Willets Point

]E is for Evers,His jaw in advance;Never afraidTo Tinker with Chance.Not that there's anything wrong with that.

I smell Featured Archives. Someone do Wee Willie Small Balls.

Guys who grew up in Greenwich, CT just don't have the street cred to rap.

That is funny, another great post by the king!]Hot Stove Heaters: the CPF2002: What Went Right?In its first full season after spinning off the wildly-successful MOFO, the Crane Pool Forum finally hit its stride in 2002 churning out entertaining and intelligent material.Rookie administrator edgy DC quickly adjusted to the increased pressure and responsibility associated with managing an internet forum and established a smooth, cohesive community...as evidenced by the decrease in the frequency of posts in the Edgy Suxx Forum."It means a lot to me," commented DC, "that the Edgy Suxx Forum is basically a technical support forum these days." DC credits focusing on the present as the key to his success. "I try not to think about outdoing MOFO and stuff like that. I just go, you know, one post at a time...concentrate on writing a good sentence, punctuating good...all that other stuff you can't control."Adding to the success of the CPF was co-administrator Salamander Q. Previously "doc g" during his MOFO days, Q gave a solid performance in 2002 putting to rest all questions concerning whether he could bounce back from his tumultuous departure from MOFO."Look, I try to leave the past in the past," said Q, "People are going to say what they want...it [the situation on MOFO] was just a big misunderstanding. That's why I took the new name...it was supposed to be a re-birth...I wanted to turn my image around 360 degrees, you know, to reflect who I really am".Q managed to do just that. He and DC, along with strong performances from veterans KC, Jonathan Archer, LF, Cookie Mom and Hot Corner, paved the way for a successful 2002."We're happy with last season, but now we want to take the next step", said Hot Corner. "We're not settling for anything less than number one this year."KC added, "yup."2002: What Went Wrong?Despite the success the aforementioned veterans, CPF was held back by the disappointing performances by many of its younger crew and one significant veteran poster.Centerfield, marathon mets and slugger1138 all had disappointing seasons and failed to meet expectations set after successful rookie seasons."The sophomore season is always the toughest", said DC, "I'm not happy that the young guys took a step back, but I just tell them to go, you know, one post at a time...concentrate on writing a good sentence, punctuate good, stuff like that.""I think we were all pressing a bit", commented marathon, "and slugger took it really bad when he realized the new Star Wars movie really sucked. But I think we can bounce back."Fueling the fire, was the speculation that CF's significant weight gain was the reason behind his poor season. CF, who did not return phone calls, is said to be on a strict regimen to get himself back into playing shape for 2003."Look any time you're not producing, people are going to look for a reason", said Wide BG, CF's roommate on the road. "As soon as he starts posting well all those things about his fingers being too fat for typing will be gone....but, yeah, at the end he was really fat."No weight issues surrounded veteran Norrin Radd's disappointing 2002, but there was plenty of controversy to go around. "I'm not going to lie," said LF, "Norrin had a tough year. Some even thought that Norrin was funnier when he didn't post than when he did."Growing increasingly surly as the year progressed, Radd's posts started to border on offensive. "It was strange," said JG, "he used to be such a nice guy, he would write poetry. But by the end of the year, he was comparing teammates to genocidal regimes, threatening to eat teammates' livers...and I don't even think he likes liver."Radd, who would not comment on his performance in 2002, did return our phone call and stated we should "shove our article up our recta and hope for infection."In Retrospect, the Critical Decisions Were:1. Trading Bill Metsiac and Ms Met for Patrick McGoo and JG. "We had a good team coming in", said DC, "but that trade put the icing on the cherry. I know Sal was sad to see Ms Met go, but sometimes, you've got to give up value to get value."2. The wallpaper. "Once we agreed to keep the Cranes, we hit our stride", said Archer, "We felt comfortable and we all knew we could count on the Cranes. It gives us our base, our strength, some might even say, our identity."3. The Rankings Project: DC's rankings project forced his posters to pay attention to every game. "When you havea poll to complete every day," said Q, "You can't just take three weeks off."Three Key Questions for 20031. Will Norrin eat a teammate's liver? "I think we all pretty much agree we don't want that", said Bart Giamatti.2. What to eat for lunch? There can be no question that the Lunch threads can only keep their appeal if the CPF'ers make an effort to vary lunch patterns. Will they be able to do so? Or is this veteran team too locked into their ways?3. Where is ambler????

PiazzaFan411 wrote:If you hate the Mets so much then why the hell are you here. This is a Mets-Based Fourm with many hardcore Met fans.Now now, we take all kinds and Bret was a Mets fan for a gazillion years (we all knew him when) before his recent conversion/bandwaggon hopping. I think deep inside he sticks around because he wants to believe in the Mets and projects all his rah-rah Mets feelings onto us. Either that or he's some sort of bodhisatva charged with taking us all away from the suffering of our collective Mets fandom.

Expect a precipitous drop in the quality of my posting output and a greater amount of surliness.

But are you filming a documentary about Mets fans at Shea on Saturday?

Looper.

Nice strike out on 3 pitches, DeFelice.

Glavine wants no part of Met-Killer Burrell.

Echo, echo,echo,echo...

Now the Mets need to get 1-2-3-4 men on base.

Pratt! (Who wrote that song parody set to "Jet!" by Wings).

Fongool!

Get 'em back boys, this Lieber guy has got nothing!

mutter-fuckter

And Shinjo. He was a character.

Dude, who's being adverserial? We're just offering input as you asked. If you don't like the input because it doesn't jibe with your thesis, don't use that material.

metirish wrote:Cashman has some balls.Yea, but they're in a jar on Steinbrenner's desk.

Mark Healey wrote:Durocher. Martin, Ruth, Reggie, Valentine, Tug, Dykstra = funTorre, Willie, Jeter, Beltran, Piazza = zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzI would like a profanity-laced tirade from the manager once in a while, throwing dirt on the umpire, etc.On the other hand players/managers that make asses of themselves all the time can get tiresome. Sometimes it's fun enough to watch talent players play the game of baseball.

Hate to bust this out so soon, but the Mets lost, the Yanks won, and the Braves won one game of a doubleheader. So that means one thing, TRIPLE CRAPPINESS!!! Get it? Craps? Snake eyes! Oh hell... I'm going to bed.

Zvon wrote:Afew more and we are back in bidnessOr a double play and you can hear the sound of suck.

I remember a game at Fenway when the Mets hit four homers, although maybe only three of them were off Pedro. Maybe Bret remembers because he was at that game too.

The Mets.

Willets Point wrote:All right Grady Randolph, you want to pull Pedro while this is still relatively close?Guess not.