Originally posted by RTJakarta
MEETING LAGGO
I had seen Laggo around the boards a lot, and most notably, I saw him in the GLB Radio Show chat room in the first show. He spoke highly of how his new Africa team was gonna win it all, and be so great, and I kind of shook it off and laughed, as Laggo well…you know how seriously some of you take him. Eventually we end up talking about some GLB stuff, and he wants to try and trade for my CB Nick Memmolo. So I was like “Eh. Sure, one player won’t hurt.” And I go and get a replacement CB.
After trading him to Conakry, and seeing some of the people that Laggo recruited being such nice people, it really…just made me feel odd. I was so engaged with Conakry, excited to get the season underway and win.
THE INCIDENT
At the point in time, I guess it dawned on me that I shouldn’t be an owner. When I’m more excited about a team that I have one player on rather than my own team with multiple players, something is probably wrong.
So I made the decision to get rid of my team. With the amount of people that were vying for teams and actually WANTED to own a team, it wasn’t fair for me to just sit on one and watch everyone lose day in and day out. I didn’t want to leave everyone stranded on a team that was gonna lose for seasons to come, so I starting cutting my players and most active people on the team.
Unbeknownst to me, there was a 40-man minimum when it comes to the roster. So what was I supposed to do? Just cut my losses and sell the team? Nah, I couldn’t bring myself to do that to my teammates. I went to the PLFT board and was just throwing out offers to all kinds of low level people, just trying to get people to sign so I could cut my teammates, in turn. And to settle the ridiculous discrepancies, it was five kickers I had on my roster. I’ve honestly heard people say I had like 10+. I guess that’s what happens when you’re dumb and don’t wanna listen to the facts or anything. Also unknown to me was the fact that you could actually sign CPUs now. If I had known that, would I have done that rather than waste everyone’s time and tie up some low level people? Of course! Sure, what I was doing wasn’t the best thing from the get-go, but I would have liked to do it in the best way possible to everyone.
So when I had freed basically everyone, that’s when I sold the team. Got like 500 or so FP back, was now free from being an owner. Brought most of my players to Conakry, and…
THE HERE AND NOW
…we’re 16-0. I mean, I’ve been around the forums all season, and I’m not really sure what to say about the “here and now”.
What it comes down to in the end is all of you guys’ attitudes. I mean, it’s an Internet football game. If all you have to do is complain endlessly about the actions of some teenagers on the Internet, you have as many problems as I do.
I mean, I’ve never been one to pass judgment on people without getting information, so forming a good opinion on people in the APL was/is tough when every time you make a post, you just get a storm of “FUK OFF CHETR U SUK GO GUT ANOTHR TEAM”. I mean seriously guys, it’s insane.
I’m human, just like all the rest of you (despite whatever kind of jokes you might make), and I make mistakes too.
So in this thread, I’ll talk about whatever any of you want regarding the situation or whatever else. I’ll be honest and all that, because after this long diatribe and thread, as far as I’m concerned, the book will be closed.
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