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Though he is only the team's 4th line centre (and their designated extra attacker), Bitch Higgins definitely believes that he is central to his Super Cup team's success. "Quite honestly, Cowboy's most savvy move was picking me up at the end of the draft while the other five false kings passed over me," said Higgins in a recent interview. It's simple: when Higgins wins face-offs, his team wins games. In game 1 against Team Streetlight, Higgins lost the 1 face-off he took, but in the following game against Team Dollar, he won his 1 face-off, and his team then won the game in a shootout: something directly correlated to Bitch Higgins' play. "I win face-offs, the team wins games. It's not a coincidence, bro," protests Higgins when numerous reporters suggest that he has absolutely no impact on his team's victories. It got so bad that at one point, Higgins put his hands to his ears and started screaming that he couldn't hear the reporters because he had two Super Cup rings plugging his ears - which is wrong in several ways. Even in the later games, where Higgins has seen more of the circle, his success is directly correlated with his team's success. "Look, I play 4 minutes a game. Let me have this," he says as he leaves the room, likely to go practice his face-offs or the piano or something.

Ah yes...maybe even a...20 in 20 :|

I don't know if you would have been much higher without that, given how short of a career he had. We also had everyone starting from 0 TPE.

As a VHL GM, I will most certainly not be drafting you

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^^ alfie forever

Yeah I can understand that. I also just want to write more media spots as well. Maybe it wasn't the best way to lead in.

Honestly, as long as its done by the end of the PT week it was posted in (unless its posted on like Sunday night), then I think it's a reasonable amount of time.

I posted it Monday. It got graded last night though so its cool.

Is there a lot of salt around the league? I'll dig up more salt mines than Kenya.

And I'm not being salty or nothing, just saying it might be more fruitful for me to do some more MEDIA SPOTS. Again, I'm still taking my time on figuring out recent/current VHL happenings. So if anyone wants to pitch some media spot ideas to me, I'm open to them. I'll literally write about anything VHL-related. I have a few ideas of my own already, but I figure this might be more fun.

Well then...here we stand.

Wallow in your shame

Not bad! Hope to get out to California, and finish New England/East Coast soon enough. I'd also love to visit Texas some day

not with that attitude

I was gonna guess Victor

I happen to love The Griswolds, so thats a nice coincidence And yeah, I understand re: monetary awards. I figure its a bit of a necessary "evil". If I'm sticking around, I might contribute some money myself. Oh, and it's organ JULEP, with an e. Make sure you get the right stuff.

M'simmer

Zero's Podcast #2: https://soundcloud.com/detectivezero/vhl-podcast-2-solo I mostly ramble on about the league, and answer some questions from those of you who asked them. Enjoy

As I wrote, in a league like the VHL where even the best players are around for 8 years max, a 2 year cup streak is absolutely a dynasty. 2 cups in 3 years is not, though it's still very good. Let's not be so quick to throw around the dynasty tag just because we haven't had one in a while. It devalues the real ones. Longevity's nice - the early 90's Buffalo Bills went to four straight Super Bowls - but winning is nicer.

Some of you may remember the article that was started a few days ago, discussing the idea of "Modern Day Dynasties". While my reaction in that thread was a little more satirical, I stand by what I said. First of all, I hold nothing against Ryan Power, aka Mr. Power, the original writer of that article. He writes that if Cologne pulls through and wins this finals series (go Calgary - sorry, old habits...) they will join New York and Davos as "Modern Day Dynasties". I just disagree with what he says. Obviously, the VHL's definition of a dynasty has to differ from that of other sports leagues, considering the brevity of one's VHL career, and how cyclical the league is with its teams. The sports world defines a dynasty as a team that dominates its respective league for a lengthy period of time - generally upwards of 4-5 seasons. In the VHL, this is not particularly common, and you'd have to go back through the record books and find a team that might come close to this type of dominance. This is why I think the VHL's definition of a dynasty should be a little stricter. For me, it's always been this: a dynasty in the VHL is when a team wins the Continental Cup in consecutive years. This has happened 4 times, though never post-expansion, but I don't believe that adding an extra 2 teams makes this phenomenon impossible - just a little tougher. I guess that's why the "Modern Day Dynasty" term came in, though I disagree entirely with the use of the word dynasty at all. If Cologne wins the cup this year, and gets close or wins again next year, I would say they're a dynasty by every definition of the word - they'd have 3 cups in 4 years, and consecutive cups as well. Until then, 2 cups in 3 years isn't particularly impressive to me (no more than 2 cups in 4, 5, or 6 seasons), but perhaps I'm spoiled. Agree to disagree, Mr. Power.

Nicely done, Reno. I always loved your articles back when you had Hiro, and looks like they're just as well-written and researched as always!