It's Been Too Long

A.E

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After 24 years of being buried in the Upstate NY winter, I'm thrilled to be playing baseball, outdoors, in the February of Alabama.

Hows things going at my all-time favorite forum? A lot has changed for me in the past couple years, I know i've popped in and out here but never took much time to catch up. Much like Jarrod, I'm getting into the "old man" days and the older my kids get, the more the extracurricular shit takes up my time. My oldest son is currently playing a 10U travel team with Tim Hudson's baseball academy in Columbus, GA, which is about 10 minutes from my house in Bama. My daughter just began gymnastics/tumblers...whatever the hell they call it for toddlers. I also coach my son's rec-ball team; we have tryouts for the spring season this afternoon.

In any event, I just finished reading the merge thread & I command Rip for making the right call. Anybody who is familiar with the situation knows that the owners of CSS literally "snaked" me back when I agree to merge my forum into theirs. Reading the thread and all the shit Dave & And1 where posting; verbatim, the same sales pitch they gave my site and my members. Long story short, once we merged and we butted heads, I was abruptly cut out of the picture. Even though half the activity was via my member base & I had spent countless hours doing tech admin shit...I was stabbed in the back. Trust me, those pukes think they walk on water and the only reason they have so much activity is b/c the forum is overran by the 12-15 year old troll types. You'd rather stay here and work on recruiting more adults to talk sports, as opposed to losing brain cells over there.

SI has seen too long of a run to go down any other way than right here. I hopped off this ship in a mad rant, (a couple times), but I wouldn't want to see 9 years go down the toilet with broken promises and false pretenses of some merger with a couple of underage dipshits who are wet-behind-the-ears when it comes to managing a social outlet. I know things are at a lull here but it's going to take some updating and actually looking for new members. You guys can start by getting off your asses and updating logos....just saying. Even the most minor details are enough to scare someone away from registering.

But I will be around and hopefully contribute as much activity as I can. I'm not even a fraction as active on the internet as I used to be but I am still very opinionated and love to talk sports. With all that said, I look forward to hearing from you all and don't ever dismiss the long, rich history we have within the chronicles of this community.

-AE
 

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Hey what's up man ! It was great back in the days with you running the NHL sim league and all :) Wish you the best in your life ...
 

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AE! :eek:

Great to have you back of course.
 

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Welcome the fuck back man.
 

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Always nice to see you AE. Hope to see you around here and there on the forums.
Quick question though, what logos need to be updated? I thought we had em all?
 

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In any event, I just finished reading the merge thread & I command Rip for making the right call. Anybody who is familiar with the situation knows that the owners of CSS literally "snaked" me back when I agree to merge my forum into theirs. Reading the thread and all the shit Dave & And1 where posting; verbatim, the same sales pitch they gave my site and my members. Long story short, once we merged and we butted heads, I was abruptly cut out of the picture. Even though half the activity was via my member base & I had spent countless hours doing tech admin shit...I was stabbed in the back. Trust me, those pukes think they walk on water and the only reason they have so much activity is b/c the forum is overran by the 12-15 year old troll types. You'd rather stay here and work on recruiting more adults to talk sports, as opposed to losing brain cells over there.
Not going to lie, this was part of my reason as well. Despite at the time when we had 4 admins (now we have 2-3), we were only allowed 1 admin in the merge.

When TSH merged, it was you and that retard A$AP Slim who had no idea ever what was going on. And then you got kicked (and went on a porn spamming nutshell, but that's for another time).

I didn't want a situation where Sal was the only admin, and then when And1 gets mad, he kicks out Rip and SI is 100% gone.
 

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AE... How's it going man?
 

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been awhile man would love to catch up
 

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Not going to lie, this was part of my reason as well. Despite at the time when we had 4 admins (now we have 2-3), we were only allowed 1 admin in the merge.

When TSH merged, it was you and that retard A$AP Slim who had no idea ever what was going on. And then you got kicked (and went on a porn spamming nutshell, but that's for another time).

I didn't want a situation where Sal was the only admin, and then when And1 gets mad, he kicks out Rip and SI is 100% gone.
The escapades which ensued following my being screwed out of CSS was the work of a hired hand. I heard he made it an interesting 48 hours but the whole point of it was to prove just how smart that forum's ownership really was. And from the looks of that place now, not much has changed. I see they turned away from Evan, (predictable), and my guess is moneyman & Boda are responsible for whatever and whomever is making shit happen there right now. And1 doesn't care enough and Dave is a retard, nuff said. I've said it before, CSS is essentially the new PSA. Speaking of which, whatever happened to that John guy from PSA?

Nice to see you back AE.
Wow, GMF! Good to see you're still kicking around here.

is your daughter hot
Yep, for a 2-year old.

AE... How's it going man?
Can't complain, how about you? How's the little one doing?

been awhile man would love to catch up
Likewise. Shoot a PM or something. No more AIM for me.

And where is Bid'Ness?
 

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They actually banned Evan because he tried scamming members for money by saying his child had cancer... when he didn't have a child
 

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They actually banned Evan because he tried scamming members for money by saying his child had cancer... when he didn't have a child
wait, is this Evan Massey? That dude was such a weirdo. He always went from 1 site to the other trying to become an admin, and then would just ditch the site a month later and go to another site, try and drag as many members as possible over with him, to try and become an admin.

also, no idea what happened to John. Idk if it was PSA or a different site but a few years ago one of the sites he "bought" was eventually turned in to some random ass website. i warned those owners not to sell to him but they never listened.
 

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