Behind the curtain of a PCTI power struggle

What happened to PCTI?

Beside "is JT Singz still a thing?" there hasn't been a more oft uttered question of late.

 Just a month ago we were running full steam ahead towards San Diego. Dan had captured MVP and the stage was set for the best part of the offseason to begin unfolding.

And then, nothing.

There's several factors at play. Some are small and some are big. Some are tangible and easy to identify, while others are deep seeded and below the surface. As a member of the Bored, I'm taking it upon myself to shed a little light on the situation, to tell you what I know and what I suspect and then let you be the judge of who to blame.

First thing I need to bring to light is my situation. Three weeks ago I took a new job. Just as I was about to start my own thing after months of preparing to take the plunge - something I talked to many of you about at VII - a new job materialized nearly overnight and I ditched my plans. (Shoutout to my business advisors Abe and Bruise for the guidance.)

How does this affect PCTI? More than you would think. You see, the issues that have crippled PCTI of late begin and end with a burgeoning rivalry between Dan the Boy and Ben Wilson, the two guys who happen to be opposing captains. With me unusually preoccupied and thusly not around to mediate, Dan is free to despise Ben for his new found commitment to employment (which has been especially busy of late since, you know, he runs a bookstore on a college campus), his love of music and the pleasure he gets from annoying Dan.

Of course, typically two captains at odds with each other should be a perfect set up to a great offseason of PCTI. Problem is, neither Dan nor Ben seems to want to retain his captaincy. For Ben this makes perfect sense, as he was quoted last year multiple times saying he would retire the captaincy upon winning. For Dan, on the other hand, his hesitancy to take the reigns is a head scratcher. While a repeat MVP performance isn't totally inconceivable, it's fairly unlikely. Likewise, there's almost no chance that anyone would ever like Dan enough to pick him as a replacement cap. In all likelihood this will be his only chance at picking a squad for a long, long time. And yet he wants to give it away. To further complicate things, as the myriad complications make both guys hate each other more, each is more tempted by the day to keep the captaincy, so that he can insure a chance to beat the brains in of the other. And around and around it goes...

The cat and mouse game has continued in to choosing possible replacements, the route that still seemed the most likely, even with both guys at odds with the other. Problem with this is that both want to match his replacement with the other's, causing a stalemate.

The final factor is perhaps is the most puzzling. According to multiple league sources, several players have actually DECLINED the captaincy when approached by Dan and/or Ben. To me this is shocking because the captaincy requires no extra work and is a rare privilege for any player to build an ideal team in his own image. Plus, as I outlined with Dan, getting a shot at a captain's place is not easy to do.

So that's where it stands...now you know.

As proof, here was the last communication between Ben, Dan and me. This is the extent of our text from Wednesday morning. No parties knew that I was planning to write something like this or would use this to illustrate the situation...