Post by Sheryl Yoast on Oct 10, 2008 12:28:48 GMT -5
Pig Ideology
It has been a while since I have written an article so here it is out on a silver platter for you to divulge into. Things have been confusing for me as a direction. For the 2nd straight year I have a team of guys overachieving, and once again I feel mesmerized by their ability to win games putting a standstill on my plans of rebuilding. For you GM’s who never had a squad who over performed it is a very bittersweet feeling. You feel content for how your team is playing however you are confused in which direction to go. In my 3 years of being a General Manager, the past two years has been the hardest situation I have been trusted into.
The root of all this results back with a deal with Miami back when I had Al and Tony dealing a future 1st to Ebener. The beauty of this game is that you could be the best GM in the world and there is still so much you can learn. The deal with Ebener taught me to never deal future picks to stingy hard to deal with GM’s. So Eb, Jordan, Ducky will never see a GSW pick ever coming to them in the near future, from me at least. The inability to come and grab that pick back from MIA really set-up this abundant problems I have had with planning as of late, an aspect I pride myself upon in this league. At the end of BBS 2 I thought I was planning the best. Turning Greg Monroe into Kobe Bryant which resulted in back-to-back championships was my highlight. Turning the worst team in the league into the best team of the league was probably the best moment of my sim career. At the time I was viewed as a weaker GM, mostly for the same problems that Skillz still has now and I think I really opened up some eyes. I had an unspoken arrogance with how I made my team and it has carried, until recently that is.
The next big problem was Mike Bibby. Great player, sim’s great, hopes he dies. Honestly one of the biggest mistakes I make is how I overvalue veterans. With this said with the exception of a few people the rest of the league undervalues veterans. If you could trade your youth and picks for a legit championship contender would you? I did it and I don’t ever regret the choices I made. It’s a much better feeling to know you can win then to have the potential to win. GM’s sit on youth and watch there team dynamic rot away. Bibby brought a domino effect to my planning that was awful. Let’s face it if someone took their head out of there ass and wasn’t sulking over there college football team getting beat by the Colorado Buffalos then we would of never had a Durant deal and I would be sitting on top of Cloud 9 right now, but I am nott. Mike Bibby can fuck himself and so can the GM’s last year who could of used his services in a potential title run. A double-edged sword stabbed us both, one that not needed to be in play.
The Durant deal was the result of this domino effect. Reflecting on the deal it wasn’t good however looking how I built teams of the past it is not bad as people made it out to be. Even worse was the lack of vote of confidence that people had in me to even make it past the contract year. This only bothered me a little bit because these individuals don’t really have any concept of the English language. I like the challenge though. It has been a while since I have been stuck-in mud and I enjoy taking the challenge head on.
The League.
I won’t lie and it saddens me to say this but I think the best of BBS has passed us. I think if Outlawz leaves us then it only makes matters a lot worst. The GM’s of the day are almost all gone are inactive. The new breed of GM’s arriving into the league are naïve an inexperienced. The result of this makes me ponder the contract year. The contract year was set up in order to make the league stronger, so that teams would win. The backdrop however was that we always had a strong group of candidates on the waiting list who could take over. We don’t have that anymore. We are at a point where we have to ask ourselves does the contract year really help the league? If one of the BBS veterans who is extremely active falls victim to the contract year does it really strengthen the league as a whole.? I have a hard time believing that it does. As much as many GM’s would lick there chops at the idea, if Martinez gets fired and a Mike, Shaunkol, Mario, the other douche bag gets hired the league suffers as a whole. This use to not be the case but we as a league don’t have the luxury we used to picking GM’s. The sophomoric YB’s aren’t as great of an asset to the league as the guys who have tenure here IMO.
New GM’s
On the subject of New GM’s and leaving off with YB, if you come in here shut the fuck up until you make a name for yourself. If someone calls you out, then by all means let bullets and guns rip. This is why I don’t really rip to hard on YB unless it is deserved. With that said, YB is the equivalent of a kid from New Canaan thinking he has lived a “hard life.” Stop fucking thinking you know what you are talking about all the time, it’s annoying. Then we have GM’s like Derwin, Darwin what ever his name is. Your part of Team Haberman so I can’t rip you that hard but respond to your damn PM’s. It’s a pain in the ass not hearing back from you, for all I know you could of got run over by a bus so even if you hate what is presented to you in a PM just let me know that so I know that your safe and alright.
I started this article from NYC and I finish it leaving Talmadege Hill. Be Safe.
It has been a while since I have written an article so here it is out on a silver platter for you to divulge into. Things have been confusing for me as a direction. For the 2nd straight year I have a team of guys overachieving, and once again I feel mesmerized by their ability to win games putting a standstill on my plans of rebuilding. For you GM’s who never had a squad who over performed it is a very bittersweet feeling. You feel content for how your team is playing however you are confused in which direction to go. In my 3 years of being a General Manager, the past two years has been the hardest situation I have been trusted into.
The root of all this results back with a deal with Miami back when I had Al and Tony dealing a future 1st to Ebener. The beauty of this game is that you could be the best GM in the world and there is still so much you can learn. The deal with Ebener taught me to never deal future picks to stingy hard to deal with GM’s. So Eb, Jordan, Ducky will never see a GSW pick ever coming to them in the near future, from me at least. The inability to come and grab that pick back from MIA really set-up this abundant problems I have had with planning as of late, an aspect I pride myself upon in this league. At the end of BBS 2 I thought I was planning the best. Turning Greg Monroe into Kobe Bryant which resulted in back-to-back championships was my highlight. Turning the worst team in the league into the best team of the league was probably the best moment of my sim career. At the time I was viewed as a weaker GM, mostly for the same problems that Skillz still has now and I think I really opened up some eyes. I had an unspoken arrogance with how I made my team and it has carried, until recently that is.
The next big problem was Mike Bibby. Great player, sim’s great, hopes he dies. Honestly one of the biggest mistakes I make is how I overvalue veterans. With this said with the exception of a few people the rest of the league undervalues veterans. If you could trade your youth and picks for a legit championship contender would you? I did it and I don’t ever regret the choices I made. It’s a much better feeling to know you can win then to have the potential to win. GM’s sit on youth and watch there team dynamic rot away. Bibby brought a domino effect to my planning that was awful. Let’s face it if someone took their head out of there ass and wasn’t sulking over there college football team getting beat by the Colorado Buffalos then we would of never had a Durant deal and I would be sitting on top of Cloud 9 right now, but I am nott. Mike Bibby can fuck himself and so can the GM’s last year who could of used his services in a potential title run. A double-edged sword stabbed us both, one that not needed to be in play.
The Durant deal was the result of this domino effect. Reflecting on the deal it wasn’t good however looking how I built teams of the past it is not bad as people made it out to be. Even worse was the lack of vote of confidence that people had in me to even make it past the contract year. This only bothered me a little bit because these individuals don’t really have any concept of the English language. I like the challenge though. It has been a while since I have been stuck-in mud and I enjoy taking the challenge head on.
The League.
I won’t lie and it saddens me to say this but I think the best of BBS has passed us. I think if Outlawz leaves us then it only makes matters a lot worst. The GM’s of the day are almost all gone are inactive. The new breed of GM’s arriving into the league are naïve an inexperienced. The result of this makes me ponder the contract year. The contract year was set up in order to make the league stronger, so that teams would win. The backdrop however was that we always had a strong group of candidates on the waiting list who could take over. We don’t have that anymore. We are at a point where we have to ask ourselves does the contract year really help the league? If one of the BBS veterans who is extremely active falls victim to the contract year does it really strengthen the league as a whole.? I have a hard time believing that it does. As much as many GM’s would lick there chops at the idea, if Martinez gets fired and a Mike, Shaunkol, Mario, the other douche bag gets hired the league suffers as a whole. This use to not be the case but we as a league don’t have the luxury we used to picking GM’s. The sophomoric YB’s aren’t as great of an asset to the league as the guys who have tenure here IMO.
New GM’s
On the subject of New GM’s and leaving off with YB, if you come in here shut the fuck up until you make a name for yourself. If someone calls you out, then by all means let bullets and guns rip. This is why I don’t really rip to hard on YB unless it is deserved. With that said, YB is the equivalent of a kid from New Canaan thinking he has lived a “hard life.” Stop fucking thinking you know what you are talking about all the time, it’s annoying. Then we have GM’s like Derwin, Darwin what ever his name is. Your part of Team Haberman so I can’t rip you that hard but respond to your damn PM’s. It’s a pain in the ass not hearing back from you, for all I know you could of got run over by a bus so even if you hate what is presented to you in a PM just let me know that so I know that your safe and alright.
I started this article from NYC and I finish it leaving Talmadege Hill. Be Safe.
