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A Bird After Our Own Hearts

G-Fafif Nov 13 2020 09:31 PM

http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/wp-content/uploads/A7381306-1AB7-40D7-BA8C-2CC9C8FF2D3C.jpeg> June 6, 1975.

Edgy MD Nov 13 2020 09:55 PM Re: A Bird After Our Own Hearts

Killer.

whippoorwill Nov 14 2020 08:29 AM Re: A Bird After Our Own Hearts

Do cranes have those head things?

MFS62 Nov 14 2020 08:33 AM Re: A Bird After Our Own Hearts

I hope they bring back banner day. Later

kcmets Nov 14 2020 09:45 AM Re: A Bird After Our Own Hearts

=whippoorwill post_id=50648 time=1605367747 user_id=79]Do cranes have those head things?

Pretty sure, no.



But holy moley what a find, G-F!!

Edgy MD Nov 14 2020 09:58 AM Re: A Bird After Our Own Hearts

Big Krane was hitting .412 following a 3-4 day and the lone RBI in a 1-0 win in a June 4 win over Houston. Jerry Koosman went the distance for the win in a cool two hours and 12 minutes. On June 5, presumably as Gallo was drawing this, Ed went 0-3 with an intentional walk and his average fell to .398. On June 6, the day the cartoon ran, he followed up with an 0-4, falling to .379. He would rebound as high as .385 a few days later, but no higher, and would end the season with a career-best .323 average. No one since has been able to explain the mystifying Curse of Gallo.

whippoorwill Nov 14 2020 10:29 AM Re: A Bird After Our Own Hearts

Aw that's sad!

G-Fafif Nov 16 2020 06:13 AM Re: A Bird After Our Own Hearts

Honest to Jackson Todd, when I first saw “Crane Pool,” I assumed it was a reference to this cartoon, the image of which I recently tracked down anew to accompany my Eddie Kranepool essay on FAFIF (the finale to our A Met for All Seasons series), but the memory of which has stayed with me for 45 years.

kcmets Nov 16 2020 08:56 AM Re: A Bird After Our Own Hearts

I should know this, and remarkably I do not, if Crane Pool was Edgy's brain child or that of the poster formerly known as Doc G. Paging E. Md!!

Edgy MD Nov 16 2020 09:28 AM Re: A Bird After Our Own Hearts

My idea. I pitched it to Doc and we spitballed who we wanted to invite over.

kcmets Nov 16 2020 09:39 AM Re: A Bird After Our Own Hearts

And here we are decades later lol. I recall meeting you and Dog C in Manhattan I'm gonna say when things were in their infant stages?

Edgy MD Nov 16 2020 09:44 AM Re: A Bird After Our Own Hearts

I've met him in the flesh several times. (Six?) Once or twice with you there. Me and the dog get along fine to this day, except here. I dunno.

kcmets Nov 16 2020 09:47 AM Re: A Bird After Our Own Hearts

Yeah, me as well.

Frayed Knot Nov 16 2020 11:51 AM Re: A Bird After Our Own Hearts

=kcmets post_id=50726 time=1605544744 user_id=53] And here we are decades later lol.

November 1st was designated (mostly by me but the traffic data on the then nascent site backs it up) as the unofficial/official launch date of the CPF, which makes it 19 years as of about two weeks ago.

Edgy MD Nov 16 2020 11:56 AM Re: A Bird After Our Own Hearts

In other words, we've improbably had a more enduring career than our namesake.

Frayed Knot Nov 16 2020 12:02 PM Re: A Bird After Our Own Hearts

At some point he began to lose playing time at a faster clip than we were losing participating members.

kcmets Nov 16 2020 12:59 PM Re: A Bird After Our Own Hearts

19 years sounds about right. I was definitely still mofo'n during the 2000 playoffs and even Opening Day 2001 joking about raising pennant flag kinda sucking. I guess things then seriously deteriorated that season. 19 years, that's a third of my life!

Frayed Knot Nov 16 2020 01:49 PM Re: A Bird After Our Own Hearts

It was really during the (9/11 delayed) MFY/ARZ WS that traffic started to pick up over here to the point where a bunch of folks realized that is simply made more sense to use this place as their full-time board rather than just as a refuge for complaining about the head-bashing idiocy at the old joint. Hence Nov 1 as the (more or less) anniversary date.

kcmets Nov 16 2020 02:05 PM Re: A Bird After Our Own Hearts

I'm laughing a little about the short-lived Sergio Ferrer Forum.

Edgy MD Nov 16 2020 02:21 PM Re: A Bird After Our Own Hearts

Sergio needs a SABR bio.

Frayed Knot Nov 16 2020 02:37 PM Re: A Bird After Our Own Hearts

=kcmets post_id=50763 time=1605560719 user_id=53] I'm laughing a little about the short-lived Sergio Ferrer Forum.

Ah yes, the refuge from the refuge.

Frayed Knot Nov 16 2020 03:01 PM Re: A Bird After Our Own Hearts

http://archives.thecranepool.net/17000/f1_t17083.shtml

MFS62 Nov 16 2020 03:23 PM Re: A Bird After Our Own Hearts

=kcmets post_id=50763 time=1605560719 user_id=53] I'm laughing a little about the short-lived Sergio Ferrer Forum.

Don't laugh. A board named after a middle infielder has had a long life.

There's a Dickie Thon Fan Club (DTFC) board that has survived as a spinoff from the old FASTBALL.COM board for about 20 years. I still have the t-shirts given out at their weekend meetings at baseball parks around the country. But for the past few years it has been more about the members' strat league than about MLB.

And the famous Sons of Sam Horn (SOSH) board spun off from the DTFC.



Later

G-Fafif Nov 09 2021 11:26 PM Re: A Bird After Our Own Hearts

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Lefty Specialist Nov 10 2021 05:09 PM Re: A Bird After Our Own Hearts

So the CPF is now 20? Another year and it'll able to drink.......

The Hot Corner Nov 14 2021 03:40 PM Re: A Bird After Our Own Hearts

Only seems fair, since pulling for this team tends to make one want to drink.

whippoorwill Nov 14 2021 04:19 PM Re: A Bird After Our Own Hearts

What was the GSS Forum?