TASK 8:
I decided to join the league on a whim after being drafted by the New Orleans Rougarous in the Pro Baseball Experience. A couple of members started to talk about the International Simulation Football League and I thought it might be a fun little experiment to see what it would be like. The players that talked up the league were lemonpuppy and zayn. I had played with zayn before in a few different circumstances. I think the most we spoke together was during a season of PBE Survivor which took place years ago but was fun to get to know folks. Enough about the history of who brought me in. My expectations were relatively low for the league. PBE is already taking a good chunk of my time once a week to keep up on tasks and to do my job as a banker there. I was starting to wind down on my commitment level which was feeling pretty good. My hope was that this league would be relatively low effort needed to have fun and run a player out there that could make a difference for whatever team picked me up. So far, I think I have met my own expectations and maybe even exceeded them a little bit. I think I was the 32nd pick in the DSFL draft. I moved from OL to RB to help out the team and I have had a lot of fun in Bondi Beach. The team is doing well. We made the playoffs just to get ousted in the first round, but you have to punch your ticket to the dance to even have a chance. Sim gonna sim. That said I think being able to more easily identify what claims are available to you and what you have actually claimed would be helpful. Almost like a built in audit. Also, the fantasy football side of things could be a little easier to understand. At the moment, I’m floundering and hoping to do better in season two.
TASK 11:
Stone Wall was born the youngest of 3 children to a middle class family in New York City’s Bronx borough. His older siblings were both sisters. Their names are Ivy and Green. Stone’s parents are well respected community leaders. His dad is a leader in the local mason’s union and his mom is a part time librarian at the local public school that all three children attended. Stone grew up playing any sport that he found people playing in the parks that he frequented from the time his parents trusted him to go off on his own. Basketball, stickball, street hockey, football were all parts of his youth. Playing multiple sports growing up helped Stone to develop different aspects to his add to what can only be described as a physical prowess that reflects his name. The kid was built like a damn wall from the time he was ten. He spent a lot of time playing positions that would befit someone that size. He was always on the line or under the basket or guarding net or playing catcher. He enjoyed helping the team more than the glory of individual accomplishment, but over time he started to see that just because he was a certain size he did not need to fit some mold that was dictated by his genetics. He saw athletes like Shaq, Mike Alstott, Reggie White, and Bartolo Colon play with the grace of a ballerina while being the size of a flippin’ tank. This got Stone to start working on his footwork and his agility. By the time Stone got to college, he was still working on these things but coaches and scouts could really not see past his physical size. Yes, those attributes were helpful but he needed to fit into a box for those individuals and thus Stone was drafted into the DSFL as an OL, but then coaches let him free during the second year there and Stone became one of the up and coming RBs in the DSFL and he was drafted by New Orleans Second Line at the tail end of the 2nd round of the ISFL draft.
I decided to join the league on a whim after being drafted by the New Orleans Rougarous in the Pro Baseball Experience. A couple of members started to talk about the International Simulation Football League and I thought it might be a fun little experiment to see what it would be like. The players that talked up the league were lemonpuppy and zayn. I had played with zayn before in a few different circumstances. I think the most we spoke together was during a season of PBE Survivor which took place years ago but was fun to get to know folks. Enough about the history of who brought me in. My expectations were relatively low for the league. PBE is already taking a good chunk of my time once a week to keep up on tasks and to do my job as a banker there. I was starting to wind down on my commitment level which was feeling pretty good. My hope was that this league would be relatively low effort needed to have fun and run a player out there that could make a difference for whatever team picked me up. So far, I think I have met my own expectations and maybe even exceeded them a little bit. I think I was the 32nd pick in the DSFL draft. I moved from OL to RB to help out the team and I have had a lot of fun in Bondi Beach. The team is doing well. We made the playoffs just to get ousted in the first round, but you have to punch your ticket to the dance to even have a chance. Sim gonna sim. That said I think being able to more easily identify what claims are available to you and what you have actually claimed would be helpful. Almost like a built in audit. Also, the fantasy football side of things could be a little easier to understand. At the moment, I’m floundering and hoping to do better in season two.
TASK 11:
Stone Wall was born the youngest of 3 children to a middle class family in New York City’s Bronx borough. His older siblings were both sisters. Their names are Ivy and Green. Stone’s parents are well respected community leaders. His dad is a leader in the local mason’s union and his mom is a part time librarian at the local public school that all three children attended. Stone grew up playing any sport that he found people playing in the parks that he frequented from the time his parents trusted him to go off on his own. Basketball, stickball, street hockey, football were all parts of his youth. Playing multiple sports growing up helped Stone to develop different aspects to his add to what can only be described as a physical prowess that reflects his name. The kid was built like a damn wall from the time he was ten. He spent a lot of time playing positions that would befit someone that size. He was always on the line or under the basket or guarding net or playing catcher. He enjoyed helping the team more than the glory of individual accomplishment, but over time he started to see that just because he was a certain size he did not need to fit some mold that was dictated by his genetics. He saw athletes like Shaq, Mike Alstott, Reggie White, and Bartolo Colon play with the grace of a ballerina while being the size of a flippin’ tank. This got Stone to start working on his footwork and his agility. By the time Stone got to college, he was still working on these things but coaches and scouts could really not see past his physical size. Yes, those attributes were helpful but he needed to fit into a box for those individuals and thus Stone was drafted into the DSFL as an OL, but then coaches let him free during the second year there and Stone became one of the up and coming RBs in the DSFL and he was drafted by New Orleans Second Line at the tail end of the 2nd round of the ISFL draft.