Boy oh boy where to even start
Big thank yous to the PT team for choosing such a wonderful prompt, and all of my dear pals who have tagged me in this thread thus far. When I got back from a weekend trip and saw I had 9 alerts on the forum, I figured I had either starred in a punishment thread, or been traded away. This is a much better alternative.
@"Maglubiyet" you will almost always be first in these appreciation threads because I don't think I ever would've gotten as invested as I did without my initial scouting conversation with you. I know you know this, but it was so reassuring to have somebody to talk to who knew all the answers to my questions, and more importantly, it's so cool to be scouted by someone who is just as excited about the league today as they were when they joined. Your excitement and drive to make the league the best place it can be is infectious. You're the best Mag <3
If it was Mag who made me realize there was much more to this league than I initially thought, it was the Dallas Birddogs that both confirmed and expanded the hell out of that realization. Prior to being drafted by the Birddogs, I had never seen a group of internet strangers bond with each other on the level that I bonded with my fellow S25 draftees/the Birddog management/the people I would later help scout/draft to Dallas. Don't get me wrong, I've done some internet bonding - guilds in MMOs and forums that bring people with very specific interests together and all that fun stuff - but the sense of community that I found in Dallas was and is unlike anything I've ever seen on the ol' interwebs. @Kyamprac @yonggarius @Kyle @Amidships @ZootTX @gucci @enigmatic @furiousPanda @zaynzk @Asked Madden @SlurmsMckenzie @r0tzbua @OrbitingDeath @Gumbaman @Capt_Blitzkrieg @AgentSmith @Dallypole Thank you for all of the laughs, memories, sports arguments (especially you Gucci), minecraft adventures, ultimini(s), pet pictures, and everything in between. I love y'all!
I was gonna write an OCO paragraph complete with all the tags and fixings because my lovely otter teammates deserve that much and more, but I really need to get some work done rn and I have hit the word cap, so this will have to do - to my OCO teammates, thank you for everything you've done to make me feel welcome ever since draft night. I love this team, I love the comradery we all experience with each other in the locker room, and I love y'all. Special forum alerts go to @Blasoon and @Memento Mori for consistently being among my favorite people in this league to talk to. I've always really liked and admired you guys before we were even all on the same team, so imagine how delightfully surprised I was when I found out you two were gonna be my new GMs! I have the utmost confidence that as long as you guys are involved in management, this team will continue to be on the right path. @Gragg9 and @shrub02 also get to have little red numbers next to their forum alerts - thank you both for helping to take this team that I already really loved and turning it into something I love even more. They were no-brainer draft picks, as just about anyone that scouted you knows, but I'm still really really glad that OCO drafted you two, and I'm so proud of all of the positive changes you guys have already helped make in your short time with the team.
If you've gotten to the bottom of this post and you're wondering where your tag is, please feel free to DM me or even @ me somewhere on discord and publicly shame me - I will set things right and let you know how much I appreciate you (or uhhhh perhaps how much I don't appreciate you, so maybe be careful before you roll those dice.)
@everyone thank you for everything you do to make this league the wonderful place that it is. Each and every one of you contribute more than you realize toward making this a really lovely corner of the internet. Pop into Dallas and say hi sometime!
Big thank yous to the PT team for choosing such a wonderful prompt, and all of my dear pals who have tagged me in this thread thus far. When I got back from a weekend trip and saw I had 9 alerts on the forum, I figured I had either starred in a punishment thread, or been traded away. This is a much better alternative.
@"Maglubiyet" you will almost always be first in these appreciation threads because I don't think I ever would've gotten as invested as I did without my initial scouting conversation with you. I know you know this, but it was so reassuring to have somebody to talk to who knew all the answers to my questions, and more importantly, it's so cool to be scouted by someone who is just as excited about the league today as they were when they joined. Your excitement and drive to make the league the best place it can be is infectious. You're the best Mag <3
If it was Mag who made me realize there was much more to this league than I initially thought, it was the Dallas Birddogs that both confirmed and expanded the hell out of that realization. Prior to being drafted by the Birddogs, I had never seen a group of internet strangers bond with each other on the level that I bonded with my fellow S25 draftees/the Birddog management/the people I would later help scout/draft to Dallas. Don't get me wrong, I've done some internet bonding - guilds in MMOs and forums that bring people with very specific interests together and all that fun stuff - but the sense of community that I found in Dallas was and is unlike anything I've ever seen on the ol' interwebs. @Kyamprac @yonggarius @Kyle @Amidships @ZootTX @gucci @enigmatic @furiousPanda @zaynzk @Asked Madden @SlurmsMckenzie @r0tzbua @OrbitingDeath @Gumbaman @Capt_Blitzkrieg @AgentSmith @Dallypole Thank you for all of the laughs, memories, sports arguments (especially you Gucci), minecraft adventures, ultimini(s), pet pictures, and everything in between. I love y'all!
I was gonna write an OCO paragraph complete with all the tags and fixings because my lovely otter teammates deserve that much and more, but I really need to get some work done rn and I have hit the word cap, so this will have to do - to my OCO teammates, thank you for everything you've done to make me feel welcome ever since draft night. I love this team, I love the comradery we all experience with each other in the locker room, and I love y'all. Special forum alerts go to @Blasoon and @Memento Mori for consistently being among my favorite people in this league to talk to. I've always really liked and admired you guys before we were even all on the same team, so imagine how delightfully surprised I was when I found out you two were gonna be my new GMs! I have the utmost confidence that as long as you guys are involved in management, this team will continue to be on the right path. @Gragg9 and @shrub02 also get to have little red numbers next to their forum alerts - thank you both for helping to take this team that I already really loved and turning it into something I love even more. They were no-brainer draft picks, as just about anyone that scouted you knows, but I'm still really really glad that OCO drafted you two, and I'm so proud of all of the positive changes you guys have already helped make in your short time with the team.
If you've gotten to the bottom of this post and you're wondering where your tag is, please feel free to DM me or even @ me somewhere on discord and publicly shame me - I will set things right and let you know how much I appreciate you (or uhhhh perhaps how much I don't appreciate you, so maybe be careful before you roll those dice.)
@everyone thank you for everything you do to make this league the wonderful place that it is. Each and every one of you contribute more than you realize toward making this a really lovely corner of the internet. Pop into Dallas and say hi sometime!