs	Pens.	Chps.
Philadelphia	898	721	.555	--	--	89.8	72.1	.555	--	--	5	0	2	1
Atlanta	889	729	.549	8.5	8.5	88.9	72.9	.549	0.9	0.9	4	1	0	0
Florida	808	808	.500	88.5	168.5	80.8	80.8	.500	8.9	16.9	0	1	1	1
New York	795	820	.492	101.0	206.0	79.5	82.0	.492	10.1	20.6	1	0	0	0
Montreal/Washington	725	893	.448	172.5	492.0	72.5	89.3	.448	17.3	49.2	0	0	0	0

Interesting that, after five straight division championships, Philadelphia is only just barely ahead of Atlanta over the 10 years from 2002-2011.

[Ceetar]

I don't think the Mets are making up 101 games next year. I'll settle for 6.

[TransMonk]

Those archives are hilarious. There is a thread (if you search for "more nominations") that should or should not have been deleted. It is even brought up in the thread that it should be deleted. I'm glad it is preserved as a testament to the beginning of the Pool.

The best quote IMO from the thread comes from Willets who said, "I have this nervous feeling that somewhere in cyberspace there's a third, even more exclusive forum where people gather to guffaw about the Crane Pool forumites..." Priceless.

Going back and looking at those colors and pictures and fonts...it really made me want a cigarette. I used to chain smoke while reading the Pool.

[ashie62]

I don't know how..2005

But Cleon11 and Grote15 might..

[Guest themetfairy]

Farmer Ted wrote: I still hat all yous guys.

Back atcha!

[metsmarathon]

i still think y'all sent teh wrong dope an invite.

i mean, here y'all were setting up a message board for intelligent mets fans, and i can neither depress a shift key nor spell "teh" with fewer than three tries.

[Benjamin Grimm]

You were invited because of your little robot friend.

[metsmarathon]

jeez, i'm sorry i made you wait six years. that must've been simply unbearable.

[Frayed Knot]

Grimm showed up a few months later just to yell at us .... and then hung around for 9+ years.

[Fman99]

I read about this place in a G-FAFIF column as well. And it was during a time when I needed to be able to commiserate with other Mets fans who were depressed.

Joined: 16 Oct 2007 07:54 am

And then the cock jokes started.

[seawolf17]

I've tried recruiting -- even got folks to register, including Darren from The 7 Line -- but they haven't followed up.

[Benjamin Grimm]

To be fair, we've made it very difficult for them to follow up.

And solving that is still on our to-do list!

[Ceetar]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: To be fair, we've made it very difficult for them to follow up. And solving that is still on our to-do list!

clicking on register on the login page doesn't do anything.

clicking register on the top leads to a question about Mr. Wright, which when answered does not lead to registration or anything helpful.

so yeah..

At this point, wouldn't it be a good placeholder to make both those links direct to a page/post taht says "please email "*some guy** with the username you want"?

[A Boy Named Seo]

CPF: "What's Mr. Wright's name?"

Me: "David"

CPF: "GOOD!"



How the hell do you sign up here?

[Benjamin Grimm]

Bizarre, ain't it?

I thought I had left this thing in better condition than that! I'll have to take a fresh look.

Last time I tried it, answering the Mr. Wright question correctly got you registered, but unable to post.

Now, well, it's simply a way to make you feel good about your ability to answer a basic question.

Not that that's without value, but it falls quite a bit short of the mark.

Sheesh.

[Vic Sage]

Edgy DC wrote: "was I someone's unwanted asshole?" would be a great sig line. It's important to have at least one asshole, I've always said.

thus explaining my original invite, back in the halcyon days of our founding.

i still have some of THE BARD'S poetry from my battles with his MOFOian foes, like Paulie Cee and Newman. I will see if he'll look up from his mead long enough to permit a reprint or 2.

[Vic Sage]

in celebration of our anniversary, The Bard offers these poetical blasts from our MOFO past:

He called himself Newman And like the albumen You can find in the white of an egg, He was snotty and runny, And smelled kinda funny, An anus you could fill with a keg.

There once was a poster named Ambla As well-liked as a member of NAMBLA With nary a friend, He stood alone till the end, With the nerves of a riverboat gambla

There once was a lady, Ms. Met As in love as a lady could get She wanted Mike�s booty And so thought it her duty To dream of his butt, soaking wet!

YGB was his tag and posting his bag as he jousted with Metfans illogical He fought with Ms. Met Her goat he did get She found his attitude rude, pedagogical They swashed and they buckled as the Forum all chuckled at their badinage, crude and rhetorical Ms. Met called for peace hoped the fighting would cease trumpeting truce that was truly historical And so all waited reply YGB's taunting to fly would it be something mean, allegorical? Or would he just be a "gentlemen", he Creating peace that was not metaphorical

There once was a flamer named Winston who clearly had not gone to Princeton both foul and moronic his posts were a tonic composed of the feces he rinsed in

Like Orwell's Winston of Yore from his book, "1984" He�ll be tied to a chair, not to go anywhere, so the rats could eat his faceful of gore or how about a haiku? locked in a basement made his view of the world quite subterranean

Paulie Cee spouted bile in order to rile up those whom he deemed as Inferior But his mewling, instead stayed inside his head so the only one reamed was Interior

Paulie carried Vendetta Like a Baretta To shoot at all those he abhorred He acted the prankster But was merely a gangster And on us derision he poured His many disguises He employed to get rises Out of those whose oxen he�d gored And when he finally started shooting Some fools started rooting But most folks just walked away, bored.

There once was a guy, Paulie Cee Whose persona comprised a plurality he preached his religion with nary a smidgeon of intellect, or even morality

haikus for Paulie: Negativity that dwells inside his spirit shouts, obscuring thought Politics aside� Fascist Fundamentalists? Not my cup of tea.

Edited November 2, 2011 by Guest

[A Boy Named Seo]

Now Joelmon!

[Vic Sage]

i think Bucket was the bard of Joelmon free verse.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

ah yeah.

For background Joelmon was a poster who was very angry at the Mets for failing to sign A-Rod; really angry at Met fans whom he thought would join his side if they only paid more attention; and really really angry at me for making fun of him. He never realized it was his awful writing style I was making fun of, not his ideas, necessarily.

We Miss You, Dave That's like going to your old boss Who fired you And doesn't want you at his picnic, And you don't go, And the employees are like "So, why is dave not here?" * * * SMART LOGIC But I tell that here and get chewed out, It's called LOGIC, He made a SMART business decision, But it HURT our team. Anybody that disagreed with me has YELLED at me More than documented otherwise * * * Ode To A Run-On Sentence Because if they feel they can compete like they did in the 2000 offseasn when they saw the @#%$ crush their spirits and did NOTHING to improve with a full hearted 'win at all costs' attitude that the @#%$ had, then what makes us think fred, who admitted he cannot profit til postseason, would BLOW more $ for a team that shows 'they can compete' the way they are? * * * Challenge Me, Idiots And to any idiot that asks why he's not a met, you tell me how one legally joins a team without permission when 4th day into free agency they do a press conference to lock you out, when it takes WEEKS to iron out a deal Wake up and give me something, let's see QUOTES Challenge me * * * On Courage If they get destroyed, it shatters that myth and can cost them $ in ticket sales If they fight strong, they can sit back and not invest as much. * * * She Sang A Sad, Angry Song F you You idiots never knew guys like me When i went to shea in the early 90's Mid 90's And my grandma SANG at shea And I knew of 'gen k' 2 years before Some of you 'fans' knew of them I support our farm You never met me * * * Who Can You Trust? Don't believe me. Why not get Sele? What was our excuse? He was told to be an innings guy, Find the quote where sp said "He is here due to his natural ability to help us win a ring" * * * Life And How To Live It don't address problems and solve them with a plan, and come to terms with failure. Insult hall of famers, ignore your farm, don't have a plan, deny your problems, panic, and make quick fixes and believe! * * * Now I Get It It's BS or if it IS true, they have not confirmed it Except for the invisible newspapers this clown listens to Who is likely doing this due to the philly board Why would I say that? SAME POST * * * So This Is Christmas oy, vey Fans were jumping up and down like it was x-mas, sorry kiddies, mommy only got you underwear, no Nintendo or new bike for you * * * Tied With Atlanta And if it's $, you can't ask for Giambi, he'll cost what arod would have asked for, only texas offered $250m, the OWNER admitted it, it was 2x atl's deal, which they would have had with a no trade clause, but they don't offer those to any atlanta based franchise tied with atlanta Seriously, their GM and atl fans said so $126m/7 years was the deal How do you know? They NEVER talked $ * * * It Was Reported More Than Once Hey, i don't make this up It was reported more than once, Wilpon isn't stupid enough To let sp spend more on a season Where, even though the fans might believe, mgmt isn't stupid, like sp said, they cannot profit til postseason, so just put a freeze on spending And reload next year. * * * Of That And They And Me If that were available and they said no, which would clear salary for giambi (Heh) and give us a stud young left handed hitter, my god, if we say no to that (Not a real deal) I'd shoot myself * * * To A Picklehead I have fun Kiss my ass if you don't like how I talk or write you picklehead, I care less. Now email me you dick * * * This Is A Business this is a business. Any player would say that, And they do. * * * GREAT LOGIC GO AHEAD, GOOD LUCK, I'm SURE he'd say "GREAT IDEA, I care about winning more than making $ on my investment Where I poured in MILLIONS to PROFIT (Business, get it?) And owe $1/3 Billion To make more over time with a cash cow stadium I still CANNOT afford but DESIRE, I paid this $ JUST to win, not profit, GREAT LOGIC * * * I Talked About It I showed one article fans ignored and goofed on, I talked about lupica, talked about espn confirming it, talked about the owner admitting arod didn't consider texas til the end, even arod in his conference said that

[Edgy MD]

Now email me you dick

In theory, this should fall flat someday.

Still makes me cry.

[Guest Giant Squidlike Creature]

Giant Squidlike Creature arrived in the 2001-2002 offseason when the Mets could have signed Squid for a song. Squid returned the following offseason but was still shown no respect. So Squid became the forum archivist. Squid is versatile like that.