Frayed Knot

No, I'm not talking about fonts and such. How this place winds up looking is fairly irrelevant (aside from, y'know, a healthy smattering of blue and orange). I talking about the set-ups of the forum(s) itself. Obviously our current set-up -- with all our baseball stuff in one forum for instance rather than separate minor league, draft, other team discussions being forced elsewhere -- is the way we're used to things. Does that stay as it is or does a moderator decide how things are broken out? Our non-baseball section gets nearly as much action as the BB side but, aside from our movie sub-forum, the non-BB section is just a big catch-all for other stuff. We barely even touch on football, hoops or hockey around here and if we do a thread to two per year is sufficient to the point where a separate sub-forum for each is unnecessary. All of which isn't to say things have to stay exactly as they've been for ever and ever; we've certainly made changes over the years. But if the idea is that it's better to import a current and working forum than it would be starting from scratch then we'd rather it be imported more or less 'as is' as opposed to finding itself in a new home that doesn't feel like the old one because a top-down restructuring took place so that it most closely mimics all the other properties on the block.

I guess my main question is this: do you want THIS forum as a centerpiece for a planned NYM site for your growing collection, or merely A NYM forum that could then be morphed into a cookie cutter version of what you have on your other sites? If it winds up being (more or less) THIS forum, just under a new hosting site and overseen by different folks, then that's one thing. But if it winds up being altered into something with a different set-up with a different feel and different smells (oh yes, this place has unique scents) for the purpose of looking as close as possible to the collection of fora you already have then the CPF loses nearly a quarter century of what made it the CPF and you're likely to lose a number of those who made it what it currently is.

I suppose the cautionary tale is like the scene from LOCAL HERO where the Nigerian/Scottish minister asks Peter Riegert's 'Mac' character, there from the Houston office of a large oil company who has been sent to acquire land for an oil company, "So you want to buy my church?" Mac: "Well ... not as a going concern." So let's go back to the beginning for a minute: So the idea is that you acquire the CPF to become the forum in a larger more media intense NYM fan site. Now, does the forum retain its current format in the new location or is it restructured in the manner of the fora structure you have on your other baseball sites? For instance, in addition to the main team forum, the others all seem to have (in a kind of cookie cutter sameness) separate threads for minor league talk, draft talk, chat involving other teams, etc. We, as you can see, never did it that way. For the most part all talk about baseball lives in the baseball forum, not just about the focus club but it's also where we talk about the draft, about NYM minor league clubs, also our division rivals as well as in MLB in general, and, of course, our inevitable 'Yanquis Suck' thread. iow, who decides such stuff, the near 25-year long evolution of the CPF, or would these decisions be a top-down moderators' choice?

btw, B.B., how did you find us? I keep thinking we're so obscure that D.B. Cooper and the remains of Jimmy Hoffa would be easier to locate.

HoF'er Bill Mazeroski -- 89 He of the fine hands ... plus that other moment.

At this point I'm not even sure we're on a first date yet.

Back when Keith was name captain he scarcely knew how to respond as he didn't really know what a captain did or why he was being named one. 'Ummm, it's an honor ... I guess' But NYM mgmt quickly decided that by bestowing the honor on Keith they had essentially dissed Gary Carter so they quickly named Carter co-captain which effectively meant that now neither was really a captain. They should have learned from that debacle and quit while they were ahead.

Juan Lagares, who hasn't played in MLB since 2022 but has been playing in the Dominican Winter League for the last few years, has officially announced his retirement from professional baseball. The now 36 y/o originally signed with the Mets in 2006. On instagram: “Thank you so much, Águilas family, ... Thank you to the fans for your unconditional support on and off the field. I will be eternally grateful. God bless you always. With gratitude and pride.” [FIMG=600]https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/12-new-york-mets-makes-29617041.jpg?resize=1024,683&quality=75&strip=all[/FIMG] Tip of the hat, Juan.

A couple points here - to marathon's point about being driven out of the predecessor of this site by unrestrained growth in numbers and a similar loss of IQ points Sure. But that was also back in Y2K [we broke off in November of '01 ... Two Thousand and Freakin' One!!]* and the ones driving us nuts were mostly teenagers (of varying ages) and I suspect teenagers are the last ones to be signing onto baseball message boards at this point. - to the current state of UMDB A disappointment to be sure but this isn't (or at least we hope not) the final state of the new UMDB. iow: give it some time before we call it a disaster - and finally to the idea that we all want to grow in some form or another I think we all believe that we should grow, but I also think most of us realize that we haven't been particularly good at knowing how to accomplish that. So I guess my bottom line here is: - keep asking questions. It's OK to be skeptical, but our new friend here is proving himself very willing to answer them. - and don't be too afraid of change. After all, where is this place heading if we don't change? * Hell, MFS'62 was still in his eighties back then!!!

I was going to ask that too! I was going to ask if he's related to Brock Pemberton ... but, now that I think about it a little more, it's probably unlikely.

That sounds right. We had some good exchanges with those guys.

What was the Brewers forum that we had some back and forth with a bunch of years back? I don't think it was 'Brewers Fanatic' but I can't remember the specific name. They were a good group IIRC. As far as 'Ultimate Mets' goes, that was in control of one of the members here but was transferred to an outside group several months ago.

Gore's operation was an appendectomy which, while it was deemed 'an emergency' procedure, successfully removed the appendix and he came out of in good shape. But he then developed complications, possibly from the effects of anesthesia, which ultimately led to cardiac arrest.

We might have to ask one of the Bidens

New reports say that Clark had an "inappropriate relationship" with his sister in law. The S-i-L had been hired by the union at some point so I guess that leaves open the question of whether it was an inappropriate personal relationship or a business one (such as steering union funds to a family member) but this apparently comes via an "internal investigation" which suggests that the federal one is unrelated to this particular tidbit.

Don't care about baseball team captains, never did. Next topic.

While a big part of that is simply life and being older, there's also the Mets going from 11 opponents played each season to now 29 Some think this is an improvement, one might claim "a Gift to the Fans", but, y'know, your mileage may vary.

The lingering problem for hitters with damaged (or removed) hamate bones is sometimes a decrease in power. Not a permanent one necessarily but power might be slow in coming back. So there's back ... and then there's all the way back. So, yeah, he could be in the lineup in time for OD but maybe without being LINDOR! for a while.

Elroy Face - 97 One of the first 'relief specialists' (nobody called them 'closers' back then), the 5' 8"/155 lb righty was best known for his 1959 season when he put up an 18-1 W/L record w/a 2.70 ERA over 57 appearances (finished 47 games). And when he Pirates beat the Yanx in the 1960 WS, famously winning all four games by close margins while getting blown out in the other three), Face saved games 1, 4, & 5 He's also well known for being named Elroy Face. I had no idea he was still around until ... well, until he wasn't.

Former NYM Chris Bassitt, Orioles, one year deal.

I don't think we have a thread on this yet ... so Philly OF Nick Castellanos has been told by the club to NOT report to the team's ST complex this week pending either his trade or release. Castellanos is coming up on the fifth, and final, year of a $100 million contract with Philly but is also coming off a 250/294/400 [88 OPS+]/ negative (-1.0) WAR season with the Phightens and has been told that there "isn't a locker for him" at Philly's ST complex. He also clashed with Philly manager Robbie Thompson on a couple of occasions in 2025 and is considered a defensive liability.

Yabbut, Warhol wasn't a 34 y/o athlete (although, looking it up, I don't think I realized he was only 58).

The early word is that they're Not going to play Bichette at SS, presumably to give him as many reps at 3rd as possible and also to work out Mauricio and others who might get the call if Lindor can't start the season.

On the 'stress fracture' in his hamate bone. Procedure to be done today. Recovery time is around six weeks so OD availability is questionable at this point.

Merger alert! https://phpbb.cranepoolcompanion.com/viewtopic.php?p=210806&hilit=Braves#p210806 Also, I wonder if Schwellenbach's doctors traced the injury to a lack of vowels in his diet?