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New Canton GM
Well well well, here we go again
For those that didn't see me post in the "New members: Introduce yourself in this thread" posting, my name is Michael and I am the former GM of the New Jersey Hitmen. I am back after a 3 year retreat (honestly the delays at that time had me down and life took over), and am looking to get right back into the swing of things. A lot has changed for me in 3 years; moved a couple times, got married, work has changed, but still in the good ol' Chicago.
I don't have much of a presence at all on the OOTP forums, but I have lurked the PEBA forums throughout the past 3 years. I still constantly build my own baseball universes in PEBA and play them, but solo leagues aren't that difficult or exciting as I end up bouncing around to all the bad teams after a couple championships and rebuilding them all. So you could say, rebuilding is my passion Unfortunately I never got to see New Jersey get over the final hump and win it but had a nice 5 year run.
I need to see about getting back into the swing of things with the logo art as well as I used to be pretty big into that. I see we still use the PEBA logos I created and I see some of the team logos I created still in use :)
I am looking forward to getting up to speed on Canton, and for once joining the shit lea... er SL and getting to know all the new faces. Play ball!
For those that didn't see me post in the "New members: Introduce yourself in this thread" posting, my name is Michael and I am the former GM of the New Jersey Hitmen. I am back after a 3 year retreat (honestly the delays at that time had me down and life took over), and am looking to get right back into the swing of things. A lot has changed for me in 3 years; moved a couple times, got married, work has changed, but still in the good ol' Chicago.
I don't have much of a presence at all on the OOTP forums, but I have lurked the PEBA forums throughout the past 3 years. I still constantly build my own baseball universes in PEBA and play them, but solo leagues aren't that difficult or exciting as I end up bouncing around to all the bad teams after a couple championships and rebuilding them all. So you could say, rebuilding is my passion Unfortunately I never got to see New Jersey get over the final hump and win it but had a nice 5 year run.
I need to see about getting back into the swing of things with the logo art as well as I used to be pretty big into that. I see we still use the PEBA logos I created and I see some of the team logos I created still in use :)
I am looking forward to getting up to speed on Canton, and for once joining the shit lea... er SL and getting to know all the new faces. Play ball!
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Re: New Canton GM
Hi, Mike!
Sad to see James go, but glad you were able to find a franchise. It's awesome to see some of the longtime players coming back to the league--living history!
Welcome to the Great Lakes and being 6-15 games ahead of Duluth at all times.
Sad to see James go, but glad you were able to find a franchise. It's awesome to see some of the longtime players coming back to the league--living history!
Welcome to the Great Lakes and being 6-15 games ahead of Duluth at all times.
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The circle is now complete! Welcome back to the fold, Michael!
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Re: New Canton GM
Indeed it has - despite what the sidebar says, I'm pretty certain Mike and I joined the same day way back in the 'Ought9' and it's great to have him back in the fold, this time in the Superior League!!John wrote:The circle is now complete! Welcome back to the fold, Michael!
For closures sake, James had to make the difficult decision - his law practice (which was booming) or PEBA, and finding the time to get himself up to date was near impossible - much less the mundane things. As is always the case, we do hope he returns one day!
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Re: New Canton GM
Excellent! Another Mike to keep track of! Haha just kidding. Welcome back, sir!
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It's times like this I wish we had a "goodbye" thread for departing members. James has been such an integral part of this league for so long. I'm thrilled by his professional success. At the same time, I hope he won't be a stranger in these parts. I'm going to miss him.Borealis wrote:For closures sake, James had to make the difficult decision - his law practice (which was booming) or PEBA, and finding the time to get himself up to date was near impossible - much less the mundane things. As is always the case, we do hope he returns one day!
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Welcome back, Micheal!
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Re: New Canton GM
This is something I've always wanted too, particularly for people who have been here for years....it's always been disorienting to have someone (from a fellow GM's perspective) suddenly vanish without any idea of what happened, much less a goodbye.John wrote:It's times like this I wish we had a "goodbye" thread for departing members. James has been such an integral part of this league for so long. I'm thrilled by his professional success. At the same time, I hope he won't be a stranger in these parts. I'm going to miss him.Borealis wrote:For closures sake, James had to make the difficult decision - his law practice (which was booming) or PEBA, and finding the time to get himself up to date was near impossible - much less the mundane things. As is always the case, we do hope he returns one day!
On the flip side, great to have Mike back with us! Welcome! I always enjoyed our interactions when you were running New Jersey. Here's hoping you can build up Canton to be an SL powerhouse!
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Re: New Canton GM
Yay, Mike! It’s so awesome to have you back! I think that we were gone and came back at pretty much the exact same times. This time, though, you won’t have the Maulers to kick around anymore (at least not during the regular season)!
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This is something I've always wanted too, particularly for people who have been here for years....it's always been disorienting to have someone (from a fellow GM's perspective) suddenly vanish without any idea of what happened, much less a goodbye.Codgers wrote:It's times like this I wish we had a "goodbye" thread for departing members. James has been such an integral part of this league for so long. I'm thrilled by his professional success. At the same time, I hope he won't be a stranger in these parts. I'm going to miss him.
On the flip side, great to have Mike back with us! Welcome! I always enjoyed our interactions when you were running New Jersey. Here's hoping you can build up Canton to be an SL powerhouse![/quote]
I agree Denny, lots of conversations with the management at that time, but didn’t really get to say goodbye to anyone else at the time. Frustrations were running high at that time and I caved though, that’s the bigger part of it.
Good to see you back as well Jeff! It will definitely be odd not being in the IL any longer. Willl take some getting used to. I definitely spent all of last night getting caught back up on the Hitmen and my old players I was watching to see how their careers ended up. Happy we are back!Maulers wrote:Yay, Mike! It’s so awesome to have you back! I think that we were gone and came back at pretty much the exact same times. This time, though, you won’t have the Maulers to kick around anymore (at least not during the regular season)!
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Sad to see James go. Was just wondering/worrying about his quietness lately. Glad to hear it’s because things are going well outside of PEBA.
As for Mike back in my division again... sigh... let’s just say welcome back.
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As for Mike back in my division again... sigh... let’s just say welcome back.
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