09-22-2024, 08:32 PMGrum Wrote: What was your favorite job on the site?

Instinctively, the first ones that come to mind are my time on the Awards and HOF Committees. I really enjoyed being able to help improve the processes that are here to give recognition to the players and members that deserve them. There were good people in there to bounce ideas of and have controversial yet fact-based discussions and I think we did a lot of good work for a bunch of years there.

Quote:Will you still be around the site/community?

Not around the site, at least for now. But I am still on Discord so people who want to reach out to me can still do that, and I will probably still be active on the occasional server that has some other SHL members on it as well, like our F1 and Gaming Server.

Quote:What is the story behind your name? How fast did people shorten it to RED

It's a quote from "Life of Brian", it's basically fake/wrong Latin writes on a wall to send a message to the Romans. I'm not quite sure when the whole RED thing started, I think it was a few years in but it stuck and quite quickly though, because nobody wanted to deal with that mess that was my full nickname I assume.

Quote:Is there anyone or any team you wish you could have played with?

Clichee answer, but there are so many that it would probably be unfair to name specific players or teams. One of the downsides of trying to stay loyal to your teams throughout your career is that you don't get to experience that many different franchises and therefore miss out on sharing spaces with a lot of people. Although a good thing about the modern SHL and Discord is that you get to know and hang out with people to various servers even if they aren't your teammates. I think that has actually changed the dynamic quite a bit, these days you can feel very close to people that you never shared a locker room with, whereas in the past there were a lot of people that you thought seemed nice from a distance, but that you never really had any direct interactions with because you didn't share a space outside of this forum.

09-22-2024, 10:38 PMJKortesi81 Wrote: How does it feel?

This feels like the Shawshank Redemption, but this time RED gets out first.

It has not fully settled in yet to be quite honest. Right now I am neither relieved or sad really, there is a certain melancholy for sure but I am also looking forward to the break. What does make me happy are the circumstances under which I get to leave. I spent such a long timeframe in this league hunting for another Cup after my first one early on, so to go out with a Challenge Cup win for a franchise that I have so much history with is just all I could have hoped for for my fairytale ending.