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CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

John Cougar Lunchbucket Feb 18 2011 08:12 AM

OK, the deets got mixed up with the Virgil's thing in the last thread, so this is the thread where you say if and how many you'll be bringing to the CPF Spring Training lunch at Strawberry's. We agreed to Sunday March 13, the Mets-Cardinals spring training game is to be broadcast that day at 1:10 pm. Strawberry's is located right across the street from the Douglaston LIRR station, easy shot from the city or north via Throg's Neck. Who's in?

seawolf17 Feb 18 2011 08:29 AM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

My apologies for dropping the ball on my alleged coordination of this. Thanks for taking the reins. Count us in for four. CD

Ceetar Feb 18 2011 08:37 AM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

Oooh, I'd mentally tuned this out because I thought we'd settled on the next weekend. I'll have to run it by the wife.

themetfairy Feb 18 2011 08:57 AM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

The next weekend would be better for me, because D-Dad could also make it. But I'm in solo for the 13th.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Feb 18 2011 09:26 AM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

MIGHT be doing a YoungerPooper candleblowing that day. (It's 60-40 to be on Saturday at present, but...) If not, it looks gorge-eous for a face-stuffing.

Gwreck Feb 18 2011 10:21 AM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

50-50. May have to do a fantasy baseball draft that day.

sharpie Feb 18 2011 04:48 PM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

I'm a maybe too. I should know more inaboutta week.

SteveJRogers Feb 18 2011 08:06 PM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

I'll be there.

HahnSolo Feb 19 2011 06:59 PM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

I believe that is NCAA selection Sunday, and I get all geeky about the bubble and the selection. So I'm a likely no.

Edgy DC Feb 19 2011 07:06 PM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

Nooooo!

Kong76 Feb 19 2011 08:43 PM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

I'm reluctant to say I'm in ... last couple of tries I kind of feel like participation repellent. What's Straw's spring training capacity with the Mets if any? Will he be in Florida? Anyone twatty with him?

Edgy DC Feb 19 2011 09:25 PM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

Darryl is currently golfing against autism and spreading the good news according to his Facebook feed. Strawberry's Sports Grill reminds me that 10pm-11pm is POWER HOUR. Don't I know it.

Farmer Ted Feb 21 2011 04:01 PM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

OUT. Highly likely, however, that I will be in PSL that week. Nice.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 01 2011 01:30 PM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

bumpy

Chad Ochoseis Mar 02 2011 07:28 AM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

I'm reluctant to say I'm in ... last couple of tries I kind of feel like participation repellent. I'm in. But only if Kase shows up.

Edgy DC Mar 02 2011 07:29 AM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

Not looking great for me.

Ceetar Mar 02 2011 07:50 AM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

Edgy DC wrote: Not looking great for me. Me neither (I'm anti-social anyway). I'm apparently celebrating Daylight Savings with the writer of Daylight Atheism. and/or his birthday. Friend for (longer than) life trumps strange Mets fans from the internet, sorry.

metsmarathon Mar 02 2011 07:59 AM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

we need to get these things happening on the other side of the hudson...

Valadius Mar 02 2011 08:20 AM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

metsmarathon wrote: we need to get these things happening on the other side of the hudson... This.

seawolf17 Mar 02 2011 08:21 AM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

Why can't you?

Valadius Mar 02 2011 08:49 AM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

I'm going to be in Connecticut that day anyway. Wish I could make it.

Chad Ochoseis Mar 02 2011 09:06 AM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

metsmarathon wrote: we need to get these things happening on the other side of the hudson... Last year, TMF, D-Dad, MK, and I met up in Trenton to watch the B-Mets play against the MFYAAs. No reason why we couldn't do that again. Yeah, I know. Trenton. But it's worth the trip.

G-Fafif Mar 02 2011 09:13 AM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

Leaning yes.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 02 2011 09:18 AM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

Chad Ochoseis wrote: I'm reluctant to say I'm in ... last couple of tries I kind of feel like participation repellent. I'm in. But only if Kase shows up. Pressure on the Big Man. I was worried the dual-meeting thing would rob some mo, but we'll be there anywhoo. I'm having a baseball card chuck-up there too.

seawolf17 Mar 02 2011 09:31 AM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

You call Darryl to make sure he's in?

Benjamin Grimm Mar 02 2011 09:35 AM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I'm having a baseball card chuck-up there too. I remember those!

themetfairy Mar 02 2011 09:41 AM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

seawolf17 wrote: You call Darryl to make sure he's in? Yes - I need to razz him about dropping out of the Empire State Building Run-Up!

G-Fafif Mar 02 2011 09:47 AM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

Benjamin Grimm wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I'm having a baseball card chuck-up there too. I remember those! Hell would break loose on the fifth grade bus home. But such pre-adolescent madness did help me fill out my 1974 set. I'll never forget the scrawny kid behind me who made the mistake of yelling, "I got a Pete Rose!" who, in a matter of seconds, had one-eighth of a Pete Rose.

seawolf17 Mar 02 2011 10:21 AM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

I want to buy a box of 1985 Topps commons and teach MiniWolf how to flip. Not old-skool flip, but flip like we did in the mid-80s, with colors.

Valadius Mar 02 2011 10:30 AM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

What are you guys talking about?

G-Fafif Mar 02 2011 10:32 AM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

seawolf17 wrote: I want to buy a box of 1985 Topps commons and teach MiniWolf how to flip. Not old-skool flip, but flip like we did in the mid-80s, with colors. That's how I came to build my complete 1975 set.

Benjamin Grimm Mar 02 2011 11:12 AM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

I remember flipping where the second person would have to match or "dematch" the first flip. Here's how it would work: I'd walk up to you and say, "Flip ya Larries!" Since I called Larries, you'd have to go first. So you'd flip the card and it would spin to the ground, landing either face up or face down. You'd then say "Match" or "Dematch." If it's Match, my card has to land the same way yours did. If Dematch, the opposite. If I succeed, I keep both cards. If not, you do. We'd also play Five Larries or Ten Larries, where each player would have a stack of five or ten cards. We'd then alternate putting a card down face up (like playing War) and if I placed a card down that had a color match to yours, I'd take the discard pile and put it at the bottom of my hand. First player to have all cards in his hands gets to keep them all. (Unless you called no keepsies.) Once again, whoever calls Larries gets the "home field advantage." If you don't have Larries, you have to go first in every round.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 02 2011 11:29 AM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

Never did the first style of flipping described by Grimm. When someone told me "Flipya10cardlarries" it meant that we'd face one another with a stack of 10 cards which we'd "flip" -- put face up in the middle, one on top of the next until the "colors" matched, at which point the matcher wins the stack. We also did a little bit of "scaling" cards. Throwing 10 each one by one toward a wall where the closest to the wall won. The skill in that game was to get a "waller" -- a card leaning against the wall, and/or to destroy your opponent's waller with a well-aimed takeout scale. Sometimes we would "scale for farness" (I guess we weren't comfortable with the word "distance" then). I became so good at this* nobody would scale me for farness. * - I can still kick your ass.

Benjamin Grimm Mar 02 2011 11:51 AM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

Sounds like what you called Flipya10cardlarries, we called "Ten Larries". (I never found out who "Larry" was.) We did scaling, too. I had forgotten about that. It was, as I recall, third in popularity behind the standard color-matching game and the match/dematch single-card game.

seawolf17 Mar 02 2011 12:02 PM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

We did the color-matching game. I distinctly remember a severely beat-up Pedro Guerrero card that was something of an in-joke among us; it must have bounced around all of our hands at some point.

themetfairy Mar 02 2011 12:43 PM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

We flipped with Larries. Larries, Shades & Dubs was the popular challenge in my elementary school.

themetfairy Mar 07 2011 06:05 AM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

With six days to go, I have a couple of basic questions - [list:imy5o325]What time are we meeting? Do we have a head count? Do we have a reservation?[/list:u:imy5o325]

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 07 2011 07:27 AM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

Yeah, game starts at 1 so be there by then. Looks like Wifey Bucket and Lunchpail have bailed on me, leaving me to go solo (and needing to take a cab there!) She needs to haul him to granny's so we have a babysitter for school offdays next week. She's offered to give me a ride home. Anyhow, I'll call for a reservation later this week.

themetfairy Mar 07 2011 07:41 AM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

Sounds good Lunchie - thanks for taking care of that!

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 07 2011 09:00 AM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

Barring an Act of God, YoungerPooper and I are in.

Chad Ochoseis Mar 07 2011 11:47 AM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Looks like Wifey Bucket and Lunchpail have bailed on me, leaving me to go solo (and needing to take a cab there!) She needs to haul him to granny's so we have a babysitter for school offdays next week. She's offered to give me a ride home. I'm going via the BQE and can prolly give you a ride. PM if you're interested.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 07 2011 12:22 PM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

Chad Ochoseis wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Looks like Wifey Bucket and Lunchpail have bailed on me, leaving me to go solo (and needing to take a cab there!) She needs to haul him to granny's so we have a babysitter for school offdays next week. She's offered to give me a ride home. I'm going via the BQE and can prolly give you a ride. PM if you're interested. Dude!

themetfairy Mar 07 2011 03:19 PM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

For anyone considering mass transit, there's a 12:19 LIRR train out of Penn Station that arrives in Douglaston at 12:50.

batmagadanleadoff Mar 07 2011 03:31 PM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

I'm thinking of going, but I'm scared that the Fairy is gonna whack me the back o' my head with a bottle of detergent if I show up. A full bottle.

sharpie Mar 07 2011 03:47 PM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

Still a mebbe. Make that a prolly.

Kong76 Mar 07 2011 08:59 PM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

Wonder if Straw will be there to stir the drinks! Mags, I'm coming with metfairy ... I'll make sure she's detergent-free before we get on the train lol. Looking forward to seeing everyone, and hopefully a few new faces. There will be door prizes ... I still have some Jorge Toca rookie cards to unload!

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 10 2011 04:05 PM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

I still have no idea who's gonna be here but I made a reservation for 10. Hey you! Show up!

The Second Spitter Mar 11 2011 12:30 AM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

metfairy was gracious enough to show me how to get there, last August.

themetfairy Mar 11 2011 07:27 AM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

Yes - it was all part of my plan to take you on a tour of Long Island ;)

Edgy DC Mar 12 2011 02:46 PM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

Darryl's gonna be there tonight celebrating his 49th.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 12 2011 05:59 PM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

I think that's a good sign for his showing up tomorrow. Don;t forget to turn y'll clocks ahead

Fman99 Mar 13 2011 10:29 AM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

Have fun y'all be sure to punch each other in the necks for me.

themetfairy Mar 13 2011 05:22 PM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

Had a great time. Wish y'all were there - Not pictured - latecomer Sharpie

Ceetar Mar 13 2011 05:51 PM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

Where's Darryl? (oh, he must be _taking_ the picture right?)

themetfairy Mar 13 2011 06:19 PM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

Reportedly he was en route back to St. Louis. He was just ducking me. He knew I was going to give him Hell for skipping the Empire State Building Run-Up :)

metsguyinmichigan Mar 13 2011 06:43 PM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

That's a fine looking group of Mets fans!

themetfairy Mar 13 2011 06:50 PM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

Artie's presence makes us all look better :)

A Boy Named Seo Mar 13 2011 08:54 PM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

Ocho looks unsure of LWFS. Awesome pic. One of these days would love to hang w/ all u guys.

Edgy DC Mar 13 2011 09:06 PM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

I'm a little unsure myself. Is he about to baptize his wee one there?

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 13 2011 09:14 PM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

Hey-- she was warned not to speak ill of Dickey. She chose to ignore the warning. I would be remiss as a parent if I didn't follow through with the lesson about accountability. (I get a lot of that look these days; I blame the Philthy/terrorist facial hair stylings.) Artie's presence may have made the lineup look better; her clubhouse presence was a little Milledge-cum-Everett by the end, though. That she made it that long was due entirely to tmf sneaking her fruit and croissants from the brunch buffet.

The Second Spitter Mar 13 2011 11:35 PM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: ; I blame the Philthy/terrorist facial hair stylings.) I see. My first impression was that you arrived at Darryl's immediately after the conclusion of your softball game, which you won for your team with a head-first slide into home plate. Who is the person sitting between Mr 86 (looking ITBSOHL) and S-Fafif? Nice to see tmf on the wagon.

seawolf17 Mar 14 2011 04:30 AM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

That would be StevieJeets. Humblest apologies for being one of the first to jump in and one of the last to jump out. Got committed to the local parade with the wife and friends.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 14 2011 05:51 AM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

I tried to give away the hockey cards I'd packed for ya, but no takers!

sharpie Mar 14 2011 07:17 AM Re: CPF Spring Training @ Strawberry's (attendance required)

And I was the last in. Had no idea that Seawolf was ever there.