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Yes, hello and welcome back to Part 2! Of whatever you want to call this! I do not really have time for cool or funny names for this but what I do have time for it telling you my opinions about the Sarasota sail fishes pick ups since I am officially a sail fish player now.
In the last piece of shitty media I got up to that third person talking hungarian called Laszlo Forty Two. But enough about that dick head. We must continue on with the other people!
Next chosen by the Sarymary Sail fish was:
Safety Beat who is the user Donno Mania. From the Chicago Butchers.
Well, I cannot help but do a small dig at the Chicago Butchers even though you are no longer my most hated team. Congrats on escaping that Chicago and congrats on escaping Chicago! I think I have never talked to you. I do not know your player at all if I am honest. So this is a completely fresh and new person to me and I cannot wait to chat in our locker room.
The one good thing about this is you get new team mates and hopefully new pals a long the way. So this would be one of them.
Fun fact: So every time I write one of these I then think "Well, what if this person is inactive and I am just writing all of this and they will not see it, nor care or even none of this is applicable to them!" so I hope you are active or god help me this would be a bad pick up. They needed a Safety though and without doing proper studying, looking at who Honolulu picked up or anything like that, I am confident this is the greatest pick up of all time. Ever!
Next chosen by the Sayaraya Sail fish was:
The Corner Back Lucas Knight who is the forum user ven knight. From the Arizona Outlaws.
I am a little shocked actually that Laszlo forty two. A future Offensive Linesmen is going over a Corner Back. I know they picked Jordan Andrews but were the sail fish worried I'd fall to Honolulu or was it a misclick? Probably a misclick or "Oh god fine well take him already...Ugh" situation.
Cause whilst I do not know this user I do like him and his player. Never talked to him as far as I can tell so if I have, my bad. But I think he probably could have gone a bit higher or over me. Or at least the same logic as the other players apply to him as the others do.
Overall, I think I can say this is a good pickup unless he has something I am completely missing out on.
Next up and selected by the Sanapana Sail fish was:
The Defensive End Mike Franchet who is the forum user Deadly Player. From the Philadelphia Liberty.
I feel like I can now freely talk about the Philly team all I like now that the curse I had them under was broken this season that just finished. 1-13 the dream. Sorry about the whole cursing your last two finals. But Philly are free and can grow now but it will be without deadly player.
I think I have talked to him a little but never shared a locker room so that is pretty hype for me personally. I was also completely moved to tears over his Farewell speech that you the reader can just tell he poured his heart and soul into and is taking being drafted away from his beloved Liberty team just as badly as I am.
The rage, the emotion, the passion! I think he will clearly bring all of this and more to our locker room. Or maybe he will not, I do not know. All I know is I am pretty decent at filling a paragraph up with random bollocks when I do not know the user very well. But I love you regardless deadly player.
Also, another Defensive End for the sail fish. I kinda like that honestly. Should be cool to see how that core grows or does over time at least.
Next up and selected by the Sagetage sail fish was:
The Safety player Chase Jensen from the forum user dizzyDC. From the Austin Copperheads.
You know. Many regrets can happen in life. I know that is a bit weird to say to start off talking about Dizzy but it just hit me that I should have done this in reverse order cause the further we go down the more I struggle to remember the users. This is kinda exciting though and a lot like every other draft I watch when I see the familiar people go high and the others drop.
I cannot say I have ever talked or interacted with him. I do know he has the bloke from Parks and Rec as a profile picture avatar and that tlk and Mooty were the last to look at his profile. But that would imply I knew nothing about him and just clicked his profile for more information. Luckily I can just pull a Trump and deny the truth very easily. It feels good.
I look forward to getting to know him in our new shiny locker room (No, it doesn't smell of fish, that is a fake news myth) and hopefully playing well together.
I will say though his last name triggers me cause Jensen is a former Cloud9 midlaner turned snake and you were from the Austin Copper heads and he is currently a washed up player again. But not your fault like but hard to unsee for me personally.
Next up and selected by the Supatrupa Sail fish was:
The Defensive Tackle Freezer Riposte from the forum user Mavfatha. From the San Jose Saber cats
Praise the lord! I know him! I know this user but rather than focus on this bro of a dude I will focus on his player. Cause I do not know why he went so low. The whole lack of studying players really hurts analysis I have noticed but we do not get paid for that in 1.5x media so I cannot justify finding the reason out.
The best reason I can think of is that he was the National Sim Football Leagues first player to get Covid but luckily made a speedy recovery and is back into fighting shape. The news came in late and the sail fish sniped him up. I 100% dig it!
But for real, i like this user and really happy we get to be team mates in the National Sim Football League together. Maybe he is not a max earner or something but as long as he is in the locker room I dig it.
Next up and selected by the Sorycory Sail fish was:
The Tight End Johnny Blaze! From the forum user JBLAZE THE BOSS. From the Kacey Dream's Orange County Resort (The Orange County Otters)
A little shocked a team like the Otters did not lose all 3 players soon to be honest. New Orleans lost those lads pretty quickly so to lose them is a tad shocking to me. I sadly do not know the user past seeing a handful of his posts over my time on the forum. I cannot recall at the very least having a one on one conversation with him. I am noticing I do not talk to a lot of people that were not on my former team, that is rather saddening to me. But the good news, is we can chat and hopefully have fun on this new fresh faced team together.
I am glad we picked up an attacking position cause I have noticed we focused a lot on the defending based side of this sport. Probably going to be gunning the attacking side in this upcoming draft which I like. I guess we will see though.
Finally, the last person to talk about and final selection from the Sappakappa Sail fish was:
The Kicker Diego Espinoza from the forum user Reon. Coming from the Chicago Butchers.
To quote my General Manager Rain Delay: "Well, we needed a kicker, and this was our only option left. Reon, if you see this I hope you come join the LR so we can say hi!"
I feel like kicker does not get a lot of love either. When you do not have a decent kicker you are most likely buggered but you just need a most likely inactive kicker to sort you out for a good number of seasons. Well, we have our kicker and he will 100% kick that pig skin a lot. Unless he decides to retire but I hope he does not do that. I cannot say I know him whatsoever either. But I did see a post or two from him in 2019.
I think he might be inactive now but like I said, you do not need your kicker to be active to be decent so he will do the job. Just in the off chance you are actually active. I am happy to be playing a long side you pal and hopefully you can own those 3 point plays for us.
So there you have it. All the players this new team drafted. I will point out that I took a small break here to think about what to write about next in this and I discovered Deadly Player retired. So that is a big rip. I do not want to edit what I put so now it has most likely aged like milk but that is okay.
Rest in pieces his player.
I will quickly touch on each Honolulu player they picked up too, cause why not. I have about a thousand words to kill.
The first players taken by the Honolulu roflfish was Lord Macharius player - Mack Arianlacher who is a Line Backer & then followed up by KC15's player called Jed Podolak who is sadly a Wide Receiver (Poor lad)
Both of these players were selected from the New Orlean Second Line of Cocaine team. So the good news is they will still be team mates together. Personally do not know them to my knowledge but these are big losses for the New Orleans team. I mean, they are still stacked and going to be scary as all heck but still, quite a painful loss for them.
Next taken by the Honolulu lmaofish was Jay the Great's player - Jayson Kearse who plays Defensive End from the Yellow Knife Wraiths and Vexatious' player called Jacob Clay who plays in the Wide Receiver position (Poor lad) from Austin's Copperhead team.
I really like these pick ups. Yellow knife are always the best in that division regardless of what the other teams think they are doing and since only one Wraiths player could be taken I think it was a good pick up. Semi shocked that the only YKW pick up was not from the sail fish but it happens I guess.
I do not know these people either but I think they may like where they are heading. Raven and Dwyer seem like nice people. I do have to say it is a bit weird seeing Dwyer as a human being rather than someone in a Head Office position but I think that is just a one off rarity thing.
Next taken by the Honolulu XDfish was Green Army's dude called Victor Moreno who is a Corner Back. Followed by taking Shadowz' character Ruff Ruff who is a Running Back.
I do know both these people! Wooo! I have never personally had a conversation with either. But I do see Green Army talk every now and then and he seems pretty good player wise. A little shocked Austin did not protect him honestly but maybe I am missing a big factor or reason as to why they did not protect him. Maybe he is the Laszlo Forty Two of the Honolulu team but with Austin? Probably not, but would be cool to see.
Also for Shadow I do not believe I have ever talked about him but I know his Pro Baseball Experience player decently well cause I did a lot of media writing on his draft class since he is the draft class after my stacked draft class. He is a pretty damn good player over there when he was at least going into the draft and a clear #1. So if his player can be as hype as that player was they surely would have a great player for here. A nice running back pick up for a good boi.
Up next for selection with the Honolulu lulfish was Baron 1898's player Venus Powers who is a Kicker and Punter and proceeded by BW3's player Emondov Emoji who is a Corner Back.
Only interaction is have had really with BW is through fantasy really. I have talked a few times with him and he is a cool dude. I hope he likes his new location but I do not know his player at all if I am honest. I would semi expect him to go higher in this draft but I guess the teams needed other positions more than him.
The polar opposite for Baron's character. I do not think that I have ever talked or interacted with him off memory without any small reminder of if we have but I do know his character. Took a punter and kicker higher than I thought they would but I guess they wanted the best option possible? They got a good kicker. I just semi assume every kicker is inactive by proxy and tradition at this point but if he is not then that is always good for a locker room.
The penultimate picks for the Honolulu kekwfish was Daybe's player Jaylen Storm who plays as a Line Backer and followed up by picking up Illegal Octopus' player Joseph Wozniak who plays as a Safety. One could argue too safe!
I have only ever heard of Daybe but never talked to him as far as I know so I hope he likes his new home. A bit hard to think of anything for this one cause I also do not know his player past he was taken from the Orange County Otters. Probably does not feel great going from 1 of the best teams ever to a newbie team but new challenge maybe.
Illegal Octopus I do know. He is one of the bois in Luchadores so I already know this is a steal of this draft. Just by default I know this will be a great pick up for the Honolulu boys cause he is from Tijuana Luchadores. I do not need to say much else but hopefully this will be a positive move for him from the San Jose Sabre Cats team. I wish him the best of luck <3
Praise Laszlo Forty Two's lord people! For we are at the end of this with the final two pick ups.
The Honolulu Idontgetthejokethistimefish selected Bwestfield's player James Bishop who dominated Wide Receiver for all of his career and finally, Player 1's character Sandip "Sandy" Bakshi who plays as a line back.
So first off, I do not know Player 1 nor his player. Sorry lad. Seen you post sometimes I think but memory is not great. I wish you the best of luck all the same. The other is rather touchy. This is the player Laszlo Forty Two has played under all his career and now regression will kick his ass like it does us all eventually.
He is the true heart and soul of that team and I love Bwest. He is the one person I will genuinely miss (Sorry Flesh bag but we have the other Gridiron league together so we're still together lol) cause he was nothing but nice and unselfish.
I may have a huge biased opinion when it comes to this and I kinda do not want to just turn this into me calling out the Colorado Yeti again. I said fuck those guys already, I do not need to keep doing it. But I will say I was a little shocked to see him be taken. Just did not make much sense but shocked they did not protect him either considering the years of loyalty playing of a terrible team season after season when he could have been playing for any contending team with ease.
They picked him back up though for a pointless draft pick so I guess they got what they wanted in the end.
So that is it! I have basically done the whole of the Honolulu mantis rays and Sarasota pointy fish draft picks. I will either be doing Laszlo's interview (Yeah, legit thinking of doing one again) or a bit of his history next. Perhaps I will do something else. All I know is I want more money right now. So until then I hope you enjoyed this and good bye for now.
Yes, hello and welcome back to Part 2! Of whatever you want to call this! I do not really have time for cool or funny names for this but what I do have time for it telling you my opinions about the Sarasota sail fishes pick ups since I am officially a sail fish player now.
In the last piece of shitty media I got up to that third person talking hungarian called Laszlo Forty Two. But enough about that dick head. We must continue on with the other people!
Next chosen by the Sarymary Sail fish was:
Safety Beat who is the user Donno Mania. From the Chicago Butchers.
Well, I cannot help but do a small dig at the Chicago Butchers even though you are no longer my most hated team. Congrats on escaping that Chicago and congrats on escaping Chicago! I think I have never talked to you. I do not know your player at all if I am honest. So this is a completely fresh and new person to me and I cannot wait to chat in our locker room.
The one good thing about this is you get new team mates and hopefully new pals a long the way. So this would be one of them.
Fun fact: So every time I write one of these I then think "Well, what if this person is inactive and I am just writing all of this and they will not see it, nor care or even none of this is applicable to them!" so I hope you are active or god help me this would be a bad pick up. They needed a Safety though and without doing proper studying, looking at who Honolulu picked up or anything like that, I am confident this is the greatest pick up of all time. Ever!
Next chosen by the Sayaraya Sail fish was:
The Corner Back Lucas Knight who is the forum user ven knight. From the Arizona Outlaws.
I am a little shocked actually that Laszlo forty two. A future Offensive Linesmen is going over a Corner Back. I know they picked Jordan Andrews but were the sail fish worried I'd fall to Honolulu or was it a misclick? Probably a misclick or "Oh god fine well take him already...Ugh" situation.
Cause whilst I do not know this user I do like him and his player. Never talked to him as far as I can tell so if I have, my bad. But I think he probably could have gone a bit higher or over me. Or at least the same logic as the other players apply to him as the others do.
Overall, I think I can say this is a good pickup unless he has something I am completely missing out on.
Next up and selected by the Sanapana Sail fish was:
The Defensive End Mike Franchet who is the forum user Deadly Player. From the Philadelphia Liberty.
I feel like I can now freely talk about the Philly team all I like now that the curse I had them under was broken this season that just finished. 1-13 the dream. Sorry about the whole cursing your last two finals. But Philly are free and can grow now but it will be without deadly player.
I think I have talked to him a little but never shared a locker room so that is pretty hype for me personally. I was also completely moved to tears over his Farewell speech that you the reader can just tell he poured his heart and soul into and is taking being drafted away from his beloved Liberty team just as badly as I am.
The rage, the emotion, the passion! I think he will clearly bring all of this and more to our locker room. Or maybe he will not, I do not know. All I know is I am pretty decent at filling a paragraph up with random bollocks when I do not know the user very well. But I love you regardless deadly player.
Also, another Defensive End for the sail fish. I kinda like that honestly. Should be cool to see how that core grows or does over time at least.
Next up and selected by the Sagetage sail fish was:
The Safety player Chase Jensen from the forum user dizzyDC. From the Austin Copperheads.
You know. Many regrets can happen in life. I know that is a bit weird to say to start off talking about Dizzy but it just hit me that I should have done this in reverse order cause the further we go down the more I struggle to remember the users. This is kinda exciting though and a lot like every other draft I watch when I see the familiar people go high and the others drop.
I cannot say I have ever talked or interacted with him. I do know he has the bloke from Parks and Rec as a profile picture avatar and that tlk and Mooty were the last to look at his profile. But that would imply I knew nothing about him and just clicked his profile for more information. Luckily I can just pull a Trump and deny the truth very easily. It feels good.
I look forward to getting to know him in our new shiny locker room (No, it doesn't smell of fish, that is a fake news myth) and hopefully playing well together.
I will say though his last name triggers me cause Jensen is a former Cloud9 midlaner turned snake and you were from the Austin Copper heads and he is currently a washed up player again. But not your fault like but hard to unsee for me personally.
Next up and selected by the Supatrupa Sail fish was:
The Defensive Tackle Freezer Riposte from the forum user Mavfatha. From the San Jose Saber cats
Praise the lord! I know him! I know this user but rather than focus on this bro of a dude I will focus on his player. Cause I do not know why he went so low. The whole lack of studying players really hurts analysis I have noticed but we do not get paid for that in 1.5x media so I cannot justify finding the reason out.
The best reason I can think of is that he was the National Sim Football Leagues first player to get Covid but luckily made a speedy recovery and is back into fighting shape. The news came in late and the sail fish sniped him up. I 100% dig it!
But for real, i like this user and really happy we get to be team mates in the National Sim Football League together. Maybe he is not a max earner or something but as long as he is in the locker room I dig it.
Next up and selected by the Sorycory Sail fish was:
The Tight End Johnny Blaze! From the forum user JBLAZE THE BOSS. From the Kacey Dream's Orange County Resort (The Orange County Otters)
A little shocked a team like the Otters did not lose all 3 players soon to be honest. New Orleans lost those lads pretty quickly so to lose them is a tad shocking to me. I sadly do not know the user past seeing a handful of his posts over my time on the forum. I cannot recall at the very least having a one on one conversation with him. I am noticing I do not talk to a lot of people that were not on my former team, that is rather saddening to me. But the good news, is we can chat and hopefully have fun on this new fresh faced team together.
I am glad we picked up an attacking position cause I have noticed we focused a lot on the defending based side of this sport. Probably going to be gunning the attacking side in this upcoming draft which I like. I guess we will see though.
Finally, the last person to talk about and final selection from the Sappakappa Sail fish was:
The Kicker Diego Espinoza from the forum user Reon. Coming from the Chicago Butchers.
To quote my General Manager Rain Delay: "Well, we needed a kicker, and this was our only option left. Reon, if you see this I hope you come join the LR so we can say hi!"
I feel like kicker does not get a lot of love either. When you do not have a decent kicker you are most likely buggered but you just need a most likely inactive kicker to sort you out for a good number of seasons. Well, we have our kicker and he will 100% kick that pig skin a lot. Unless he decides to retire but I hope he does not do that. I cannot say I know him whatsoever either. But I did see a post or two from him in 2019.
I think he might be inactive now but like I said, you do not need your kicker to be active to be decent so he will do the job. Just in the off chance you are actually active. I am happy to be playing a long side you pal and hopefully you can own those 3 point plays for us.
So there you have it. All the players this new team drafted. I will point out that I took a small break here to think about what to write about next in this and I discovered Deadly Player retired. So that is a big rip. I do not want to edit what I put so now it has most likely aged like milk but that is okay.
Rest in pieces his player.
I will quickly touch on each Honolulu player they picked up too, cause why not. I have about a thousand words to kill.
The first players taken by the Honolulu roflfish was Lord Macharius player - Mack Arianlacher who is a Line Backer & then followed up by KC15's player called Jed Podolak who is sadly a Wide Receiver (Poor lad)
Both of these players were selected from the New Orlean Second Line of Cocaine team. So the good news is they will still be team mates together. Personally do not know them to my knowledge but these are big losses for the New Orleans team. I mean, they are still stacked and going to be scary as all heck but still, quite a painful loss for them.
Next taken by the Honolulu lmaofish was Jay the Great's player - Jayson Kearse who plays Defensive End from the Yellow Knife Wraiths and Vexatious' player called Jacob Clay who plays in the Wide Receiver position (Poor lad) from Austin's Copperhead team.
I really like these pick ups. Yellow knife are always the best in that division regardless of what the other teams think they are doing and since only one Wraiths player could be taken I think it was a good pick up. Semi shocked that the only YKW pick up was not from the sail fish but it happens I guess.
I do not know these people either but I think they may like where they are heading. Raven and Dwyer seem like nice people. I do have to say it is a bit weird seeing Dwyer as a human being rather than someone in a Head Office position but I think that is just a one off rarity thing.
Next taken by the Honolulu XDfish was Green Army's dude called Victor Moreno who is a Corner Back. Followed by taking Shadowz' character Ruff Ruff who is a Running Back.
I do know both these people! Wooo! I have never personally had a conversation with either. But I do see Green Army talk every now and then and he seems pretty good player wise. A little shocked Austin did not protect him honestly but maybe I am missing a big factor or reason as to why they did not protect him. Maybe he is the Laszlo Forty Two of the Honolulu team but with Austin? Probably not, but would be cool to see.
Also for Shadow I do not believe I have ever talked about him but I know his Pro Baseball Experience player decently well cause I did a lot of media writing on his draft class since he is the draft class after my stacked draft class. He is a pretty damn good player over there when he was at least going into the draft and a clear #1. So if his player can be as hype as that player was they surely would have a great player for here. A nice running back pick up for a good boi.
Up next for selection with the Honolulu lulfish was Baron 1898's player Venus Powers who is a Kicker and Punter and proceeded by BW3's player Emondov Emoji who is a Corner Back.
Only interaction is have had really with BW is through fantasy really. I have talked a few times with him and he is a cool dude. I hope he likes his new location but I do not know his player at all if I am honest. I would semi expect him to go higher in this draft but I guess the teams needed other positions more than him.
The polar opposite for Baron's character. I do not think that I have ever talked or interacted with him off memory without any small reminder of if we have but I do know his character. Took a punter and kicker higher than I thought they would but I guess they wanted the best option possible? They got a good kicker. I just semi assume every kicker is inactive by proxy and tradition at this point but if he is not then that is always good for a locker room.
The penultimate picks for the Honolulu kekwfish was Daybe's player Jaylen Storm who plays as a Line Backer and followed up by picking up Illegal Octopus' player Joseph Wozniak who plays as a Safety. One could argue too safe!
I have only ever heard of Daybe but never talked to him as far as I know so I hope he likes his new home. A bit hard to think of anything for this one cause I also do not know his player past he was taken from the Orange County Otters. Probably does not feel great going from 1 of the best teams ever to a newbie team but new challenge maybe.
Illegal Octopus I do know. He is one of the bois in Luchadores so I already know this is a steal of this draft. Just by default I know this will be a great pick up for the Honolulu boys cause he is from Tijuana Luchadores. I do not need to say much else but hopefully this will be a positive move for him from the San Jose Sabre Cats team. I wish him the best of luck <3
Praise Laszlo Forty Two's lord people! For we are at the end of this with the final two pick ups.
The Honolulu Idontgetthejokethistimefish selected Bwestfield's player James Bishop who dominated Wide Receiver for all of his career and finally, Player 1's character Sandip "Sandy" Bakshi who plays as a line back.
So first off, I do not know Player 1 nor his player. Sorry lad. Seen you post sometimes I think but memory is not great. I wish you the best of luck all the same. The other is rather touchy. This is the player Laszlo Forty Two has played under all his career and now regression will kick his ass like it does us all eventually.
He is the true heart and soul of that team and I love Bwest. He is the one person I will genuinely miss (Sorry Flesh bag but we have the other Gridiron league together so we're still together lol) cause he was nothing but nice and unselfish.
I may have a huge biased opinion when it comes to this and I kinda do not want to just turn this into me calling out the Colorado Yeti again. I said fuck those guys already, I do not need to keep doing it. But I will say I was a little shocked to see him be taken. Just did not make much sense but shocked they did not protect him either considering the years of loyalty playing of a terrible team season after season when he could have been playing for any contending team with ease.
They picked him back up though for a pointless draft pick so I guess they got what they wanted in the end.
So that is it! I have basically done the whole of the Honolulu mantis rays and Sarasota pointy fish draft picks. I will either be doing Laszlo's interview (Yeah, legit thinking of doing one again) or a bit of his history next. Perhaps I will do something else. All I know is I want more money right now. So until then I hope you enjoyed this and good bye for now.