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TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

batmagadanleadoff Dec 30 2013 02:28 AM Edited 15 time(s), most recently on Feb 26 2014 02:51 PM

A MOSTLY HUMORLESS SET OF RULES FOR THE 2013-14 CPF SINGLE ELIMINATION SONG PARODY CONTEST SONG PARODIES 1. Create a song parody of an actual song. Your song parody should be based on a Met topic, most likely a Met related theme, thing or person (“Met topic”) that will be provided. MET TOPICS 2. Several Met topics will be provided in each round from which to base your song parody on. (But See, Rule #4: Met Topics in the Championship Round, below). Rather than provide each player with his or her own personal set of Met topics, this year, each player will choose his or her Met topic from a common pool of Met topics. Every Met topic provided will be available to every player (thus, “common pool”). Therefore, it is possible, and likely, that in some of the head to head match-ups, the competing players will have chosen the same Met topic. This system promotes fairness, and avoids any "I wanted to be Mr. Black; Mr. Brown sounds like shit" issues. [youtube]JlQhDN1Onho[/youtube] 3. A new set of Met topics will be provided for each round. The Met topics provided in the previous round will no longer be in play and cannot be used. MET TOPICS IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND (a/k/a THE FINALS) 4. For the championship round, one Met topic will be provided, thus requiring the two finalists to create a parody from the same theme. SUBMITTING YOUR PARODY 5. Players will be given a generous amount of time to submit their song parodies (from one to two weeks for each song parody). 6. Song parodies will be deemed submitted when they are received by me in my CPF Private Mailbox. Players should not post their completed parodies on the main forum. POSTING PARODIES 6a. Song parodies will be posted to the main forum by the contest administrator (that's me). In every round, each head to head matchup will have its own thread, which will be in poll format, and comprised of two anonymous head to head contestants. Contestants' identities will be disclosed at the end of each round. 7. Players may, at their option, also include a) a Youtube or other video of the actual song being parodied, either at the top or bottom of the post; b) the title of the song being parodied, either at the top or bottom of the post; c) lyrics to the song being parodied, either at the top or bottom of the post and/or d) notes, references etc. MISSING THE DEADLINE TO SUBMIT YOUR SONG PARODY 8. Don’t. 9. But if you must, fair and humanitarian efforts will be made to accommodate contestants who cannot meet their deadlines, so long as the flow of the tournament isn’t unreasonably compromised. Contestants who cannot submit their parodies prior to the deadline for submission risk forfeiting their pending match-up and thus, tournament elimination by disqualification. Contestants who anticipate missing the deadline for submission are encouraged to contact the tournament administrator (that's me) as soon as possible to determine if reasonable arrangements can be made to to enlarge the time to submit. THE CRANE POOL KRANEPOOL CUP 10. This year’s contestants will be playing for the Crane Pool Kranepool Cup ("CPKC") , named so in honor of the forum namesake. 11. Ron Swoboda’s face will be etched off of the cup shown above, and replaced with an image of the winner’s face. The other side of the cup will list every past winner of the Song Parody contest, in the style of The Stanley Cup. 12. The CPKC will remain in my sole and exclusive possession The CPKC will not go on public tour. 12. No one may visit me to view The CPKC. SEEDINGS 13. All 16 contestants were randomly seeded from 1-16, and then slotted accordingly in a standard 16 seed single elimination bracket. Random seeds were generated by writing each contestant's name on a small piece of paper - one contestant per piece of paper - placing all 16 pieces of paper into the Crane Pool Kranepool Cup with Swoboda's face still etched on the cup, and then drawing out each piece of paper, one at a time. The contestant's name that appeared on the first piece of paper drawn from the CPKP received the #1 seed, the second name received the #2 seed, etc. All 16 pieces of paper were of identical size and weight. The seeding process was supervised and audited by my mother. Contestants were randomly seeded in the following order: 1. Zvon 2. metsmarathon 3. metirish 4. A Boy Named Seo 5. Lefty Specialist 6. G-Fafif 7. Kong76 8. LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr 9. Fman99 10. seawolf17 11. Trachsel My Tears 12. Ceetar 13. Edgy MD 14. sharpie 15. John Cougar Lunchbucket 16. TransMonk THE BRACKET 14. The Bracket: FIFO (First in - First Out) SEEDING FOR SUBSEQUENT ROUNDS 14a. Head to head matchups for the first round of the tournament are determined by the aforementioned random seeding process (see The Bracket). For subsequent rounds, contestants will be matched up against each other in the order in which they submit their song parodies to my private mailbox. Thus, the author of the first parody submitted will be matched up against the author of the second parody submitted, etc. With this method, contestants will not know the identity of their opponents until the end of each round. FIRST ROUND MET TOPICS 15. First Round Met topics are: [fimg=522]http://www.metspundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/mets-beyond-their-means-380x192.jpg[/fimg] a) Harry Chiti b) Ike Davis c) Lenny Dykstra d) Todd Hundley e) Cleon Jones f) Tug McGraw g) Charlie Williams h) Wilpons: Fred and/or Jeff FIRST ROUND DEADLINES 16. All contestants should submit their completed first round song parodies no later than January 13, 2014, 11:59PM. 17. REPEALED VOTING 18. Each head to head matchup will receive its own unique thread. Voting in each first round head to head contest will end 48 hours after it is posted to the forum. If, after the 48 hour voting period, a matchup is tied, the voting period will be extended for approximately 24 hours. 19. Voting is open to all forum members -- contestants and non-participants. Please don't vote more than once. 20. The identities of first-round contestants will be disclosed shortly after all first-round polls have ended. THE QUARTER-FINALS SECOND ROUND TOPICS 21. Second Round Mets Topics are: [fimg=235]http://www.vintagecardprices.com/pics/1805/170411.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=237]http://mets360.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/1973-Jon-Matlack-214x300.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=253]http://www.halloffamememorabilia.com/images/products/p-440640-mickey-lolich-autographed-hand-signed-baseball-card-new-york-mets-1977-topps-baseball-aw-34477.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=236]http://www.tradingcarddb.com/Images/Cards/Baseball/250/250-365Fr.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=244]http://www.tradingcarddb.com/Images/Cards/Baseball/803/803-144Fr.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=239]http://www.tradingcarddb.com/Images/Cards/Baseball/1653/1653-350Fr.jpg[/fimg][fimg=241]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RJnZXOek6bo/TONZ0LFyq7I/AAAAAAAAEqo/RgckEK39Ay8/s1600/08%2BOliver%2BPerez.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=240]http://paulsrandomstuff.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/johan-santana1.jpg[/fimg] 1. Al Jackson 2. Jon Matlack 3. Mickey Lolich 4. Frank Tanana 5. Bill Pulsipher 6. Tom Glavine 7. Oliver Perez 8. Johan Santana SECOND ROUND DEADLINES 22. All contestants should submit their completed second round song parodies no later than January 27, 2014, 11:59PM. THE SEMI-FINALS SEMI-FINALS TOPICS 23. Semi-Finals Topics are are: [fimg=844]http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2836/12263832715_ec1f58b0a7_o.jpg[/fimg] Clockwise from top left: 1. Rick Ankiel 2. Eric Valent 3. Nino Espinosa 4. Claudell Washington 5. Ryan Thompson 6. Jim McAndrew 7. Jose Valentin SEMI-FINALS ROUND DEADLINE 24. All semi-finalists should submit their next song parodies no later than February 11, 2014, 11:59PM. DISCLOSURE OF SEMI-FINALISTS' IDENTITIES 25. Semi-finalists' identities will not be disclosed until after the completion of the entire tournament. THE RALPH KINER MEMORIAL PROCLAMATION 26. By unanimous vote of the Board of Directors of the 2013-14 Crane Pool Kranepool Cup (that's me), this year's tournament will be named and known as the Ralph Kiner Memorial, in loving memory of the Mets longest tenured announcer. Ralph would be greatly honored to accept this tribute if he were still with us, and he'd probably say something like: "To all you Valentines out there, Happy Father's Day". Ralph was selected to Baseball's Hall of Fame for his considerable accomplishments as a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates, yet he is as vital to the history of the Mets organization as he was to the Pittsburgh franchise. In light of the foregoing, there can only be one Mets topic for the remaining finalists: 27. FINALS TOPIC [fimg=333]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7378/12528859835_9d81dccec9_o.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=516]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7321/12528858715_0b06259daa_o.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=433]http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2816/12529346734_6f7aa793a9_o.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=413]http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3707/12528858485_9d0ff6d04e_o.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=434]http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5493/12529345814_5bcbdd2173_o.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=433]http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5527/12528993113_7c2602df5b_o.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=300]http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3787/12528993383_a90eb8fc51_o.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=296]http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3764/12528858105_f1ef3c88b6_o.jpg[/fimg] Ralph Kiner. FINAL ROUND DEADLINE 28. Finalists should submit their song parodies no later than February 23, 11:59PM.

d'Kong76 Dec 30 2013 03:08 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

My attorney will have to go over all this again. At $62.50/¼ hour, this format is killing me.

Zvon Dec 30 2013 03:56 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

First! ooo, I'm a little excited.

A Boy Named Seo Dec 30 2013 04:40 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

I thought 4 seeds were supposed to get, like, good draws. G'luck, Edge!

batmagadanleadoff Dec 30 2013 04:37 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

A Boy Named Seo wrote: I thought 4 seeds were supposed to get, like, good draws. G'luck, Edge! You made it to the Sweet Sixteen. You're doing great!

Edgy MD Dec 30 2013 04:55 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Just ordered a copy of My Windbreaker and Me: The Charlie Williams Story. I may be outwritten, outwitted, and outpunned, but I will not be outresearched. Good luck, Seoy.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 02 2014 05:05 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

AMENDMENTS TO THE RULES (WITH EVEN MORE LESS HUMOR) The following changes have been made to the tournament rules: a) All contestants should submit their songs on or before 1/13/14, 11:59PM. The contestants in the first group (Former Rule 16) are given an additional three days to submit their songs. Contestants in the second group (Former Rule 17) are unaffected by this change. b) Rule 18 is re-written to reflect that voting for each first-round head to head contest should close in precisely 48 hours. This is based on my discovery that the forum software allows members to set an automatic computer generated and enforced deadline for the closing of polls that they create. AMENDMENTS 16. All contestants must submit their completed first round song parodies no later than January 13, 2014, 11:59PM. 17. Repealed 18. Each head to head matchup will receive its own unique thread. Voting in each first round head to head contest will end 48 hours after it is posted to the forum. ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ 16. [crossout]The following[/crossout] All contestants must submit their completed first round song parodies no later than [crossout]January 10, 2014[/crossout] January 13, 2014, 11:59PM: [crossout]TransMonk Zvon Ceetar Lefty Specialist metsmarathon Lunchbucket Trachsel My Tears G-Fafif[/crossout] [crossout]17. The following contestants must submit their completed first round song parodies no later than January 13, 2014, 11:59PM: LWFS Fman Seo Edgy seawolf Kong sharpie metirish[/crossout] VOTING 18. Each head to head matchup will receive its own unique thread. Voting in each first round head to head contest will end 48 hours after it is posted to the forum. [crossout]said contest is posted, or as soon as reasonably possible, thereafter.[/crossout]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jan 03 2014 01:11 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Will you be creating each voting thread, or will we (as match participants)?

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 03 2014 02:06 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

It would be kinda cool to post the matchups anonymously. Don't even say which of the contests we're voting on, maybe.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 03 2014 02:13 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Will you be creating each voting thread, or will we (as match participants)? TOURNAMENT RULES wrote: SUBMITTING YOUR PARODY [***] 6. Song parodies will be deemed submitted when they are received by me in my CPF Private Mailbox. Players should not post their completed parodies on the main forum. I will be creating each head-to-head matchup thread. Send your song parody post to my private mailbox. John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: It would be kinda cool to post the matchups anonymously. Don't even say which of the contests we're voting on, maybe. If by anonymous, you mean that I post each matchup thread without identifying the contestants, this is a terrific idea. Let's put it to the membership. I'd bet that MFS62 woulda played under this format.

TransMonk Jan 03 2014 02:17 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

I like.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jan 03 2014 02:23 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

I like to think that my work is my signature. [Throws dickey into center of room, signifying support for proposal on the floor]

batmagadanleadoff Jan 03 2014 02:28 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

This means that the winners can't be identified until the voting period ends for all of the same round matchups. Otherwise, you know, by process of elimination, you'd figure out the identities of contestants to the last matchup(s). Also, if the matchups are posted in a staggered format instead of all at once, the earliest winners and losers would be expected to keep their identities secret. Also, the doors to the Looser's Lounge won't open until the entire round is over. But these are minor concessions, and shouldn't be obstacles to implementing this idea.

metirish Jan 03 2014 03:19 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Buckets best idea since advocating for Ray Durham, hopefully this one is picked up.

d'Kong76 Jan 03 2014 04:36 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

This gets creepier day by day.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jan 03 2014 04:59 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

?

Zvon Jan 03 2014 06:02 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: It would be kinda cool to post the matchups anonymously. Don't even say which of the contests we're voting on, maybe. It's a great idea.

sharpie Jan 03 2014 02:09 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

I like JCL's idea also. So then, I guess, the first two who would submit would be up against each other, making the brackets above unnecessary.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 03 2014 03:10 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

sharpie wrote: I like JCL's idea also. So then, I guess, the first two who would submit would be up against each other, making the brackets above unnecessary. If you mean that the first two contestants that submit their parodies to me are then matched up against each other unidentified, and then the next two contestants that submit their parodies are matched up against each other unidentified, etc., etc., well this is a radical departure, and not expressed in JCL's post. (At least, I don't think). But we can do this, too. Let's put this suggestion up for discussion, too, and see what the field says about "the sharpie rules".

metsmarathon Jan 04 2014 04:09 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

I totally support the jcl rule with the sharpie variation. That way there's total anonymity where even the contestants don't know their opponent.

Edgy MD Jan 04 2014 04:40 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

You can even re-seed the brackets and keep e'm private so even the contestants don't know who they're up against.

Zvon Jan 04 2014 06:55 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

I'm for anything that makes it more interesting, and this does that.

d'Kong76 Jan 04 2014 07:41 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Edgy MD wrote: You can even re-seed the brackets and keep e'm private so even the contestants don't know who they're up against. And we can PM in our votes with fake id's so no one knows what song is winning and the moderator won't know who vote for what!

Ceetar Jan 04 2014 08:24 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Kong76 wrote: Edgy MD wrote: You can even re-seed the brackets and keep e'm private so even the contestants don't know who they're up against. And we can PM in our votes with fake id's so no one knows what song is winning and the moderator won't know who vote for what! and our votes should be in ancient etruscan.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 04 2014 10:25 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

To clarify things in case anyone's confused - including myself - the following proposed rule changes are being considered for adoption: Under JCL's proposal, the bracket stays as is. Contestants will be identified only after voting is completed for the entire round. The format is repeated for each succeeding round. sharpie's proposal does away with conventional tournament seeding and thus, "The Bracket". Instead, contestants are matched up against each other in the order in which they submit their parodies to my private mailbox. Thus, the first parody submitted will go head to head against the second parody submitted, the third parody against the fourth parody, etc. This seeding format will apply to each round. As things stand, JCL's proposal appears to be on pace to be adopted, although it hasn't been officially adopted yet; sharpie's isn't even close.

sharpie Jan 05 2014 12:41 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

To make a bit of a pitch for my amendment: I do feel that if we knew who the players were, part of what we would be doing would be guessing who wrote what. The amendment makes it pure selecting the parody you are looking at without knowing anything about who wrote it. I do feel that there have been times that the popularity of certain posters may influence votes. Not that I feel that I have benefited or been slighted by who I have been going up against but I think it is harder for newer posters to make gains when you know even the possibility of their identity. That being said, I would be happy to go with JCL's proposal (or whatever is decided).

batmagadanleadoff Jan 05 2014 01:03 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

OE: AMENDMENTS TO THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT POSTS --I revised the earlier post to reflect that sharpie's proposal apparently also incorporates JCL's cone of silence. Otherwise, the adoption of sharpie's proposal, as I previously interpreted it, without JCL's proposal, would merely provide for an alternate seeding method, but without any anonymity. _____________________ To clarify things in case anyone's confused - including myself - the following proposed rule changes are being considered for adoption: Under JCL's proposal, the bracket stays as is. Contestants will be identified only after voting is completed for the entire round. The format is repeated for each succeeding round. sharpie's proposal incorporates JCL's, and also does away with conventional tournament seeding and thus, "The Bracket". Instead, contestants are matched up against each other in the order in which they submit their parodies to my private mailbox. Thus, the first parody submitted will go head to head against the second parody submitted, the third parody against the fourth parody, etc. This seeding format will apply to each round. As things stand, JCL's proposal appears to be on pace to be adopted, although it hasn't been officially adopted yet; sharpie's isn't even close.

seawolf17 Jan 05 2014 01:11 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS GOING ON RIGHT NOW

batmagadanleadoff Jan 05 2014 01:24 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

sharpie wrote: To make a bit of a pitch for my amendment: I do feel that if we knew who the players were, part of what we would be doing would be guessing who wrote what. The amendment makes it pure selecting the parody you are looking at without knowing anything about who wrote it. I do feel that there have been times that the popularity of certain posters may influence votes. Not that I feel that I have benefited or been slighted by who I have been going up against but I think it is harder for newer posters to make gains when you know even the possibility of their identity. That being said, I would be happy to go with JCL's proposal (or whatever is decided). I have a question for sharpie, but really for anyone: suppose JCL's proposal, but not sharpie's, were to be adopted. Would anonymity be significantly compromised? Wouldn't JCL's proposal, by itself, eliminate the popularity contest aspect to the contest (assuming for the sake of discussion that there even is one)? Each contestant would know the identity of his opponent by virtue of the bracket. But would this slight breach of anonymity make any difference? Doesn't every contestant vote for his own song anyway? Was there ever an instance of a contestant voting for his or her opponent's parody? Unless some contestant, knowing his opponent's identity, then wages a private message campaign to drum up votes for himself by trying to persuade others not to vote for the privately unmasked opponent. And I don't see that happening. Just askin'.

Ashie62 Jan 05 2014 02:35 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

seawolf17 wrote: I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS GOING ON RIGHT NOW It is a version of Vin Scelsa's "Idiot's Delight."

sharpie Jan 05 2014 03:40 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Ah, I had imagined that previously the contest would be between two named posters, but voters wouldn't know who wrote what. If, indeed, it would be two unnamed posters then I suppose the anonymity angle is taken care of. The advantage of the amendment is to keep things moving as often one person is finished way before his or her opponent and this way they should be coming faster since every "bracket" would fill each time two people submitted.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 05 2014 04:00 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jan 05 2014 04:46 AM

sharpie wrote: The advantage of the amendment is to keep things moving as often one person is finished way before his or her opponent and this way they should be coming faster since every "bracket" would fill each time two people submitted. But I'm not going to post any head to heads in any round until all of the other parodies for that round have also been submitted. The reasons for this are that a) the topics are pooled; and b) in each round, there will be less topics available than there are contestants. This guarantees that there will be instances where more than one contestant chooses the same topic. So, for example, I don't want to post a head to head where one of the contestants is parodying Charlie Williams, when there might be other contestants working on their own as yet unsubmitted Charlie Williams parodies.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 05 2014 04:42 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST Edited 2 time(s), most recently on Jan 05 2014 05:01 AM

sharpie wrote: The advantage of the amendment is to keep things moving as often one person is finished way before his or her opponent and this way they should be coming faster since every "bracket" would fill each time two people submitted. If head to heads can be posted as they come in, instead of one complete round at a time, then some contestants will have the later round topics before others. This isn't necessarily a major sticking point. But I think that these are: it would then be technically possible for one contestant to have advanced to the finals before others have submitted their first round parodies. Also, one slow poke can still hold up the whole tournament. You can't have a final round until all the earlier head to heads have been completed. And in general, I don't think that this proposal with the head to heads as they come in instead of one round at a time wrinkle promotes the timely submission of parodies. I think that with your new wrinkle, the tournament will likely die on the vine, as it did the last time. sharpie wrote: The advantage of the amendment is to keep things moving as often one person is finished way before his or her opponent and this way they should be coming faster since every "bracket" would fill each time two people submitted. Also, this wasn't expressed in your first proposal -- the idea that later round head to heads could occur before earlier rounds are complete -- and isn't reflected in the two proposals posted above. Would you like me to rewrite your proposal to include this wrinkle?

d'Kong76 Jan 05 2014 04:54 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

My head hurts reading this. If anyone wants my spot, post here to take it.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 05 2014 04:55 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Kong76 wrote: My head hurts reading this. If anyone wants my spot, post here to take it. Just trying to drive up your attorney's fee.

d'Kong76 Jan 05 2014 04:57 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

whatev

batmagadanleadoff Jan 05 2014 05:06 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Kong76 wrote: whatev whatev. If it makes you happy, none of these proposals have passed yet. We're looking for nine out of 17 eligible voters for adoption. JCL's proposal has seven votes; sharpie's proposal has three. And while JCL's appears to be on pace, perhaps there are no more votes to be had. What if every voter already read this thread and has decided one way or the other? The no voters don't have to publicly announce their "no" vote. They may have already voted. I'll keep this vote open for two more days, until Monday, 11:59PM.

Zvon Jan 05 2014 05:27 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

batmagadanleadoff wrote: whatev whatev. If it makes you happy, none of these proposals have passed yet. We're looking for nine out of 17 eligible voters for adoption. JCL's proposal has seven votes; sharpie's proposal has three. And while JCL's appears to be on pace, perhaps there are no more votes to be had. What if every voter already read this thread and has decided one way or the other? The no voters don't have to publicly announce their "no" vote. They may have already voted. I'll keep this vote open for two more days, until Monday, 11:59PM. We are voting? I haven't voted that I am aware. I have agreed with stuff. If we are voting I vote for anonymity and anything else that makes it more interesting as long as it allows me to use the one I have ready for submission.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 05 2014 05:59 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Zvon wrote: We are voting? I haven't voted that I am aware. I have agreed with stuff. If we are voting I vote for anonymity and anything else that makes it more interesting as long as it allows me to use the one I have ready for submission. You said you liked both proposals. That's a vote for each of 'em, ain't it? Of course we're voting. How else are we gonna decide on a rule change after the rules are in? I got seven votes for the JCL -- monk, zvon, lwfs, metsmarathon, jcl, sharpie and irish. I got three votes for the sharpie -- zvon, metsmarathon and sharpie.

d'Kong76 Jan 05 2014 01:38 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

batmagadanleadoff wrote: JCL's proposal has seven votes; sharpie's proposal has three. And while JCL's appears to be on pace, perhaps there are no more votes to be had. What if every voter already read this thread and has decided one way or the other? The no voters don't have to publicly announce their "no" vote. They may have already voted. I'll keep this vote open for two more days, until Monday, 11:59PM. I retract my defection. I abstain from voting. Courteously.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 05 2014 01:43 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

I'd guess most people just want you to decide on something and get on with it. I'm all for the Sharpie amendment. I think many of us will be exposed by our work anyhow, but might be fun in guessing who is who.

d'Kong76 Jan 05 2014 01:47 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I'd guess most people just want you to decide on something and get on with it. This, I'll vote for. Courteously.

TransMonk Jan 05 2014 02:27 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

I'm for both the JCL and sharpie proposals.

Ceetar Jan 05 2014 02:37 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I'd guess most people just want you to decide on something and get on with it. I'm all for the Sharpie amendment. I think many of us will be exposed by our work anyhow, but might be fun in guessing who is who. indeed. I think guessing who's who will be fun and might keeps the earlier exiters interested? i'll vote yes for both proposals. I may have half written mine (And may have lost it without saving at work) anyway so let's get on with it.

themetfairy Jan 05 2014 02:48 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

The Sharpie proposal would let us have something to vote on while some people are procrastinating. And nothing we do this year will necessarily carry over to next year unless we like how it works out. So for this year's tournament, I vote yes to both proposals.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 05 2014 05:38 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I'd guess most people just want you to decide on something and get on with it. I'm all for the Sharpie amendment. I think many of us will be exposed by our work anyhow, but might be fun in guessing who is who. I thought this might be the case about 20 minutes after telling Zvon that we're voting. I was wondering if I shoulda just pulled a Lawrence Tierney as Joe Cabot my way or the highway this ain't no democracy routine, and (like you wrote) whether this is what youse wanted. Anyway, there's overwhelming support for JCL's proposal, so that one's officially adopted. I'll post head to head matchups without identifying the contestants until the end of each round. This process will be repeated in each successive round. We're on the fence with respect to sharpie's seeding as they're submittted proposal. And I've made a Joe Cabot executive decision on sharpie' second proposal. We're gonna play this one round at a time.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 05 2014 06:48 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

themetfairy wrote: . And nothing we do this year will necessarily carry over to next year ... Whaddya mean by "next year"? I already worked out a whole song parody tour for youse guys in my head -- year round tournaments and seedings and rankings, all leading up to the prestigious year end Crane Pool Kranepool Cup©. For the Spring we'll have the Liverpool to Crane Pool Song Parody Open© (details to folllow). And in the Summer, there'll be the Met-a-Physical Open©, not as prestigious as the Crane Pool Kranepoool Cup©, but considered by most to be the most challenging of the tournaments. There, you'll test your song-parodying skills against a backdrop of some of the fringiest did-they-even-exist Mets (hence "Met-a-Physical"). With a victory in the Met-a-Physical, you'll make big gains in the bml rankings©.

themetfairy Jan 05 2014 07:12 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

I stand corrected ;)

batmagadanleadoff Jan 05 2014 08:48 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Okay. I've made some executive decisions, and resolved the matter of the new proposals. The rules have been amended. You can check the rules at the top of this thread for changes. Changes, amendments, etc. appear in bold, italicized and underlined text. In summary: JCL's proposal is adopted. In every head to head matchup thread, contestants' identities will not be disclosed. Contestants' identities will be revealed only at the completion of each round. I can't see anything unfair about this rule. Moreover, the rule should reduce, if not altogether eliminate, the possibility that some voters cast their votes based on the identity of the contestant rather than on the quality of the parody. I've arrived at a compromise solution with respect to sharpie's seeding proposal. For the first round (the Sweet Sixteen) the seeding will remain unchanged, and the tournament will proceed in accordance with "The Bracket". For subsequent rounds, contestants will be seeded in the order in which they submit their parodies to me. Thus, the first parody submitted will be matched up against the second parody submitted, etc. This means that in the second round, the winner of the first round TransMonk/Zvon match-up will not necessarily compete against the winner of the first round LWFS/Fman match-up. Personally, I don't see what this proposal brings to the table. Granted, the rule virtually eliminates the possibility that a contestant will know the identity of his opponent. But so what? A contestant isn't gonna vote for his opponent anyway. I suppose that this proposal might quell suspicions (if there are any) that the seedings weren't randomly generated. So there's that, I guess. But somebody's gotta play against this guy and somebody's gotta play against that guy no matter how the thing is seeded. So there's that, too. But we'll adopt this seeding rule, anyways. Besides, anyone who can read as many real books in a year as sharpie does ought to have a proposal named after him. Anyway, when the Liverpool to Crane Pool Open© comes to town, this seeding business will hopefully be resolved. Contestants will, by then, have bml rankings©*. Any unranked contestants will be seeded at the bottom of the tournament. sharpie's other proposal will not be adopted, for the reasons I stated in earlier posts. The tournament will be played one round at a time. Good luck and get cracking on those parodies. * A proprietary and secret formula to rank song parody contest contestants.

d'Kong76 Jan 05 2014 09:44 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

I woke up in a Mofo doorway An old poster knew my name He said, "You can go post at home tonight If you can shut up and look away" I wandered back to the 'bove-the-ground And the breeze blew back my hair *giggle* I remember throwin' nonsense around And preachin' from my chair Well, who are you? (Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)

G-Fafif Jan 06 2014 03:41 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

So are we still doing song parodies or do we have to create dioramas? I've lost track.

Fman99 Jan 06 2014 11:43 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

You'll know my parody. It will be the one with the dick jokes.

metirish Jan 06 2014 01:14 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Count me out, too much going on now and this is already dragging.

Lefty Specialist Jan 06 2014 02:00 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

I'll do a song with a diorama in the background just to be safe.

Edgy MD Jan 06 2014 02:47 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Don't quit! It's all happening! Drink will flow and blood will spill! And if the boys wanna fight, you better let 'em!

Ceetar Jan 06 2014 02:56 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

it's all accounting stuff, just make a parody and send it in. all you gotta do. someone will tell you if you win, presumably.

metsmarathon Jan 06 2014 03:16 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

i'm hoping all this discussion causes the start of the contest to be dragged out just far enough that i can get my ass in gear and put together a rocking parody. i like hte codification of the rules. i also again fully support anonymously random (or pseudorandom) opponents.

sharpie Jan 06 2014 04:02 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Don't drop out, Irish. You're my (anonymous) opponent.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 06 2014 05:43 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Anybody here ever have a dream with this furshlugginer CPF? I did. I dreamed that I screwed up the matchups by posting them with the names of the contestants revealed instead of anonymously. And then a shitstorm of gripe ensued. There were like a million posts complaining to me and all. Anybody up for another proposal to move up the deadline by a few days? [ducks] I can add another section to the rules. [/ducks] [ducks] Just kidding. No reallly. Just kidding. About the new proposal. No more proposals. Although dioramas as a tiebreaker isn't a bad idea. Ceetar's last post is the best post in this whole thread.

Edgy MD Jan 06 2014 05:45 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

I think I got my song. Just editing it down. I need to cut a few lines, and MY LINES ARE MY CHILDREN!

metirish Jan 06 2014 06:02 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Ok...I'm still in...let's go.

d'Kong76 Jan 06 2014 06:33 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Let's GO! [youtube:22wrey3m]NiJ9xyxc-xk[/youtube:22wrey3m]

batmagadanleadoff Jan 06 2014 06:42 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Although dioramas as a tiebreaker isn't a bad idea. Hey, this isn't funny. I just thought of this: with the voting threads programmed to automatically close at a precise time, it's possible for head to head matchups to end in a tie. This means we're gonna need a tiebreaker

Edgy MD Jan 06 2014 06:45 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

I should have no problems filing by tonight.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 06 2014 06:49 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

I'll extend the voting for any matchup that ends in a tie for one day. Question: Is this possible? If a poll ends, can it then be extended, or will I have to start a brand new voting thread?

d'Kong76 Jan 06 2014 08:17 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

When are our songs due again?

themetfairy Jan 08 2014 01:22 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

The winner can also have an ice cold brew (commemorative glass mug not included) -

Edgy MD Jan 09 2014 02:49 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

OK, I've filed. Hope it's not too awful or too obviously me.

Zvon Jan 09 2014 05:40 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Edgy MD wrote: OK, I've filed. Hope it's not too awful or too obviously me. Mines both :)

d'Kong76 Jan 09 2014 05:19 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Are the first round songs still due on the 13th around noon?

d'Kong76 Jan 13 2014 12:10 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Feeling a little creative constipation over here in the final hours ... hopefully it will pass by morning.

metsmarathon Jan 13 2014 02:31 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

fuck, is the deadline today? i should really think about starting something. now.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 13 2014 03:49 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

FIRST ROUND DEADLINES 16. All contestants must submit their completed first round song parodies no later than January 13, 2014, 11:59PM.

metsmarathon Jan 13 2014 04:01 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

FIRST ROUND DEADLINES 16. All contestants must submit their completed first round song parodies no later than January 13, 2014, 11:59PM. 11:59 PM... midway island local time, right?

d'Kong76 Jan 13 2014 06:07 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

It's a couple of minutes after eight here in Molokai, plenty of time left to procrastinate some more!

batmagadanleadoff Jan 14 2014 05:17 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Here's a memorable showdown to pass the time while we wait ... viewtopic.php?f=18&t=10725 [fimg=855:1ky0aulz]http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2011/0819/mlb_e_rain11_576.jpg[/fimg:1ky0aulz] [fimg=577:1ky0aulz]https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSVHY36HUdN_ITwCvPKaRahgpD3e_FMhlO9doMm-ZMY8jojZQxz1w[/fimg:1ky0aulz]

metsmarathon Jan 14 2014 05:32 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

ok fine. i've submitted my entry. thank you all for your patience.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 14 2014 06:00 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

metsmarathon wrote: ok fine. i've submitted my entry. thank you all for your patience. Thanks. But it hasn't stopped raining. [fimg=855]http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2011/0819/mlb_e_rain11_576.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=577]https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSVHY36HUdN_ITwCvPKaRahgpD3e_FMhlO9doMm-ZMY8jojZQxz1w[/fimg]

Edgy MD Jan 14 2014 06:15 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Bucket takes the 2007 showdown: http://archives.cranepoolforum.net/5700/f18_t5758.shtml

metsmarathon Jan 14 2014 01:04 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

alright...who's out there dragging their feet more than the guy who's desperately trying to get his house ready for twins (any day now, btw)? what's your excuse?!

Edgy MD Jan 14 2014 01:14 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Um, WOW! I've gotta get to the Member Promotion Forum more.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 14 2014 03:44 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

[youtube:1y02s0qe]iVqJl-FOYIA[/youtube:1y02s0qe]

Ceetar Jan 14 2014 03:48 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

*taps foot impatiently* okay, I'll slide on the tarp..but after that no more rain.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 14 2014 04:41 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Today, at the Rainy Day Theater Quad, it's Baseball Card Theater: [youtube:k8uc56bt]02EDCTU_qJg[/youtube:k8uc56bt] [youtube:k8uc56bt]3ysXkNZi2KU[/youtube:k8uc56bt] [youtube:k8uc56bt]dN-iob2maBc[/youtube:k8uc56bt] [youtube:k8uc56bt]6JRD17t811k[/youtube:k8uc56bt]

batmagadanleadoff Jan 14 2014 06:41 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

With nothing better to do, Howie Megdal waits out the Crane Pool Kranepool Cup rain delay by turning out another Mets piece with many references to Bernie Madoff. _______________________________________ How Phillies' Comcast deal could leave Mets in the dust By Howard Megdal Jan. 10, 2014 Earlier this week, the Philadelphia Phillies made official a long-rumored 25-year, $2.5 billion television deal with Comcast Sportsnet. It's a decent deal for the Phillies, but it may be most interesting for what it does to the Mets: It puts them at a financial disadvantage to their division rivals for the near future, giving the Phillies the ability, regardless of attendance, to spend about twice what the Mets will on payroll next year. The funny thing is the Phillies will have secured this competitive edge on the strength of a TV deal that's similar, but on balance inferior, to the one that Fred Wilpon and the other Mets owners have had in place since 2006. You may well wonder how that's possible. The answer is that much of the considerable revenue generated by the Mets' TV deal has been going, in recent years, straight into the pockets of the teams' creditors. The Mets' ownership group also owns 65 percent of SNY, a far bigger portion of a network in a much larger market than even Philadelphia. But the Mets' owners have been financing debt against the team, against the network, and twice-annual debt balloon payments on Citi Field ever since their accounts with Bernie Madoff ceased to provide the liquidity that allowed them to live the Phillies' way. Don't forget, Mets payroll was well over $140 million in 2009, second only to the Yankees. But that payroll reflected commitments made prior to the discovery of Madoff's fraud in December 2008. The first time Mets ownership publicly claimed, falsely, that the Madoff fraud hadn't affected their finances or those of the team came at the press conference to introduce Francisco Rodriguez, less than a week after Madoff had been arrested. Mets payroll has been steadily decreasing ever since, and the once-anticipated offseason of the moment, based upon expring contracts, looks to be leading to a payroll even lower than that of 2013. This past season, the Mets had a payroll of around $88 million, according to the Associated Press, while the Phillies checked in at more than $159 million. The new television deal locks this dynamic into place for the forseeable future, unless Mets ownership finds a new way to navigate their upcoming debts. Wilpon and company, somewhat ridiculously, have tried to pin these draconian cuts on current general manager Sandy Alderson, based on the idea that somehow Alderson doesn't want additional money to improve a team he's frequently made clear he knows is sub-standard. But Alderson, in terms of his knack for doing a lot with a little, is probably one of the best general managers in the game, ably supported by his lieutenants Paul DePodesta and J.P. Ricciardi. His ability to piece together respectable teams masks the financial problem. The Phillies are in almost precisely the opposite situation. What the Phillies' new TV deal does for the organization's bottom line is to turn what had been a $35 million annual rights fee for broadcasting games into an annual payoff that will average $100 million annually in rights fees alone, along with a 25 percent ownership stake in the station, which will pay off in value generated for the network (advertising, fees paid by cable providers to carry it), and is amplified by the fact that the Sixers and Flyers are also on the network. Estimates for what this will ultimately be worth vary, but Scott Boras put it at around $200 million per season, a number I heard from someone intimately familiar with the deal as well. The math is easy on that one: It means that if the Phillies didn't make a dime in attendance, the difference between the old deal and the new one would be sufficient to support the entirety of their 2013 payroll, which ranked among the largest in baseball. The Phillies don't intend to go much higher than their self-imposed cap of appoximately $170 million, but according to their president, David Montgomery, they intend to spend the money more intelligently. "I don't see us going any higher than where we've been," Montgomery said. "For us, the secret is to spend it well. Since we've moved in here, we have been able to be a club that is substantial in its payroll. I assume we will continue to be in the top four or five in the game. Hopefully, we'll make some good decisions and people will see an improved club in 2014." And while Alderson has overperformed in Queens with what his bosses have given him, the Phillies' have done the opposite, spending poorly and in such a way that has masked their financial edge. They've been near the top of major league payrolls, but their general manager Rubén Amaro, Jr. has wasted the money that's come in from a well-capitalized ownership group, and a period of high attendance. In 2013, the Phillies finished 73-89. And the fans took notice, too: attendance dropped from 3.565 million to just over 3 million, the biggest drop this side of Miami. The effect of such a revenue loss in the past would have been a budget cut. That's no longer the case. The new TV deal makes the Phillies attendance-proof, which is particularly important for a market that hasn't routinely supported its baseball team all that much. The Mets, meanwhile, are more reliant than ever on ticket sales. And the more they cut, the more attendance drops. If the Mets' owners can't get a handle on their debt, that cycle will persist, and the team's financial situation will only get worse relative to competing teams. It's not just the Phillies. There are the Nationals right there in the division, locked into a poor television deal, but with significant enough attendance to keep payroll around $140 million, with the potential to rise. Even the Braves, on a poor television deal and in a stadium that doesn't provide much revenue, were at around $90 million in 2013, expect to be at a similar mark in 2014, and are moving to a new cash cow of a stadium after the 2016 season. That's just in the division. The Diamondbacks have a new television deal coming. So do the Rockies and Reds. All over baseball, teams continue to cash in the way the Mets were supposed to in 2006, before the Madoff ruse was revealed, leaving ownership in its current financial paralysis. Rather than cash in on a television deal they've cannibalized to keep ownership afloat, the Mets are hoping merely to refinance their looming $250 million debt against the team coming due this June, while a far larger debt against the network looms in 2015. That's been a huge competitive disadvantage for the Mets. But with each new television deal, not to mention the across-baseball jump in national television revenue, it becomes that much bigger. http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/m ... -mets-dust

batmagadanleadoff Jan 14 2014 06:51 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Maybe themetfairy could fill her Dugout Cup with Kranepool and Swoboda's faces etched on the surface with marbles instead of lemonade -- and then post a picture. Then we could play the how many marbles are in the cup game. That'd kill some more time.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 14 2014 06:53 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

A priest and a rabbi walk into a tavern and the bartender asks them: "Did you submit your song parodies on time?"

batmagadanleadoff Jan 14 2014 06:56 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Wait a second! Lemme get this straight. There's a bridge that connects New York and New Jersey? And it's named after George Washington? Since when? [fimg=786]http://abcnews.go.com/images/Politics/gty_chris_christie_ll_130225_wblog.jpg[/fimg]

themetfairy Jan 14 2014 08:05 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Maybe themetfairy could fill her Dugout Cup with Kranepool and Swoboda's faces etched on the surface with marbles instead of lemonade -- and then post a picture. Then we could play the how many marbles are in the cup game. That'd kill some more time. LOL - I can actually do that. With beads as opposed to marbles, but at least they're orange and blue. Happy Guessing -

Ceetar Jan 14 2014 08:25 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

66

themetfairy Jan 14 2014 08:28 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Oh crap, I was supposed to count them! j/k - not only did I count them, but my son counted along with me (MK's older brother, who is still home this week on his winter break). If someone guesses on the nose I'll say so. Otherwise I'll wait until BatMags says this is over. We'll play by Jeopardy rules - the winner will be the closest guess not to go over the actual amount.

seawolf17 Jan 14 2014 08:29 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

52.

Mets Willets Point Jan 14 2014 08:37 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

This is the rulesiest tournament ever.

Zvon Jan 14 2014 08:39 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

themetfairy wrote: Oh crap, I was supposed to count them! j/k - not only did I count them, but my son counted along with me (MK's older brother, who is still home this week on his winter break). If someone guesses on the nose I'll say so. Otherwise I'll wait until BatMags says this is over. We'll play by Jeopardy rules - the winner will be the closest guess not to go over the actual amount. 58

Benjamin Grimm Jan 14 2014 08:40 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

themetfairy wrote: We'll play by Jeopardy rules - the winner will be the closest guess not to go over the actual amount. I think you're thinking of The Price is Right.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 14 2014 08:41 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

43

themetfairy Jan 14 2014 08:42 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I think you're thinking of The Price is Right. Right - The Price is Right rules! Sorry.

Ceetar Jan 14 2014 08:44 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

I'll amend my answer/question to "What is 66?" just in case.

d'Kong76 Jan 14 2014 08:46 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

50

d'Kong76 Jan 14 2014 08:50 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jan 14 2014 08:51 PM

With the anonymity slant it's kinda amusing that the late contestant(s) can't be outed. Drama!! (and no, I'm not one ... got in with an hour or two to spare)

Edgy MD Jan 14 2014 08:51 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

I want a song parody, not a parody contest parody! Or something!

batmagadanleadoff Jan 14 2014 09:58 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

[youtube:1o5nprbq]SSCQ3PxdN5s[/youtube:1o5nprbq] The forecast for tomorrow sez that the rain might let up. Any delinquent parody submitters should PM me if they haven't. Let me know if everything's alright. I guess 38 marbles.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jan 14 2014 10:00 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Do we need to have all the parodies to begin matchups? How about we start with 2-3 matchups we already have in the pipeline. Maybe the person/persons who submitted first get shunted to the back of the order, and are rewarded with a bye/byes if any straggler doesn't submit work?

batmagadanleadoff Jan 14 2014 10:04 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jan 14 2014 10:11 PM

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Do we need to have all the parodies to begin matchups? How about we start with 2-3 matchups we already have in the pipeline. Maybe the person/persons who submitted first get shunted to the back of the order, and are rewarded with a bye/byes if any straggler doesn't submit work? I'd rather not, because the topics are pooled. Someone who hasn't submitted might get ideas from the posted parodies. (But I figured out how to fix this for the next leg on the Parody Tour -- that would be the 2014 MAP MUFF Open - details to follow)

batmagadanleadoff Jan 14 2014 10:07 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

batmagadanleadoff wrote: LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Do we need to have all the parodies to begin matchups? How about we start with 2-3 matchups we already have in the pipeline. Maybe the person/persons who submitted first get shunted to the back of the order, and are rewarded with a bye/byes if any straggler doesn't submit work? I'd rather not, because the topics are pooled. Someone who hasn't submitted might get ideas from the posted parodies. (But I figured out how to fix this for the next leg on the Parody Tour -- that would be the 2014 MAP MUFF OPEN) LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Maybe the person/persons who submitted first get shunted to the back of the order, and are rewarded with a bye/byes if any straggler doesn't submit work? Eventually, I'll just call a forfeit if enough time elapses or if the straggler(s) don't/doesn't even bother to get in touch with me. Then, their opponent(s) would automatically advance to the next round.

sharpie Jan 14 2014 10:41 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jan 14 2014 10:44 PM

Not sure how getting ideas from posted parodies would help you. "Hey, somebody wrote a song about Tom Seaver using Yellow Submarine, maybe I'll do that too." Yes, forfeiture and auto-advancement may be the way to go but the forfeitee wouldn't then get his/her parody judged by the mob. True story: when I was in middle school I signed up for a bracketed handball tournament on a lark even though I had hardly ever played and wasn't very good when I did. I ended up winning twice because my opponent didn't show up. Then in the semi-finals a real player emerged and I got creamed ending my fantasy of winning a tournament that I never participated in.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 14 2014 10:43 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jan 14 2014 10:46 PM

batmagadanleadoff wrote: I guess 38 marbles. D'oh. I thought they were marbles, not beads! No wonder. I was thinking to myself, is everybody here blind? Why are they all guessing so high? You were supposed to put marbles in that cup.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 14 2014 10:44 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

sharpie wrote: Not sure how getting ideas from posted parodies would help you. "Hey, somebody wrote a song about Tom Seaver using Yellow Submarine, maybe I'll do that too." Yes, forfeiture and auto-advancement may be the way to go but the forfeitee wouldn't then get his/her parody judged by the mob. But it's anonymous, so you wouldn't know which parody was submitted after others were already posted.

themetfairy Jan 14 2014 11:20 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

batmagadanleadoff wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: I guess 38 marbles. D'oh. I thought they were marbles, not beads! No wonder. I was thinking to myself, is everybody here blind? Why are they all guessing so high? You were supposed to put marbles in that cup. But I don't HAVE marbles lying around (insert extra whining). Blue and orange beads were readily available. And, silly me, I thought I had to get this done quickly because at any moment the parody contest would be ready to start....

metsmarathon Jan 14 2014 11:52 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

69

Zvon Jan 15 2014 01:26 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

I thought they were flat marbles. 45 for Tugger!

seawolf17 Jan 15 2014 01:58 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

themetfairy wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: I guess 38 marbles. D'oh. I thought they were marbles, not beads! No wonder. I was thinking to myself, is everybody here blind? Why are they all guessing so high? You were supposed to put marbles in that cup. But I don't HAVE marbles lying around (insert extra whining). [youtube]vQArDMKdSVc[/youtube]

Fman99 Jan 15 2014 02:12 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

So far this contest sucks a Hefty bag full of dicks.

MFS62 Jan 15 2014 02:39 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Fman99 wrote: So far this contest sucks a Hefty bag full of dicks. Where are the entries? Are they in the non-baseball forum? Later

seawolf17 Jan 15 2014 02:45 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

batmagadanleadoff Jan 15 2014 03:28 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

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batmagadanleadoff Jan 15 2014 03:35 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jan 15 2014 03:37 PM

Some fun facts from Round One (The Sweet Sixteen, more or less, -- less actually): The most popular first round Met topics chosen were Ike Davis and The Wilpons (five each). There are no first round head to head matchups featuring the same topic. I thought that there would be one or two. Here's something that I didn't anticipate: Two contestants chose not only the same Met topic, but the same actual song to parody. Think that's some coincidence? Well then it happened again. So we've got two sets of two contestants, each choosing the same Met topic and the same song to parody.

Ceetar Jan 15 2014 03:37 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Some fun facts from Round One (The Sweet Sixteen, more or less, -- less actually): The most popular first round Met topics chosen were Ike Davis and The Wilpons (five each). There are no first round head to head matchups featuring the same topic. I thought that there would be one or two. Here's something that I didn't anticipate: Two contestants chose not only the same Met topic, but the same actual song to parody. Think that's some coincidence? Well it happened again. So we've got two sets of two contestants, each choosing the same Met topic and the same song to parody. Well, that should make it easier to choose which is better! hah.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 15 2014 03:41 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Some fun facts from Round One (The Sweet Sixteen, more or less, -- less actually): The most popular first round Met topics chosen were Ike Davis and The Wilpons (five each). There are no first round head to head matchups featuring the same topic. I thought that there would be one or two. Here's something that I didn't anticipate: Two contestants chose not only the same Met topic, but the same actual song to parody. Think that's some coincidence? Well then it happened again. So we've got two sets of two contestants, each choosing the same Met topic and the same song to parody. Million dollars says I'm one of 'em.

Edgy MD Jan 15 2014 03:43 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Here's something that I didn't anticipate: Two contestants chose not only the same Met topic, but the same actual song to parody. Think that's some coincidence? Well then it happened again. So we've got two sets of two contestants, each choosing the same Met topic and the same song to parody. I'm totally one of these [crossout]two[/crossout] four stooges. We had a matchup some years back in which both contestants used the song "1985."

metsmarathon Jan 15 2014 04:04 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

be cool if hte copycats faced each other.

themetfairy Jan 15 2014 04:04 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Batmags - shall I announce the results of the Dugout marbles/beads guess?

batmagadanleadoff Jan 15 2014 04:04 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

themetfairy wrote: Batmags - shall I announce the results of the Dugout marbles/beads guess? It's up to you.

themetfairy Jan 15 2014 04:06 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

metsmarathon wrote: 69 This was the closest guess. The actual number was an even 100.

metsmarathon Jan 15 2014 04:08 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

score! i had talked myself down from a higher number of 86 (computed quasimathematically) mostly because i didn't want to go over, and 67 was the next highest.

seawolf17 Jan 15 2014 04:09 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Edgy MD wrote: Here's something that I didn't anticipate: Two contestants chose not only the same Met topic, but the same actual song to parody. Think that's some coincidence? Well then it happened again. So we've got two sets of two contestants, each choosing the same Met topic and the same song to parody. I'm totally one of these [crossout]two[/crossout] four stooges. We had a matchup some years back in which both contestants used the song "1985." I believe I was part of that contest.

Edgy MD Jan 15 2014 05:00 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Are we doling these out one per day?

Ceetar Jan 15 2014 05:02 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Edgy MD wrote: Are we doling these out one per day? 1 per month. we gotta get this to last until next year after all.

Edgy MD Jan 15 2014 05:11 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

It's a conspiracy to sell more drinks, I tell ya! Let's get this thing moving!!

batmagadanleadoff Jan 15 2014 05:14 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Edgy MD wrote: Are we doling these out one per day? That's about what I had in mind. What are you thinking?

sharpie Jan 15 2014 05:28 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

I say one in the morning one in the afternoon per day.

seawolf17 Jan 15 2014 05:32 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

POST! THE! CONTESTS! (clap clap clapclapclap)

d'Kong76 Jan 15 2014 05:32 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

sharpie wrote: I say one in the morning one in the afternoon per day. Seconded, at least for the first bulky round.

Edgy MD Jan 15 2014 05:45 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Holding back to stretch things out. Total Wilpon move.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 15 2014 05:47 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

I thought youse'd want to savor your parodies for as long as possible, before the dreaded song-writing phase lull kicks in again.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 15 2014 05:53 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Ceetar wrote: Are we doling these out one per day? 1 per month. we gotta get this to last until next year after all. Coming soon: The 2014 MAP MUFF Open -- the last leg of the off-season song parody tour. And then in May, the in-season 2014 Liverpool to Crane Pool Open. (Yeah, yeah, yeah!) Details to follow.

Edgy MD Jan 15 2014 06:05 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

batmagadanleadoff wrote: I thought youse'd want to savor your parodies for as long as possible, before the dreaded song-writing phase lull kicks in again. I hear ya.

themetfairy Jan 15 2014 06:07 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Kong76 wrote: sharpie wrote: I say one in the morning one in the afternoon per day. Seconded, at least for the first bulky round. Thirded. It's a balance between savoring and moving things along.

themetfairy Jan 15 2014 06:47 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

seawolf17 wrote: Here's something that I didn't anticipate: Two contestants chose not only the same Met topic, but the same actual song to parody. Think that's some coincidence? Well then it happened again. So we've got two sets of two contestants, each choosing the same Met topic and the same song to parody. I'm totally one of these [crossout]two[/crossout] four stooges. We had a matchup some years back in which both contestants used the song "1985." I believe I was part of that contest. Was I the other part of that?

Edgy MD Jan 15 2014 06:55 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

No, but I believe you used the song but in an earlier year. http://archives.cranepoolforum.net/8100/f18_t8161.shtml

themetfairy Jan 15 2014 07:15 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Thanks - it was ringing a familiar bell.

seawolf17 Jan 15 2014 07:16 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Edgy MD wrote: No, but I believe you used the song but in an earlier year. http://archives.cranepoolforum.net/8100/f18_t8161.shtml Voting scandal!

themetfairy Jan 15 2014 07:17 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

No scandal - I was just a trendsetter ;)

Edgy MD Jan 15 2014 07:21 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

I think he means that thread. What a shining moment. A confusing outcome and reasonable mostly people behaving mostly reasonably solving it reasonably.

Mets Willets Point Jan 15 2014 08:32 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

I had no recollection of this voting scandal even though I apparently was the one who brought voting irregularities to light.

d'Kong76 Jan 15 2014 09:32 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Mets – Willets Point wrote: voting scandal/irregularities Uh ... alleged, contrived, imagined, possible, doubtful ...

batmagadanleadoff Jan 16 2014 07:37 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

So what do y'all think of the new anonymous tournament format? Overall, I think it's great. I think it might inhibit some of your parody comments. I seem to remember the commentary as being much raunchier, and not so conservative in the past. But if so, that's a small price to pay for what I think are big benefits from playing a blind tournament. OE -- Don't forget that these are two day polls, and that the earliest posted polls will end tomorrow.

themetfairy Jan 16 2014 07:39 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

I'm liking the format - it forces me to focus more on the parodies than the personalities. How many matchups are left for the first round?

batmagadanleadoff Jan 16 2014 07:42 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

themetfairy wrote: How many matchups are left for the first round? One more. I'll post it later this afternoon. I've been on the computer working non-stop for the last two days and this tournament is my diversion, or work-break.

sharpie Jan 16 2014 07:48 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

I love the anonymous postings. Secondarily I've been guessing, in my head, which matchups are featured.

d'Kong76 Jan 16 2014 07:54 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

batmagadanleadoff wrote: So what do y'all think of the new anonymous tournament format? Three thumbs up so far!

themetfairy Jan 16 2014 07:56 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

What I did prefer about the old format, though, was that you would have a set slate of players or subjects, and that in subsequent rounds you'd gobble up the players from your vanquished foe. While the work has been brilliant, I don't think I want to read yet another Ike Davis parody (apologies to the one or two posters who will be submitting Ike Davis parodies later today....). I prefer the variety of the old format.

Edgy MD Jan 16 2014 07:58 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

I love the anonymity too. The downside of this year's format isn't the anonymity, but perhaps the single relatively small pool --- leading to a redundancy of themes, and (oops!) ultimately, an occasion redundancy of ideal songs to pick from. I wonder if there is a disadvantage of being the third contestant to have posted his or her song about Ike chasing curves. (Cross-posting with Metfae, above.) But great job, mags. Thank you for doing this.

Ceetar Jan 16 2014 07:59 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

yeah, third'd or whatever. like the anonymity, but the redundancy is iffy. but perhaps the first round pool of topics should've been a little larger.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 16 2014 08:06 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

I'm just running this tourney. Ya gotta give JCL the credit for the idea of anonymity. And to tell you the truth, when I first read about his super idea for unidentified contestants, I was angry with myself for not thinking of that idea before he did. I think that there's a smaller turnout this year because past contests got bogged down when some contestants couldn't turn in their parodies in a reasonably timely manner. Some of those contests got so bogged down that they couldn't be played to completion. Also, I think that it's a big commitment for some, to have to write three or four song parodies in a relatively short period. But wait for the MAP MUFF Open (coming soon). That tournament is designed to go down smoother than any other ever did.

Zvon Jan 16 2014 08:10 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Ceetar wrote: yeah, third'd or whatever. like the anonymity, but the redundancy is iffy. but perhaps the first round pool of topics should've been a little larger. I dunno. Just reading some of the new ones and I think Ike and Jeff would have been chosen the most no matter how many topics we had.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 16 2014 08:13 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

themetfairy wrote: What I did prefer about the old format, though, was that you would have a set slate of players or subjects, and that in subsequent rounds you'd gobble up the players from your vanquished foe. Why can't you pretend that the pooled topics were assigned to you? You'd still have plenty of topics to pick from.

themetfairy Jan 16 2014 08:16 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

batmagadanleadoff wrote: themetfairy wrote: What I did prefer about the old format, though, was that you would have a set slate of players or subjects, and that in subsequent rounds you'd gobble up the players from your vanquished foe. Why can't you pretend that the pooled topics were assigned to you? You'd still have plenty of topics to pick from. Yes, but so can everyone else. Again leading to multiple parodies using the same subject. It's one thing to go head on head with a subject in the final round, but in earlier rounds I'd prefer a bit more variety. OE - Plus the old format had the extra strategical decisions. Do you go with a great topic early, or save it for a later round? How confident are you feeling about going with a lesser subject in an early round?

batmagadanleadoff Jan 16 2014 08:25 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jan 16 2014 08:31 PM

themetfairy wrote: themetfairy wrote: What I did prefer about the old format, though, was that you would have a set slate of players or subjects, and that in subsequent rounds you'd gobble up the players from your vanquished foe. Why can't you pretend that the pooled topics were assigned to you? You'd still have plenty of topics to pick from. Again leading to multiple parodies using the same subject. That was the point. A huge element of unfairness is eliminated when everyone has the same topics to choose from. And also, if you find parodies with repeated themes boring, it probably (and this is just my opinion) has more to do with the parodies themselves instead of the the "pooled topics" format.

Mets Willets Point Jan 16 2014 08:30 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jan 16 2014 08:50 PM

The parodies feel more negative and sarcastic this year. Kind of makes me feel a bit glum. OE: This is by no means meant to denigrate the songwriting talent and creativity on display this year, which is, as always, excellent. But if someone writes an upbeat song about a Mets' hero or event I may be more inclined to vote for it.

G-Fafif Jan 16 2014 08:32 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Good format. Good execution. Exceptional entries all around.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 16 2014 08:33 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Mets – Willets Point wrote: The parodies feel more negative and sarcastic this year. Kind of makes me feel a bit glum. So throw your hat into the 2014 MAP MUFF Open (coming soon) and write an upbeat song.

Mets Willets Point Jan 16 2014 08:50 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

What the hell is a MAP MUFF?

Edgy MD Jan 16 2014 08:52 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Well, it was only a matter of time before somebody took the bait and asked.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 16 2014 09:24 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

First Round Topics Ranked by Popularity: Ike Davis - 5 Wilpons - 5 Harry Chiti - 3 Len Dykstra - 2 Todd Hundley - 0 Cleon Jones - 0 Tug McGraw - 0 Charlie Williams - 0

Benjamin Grimm Jan 16 2014 09:31 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

I did a Cleon Jones song nine years ago! It was called I Think It's Don Grant Now.

Edgy MD Jan 16 2014 09:37 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

I did one TEN years ago. All messed up now with lousy punctuation.

d'Kong76 Jan 16 2014 09:42 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Loved that phpbb2 banner top ... memories

seawolf17 Jan 17 2014 01:40 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Mets – Willets Point wrote: The parodies feel more negative and sarcastic this year. Kind of makes me feel a bit glum. Because the two most popular subjects both SUCK.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jan 17 2014 02:45 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

I considered doing a Hundley. Hell, I wrote and submitted a Hundley. But I caught a light bulb while driving, and was driven to submit another one. The small pool/same topics thing may be more fair, but, well, it's just less FUN to read five Wilpons-are-cheap takes. This feels a little like the compulsory rounds of a figure skating/gymnastics meet.

G-Fafif Jan 17 2014 03:41 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Cleon, Hundley and Charlie Williams entries all reached larval stages of development here during the consideration phase of Round One. Maybe next round/next year, depending on future tournament rules/MAP MUFF.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 17 2014 03:41 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: The small pool/same topics thing may be more fair, but, well, it's just less FUN to read five Wilpons-are-cheap takes. This feels a little like the compulsory rounds of a figure skating/gymnastics meet. Point taken. But there were four other topics that nobody chose. And other than Charlie Williams, the remaining seven topics have a rich or colorful story that made them easy parody subjects. And even ol' Charlie Williams, well he might be a one-trick or one-story pony. But that's some story. That most of you chose from just three of the eight available topics was, I believe, just a random quirk. One compromise solution is to make more pooled topics available, thus preserving the fairness angle while minimizing the possibility that everyone chooses the same two or three topics. I'm absorbing everyone's opinions. Are you getting ready for the MAP MUFF Open?

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jan 17 2014 04:18 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

batmagadanleadoff wrote: One compromise solution is to make more pooled topics available, thus preserving the fairness angle while minimizing the possibility that everyone chooses the same two or three topics. That may be the answer, right there.

metsmarathon Jan 17 2014 04:35 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

if i may suggest a potential future wrinkle, that might be better suited to the common pool of topics... instead of a head-to-head matchup bracket, we vote/rank all songs against each other, and eliminate the bottom two (or more). MVP-voting-style. 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 it would open up a strategy in that, such as for this round, we've got two pairs of song/subject repeats. do they drag each other down? would ike-fatigue push up another lesser-used topic? then there's the gamesmanship angle of not voting for a superior song, simply because it is superior, with the intent of pushing your own song higher. yeah, it could end up being tedious, or a colossal fuckup, but ti could be interesting, too. eh, maybe nevermind.

Edgy MD Jan 17 2014 04:41 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

I like the general idea of pool play, anyhow. Pools of four with two votes/two advances. might be nice..

batmagadanleadoff Jan 17 2014 04:42 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

metsmarathon wrote: if i may suggest a potential future wrinkle, that might be better suited to the common pool of topics... instead of a head-to-head matchup bracket, we vote/rank all songs against each other, and eliminate the bottom two (or more). MVP-voting-style. 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 it would open up a strategy in that, such as for this round, we've got two pairs of song/subject repeats. do they drag each other down? would ike-fatigue push up another lesser-used topic? then there's the gamesmanship angle of not voting for a superior song, simply because it is superior, with the intent of pushing your own song higher. yeah, it could end up being tedious, or a colossal fuckup, but ti could be interesting, too. eh, maybe nevermind. Hey! That's kind of my MAP MUFF Open! The Met-A-Physical Match-Up Free Free-for-all. No head to head matchups! Nobody to drag down the whole tournament with a late submission. No reason to complain about the draw or their opponent. It's simple. All the songs are in one big thread. 35% of the field advances to the next round, which is the final round (though this could be adjusted). My idea was to have no more than two rounds, because I suspect that there are many members who would like to play in one of these contests, but are put off by having to, potentially, write three, four or five songs. The ship sails on launch date. Anyone who isn't ready misses the boat. The tourney won't suffer because it doesn't matter whether we have an even or odd number of players or a number divisible by four. No byes or play-ins. Everybody in the pool. Everybody gets to vote for a yet to be determined # of songs. 35 % advances. MAP MUFF Open.

G-Fafif Jan 17 2014 04:52 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

batmagadanleadoff wrote: The Met-A-Physical Match-Up Free Free-for-all. No head to head matchups! Nobody to drag down the whole tournament with a late submission. No reason to complain about the draw or their opponent. It's simple. All the songs are in one big thread. 35% of the field advances to the next round, which is the final round (though this could be adjusted). My idea was to have no more than two rounds, because I suspect that there are many members who would like to play in one of these contests, but are put off by having to, potentially, write three, four or five songs. The ship sails on launch date. Anyone who isn't ready misses the boat. The tourney won't suffer because it doesn't matter whether we have an even or odd number of players or a number divisible by four. No byes or play-ins. Everybody in the pool. Everybody gets to vote for a yet to be determined # of songs. 35 % advances. So no dioramas?

batmagadanleadoff Jan 17 2014 04:56 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

G-Fafif wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: The Met-A-Physical Match-Up Free Free-for-all. No head to head matchups! Nobody to drag down the whole tournament with a late submission. No reason to complain about the draw or their opponent. It's simple. All the songs are in one big thread. 35% of the field advances to the next round, which is the final round (though this could be adjusted). My idea was to have no more than two rounds, because I suspect that there are many members who would like to play in one of these contests, but are put off by having to, potentially, write three, four or five songs. The ship sails on launch date. Anyone who isn't ready misses the boat. The tourney won't suffer because it doesn't matter whether we have an even or odd number of players or a number divisible by four. No byes or play-ins. Everybody in the pool. Everybody gets to vote for a yet to be determined # of songs. 35 % advances. So no dioramas? You must be thinking of the Liverpool to Crane Pool Open.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 18 2014 06:11 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

THE QUARTER-FINALS 20. The identities of first-round contestants will be disclosed shortly after all first-round polls have ended. SECOND ROUND TOPICS 21. Second Round Mets Topics are: [fimg=235]http://www.vintagecardprices.com/pics/1805/170411.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=237]http://mets360.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/1973-Jon-Matlack-214x300.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=253]http://www.halloffamememorabilia.com/images/products/p-440640-mickey-lolich-autographed-hand-signed-baseball-card-new-york-mets-1977-topps-baseball-aw-34477.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=236]http://www.tradingcarddb.com/Images/Cards/Baseball/250/250-365Fr.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=244]http://www.tradingcarddb.com/Images/Cards/Baseball/803/803-144Fr.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=239]http://www.tradingcarddb.com/Images/Cards/Baseball/1653/1653-350Fr.jpg[/fimg][fimg=241]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RJnZXOek6bo/TONZ0LFyq7I/AAAAAAAAEqo/RgckEK39Ay8/s1600/08%2BOliver%2BPerez.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=240]http://paulsrandomstuff.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/johan-santana1.jpg[/fimg] 1. Al Jackson 2. Jon Matlack 3. Mickey Lolich 4. Frank Tanana 5. Bill Pulsipher 6. Tom Glavine 7. Oliver Perez 8. Johan Santana SECOND ROUND DEADLINES 22. All contestants should submit their completed second round song parodies no later than January 27, 2014, 11:59PM. Good luck.

Edgy MD Jan 18 2014 03:41 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

What if I'm really committed to doing a song about a lefthanded pitcher? WHAT THEN?!

Lefty Specialist Jan 18 2014 04:17 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

I'm guessing 3 of the 8 will be getting most of the attention. Sucks for Frank Tanana.

Edgy MD Jan 18 2014 08:56 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Lefty Specialist wrote: I'm guessing 3 of the 8 will be getting most of the attention. Sucks for Frank Tanana. Trying to throw me off of Tanana. IT'S NOT GOING TO WORK, LEFTY SPECIALIST! Actually, I think somehow Lefty Specialist has an unfair advantage in this round.

Benjamin Grimm Jan 18 2014 09:49 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

I think that having nine "sticky" topics is causing new posts in non-parody threads to display too far down on the page.

metsmarathon Jan 19 2014 05:43 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

man, the whole first round was all blowouts! the best any losing song did was 6 votes. for the record, as pleased as i was with my entry, i probably would've voted for jcl, too. that damned song just sung! best song in the first round, i think.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 19 2014 05:46 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

metsmarathon wrote: man, the whole first round was all blowouts! the best any losing song did was 6 votes. for the record, as pleased as i was with my entry, i probably would've voted for jcl, too. that damned song just sung! best song in the first round, i think. I hated that. The closest contest was the matchup with the forfeit, which almost ended in a tie. The Ceets/Lefty matchup was close for the first eight votes until Lefty pulled away.

metsmarathon Jan 19 2014 09:33 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Whoever did the seeding sure did a shit job

d'Kong76 Jan 19 2014 10:30 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

batmagadanleadoff wrote: The closest contest was the matchup with the forfeit, which almost ended in a tie.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 24 2014 06:00 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

SECOND ROUND DEADLINES 22. All contestants should submit their completed second round song parodies no later than January 27, 2014, 11:59PM. Good luck. bump.

d'Kong76 Jan 26 2014 11:12 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

**bump** Less than 36 hours. Time flies when you put things off.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 28 2014 05:57 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

The forecast for tomorrow is rain. Heavy rain. [fimg=977:1tu8koi2]http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2011/0819/mlb_e_rain11_576.jpg[/fimg:1tu8koi2] Here's tonight's showing on Rainy Day Theater. [youtube:1tu8koi2]lgsKKTyJ-Uc[/youtube:1tu8koi2]

themetfairy Jan 28 2014 12:15 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Are there any matchups ready to go?

batmagadanleadoff Jan 28 2014 12:19 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Get your Dugout mug ready. Maybe we can fill it with coins this round and play guess the amount.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 28 2014 12:42 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Hey, it's Ron Howard in between Opie and Richie Cunningham. [youtube:gg8tggtp]Cz1qMPbFvVc[/youtube:gg8tggtp]

themetfairy Jan 28 2014 12:54 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

The Dugout mug now gets the kid glove treatment, since it's never going into the dishwasher again - [fimg=500:28agdynl]http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5515/12107517893_1d3757d190_b.jpg[/fimg:28agdynl]

Edgy MD Jan 28 2014 02:23 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Do we ever get to find out who wrote what in round one?

themetfairy Jan 28 2014 02:25 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Edgy MD wrote: Do we ever get to find out who wrote what in round one? All of the thread topic titles have been amended so you can see the contestants' names.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 28 2014 02:50 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Great fall preview, including the 4:30 Movie cameraman and a Ron Howard show I'd never heard of.

d'Kong76 Jan 28 2014 03:05 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Edgy MD wrote: Do we ever get to find out who wrote what in round one? rmpl! ;^)

Edgy MD Jan 28 2014 03:22 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Hey man, I don't claim my 271 IQ armors me against all stupid oversights.

d'Kong76 Jan 28 2014 03:45 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

271! Whoa, EinsteinMD.

Edgy MD Jan 28 2014 04:05 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

It varies from day to day, peaks around 10 AM. Drops to about 65 as soon as I see my wife in the evening.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 28 2014 07:26 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

TV adaptations of historic novels were big in '75. Musta been the Bicentennial. "They shoulda stuck to golf". That's the tagline. What's the movie? [youtube]u86j5_WlIRM[/youtube]

Lefty Specialist Jan 28 2014 08:08 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

So we were supposed to do parodies of old network promos? If so, I'm screwed. Is it too late to submit a diorama?

G-Fafif Jan 28 2014 08:18 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

[youtube:2varng3s]-7_jpfeNUsA[/youtube:2varng3s] This theme song got me so revved up circa August 1971.

G-Fafif Jan 28 2014 08:24 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

[youtube:qbp96e32]CPVrVICjmkI[/youtube:qbp96e32] Stoked one late summer earlier.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 28 2014 08:34 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

The short-lived series with two different opening credit themes: [youtube:gh8c5lyh]Kc8e7gO0ci4[/youtube:gh8c5lyh] ... and some one season wonders: [youtube:gh8c5lyh]iCP3nxsOSVo[/youtube:gh8c5lyh]

batmagadanleadoff Jan 28 2014 08:45 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

I'm counting three former cast members and one creative from Get Smart in the one season wonders youtube.

G-Fafif Jan 28 2014 09:07 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

[youtube]8TcKckdDUUU[/youtube] Sat down a few years ago and watched the complete season (or so) of Quark on DVD out of family loyalty. I can't remember how exactly, but Richard Benjamin and I are related. And not just because we may be the only two people to have seen every episode of Quark. I learned of our cousinhood when He & She became mandatory viewing in our house during its one season on the CBS schedule. [youtube]HihE7FMiwKA[/youtube] The first fall season to which I looked forward (before it dawned on me that meant school was coming, too) was 1970-71. As noted above, it was the September of Mary Tyler Moore and its time slot partner on CBS: [youtube]icQmq_d_kck[/youtube] Mary Tyler Moore became iconic. Arnie became cancelled a year later, but I remember thinking both were light years beyond what was normally on television (even at seven years old I could detect rural-directed dreck). September of '70 also brought us The Odd Couple and the aforementioned Partridge Family, indeed setting the stage for the place to be.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 28 2014 09:25 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

My memories of that period you mention are very hazy and imprecise but I think if you asked me I'd say the Brady Bunch and the Partridge Family were both on ABC on Friday nites (BB, then PF), and that those would be the first two shows whose weekly time slot I knew. (Lunchpail is growing up in a world where time slots and days of the week wrt television shows are completely foreign, by the way. Also, 700 channels when we had like 5.) /yells at cloud

G-Fafif Jan 28 2014 09:35 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: My memories of that period you mention are very hazy and imprecise but I think if you asked me I'd say the Brady Bunch and the Partridge Family were both on ABC on Friday nites (BB, then PF), and that those would be the first two shows whose weekly time slot I knew. (Lunchpail is growing up in a world where time slots and days of the week wrt television shows are completely foreign, by the way. Also, 700 channels when we had like 5.) /yells at cloud This time of year, 1971: 7:30 The Brady Bunch 8:00 Nanny And The Professor 8:30 The Partridge Family 9:00 That Girl 9:30 The Odd Couple 10:00 Love American Style 1970-71 was the last season when prime time started before 8 PM (except on Sundays).

batmagadanleadoff Jan 28 2014 09:54 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

My memories of that period you mention are very hazy and imprecise but I think if you asked me I'd say the Brady Bunch and the Partridge Family were both on ABC on Friday nites (BB, then PF), and that those would be the first two shows whose weekly time slot I knew. (Lunchpail is growing up in a world where time slots and days of the week wrt television shows are completely foreign, by the way. Also, 700 channels when we had like 5.) /yells at cloud This time of year, 1971: 7:30 The Brady Bunch 8:00 Nanny And The Professor 8:30 The Partridge Family 9:00 That Girl 9:30 The Odd Couple 10:00 Love American Style 1970-71 was the last season when prime time started before 8 PM (except on Sundays). I used to watch the tail end of that Friday Night lineup, beginning with The Odd Couple. With Love American Style, I initially thought I’d be watching something not meant for an elementary schooler. I was wrong. Wasn’t Room 222 somewhere in that lineup, though? The ’75 ABC season preview trumpets the world television premiere of The Sound of Music – 10 years after its first theatrical run. Kids and young adults today wouldn’t comprehend having to wait 10 years to see a big Hollywood movie.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 28 2014 10:03 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Room 222 was slotted in that Friday Night lineup for the 1971-72 season. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_222 You’re talking about January of ’71. Makes sense now, because I don’t remember Nanny & .. in that lineup. I guess I started watching original airings of The Odd Couple in the Fall of ’71.

batmagadanleadoff Jan 29 2014 06:37 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

[youtube:2znnnh7s]D1ZYhVpdXbQ[/youtube:2znnnh7s]

Edgy MD Jan 29 2014 07:26 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Some network really touted at the start of their season that they would be showing a love story featuring a 35-ish Martin Sheen and his kidnapee, a 16-year-old Linda Blair. The seventies were weird stuff. No wonder Polanski got away.

Ceetar Jan 29 2014 07:28 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

No way this is getting finished.

d'Kong76 Jan 29 2014 07:31 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

I'm tardy, hope I'm not the only one holding up things. I will try and cross my i's and dot my t's this evening. Scratch that, reverse it.

Edgy MD Jan 29 2014 07:35 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Let's play exhibitions in the meantime! Who wants to go head to head on Harvey?

d'Kong76 Jan 29 2014 07:42 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

"I don't feel tardy" [youtube:1jksqihf]-4GZFbCqx18[/youtube:1jksqihf]

themetfairy Jan 30 2014 04:19 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

There isn't going to be a Round 2, is there?

Edgy MD Jan 30 2014 04:27 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

How many submissions we're waiting on is a mystery.

d'Kong76 Jan 30 2014 04:48 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

I'm 'untardied' last evening. I threw out a parody to this yesterday .... [youtube:1vnpy8b2]GA27aQZCQMk[/youtube:1vnpy8b2] Jo-han ... Beep beep!

batmagadanleadoff Jan 30 2014 06:39 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

1) I'm pleased to announce that I didn't have to disqualify any second-round contestants. 2) Nobody chose Johan Santana as their Met topic. (surprised) 3) I'll post the remaining two second round matchups tomorrrow.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jan 30 2014 06:56 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Johan was my third choice; I started a version of "Undone (The Sweater Song)" about his shoulder-gimping before I settled on the one I didst.

d'Kong76 Jan 30 2014 06:58 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

The anonymity slant is giving me heightened enjoyment. I really don't remember who was remaining (for the most part) and it's fun trying to figure out who wrote what. Not going back to peek either.

batmagadanleadoff Feb 02 2014 07:16 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

I hope that four of you have a stepladder and some scissors handy to cut down some nets, 'cause you're going to the 2013-14 CPKC Final Four. [fimg=444]http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3710/11634271693_1abd6375b2_o.jpg[/fimg] THE SEMI-FINALS SEMI-FINALS TOPICS 23. Semi-Finals Topics are are: [fimg=844]http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2836/12263832715_ec1f58b0a7_o.jpg[/fimg] Clockwise from top left: 1. Rick Ankiel 2. Eric Valent 3. Nino Espinosa 4. Claudell Washington 5. Ryan Thompson 6. Jim McAndrew 7. Jose Valentin SEMI-FINALS ROUND DEADLINE 24. All semi-finalists should submit their next song parodies no later than February 11, 2014, 11:59PM. Good luck.

Ceetar Feb 02 2014 02:02 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

ouch, that's a rough set.

MFS62 Feb 02 2014 02:28 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

I don't think I voted for a single winning song in that round. Congrats to the winners. And for the folks who lost, I was in your corner. Later

Mets Willets Point Feb 02 2014 06:24 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Kong76 wrote: The anonymity slant is giving me heightened enjoyment. I really don't remember who was remaining (for the most part) and it's fun trying to figure out who wrote what. Not going back to peek either. For me, the anonymity is just making me think that batmagadan is writing all of these parodies, even though I know better.

batmagadanleadoff Feb 05 2014 03:33 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

25. Semi-finalists' identities will not be disclosed until after the completion of the entire tournament.

G-Fafif Feb 05 2014 03:37 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Mets – Willets Point wrote: For me, the anonymity is just making me think that batmagadan is writing all of these parodies, even though I know better. Indeed. Talented SOB, I'd occasionally find myself thinking -- look at all these top-notch parodies one CPFer is churning out...and he's running the contest, too!

batmagadanleadoff Feb 09 2014 09:39 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

SEMI-FINALS TOPICS 23. Semi-Finals Topics are are: [fimg=844]http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2836/12263832715_ec1f58b0a7_o.jpg[/fimg] Clockwise from top left: 1. Rick Ankiel 2. Eric Valent 3. Nino Espinosa 4. Claudell Washington 5. Ryan Thompson 6. Jim McAndrew 7. Jose Valentin SEMI-FINALS ROUND DEADLINE 24. All semi-finalists should submit their next song parodies no later than February 11, 2014, 11:59PM. Good luck. bump

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Feb 09 2014 12:41 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

I gotta say... this has been a struggle, so far.

batmagadanleadoff Feb 10 2014 12:20 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: I gotta say... this has been a struggle, so far. I never disclosed this, so I might as well now ... timeliness of song submission is one of the factors comprising the bml CPF song parody world rankings formula.

batmagadanleadoff Feb 12 2014 03:56 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Tomorrow's forecast calls for a 50% chance of rain. [youtube:33snqs9e]h1d4TLWmmcE[/youtube:33snqs9e]

batmagadanleadoff Feb 12 2014 04:26 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

"The semi-finals are coming. I'm so excited". [fimg=455]http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8107/8634128993_40f332e121_o.jpg[/fimg]

batmagadanleadoff Feb 12 2014 07:13 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

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batmagadanleadoff Feb 12 2014 03:34 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

[fimg=855:1ggfumlj]http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2011/0819/mlb_e_rain11_576.jpg[/fimg:1ggfumlj] [fimg=577:1ggfumlj]https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSVHY36HUdN_ITwCvPKaRahgpD3e_FMhlO9doMm-ZMY8jojZQxz1w[/fimg:1ggfumlj]

batmagadanleadoff Feb 12 2014 10:26 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

[fimg=888:1bmkcdlz]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gbFAbL-KP4E/Te7PVB32jWI/AAAAAAAABd4/y1IRVoJAfCM/s1600/tumblr_ks369mVfVt1qanwn3o1_400.jpg[/fimg:1bmkcdlz]

d'Kong76 Feb 14 2014 02:50 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Whoa, this thread got weird. When does this round of the shindig expire?

d'Kong76 Feb 14 2014 08:50 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Kong76 wrote: When does this round of the shindig expire? Anyone? [youtube]uhiCFdWeQfA[/youtube]

batmagadanleadoff Feb 14 2014 11:17 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

25. Semi-finalists' identities will not be disclosed until after the completion of the entire tournament. By unanimous vote of the Board of Directors of the 2013-14 Crane Pool Kranepool Cup (that's me), this year's tournament will be named and known as the Ralph Kiner Memorial, in loving memory of the Mets longest tenured announcer. Ralph would be greatly honored to accept this tribute if he were still with us, and he'd probably say something like: "To all you Valentines out there, Happy Father's Day". Ralph was selected to Baseball's Hall of Fame for his considerable accomplishments as a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates, yet he is as vital to the history of the Mets organization as he was to the Pittsburgh franchise. In light of the foregoing, there can only be one Mets topic for the remaining finalists: [fimg=333]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7378/12528859835_9d81dccec9_o.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=516]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7321/12528858715_0b06259daa_o.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=433]http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2816/12529346734_6f7aa793a9_o.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=413]http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3707/12528858485_9d0ff6d04e_o.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=434]http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5493/12529345814_5bcbdd2173_o.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=433]http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5527/12528993113_7c2602df5b_o.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=300]http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3787/12528993383_a90eb8fc51_o.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=296]http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3764/12528858105_f1ef3c88b6_o.jpg[/fimg] Ralph Kiner. Finalists should submit their song parodies no later than February 23, 11:59PM

batmagadanleadoff Feb 21 2014 02:33 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Finalists should submit their song parodies no later than February 23, 11:59PM bump

batmagadanleadoff Feb 24 2014 01:08 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Art Deco McDonald's, Australia [fimg=655:2wl3bble]http://cdn.rsvlts.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/McDonalds-Restaurants-Around-the-World1.jpeg[/fimg:2wl3bble]

batmagadanleadoff Feb 24 2014 01:12 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Turquoise McDonald's, Sedona, Arizona [fimg=777]http://www.highwayhost.org/Mcdonalds/Arizona/sedona1.jpg[/fimg] The Turquoise McDonald’s When McDonald’s tried to build a location in Sedona, Arizona they ran into some trouble. The city felt that the famous “golden arches” would be an eyesore and clash with the natural coloring of the area and they didn’t want to sacrifice the beauty of their city for some french fries and burgers. To remedy this, McDonald’s offered to replace all the yellow with turquoise instead and the city accepted.

batmagadanleadoff Feb 24 2014 01:17 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

The World's largest McDonald's, Orlando, Florida (The Box of Fries) [youtube:pylj1k4k]NOcIMtvTOM4[/youtube:pylj1k4k] [fimg=777:pylj1k4k]http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5015/5447718732_4b03e655cd_b.jpg[/fimg:pylj1k4k]

batmagadanleadoff Feb 24 2014 01:20 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

[youtube:7uk9o9t8]V-6rvAb3l5A[/youtube:7uk9o9t8]

batmagadanleadoff Feb 24 2014 01:22 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

[youtube:tsuwuzb7]dK2qBbDn5W0[/youtube:tsuwuzb7]

batmagadanleadoff Feb 24 2014 01:48 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Times Square Mcdonald's, New York, New York

batmagadanleadoff Feb 24 2014 03:38 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

McDonald's Denton Mansion, Hyde Park, New York McDonald's restores dilapidated mansion rather than build standard McD's after local residents threaten to petition for landmark status, thus preventing McDonald's from using the site at all. [fimg=777:3vduvcys]http://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/mcdonalds-in-white-colonial-mansion-new-hyde-park-new-york-usa.jpg[/fimg:3vduvcys] [fimg=666:3vduvcys]http://buildabetterburb.org/2013/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/McDonalds-NHP-03_article_slideshow_03.jpg[/fimg:3vduvcys]

batmagadanleadoff Feb 24 2014 03:45 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

McDonald's, Roswell, New Mexico [fimg=777:wnq6fkyy]http://www.retailhellunderground.com/.a/6a00e54f10a0988834019104560c34970c-pi[/fimg:wnq6fkyy]

batmagadanleadoff Feb 24 2014 04:02 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Tomorrow's forecast calls for clear skies. [fimg=766:ofmj8mdj]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gbFAbL-KP4E/Te7PVB32jWI/AAAAAAAABd4/y1IRVoJAfCM/s1600/tumblr_ks369mVfVt1qanwn3o1_400.jpg[/fimg:ofmj8mdj] Are you ready for some finals?

Ceetar Feb 24 2014 02:52 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

I've been to three of those McDonalds (Times Square, Mansion, Biggest) fwiw. (probably nothing)

d'Kong76 Feb 24 2014 03:40 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

What's the Mickey Dee's slant all about?

MFS62 Feb 24 2014 03:42 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

d'Kong76 wrote: What's the Mickey Dee's slant all about? Waiting for the finals has been like waiting for a UFO to return to Roswell. Later

batmagadanleadoff Feb 24 2014 06:36 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

d'Kong76 wrote: What's the Mickey Dee's slant all about? Because you deserve a break today. World's Oldest McDonald's, Downey, California [fimg=644]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7231/7033571901_779034f09c_o.jpg[/fimg][fimg=644]http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3818/12752282073_c7e64a9a7f_o.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=444]http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1151/1286868914_6a7cade9fa_o.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=544]http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5512/12752234855_02b68bd82b_o.jpg[/fimg]

Ceetar Feb 24 2014 06:48 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Happy Shamrock Shake season btw. (I usually get a chocolate one and mix them)

batmagadanleadoff Feb 24 2014 06:53 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

McDonald's, Church Avenue and Kings Highway, Brooklyn, New York [fimg=544:3pjvbuek]http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.125108!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/alg-mcdonalds-shooting-jpg.jpg[/fimg:3pjvbuek]

batmagadanleadoff Feb 24 2014 06:55 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

McDonald's, Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York, Nostrand Avenue, near Brooklyn College [fimg=666]http://www.thelmagazine.com/binary/0c07/1317333712-brooklyncollegeshooting.jpg[/fimg]

batmagadanleadoff Feb 24 2014 07:03 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

McDonald's, Coney Island section, Luna Park, Brooklyn, New York [fimg=766:1brsn4nu]http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8431/7695571272_f4b5eaef71_h.jpg[/fimg:1brsn4nu]

themetfairy Feb 24 2014 07:13 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

I need a Shamrock Shake!

metirish Feb 24 2014 07:27 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Somewhere in Ireland

batmagadanleadoff Feb 24 2014 07:45 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Cast iron McDonald's, Canal Street, New York, New York [fimg=566:2g29km7l]http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/bizarre-mcdonalds-locations-22.jpg?w=919&h=1359[/fimg:2g29km7l]

batmagadanleadoff Feb 25 2014 02:52 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

I'll take the whole restaurant to go. The world's smallest McDonald's, Shanghai, China [fimg=677:3lc78ghc]http://content-b-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/q71/1517920_584494201627405_1297072564_n.jpg[/fimg:3lc78ghc]

batmagadanleadoff Feb 25 2014 03:09 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Glass McDonald's, Batumi, Republic of Georgia [fimg=655]http://cdn.foodbeast.com.s3.amazonaws.com/content/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/fancymd2.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=655]http://cdn.foodbeast.com.s3.amazonaws.com/content/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/fancymd1.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=655]http://cdn.foodbeast.com.s3.amazonaws.com/content/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/fancymd3.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=566]https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ5DTEqXAPnlaQgKKCYYDMCIVXZGySE9SjulnRv-VSVrORnKsGO[/fimg]

themetfairy Feb 25 2014 03:30 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Ocean City, MD - [fimg=540:2t27bsu5]http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5343/9566557918_73b4527006_b.jpg[/fimg:2t27bsu5] [fimg=540:2t27bsu5]http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4118/4861460175_5c216588d2_b.jpg[/fimg:2t27bsu5] [fimg=540:2t27bsu5]http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4075/4861465203_a110f62f4e_b.jpg[/fimg:2t27bsu5] BTW, I'm loving the fimg= function.

batmagadanleadoff Feb 25 2014 03:53 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

batmagadanleadoff wrote: The World's largest McDonald's, Orlando, Florida (The Box of Fries) [youtube]NOcIMtvTOM4[/youtube] [fimg=777]http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5015/5447718732_4b03e655cd_b.jpg[/fimg] [fimg=877]http://ays.blackberryrefresh.com/wp-content/uploads/DSCN0207.jpg[/fimg]

batmagadanleadoff Feb 25 2014 04:30 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

metirish wrote: Somewhere in Ireland [fimg=555]http://codologist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/pony-and-carriage-at-McDonalds-Ireland.jpg[/fimg] Are those guys delivering the hamburger meat?

MFS62 Feb 25 2014 04:59 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

batmagadanleadoff wrote: metirish wrote: Somewhere in Ireland [fimg=555]http://codologist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/pony-and-carriage-at-McDonalds-Ireland.jpg[/fimg] Are those guys delivering the hamburger meat? Considering its McDonalds, the hamburger meat may be delivering them. Later

batmagadanleadoff Feb 25 2014 05:20 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

That's no mirage. That's a McDonald's in the middle of the Negev Desert, Israel. [fimg=666]http://www.jaunted.com/files/1425/negevmickeyds.JPG[/fimg]

batmagadanleadoff Feb 25 2014 05:24 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Prisoners at Guantanamo Bay can earn Happy Meals for good behavior. [fimg=666]http://www.alamy.com/thumbs/6/%7B9EA95CB7-1C7E-4E5B-983A-229C8A5C825A%7D/ATW08N.jpg[/fimg]

batmagadanleadoff Feb 25 2014 05:29 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Fancy French Macaroons served at the McDonald's at the Palace of Versailles, France. [fimg=666:10sfn9vj]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-irbgfOJbgzQ/UooX8bhEvWI/AAAAAAAAHAI/fMF0dp_CeRI/s1600/th.jpeg[/fimg:10sfn9vj]

batmagadanleadoff Feb 25 2014 05:33 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

The McDonald's Bacon and Potato Pie, available in Japan only.

batmagadanleadoff Feb 25 2014 05:37 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

The Greek Big Mac (Beef or chicken, tzatziki sauce, lettuce and tomato on pita). [fimg=444]http://www.southernkissed.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/896506_10200957376872963_469400819_o-300x225.jpg[/fimg]

batmagadanleadoff Feb 25 2014 05:41 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

The Croque McDo (Ham and Emmental cheese on toasted sweet bread), France. [fimg=555]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3txhKdC_Eqg/S_vS08rPNGI/AAAAAAAAAxI/7VcuK1XewoU/s1600/P1010046.JPG[/fimg]

batmagadanleadoff Feb 25 2014 05:47 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

McBeer. Germany. [fimg=505]http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3697/12763993903_43b22fb288_o.jpg[/fimg]

themetfairy Feb 25 2014 12:59 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

There's nothing particularly special about the McDonald's in Montreux, Switzerland, save for the fact that we bought some food for the kids there in 2007 (photo courtesy of the intertubes) - [fimg=540:26n7ua79]http://haresfamily.com/EventsAndPlaces/McDonalds/SteveMcDonaldsMontreaux.JPG[/fimg:26n7ua79]

MFS62 Feb 25 2014 02:58 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

batmagadanleadoff wrote: McDonald's, Church Avenue and Kings Highway, Brooklyn, New York [fimg=544]http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.125108!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/alg-mcdonalds-shooting-jpg.jpg[/fimg] They sell donuts in McDonalds? Later

Edgy MD Feb 25 2014 09:23 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Well, it's been a fun ride. I (yes, I am one of your mystery finalists) pulled back from three votes down and won by the skin of my teeth in the semis, but I don't see that happening again from six votes down. I concede to my unknown opponent. I actually weighed "Down on the Corner" as an option, as well as the only other "Korner" pop song I could think of: Genesis's "Lonely Man on the Corner." I wasn't able to make either work, and besides, given only Ralph Kiner as a subject, I became committed early to writing about his love life. I actually wanted to go hip-hop here. My wife really wanted me to go with Positive K's "I Got a Man," reset as a conversation between Ralph and Liz Taylor. [list]>I got a man! >I'm not tryin' to hear that, see. >But I got a man! >How many homers he hit in '53?[/list:u] But that was a really tall order (long song, lots of words, complex meter) and (story of my life) I found myself on the eve of the due date with my assignment unbegun. I apologize for adapting a largely unfamiliar song, but heck with it, it was the song I wanted to write and that's the tune it fit into. I salute my worthy opponent for finding a familiar song and making it new. Had I started a day earlier, I would have cut the song myself, which might have gotten me a little over the unfamiliarity hump. So late last night, I snuck down and stole my wife's laptop, and that's what I did. I dedicate this to my mysterious opponent, the 2013-2014 Crane Pool Parody Invitational Champion, and of course, to my hero, Ralph Kiner. [youtube]TVrF8yUa9YI[/youtube] (Please forgive the flubs. It's a one-take special and I didn't have Fman to help out on leads.)

batmagadanleadoff Feb 25 2014 09:35 PM Kiner frag

Well, it's been a fun ride. I (yes, I am one of your mystery finalists) pulled back from three votes down and won by the skin of my teeth in the semis, but I don't see that happening again from six votes down. I concede to my unknown opponent. I actually weighed "Down on the Corner" as an option, as well as the only other "Korner" pop song I could think of: Genesis's "Lonely Man on the Corner." I wasn't able to make either work, and besides, given only Ralph Kiner as a subject, I became committed early to writing about his love life. I actually wanted to go hip-hop here. My wife really wanted me to go with Positive K's "I Got a Man," reset as a conversation between Ralph and Liz Taylor. [list]>I got a man! >I'm not tryin' to hear that, see. >But I got a man! >How many homers he hit in '53?[/list:u] But that was a really tall order (long song, lots of words, complex meter) and (story of my life) I found myself on the eve of the due date with my assignment unbegun. I apologize for adapting a largely unfamiliar song, but heck with it, it was the song I wanted to write and that's the tune it fit into. I salute my worthy opponent for finding a familiar song and making it new. Had I started a day earlier, I would have cut the song myself, which might have gotten me a little over the unfamiliarity hump. So late last night, I snuck down and stole my wife's laptop, and that's what I did. I dedicate this to my mysterious opponent, the 2013-2014 Crane Pool Parody Invitational Champion, and of course, to my hero, Ralph Kiner. [youtube]TVrF8yUa9YI[/youtube] (Please forgive the flubs. It's a one-take special and I didn't have Fman to help out on leads.) [fimg=488]http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/assets/6/a1f0d78fadc07b34ec68ac69dd5b74a07c805fad_m.gif[/fimg][fimg=488]http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/assets/6/a1f0d78fadc07b34ec68ac69dd5b74a07c805fad_m.gif[/fimg]

TransMonk Feb 26 2014 01:07 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Excellent job, Edgy! I was thinking of doing a couple of these this year, but time did not cooperate. I was very much inspired to come up with this little 3 track jingle this evening after hearing yours, though. I think I sense a tradition. [youtube]UhTDp--R1Y8[/youtube] That might only be up for a couple of days...I don't need Fogerty suing me. It was nice to have a change to the format this year that made things more interesting. Kiner was a tough pull for the finals...I was so used to having options in years past. I thought about VU's "Sweet Jane" after riffing off the first line featuring "corner" (Standing on the corner, suitcase in my hand). But Sunday morning quickly faded into Sunday afternoon and the CCR was easier for me to get a handle on. Again, great work, everyone!

John Cougar Lunchbucket Feb 26 2014 02:17 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Best forum ever.

Edgy MD Feb 26 2014 02:58 AM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

TransMonk wrote: [youtube]UhTDp--R1Y8[/youtube] I... HATE YOU! I hate you and your stupid three-track-mixing, lead-guitar-playing FACE!

TransMonk Feb 26 2014 02:10 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

;)

Edgy MD Feb 26 2014 02:21 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

You had to go and beat me TWICE. Stupid jukebox hero.

TransMonk Feb 26 2014 02:32 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

No way, man. My intent wasn't to beat you, only to share. Without your song, I wouldn't have posted my song. I'm sorry if I stepped on toes. We should go on the road. We could set up outside MLB parks when the Mets are playing and do parodies for pocket change. I'm not sure we would make any money at it, but it would be fun.

Edgy MD Feb 26 2014 02:47 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Just funning. And being highly jealous of your skill set. I was thinking we set up a band and do some of the tournament's historical greatest hitz at a future Queens Baseball Conference.

batmagadanleadoff Feb 26 2014 02:49 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

We would like to thank the contestants and voters -- the entire forum -- for making this year's tournament so special. And to this year's champion, TransMonk, who persevered despite being randomly ranked 16th out of 16 contestants, we present the 2014 Crane Pool Kranepool Cup. The 2014 Crane Pool Kranepool Cup was bought to you by McDonald's. Grab a bucket and mop.

batmagadanleadoff Feb 26 2014 03:16 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

The Current World Universe Coaches Poll Song Parody Rankings: 1 TransMonk 2 Edgy MD 3 sharpie 4 LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr 5 John Cougar Lunchbucket 6 G-Fafif 7 Lefty Specialist 8 Kong76 9 Zvon 10T Fman99 10T metirish 12 A Boy Named Seo 13T Ceetar 13T seawolf17 15 metsmarathon 16 Trachsel My Tears [fimg=283:2f2hwhud]https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSc6bisGRHj8dOfIMgorxvyNjPGqkdMcYdVpCZ9QNHTqbR_CUnK[/fimg:2f2hwhud][fimg=283:2f2hwhud]https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSc6bisGRHj8dOfIMgorxvyNjPGqkdMcYdVpCZ9QNHTqbR_CUnK[/fimg:2f2hwhud][fimg=283:2f2hwhud]https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSc6bisGRHj8dOfIMgorxvyNjPGqkdMcYdVpCZ9QNHTqbR_CUnK[/fimg:2f2hwhud][fimg=283:2f2hwhud]https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSc6bisGRHj8dOfIMgorxvyNjPGqkdMcYdVpCZ9QNHTqbR_CUnK[/fimg:2f2hwhud]

MFS62 Feb 26 2014 03:18 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Kudos to Batmags. Job well done. Later

Zvon Feb 26 2014 07:41 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Edgy MD wrote: [youtube]TVrF8yUa9YI[/youtube] [youtube]UhTDp--R1Y8[/youtube] AMAZIN'! Both excellent. Very kool u guys did that.

metsmarathon Feb 27 2014 03:20 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

batmagadanleadoff wrote: The Current World Universe Coaches Poll Song Parody Rankings: 1 TransMonk 2 Edgy MD 3 sharpie 4 LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr 5 John Cougar Lunchbucket 6 G-Fafif 7 Lefty Specialist 8 Kong76 9 Zvon 10T Fman99 10T metirish 12 A Boy Named Seo 13T Ceetar 13T seawolf17 15 metsmarathon 16 Trachsel My Tears damn, that hurts. i'm ranked only ahead of the new guy.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Feb 27 2014 06:35 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Correction: you're ranked ahead of the new guy who didn't submit a song.

Lefty Specialist Feb 27 2014 09:12 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

Correction: you're ranked ahead of the new guy who didn't submit a song. Ouch. That'll leave a mark.

metsmarathon Feb 27 2014 09:14 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

i think i'm being penalized for not providing either a song title or a link to the source material. or for tardiness. or because bml hates a lack of punctuation.

batmagadanleadoff Mar 01 2014 05:17 PM Re: TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: THE CPF 2013-14 SONG PARODY CONTEST

metsmarathon wrote: i think i'm being penalized for not providing either a song title or a link to the source material. or for tardiness. or because bml hates a lack of punctuation. Blame it on the purely objective proprietary mathematical algorithms that determine the CPF song parody rankings. If it was up to me, I'da ranked you in the top one or two.