Originally posted by joker02btb
im not saying if bort were to take action, im saying if he were to SAY what constitutes as unsporting "recruiting". i like how u even said "according to the rules we play by now" after i JUST said rules generally come after the problem. it was a hypothetical situation nonetheless. i was looking to see what sort of character everyone had is all.
Basicaly, I have brought my players here that were on a team that was detroyed by the owner and a few other agents did the same. We all also had players that started on this team when the league was first released. We happen to have a fairly large circle of friends within the game and make trades on occation to assist each other. Sure that is collusion in as much as it's two people deciding together to take an action. It is not collution in a sense that rules were being worked around.
We have quite a few players on the team that were not acquaintances prior to them playing with us on this team. It's all about networking and making relationships.
What we have done is so routine and mundain in this game that none of it has ever struck me as un-sportsman-like. If it is and new rules are made, I can live with that. This isn't the NFL or amatuer baseball or anything else. It's GLB and has a set of rules all it's own.
I have players on seven teams, if any of them reach a point where they will be parting ways with a current team and we need them here I will probably bring them along too. If a friend needs/wants them, I would send them there. I can't see how any of that is unsportsmanlike.
Starting a huge storm over people opperating within the rules as he has done does though strike me as whining. His main objection at first was that we brought in players of higher level from higher leagues (something even he has done). That is a silly argument to have the way GLB is set up. It happens everywhere, every day around here. To decide that we should be the focal point of his whining crusade is an annoyance but nothing more.
And by the way, the new players that we have added have been added over a period of time stretching back to the beginning of last season. It didn't happen over night. And now, we are on a similar footing with Niagara and Nova Scotia and still not quite up to what Quebec and Antioch were last year before they moved on to AA. Is this all over the fact that Niagara thought it was 'their turn' and are upset that there is competition? Seriously, look at the players on our team, the Snakes and teh Assassins. They are very close and should be great games - isn't that what we all want?
Last edited Nov 24, 2008 13:08:39