A Farewell
Hey y’all, this is the Alexandria Awards Masters once, and I have made the difficult decision to discontinue my team following the conclusion of this season, 108, after 20 full seasons (technically 21) of participation. I have set up my team to purge, and I sincerely doubt I’ll change my mind.
One of the reasons that Imma quit is because, quite simply, I’m burned out and pretty uninterested in the state of the game. This is my 18th season and final season of doing HOF, and I did All-Stars for 15 + Awards for 17. I used to love doing it, but if I’m honest, I don’t have much fun doing it any more. Same thing for managing my team. I don’t willingly log on now, I just sorta force myself to.
The other reason is that I don’t have that much time anymore. School is much more intense than it used to be (whereas I used to be able to coast by doing nothing, I actually have lots of work now, and it ain’t easy), my extracurriculars take up more time than they used to, and I have to spend more time outside of school doing work (projects and et cetera). All this just makes it very hard to find time to do FB nowadays, and to help even more, I have a lot of things planned this summer.
It should be made clear that although I have gotten frustrated by the seeming lack of change by Josh, and I strongly disapprove of the increased monetization of the game (I remember when I was livid that there were ads before the discussions, now it’s just normal. When I think about this type of concept on a larger, worldwide scale, with things not as innocuous as annoyingly placed ads, it’s a little terrifying), I woulda stayed if not for the reasons listed above. Y’all are all so nice, and I wish this didn’t happen. Growing up sucks, kids.
Y’all have all been awesome, but there’s some truly amazing guys I’d like to thank. I wish I could thank more of y’all specifically, but I don’t want this article to be as long as a college dissertation.
San Diego Giants
Boston Red Sox 1
San Diego Bombers
Tacoma Storm
Suwon Hugo Eagles
Cambridge Longballs
Seattle Cyclones
Milwaukee Lightning Badger
Mobile War Eagle
Portland Cobras
Roanoke Colonists
Santa Clarita Currents
St. John’s Deadly Sins
Washington DBucs
Kure Shimakaze Kai Ni
And anyone who has served on the HOF Committee, now or previously.
Anyways, I’ll remain on the Discord server, and y’all can DM me there if you wish. I’ll do this year’s HOF, and after that, it’s on y’all to keep it going. I remember that Sins proposed that a group of people be responsible for doing the HOF and I like that. Y’all figure it out and I’ll give the group editing perms to the Google Sheets. Make it your own while still remembering where it came from.
All in all, I haven’t been here for a super long time, relative to the sites existence, and I didn’t accomplish much, but I hope that later on, some of y’all will remember me as some random team from Alexandria that posted a lot of articles and did OK at managing. If not, though, it’s fine. Not everyone gets a Wikipedia page, after all.