If you know me as long as Abe has, this is no surprise. We were the ones that brought you the New York Times #1 best selling blog: borderlinegeniusideas.com. Of course our ideas were so hard hitting and innovative the government made us take them down #thanksobama. Now that you know that I'm not all looks and laughs, I want you to know that I occasionally get excite about an idea I have. An example was when I thought we should have the National Anthem before game 1 of PCTI this year. That is probably why I played so poorly game 1. Well I recently had a gem of an idea for PCTI8. I presented it to Dan the Dream Killer Man and he immediately did what he does best, shit on it. He does it in such a way that you think, "man, HE really liked that but the others didn't." This is before we talked to anyone else. So I talked to a few more people and have decided to bring it to the blog. My idea for PCTI8 is to run the same teams back! I thought this was genius. I also thought it got better once I told DK that he would retain his deserved captaincy going into PCTININE going up against whoever wins MVP in eight. So let me break down the pros and cons.
Pros
- The games last year were incredibly close all weekend. Including the final two being decided by 1 (one) point!
- Both teams thought they were the better team for the weekend (I'll expand on this in a second).
- We immediately know our teams, chemistry should only get better, and most importantly we can start talking shit to each other now.
- Gives the Snipers a chance at revenge and the Brats can defend their belt.
- We don't have to delete our team group chats.
- There is a high chance that next year will be just as competitive.
Cons
- You are playing with the same guys. That may not get you excited like it does me.
- No draft. The excitement (or shame in my case). The pageantry. The movements up and down of players (besides Wes) to see who has improved or gotten worse in the eyes of the captains.
- Not getting to play with AHop for the Snipers.
- Dan getting his captaincy pushed out a year and Ben not getting to retain or give his to someone else.
- Struggling to find other things??
So we would have Team Snipers pick Smo or whoever #16 is. Dan would keep his captaincy until 9 and go up against MVP of 8. But here's the main reason I would love to do it: both teams thought they were the better team. Obviously the Brats thought this because we won a hard fought series in 6 games. The feeling and sometimes confirmation I have gotten from the Snipers is they thought they had the better talent and better team. An injury, a call, or a bounce here or there would have swung it to them winning in 6. To be honest, they have a good argument. So what's stopping this? Is it the Bored flexing their David Stern/Roger Goodell "muscles" or is it other players wouldn't want this? I'm fine if you don't want to do this as it may reduce some of the excitement, but I'd love to hear where people stand on this. I'm just an ideas guy, guys...
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This is an interesting thought experiment. I hadn't considered it until reading this. On the one hand, it almost guarantees a competitive series. On the other hand, it kills all of the excitement that the draft brings as well as the prospect of playing with new teammates. On balance, I would vote against for the reasons mentioned above. That's not to say this isn't a great idea because it has a lot of merit. I'm just on the other side for now. Great post and thanks for sharing the idea!
ReplyDeleteHahahaha can't stop LOLOLOLOL!!!
ReplyDeleteI love you hops....but I H8 this idea.
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Against this big time. The draft, playing w new/different people, the unknown of how each team will play together and how each team matches up against each other are some of the best things about PCTI IMO. Buuut I'm game for whatever the majority wants to do.
ReplyDeleteSmo is against it. But keep the ideas flowing Hops. A guy like you is lightening in a bottle, and we need that.
ReplyDeleteAlso, we were the better team.
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