Quote:Originally posted by JKortesi81@Jul 21 2017, 08:15 AM


I didn't say it wasn't earned, and I didn't say it was because of the sim, for the record. Just because it was a weird series (which it was, but that made it fun) doesn't mean it didn't produce a winner that should be proud. Your players earned it for sure. I'm not ever going to say they didn't.

Let the players bicker back and forth. I get the "mama bear" tendency there, to protect. I'm doing it right is. Of course, Your Mammoths can just say "scoreboard" and my Crows have to learn to deal with that. But everything you said about your players working hard to be ready for playoffs, my guys did the same. Everyone handles a loss differently. If they want to be upset and whine about the sim, so be it. I'm sure all of your players know how hard you worked, and the losing team complaining about the sim in a heartbreaker is pretty much standard for the SHL anyway. Rubbing it in their faces, regardless of how annoying they may be at the time, isn't a good look from a GM standpoint. Waking up to multiple messages from a couple players (some that weren't even in the threads) asking me why the GM of the other team is acting that way caught me off guard and I don't have an answer for them.

But again, it was a great series, and it was late at night. Emotions were high and people were sleepy. Never the best time for anyone to really shine haha. Except Adam. He's great.

It's not a sideways congratulations. I'm legit happy for the Mammoth organization. It was a lot of fun.

Well thank you. And yeah, you need to know that since I said anything to protect my guys I've been hearing about it from everywhere. At the end of the day we are GMs of our teams and we have to stick up for our players. I shouldn't have to feel bad about sticking up for the people that I've spent the last few months making bonds with in the LR/Discord. And I never said your team didn't prepare just as hard.

So, yeah, you can say I am acting unprofessionally to this position. But we're GMs of our teams and we have to stand in the corner of our players. If I let someone basically say that my guys didn't deserve it as much as they did, well, I'm being a shitty GM if I don't say, "uh uh uh!"

But yeah, thanks for the legit congrats. Good luck next year to you and all your players, going up or staying down. I've never been angry at the people or the team. I've been upset about the shit people have talked. And to be honest, if my guys were in the position yours are right now, and they somehow were the #1 seed and we lost in the 2nd round like you did last night. And they were shittalking St. Louis, well I'd be livid with them. Because you're supposed to respect your opponent. And while you've shown nothing but class. A lot of it hasn't been shown outside of you and Crossfit.