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Year In Review: 2005 At The Crane Pool Forum

Valadius Dec 31 2005 06:07 PM

This year has been an interesting one at the CPF, to say the least. And though I was only here for less than half of it, there have been some great times here... and some trying times. Let's review the year that was 2005 at the CPF.

ScarletKnight41 Dec 31 2005 06:24 PM

I got into Freakin' Rutgers and started my grad studies. We changed servers due to the Cyber Tsunami in the spring. Something is in the water, because CF and his wife just had a baby and a lot of Crane Poolers have babies due this winter (coincidentally, these babies all seem to be due around 9 months following the Cyber Tsunami. Hmmm....).

Yancy Street Gang Dec 31 2005 06:25 PM

December was my best CPF month ever, and I've been here for three years. I won the song parody contest in my rookie season. And, after months of failed attempts, I succeeded in luring two Mets celebrities into the Pool. (With an invaluable assist from Edgy on Steve Zabriskie. He closed that deal, I just got it started.)

cooby Dec 31 2005 06:26 PM

And he's got Mackey Sasser in his back pocket

ScarletKnight41 Dec 31 2005 07:18 PM

Zvon joined our ranks - that's worthy of celebration :)

Zvon Dec 31 2005 07:33 PM

="ScarletKnight41"]Zvon joined our ranks - that's worthy of celebration :) awww.... *Z blushes mightily* Shucks,.....thanks SK. Im not even half a year old yet here, I think. I hope to be more involved in 2006. Find time for some of these neat contests and stuff. The CPF has made being a Met fan out of NY, which is to say a fish out of water, a most enjoyable experience. Not that I dont go on about the Mets down here,....just that nobody listens.;)

Valadius Jan 01 2006 02:43 PM

Hey, don't forget about me, OlerudOwned, and the other new CPFers! We had some great times in 2005. "I'm Ogden Nash" was probably my favorite thread of the year. The "Benson Bunch" inspired perhaps my best work, "SAABP - Substance Abusers Anonymous for Baseball Players". That one morning when over a month of the CPF was wiped out for a few hours scared the crap out of me, though.

sharpie Jan 03 2006 12:01 PM

Is CPF traffic up over 2004?

Edgy DC Jan 03 2006 12:20 PM

Oh, I don't know. Funny, but I checked the stats over at ezboard and there's been a hell of a lot of robots looking at the pages, even though there hadn't been a post in a month. I threw up a dummy post just in case they get a bee in their bonnets to purge inactive boards. Date Page Views Posts New Members Band Width 1/3/06 60 0 0 1.830 1/2/06 200 0 0 7.015 1/1/06 181 0 0 5.647 12/31/05 390 0 0 14.888 12/30/05 131 0 0 3.647 12/29/05 655 0 0 26.239 12/28/05 205 0 0 9.746 12/27/05 122 0 0 3.673 12/26/05 216 0 0 12.542 12/25/05 366 0 0 23.875 12/24/05 111 0 0 3.951 12/23/05 240 0 0 11.482 12/22/05 153 0 0 5.441 12/21/05 330 0 0 13.033 12/20/05 395 1 0 15.413 12/19/05 246 4 0 11.718 12/18/05 380 1 0 34.146 12/17/05 141 0 0 6.175 12/16/05 319 0 0 12.664 12/15/05 382 0 0 13.213 12/14/05 209 1 0 8.405 12/13/05 340 2 0 12.425 12/12/05 368 10 0 13.936 12/11/05 361 1 0 11.997 12/10/05 645 2 0 24.368 12/9/05 336 1 0 11.300 12/8/05 546 2 0 20.953 12/7/05 200 32 2 6.199 12/6/05 318 15 1 15.959 12/5/05 135 6 0 8.219

cooby Jan 03 2006 12:31 PM

Wow, what was going on on the 7th?

seawolf17 Jan 03 2006 12:47 PM

I bet that was the day we had that bizarro loss of data here.

Centerfield Jan 03 2006 01:32 PM

Great idea for a thread. 2005 was a lot of fun. Move to a nicer place...bunch of new posters...the new Shaefer PoTG points system...our efforts to put the Mets back on TV...I'd say it was a pretty good year for the CPF.

Valadius Jan 03 2006 01:46 PM

I think you're right seawolf.

Johnny Dickshot Jan 03 2006 02:17 PM

Pozitives: * Buncha great new posters really revitalized this place. Tell your friends! * Kickass song parody contest. * Terrific POTG voting & tracking * Special guest posters * Speedy recovery from EZBoard blowup, new board easier to search, better archives Negs: * EZBoard blow-up wastes lots of hard work * Some discussion sagging and/or damaged under too many specialty forums and catchall threads -- confusion/bad feelings over thread-copping on the one hand, and stifled/ignored discussion on the other. * Answer/Ask in death throes for months now * Less Norrin Radd, no gf21212121 to prop up music discussions * Fallen Angel Sal Q a bummer

Yancy Street Gang Jan 03 2006 02:20 PM

I don't like to blow my own horn (although I would if I could) but I had a hand in most of the positives that Johnny listed. Because of my successful 2005, I'm going to try to get a $2,000 raise from Branch Rickey. Wish me luck!

Johnny Dickshot Jan 03 2006 02:57 PM

I'll toot your horn for ya: Great job (b-flat) I neglected to mention how much I enjoyed the debut of The Wifey Watch Thread, which to me, evokes both an innocent retro-consciousness (the Family Day pics in the Yearbooks, for instance, and the whole Tom n' Nancy thing) and a creepy, Internet-is-dangerous vibe from today. It's the perfect CPF thread.

KC Jan 03 2006 05:32 PM

That's a pretty funny and dead-on observation re: the wifey thread. And I'll echo a toot for Yance, his sql expertise made the transition much less stressful and cut weeks off of some tasks. Thanks, again.

Willets Point Jan 03 2006 05:36 PM

Toot, toot Yancy. My life as an archivist is much at ease with your weberrific solutions.

ScarletKnight41 Jan 03 2006 05:38 PM

Yes - Yancy was a lifesaver in the aftermath of our Cyber Tsunami. Three Cheers for Yancy!

cooby Jan 03 2006 05:55 PM

Cheers and toots, Yancy!

Yancy Street Gang Jan 03 2006 09:31 PM

Am I allowed to say "aw shucks" here?

Valadius Jan 04 2006 11:07 AM

Go ahead, you deserve to take a bow.

sharpie Jan 04 2006 11:52 AM

Shucking Yancy...