when I found this board after skimming a few others that didn't appeal to me and began to lurk.
In those days and since some posters inspired my, and taught me and was always a blast to read, no matter if I agreed with them or even if they "fought" amongst themselves
ZN
Albany
Rams43
Mama
Bucky
GRITS (rip) - maybe my favorite poster in the early days
Deadpool and Alyoshamucci for the draft posts
Gator
Shecky
ClassicalWit
Youngblood53
Rambill
Berendsen
Saguaro
Speedkills
stlramz
LMU93
JamesJM
Several from the old STL days that aren't here anymore... at least under their old names.
And many more no longer active I have probably left out to my eternal shame
In fact I will go so far as to say that in all those years only ONE poster have so gotten on my wrong side with their attitude and opinions that i just ignore them... but that's the glory of the internet. No one forces me to read their posts:-)
Thought about applying to join for almost 15 years but never thought I had anything to offer in my youth, inexperience, time zones and relative distance from American sport held me back until about a year ago.
... Yes I lurked for almost 14 years. You can laugh now, but I DID go for the "longest time lurker" award before deciding that I finally knew enough to not make a COMPLETE fool of myself:-)
One of these days I might even be able to travel to the States during the season rather than spring and summer so my only match wont just be the one that DIDNT HAPPEN (No I'm not ignoring its existence it simply didn't happen

) in London in 2012 and maybe meet some people in person.