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The continuation of the Robbie Retirement chugs along like a well oiled machine. Like your mom on her knees when she made you… I mean on her back… NO! doggy style getting plowed by your daddy like the slut she is. Yep that sounds better. Anyways this week is something I call Whoops Did I do that? If you do not know what that Is from then you are an idiot or just young. This is going to be addressing rumors about me that popped up through the years and I will come clean if I did it, said it and or helped in it. Robbie=Anderson or Anderson=Robbie Truth: Robbie is Robbie and not the asianic fuck that is Anderson No people I am not Anderson. I did not create hundreds of accounts/players just to dick around. I was never that into the league to put that much time into so I can do all that. Sure I like to fuck around but that’s like next level shit. Offered to be people’s agent just to fuck teams Truth: Partly true but I didn’t offer One day many moons ago someone (I won’t say who) messaged me to see if I would be his players “agent” because he liked how I fucked around and hunted for money. I said I would do it just for the fuck around factor. I had no intention to negotiate in good faith. I was going to fuck certain teams and just have fun with it. I posted on the site offering my services after this one guy gave me the idea. I think I had maybe three, four clients. It came down crumbling when teams refused to negotiate with me and with directly to the player. My planned fuck around was foiled. Short Bus was not the real end goal in NY Truth: Partly true While me building a team of the unwanted players was always the goal and I achieved it, the overall plan was to actually move the team (or attempt) to move it to bum fuck nowhere Idaho or whatever, trade my players and quit as GM. As on last symbolic fuck you. Like those suicide cults. Kinda glad I didn’t do this. Because the Americans have become the premiere franchise in the league. Not the Hamilton Canucks or the Idaho Potatoes (was gonna be the teams name) VHL Armageddon Pact Truth: Yes it happened, Hell I started it. Most of you must be like WTF because I don’t think this was a well known thing. Hell not even sure if the rumors got out. But I do know at least two three ex blue crew that messaged me to stand down. Basically what happened was I gathered a bunch of people that agreed to start a massive thread. An argument thread in a massive attempt to get all banned. We had lots of people who agreed to do this. Pretty much it would have nuked the VHL because by banning all these people the league was killing itself. Why didn’t it happen? I think it was around the time just before my 3rd disappearance. I just lost interest in coming on and I left for like a year. Right when we were planning a day when it would happen. When I returned the members that agreed to do it, either left the site or fell in love with it again. So the creator of the idea was also the killer of the idea. Sorry boys, was looking forward to it but then I got bored. Other quik rumors My attempt to buy the league was my attempt to gain power. Partly true. I wanted “ownership” so I can threaten to shut the site down then have people beg me not to shut it down. In the end I would have shut it down. Agreed to take over for another GM. Yes this is true I agreed to GM yet again and it looked like it was going to happen till the league stepped in and said they didn’t want to have short bus 2.0 happen. Plans for 2nd GM reign was to destroy all. Yep. I was going to show everyone that I was a great GM and wanted to basically build what now would be known as the “Patriots” of the VHL. Sadly I was not allowed to take over and many seasons/years later I got my chance to do it in Vegas. I destroyed the league and people didn’t like it. 2nd year Vegas plan was to shatter previous years records. Yep. Once again. While teams conspired to trade all their players to one team in effort to stop me in my record breaking season (A fact I found cute and was well aware of due to my moles in the league) I had deeper plans for my 2nd, 3rd and 4th season as GM. Where I had talks with GM’s where they would trade me their good players for high picks. They got high picks and I got players that would have helped me dominate. Simple as that. But I was fired because I was an asshole. Didn’t want to play my backup goalie and some other idiot because they sucked. Cry me rivers boys. I once felt bad for a member on the site. Partly true? I don’t know. I forget who it was but they posted some sob story of shit that they were going through and I thought to myself. Imma go in there and disturb shit. I went in read the og post and was like… damn if I do this… I will get perma banned. So I didn’t do it. See, I have morals. Well… partial morals because I didn’t want to get perma banned. I didn’t stop myself because the niceness of my heart. There is not nice in Robbie, only evil. I’m actually a nice guy. Nope not true. Hope you enjoyed this. Post anymore you want me to confirm or deny.

1. Pepper 2. Focused on the cup. Period. End of story. 3. Um. they produce? 4. A god never worries. We let the little mortals believe they have chance then you smite them 5. Offense. You score a ton of goals, the other team needs to match that just to tie. If you are more defense then you have to worry about scoring that 1-2 goals that it will take to win games. 6. Blues

Sure! I'm the reason why the team is in Vegas. I destroyed the league with a record breaking team. Won the championship. Got fired for being an asshole right after. I can help you get championships.

Should have been me. I was the most experienced

Me for obvious reasons

Forget evil superman because that is just fucking stupid and bad. Enter the true bad super human. Orion Slade. Ever since you started hearing about him you heard that he has super powers and that he maybe a god. We do not know if he is a god or not but the dude is legit not a good guy. Today there was a bank robbery in Helsinki and video has surfaced of a man literally fly into the bank and literally leave in the just as fast as he came. Now I am no scientist but this man who clearly has super human powers that is in Helsinki... i'll let you come to the conclusion yourself. Police are trying to slow down the frame rate of the video to see the mans face, but so far have not been able to find a computer that can do it. We have no even evidence to show that Orion is behind this. Fans even point out that he does not have to rob banks since he makes lots of money. But keep in mind he is a Robbie Zimmers client. So they are a greedy breed of player. When asked by police if he did it Orion said "If I did, I would love to see you stop me. But I didn't so you are safe...for now" If that does not sound like a guilty person then you are insane. Do not call this man a super hero. He is a super piece of shit.

Claiming this a 2nd time

1) Six games, six wins in a row. How are the Titans keeping things so hot in Finland? Finish Cocaine. Ever seen a coke addict not sweating? 2) The Finnish national team recently brought home an IIHF Gold Medal, is that a motivator for the VHL Titans? No 3) What's been your strangest interaction with a fan? Some dude named @Ahma came up to me to ask me to help him look for his lizard 4) Up until now, what's been your favorite moment as a player in the VHL/VHLM? Winning two founders cups 5) If you could give the Titans a goal song, what would it be? Woop there it is 6) If the VHL were to hold a special outdoor game, who would you give it to and where? Vegas because it's fucking Vegas

FYI my last few players I said maybe they will be my last. This player was the first player (and last) where I said 100% is my last

1) Our defense has been unstoppable, but our offense has been hit or miss. What do you think is the key to success on the offensive side of the puck? Um... scoring goals? 2) All-star votes will no doubt start showing up in a few weeks. Who's your early Helsinki favorite for the nod? I would say me but I doubt that. Other then that I don't know because I don't pay attention to stats for people that are not me. 3) What does your ideal Helsinki alternate jersey look like? I don't really care tbh. A jersey is a jersey. 4) We've been able to maintain our spot at the top of the standings. How do you like our chances for the Victory Cup, for the best overall record in the league? I will be hoisting the cup this season so yeah. That's our chances. 5) What is your player usually doing during their day off? Partying and fucking girls in their five holes 6) Who have been some of your favorite line mates so far this year? Who are my line mates?

Orion Slade has made the roster of Team USA for the world juniors to the surprise of no one. USA is probably the dead on favorite to straight up slaughter this years tournament. Their offence is straight up scary, they will score goals in literal tons. Orion Slade will be a big reason why. Orion who now plays for the VHL’s Helsinki Titans is looking to showcase his talents to the rest of the league because after winning a cup this season with Helsinki he plans to opt out of the third season of his contract just so he can hop from team to team till he hangs up the skates. He’s had a okay season so far as a rookie but not ROTY worthy like he claimed that he would have. But that’s ok with him because if you ask him it’s not the personal achievements that he is chasing. It’s the cups. “Sure I said shit about maybe being the rookie of the year this season but as long as I am hoisting the cup this season then I will be the last person laughing. I have one goal in my career and intend on trying to win as many cups as I can with different teams that I can. You will grow to hate seeing me hoist it”

Continuing the long goodbye of Robbie Zimmers. This week it’s something so hate filled that it only can be told by the true king fuck face himself Robbie Fucking Zimmers. So sit back and enjoy. Or hate it because it is about the hate that he has built up through the years. If you are new or have lived under a fucking rock over the last few years then you maybe do not know Robbie or have heard of his antics that other just cringe from. No this is not a recap of what he has done. That already has been partly covered by the MS “The Art of the Argument” and will also be looked into in later ms’s. Robbie the one name that has more than half the league think long and hard about play on his team, reading his articles and listening to his podcasts. But why is that. One man cannot be that bad. Surely Robbie is a stand up kind of mother fucker that you can rely on when shit hits the fan. Well yes, when an argument happen you can almost bet on that he will jump in if he did not start that fight. Maybe not these days but that’s more or less because he is bored. The truth behind Robbie is that people have had to put up with him for years now and some people just cannot stand him and his so called “ways” to the point many have refused to be drafted by teams that he was on, they have demanded trades, refused to sign with said teams. So much so that’s GM’s of these teams asked Robbie to either apologize or promise to be not so “Robbie” Now you could probably guess how well a conversation can go when you are telling Robbie to not be “Robbie” so these players would come play for the team. Robbie basically told all GM’s asking him to cut down the Robbie way to a low simmer to tell the players that are doing this to shove it. They were complaining that he was a locker room cancer but were pulling stunts like this themselves. Robbie didn’t shy away from pointing out the irony behind their comments and what they were doing. He also was very quik to point out that people who played on teams with him would go to bat for him and call him a great team mate. A fact that people just downright hated. Which added to hate for this king of chaos. Now if you were one of the people that didn’t complain about him being on a team you wanted to play for then you may have been rubbed the wrong way when he would literally leave your team in the lurch and opt out of a contract just to fuck around. In something he called the Robbie 1 2 or just Free Agency Fuckery. While the people that hated him would claim no one would sign him once he hit the market, it would never happen. Robbie always had plenty enough offers to do what he wanted. He wanted to make spectacle and he wanted to rub your face through it. He made sure you knew that he was free agent. He told teams to make pitches to him as to why he should play for their team. He wanted to be catered to, just to show the haters that not only he has teams interested but players from said teams would beg him to play for them. Now if all that did not piss you off then one hundred percent it was because of the argument threads he started just to fuck with people. I will not go into detail about them but some went over fifty pages and some resulted in a week long ban. These threads had people begging and pleading the league to permaban him. Something they never did. A fact that for sure pissed off the haters to no end. Oher people were banned for far less and here was the league’s biggest pest ever never getting the ban hammer. A fact that even surprised Robbie after some of the shit he did. Sometimes some of the shit he would say would literally read like he was begging for the hammer and the league to some extent let him stay around and do what he wanted. But did slap him on the wrist with weeklong bans as a warning. Warning Robbie never took seriously. Clearly because he kept doing it. Love him or hate him you can admit that he was the king or stirring the pot and making people angry. These days he does not care enough to it anymore. Too bad. It would be fun. Maybe on his last ever day around the board.

Was this a Trifecta rage retirement?

Nice pun sir

Coming from a pussy that's not saying much Oh I know this but I had to stop it because that's expensive equipment. Spinning Out. Some new Netflix show about figure skating.

He's a pathetic nat compared to me

Attention: @Beketov has told me that I am allowed to post this for last week because I was injured and was not able to get to my laptop So many of you must be wondering as to why now I am leaving the site for good. Why didn’t I just stay away after I disappeared those times. All valid questions and I know I addressed this sort of in a some way before I created Orion but this is going to go deeper just like your mommy likes it at night behind closed doors. Main reason: My career has just taken off like a kite and for me that means less time for other things. Less time to fuck around with friends, less time with my family and less time with things I do out of boredom. VHL is one of those things. Over Boredom: I come on here because I am bored. I fuck around because I am bored. But for some time now I have I Have been bored with being bored. Yes Bored with being bored. Being bored used to be fun, I used to do many things around her out of sheer boredom and now I just mingle and just latterly wait till Orion’s time is up. Orion will still have a great story but I won’t have such a fun time telling it. It’s just time: It’s time for the king of being rude, the most hated man in VHL history finally just moves on and never looks back. You can rejoice once I leave. I’ve been around too long, sure off and on but I’ve been around more than most fuckers around here. Ive seen shit around here, mostly because I cause said shit. It’s just time that Robbie fucks off causes fuckery elsewhere. No not online. But in RL. I will not gloat about the shit I did and do cause well you people will just say that I am gloating because I am an asshole. Creativeness has run it’s track: Sure I have a ton more stories I can spin, more Script MS’s I can come up with, hell I even have stories for players I never created. Like Antonia Sorano A Italian mobster, Amber Stars a pornstar goalie. Her only weakness… her five hole, DJ Pauly P (The P is to make fun of the real guy and it’s P because “He fills pussies like he fills the nets” Yes another Guido because I had such fun with Guido. That’s just a few that I can think of from the top of my head. But for me to stick it out and create these players I don’t have however many seasons left in me to come up with shit to post to get the points. I work in film, I work in the entertainment industry creating things you watch on tv and movies and if I have lost my creative spirit to spin these stories for you then I am done around here. It’s just the way she does, sometimes she goes and sometimes she doesn’t, but that’s just the way she goes boys! Good night and enjoy Orion, he’s gonna be a wild last ride.

Attention: @Beketov has told me that I am allowed to post this for last week because I was injured and was not able to get to my laptop So yeah… I got injured on set 2 weeks ago. I was laying track for my dolly and this fucking idiot of a noob was looking at my dolly. Which is fine if you want to learn. Well… Moron takes off the dollies brakes to test out how it moves. Only problem is that there was a slight hill behind us. So the dolly which is about 250k that has a camera that is about 100k on it takes off down the hill. I take off after it and try to stop it. I get behind it to brace it and stop it. Well this thing weighs a few hundred pounds and it’s going downhill. So it knocks me on my ass and my body stops it… No broken bones but sore as a mother fuck. Kid was sent home for that and I got the last laugh till the next day where I was not able to get out of bed because I was so sore. Here I am 2 weeks later just finally thinking about returning to work. Fuck that noob. I hope he learned to never touch a dolly when there is a camera on it and when its on a hill. Kid is lucky I was too busy being hurt to run up the hill to yell at him.

Well. Shit look I did something

With the season right around the corner you know that Helsinki is the true favorite to win the cup. They may have failed horribly in recent years, but this season will be their year. They have the best goalie, the best two way forwards, probably the deepest d-cores and one of the favorites to win the rookie of the year. Well he may have a great season, but if the league awards it to him is a different story. Orion Slade the one season and done rookie is set to make his VHL player. He is most likely the steal of his draft class because he was picked in like the 5th round because he has no intention of being loyal. Once Orion lifts the cup this season, he will turn down his option on the 3rd year of his rookie contract and become a UFA. He is planning to change teams every season. Switching championship teams every year. He even has plans to sign with one team then ask for a trade because he may not have enough seasons to play for all VHL teams minus the obvious shitty team that he rather shit on. Fuck Calgary.

Continuing my retirement tour I come to The Art of the Argument. As you all know. Well the people that know me around here, that I love to start shit. I love to get into full on hundred paged battles on here that results in me getting banned for a while. Why? is it because I am some attention seeking person that needs the attention? if you ask some dicks around here then the answer is yes. But that's not true at all. The answer is more complex then that. To give you a true answer I must get into a Robbie argument. There hasn't been one in a few years so you people may not remember. Step 1: Find your victim/victims. You should always choose carefully because if you pick someone that is too well liked then you will be shut down pretty fucking fast. Luckily the guy I picked on regularly was disliked because of how much a dick faced weasel he was. So people would "grab popcorn" and watch. They would let me pick on him and let him "fight back" till I crossed some kind of line. Or crossed many lines. Then the league would have to step in and do their job and tell me "Stop being Robbie! Apologize for being too Robbie" I actually have had past blue crew message me literally telling me "Stop! Stop being yourself! people are threatening to quit" They wanted me to dumb myself down. Step 2: What is a line? I was never known as a person that would respect lines. I will say anything. Nothing was truly untouchable. If I had dirt you on you, I would use it against you. Ammo is ammo, why posses ammo if you never you intend to use it. That's like having a lambo and never driving it. I crossed so many lines in my time in this league that I should have been the next Tony Montana. As one of my teachers said in high school "I do 401's worth of lines" While that line might a cocaine related line, I am not talking about coke. I am talking about moral lines that most normal people will never cross. I on the other hand did not and will not care about. Nothing is truly safe with me. Step 3: Find one if not a few things that really annoys the shit out of your victim. As you know/heard I am pretty god damn good at finding shit that cuts deep with people and I would use it against them. Making them angrier and angrier as the "fight" went on. Now to avoid a shit storm here, I will not rehash what I used against the guy I picked on. Not out of respect for him, but no reason to kick a dead dog. Pun intended. Once you have one thing that annoys them, you have ammo on them. Something you can use on them over and over. Knowing you will get a reaction. I used to have a file on my laptop about shit I have compiled about people around here. Nothing was safe with me. If your daddy touched you when you were little I would use it against you. If you were gay and didn't want to come out, i'd help you with a not so friendly nudge. Neither of those happened. But I had info like that. Shit I was ready to use at a drop of a hat. I am not sure if that guy ever came out. Or if that member ever moved away from their parents house. But that's not the point here. The point is that if you get into a argument, you must be willing to go full nuclear. Leave nothing in it's path. Call me an ass or whatever you want. But I was brought up to believe I am better than anyone. If someone wants to try to go toe to toe with me. I will be quik to show you that you cannot. How I go about doing it, may rub you the wrong way, but I don't care. Step 4: Do not back down. Attack, attack and attack. Once you back down you show weakness. You show that you actually care. Not about the person you are arguing with. It's a different type of caring. You care about how you look when you say these things. You care about not totally pissing off people. Only once you truly don't care about anything, about the consequences of your actions and words you can start having fun with the argument. You must not care about what your words will do to the other party. You must aim to end the argument as fast as you can. It's like a fight. You don't just punch a few times then let them fight back. That would be a horrible strategy. So you go for the jugular right away. Unless you are me. Where I would just toy with people to draw out the argument threads. Some hit over 100 pages. I've had people PM me to stop and pick on someone more my size. "It's like killing something that is already dead. Just stop" I don't have an off switch. You have a better chance at getting the victim to stop then you have at me stopping. I will never be the first to walk away from a argument. That's admitting defeat. What i'd do, is drop a few bombs then tell the moron to have a good day. Then log off and let him stew for a while. Come back, drop a bomb and leave. It really pissed off anyone i'd argue with. The best strategy against me was not to respond and leave. If I have no one to attack, I cannot argue with myself. Step 5: It's not over till I say it is. No fight was truly over till I said it was. You could have tried to leave the thread and try to ignore me, but I would follow you around the forum. Everywhere you would post I would chirp you till you fought back. I think my last "argument thread" was literally a new members created player thread. It was like 30 pages long. It was after me following around a guy trying to get a response and I got it in there. He went off and on a pissyfit in there. It was truly epic. The league didn't agree with me. I was banned for like a week. It was so bad that even my bud @TheLastOlympian07 threatened to punch anyone he suspected was me in real life. That just shows how good I was. I made someone literally so upset he wanted to take his anger out in the real world. I never picked on Olympian but back then he was not a fan of me. So why did I do all this? was it really because I just wanted the attention? nope! not even close. While people around here cared about making star players, I was around here because I was bored. I needed to something that would make me less bored. Those were my arguments. None of which I am sorry for. I do not apologize. Why should anyone ever apologize for being themselves? why should anyone ever have to dumb themselves down just because people can't take them. Just because you are a sensitive fuck does not mean I have to care about it and take that into consideration when I am attacking you.

1) Players that help us win right now. I am only in Helsinki this one season. 2) Nothing. I'm perfect in ever conceivable way 3) Myself. Period. 4) Don't even know who is on the team. So I will say myself just to be me. 5) A TON!. I was in the VHLM. Won the founders cup. 6) Don't care. We are the best team in the league.

I should have @ everyone on my Short Bus Retrospective

WTF!!!!!

Well hello out there on the VHL forum. How has your day thus far? has it been splendid? I don't care. What I do care about is that my "career" here in the VHL is soon coming to a close. Once Orion hangs up those skates, I will log off for the final time. Hell I may actually get banned for my retirement speech because it will be epic. Having said all that. Welcome to the Short bus Retrospective. With the one true person that can tell you exactly what happened and why I did things the way I did it. If you remember it, then prepare yourself for a fucking flashback. If you are new or haven't been around since... oh like S8ish then you are in for a wild ride. REWIND YOUR ASS back to a forgotten time in the past. Back when the VHL was more wild and trolls trolled the league HARD. I should know this because, well I was one of those people. I would follow people around and just attack them till they got mad and quit or just left of the day. Me and Kendrick the baby who is not here anymore would go at it everyday. He would call my players shit and so on. His insults were all league related. One thing he didn't figure out and and I'm pretty fucking sure he never did was that I didn't care about my personal stats in the league. I was here to fuck around. It's what I did best and still till this day I am still here because of it. Sure I am leaving because well... life is more fucking important, I still am here fuck around. Sure I want Orion to beast and kill it just like I wanted to SWC3 to beast it, or Guido or Martinez but I never took player insults as... insults. Because this is a fucking fake league so why on earth should I care? This story starts in Hamilton. Ah yes the shitty steel city. Around what season you ask? I don't fucking know because the leagues records of that era are long fucked up. The league was thriving as much as a fake online league could. My player at the Time Robbie Zimmers was coming close to the end of his career and I was playing in Hamilton. Promises were made that if I recreate they would draft me and that would help them in their rebuild. I back then was not that big of an ass. No let me finish. I am talking about I didn't openly look to fuck teams over and I liked the GM Chris Julien. But sadly the dude had a melt down and lied about a shit and then rage quit. Before he left he told me I was the GM. Wrong fucking move buddy, because I actually had no intention to GM in this league to that point and I had no intention to stay loyal to anyone. The following season I moved the team to NY I believe. Best move ever in league history. Team became the premiere team in the league and everyone knows it. But that's besides the point. By this time I was in Planning my next player who I think was my worst Robin Banks. I was planning to make him a franchise D to help the team. Yes see, I was not 100% planning to fuck the team, only 80% planning to. At the time I tried to make trades but due to my built up hate in the league, GM's either tried to screw me in trades or they refused to even talk trade with me. How is a GM expected to do his job if no one wants to trade with me unless it was a lopsided trade. Most people would have quit right then and there. Not me, I saw this as an opportunity to fuck around. I thought if the other GM's want to fuck around so will I. This started a bunch of things that would in the end be known as the short bus. What exactly is the short bus? well think about all the players people didn't want on their teams because they were annoying and assholes all on one team. I went out and got every last one of them on New York with me. The locker room was a legit shit sow back then. We had a spam thread hundreds of pages long. Just talking trash. Sure I made "promises" to make the team a contender but I knew would just be a team in the playoffs and getting knocked out early. Every trade deadline and every off-season I would not make many trades. The ones I would make would either set the team backwards or just kept them in the same place. I did this so the league could not say I didn't do anything as GM. It got so bad that we had a really fucking bad season. Like truly horrible. Even the assholes and morons wanted to jump ship at this point. I knew that the trade did it's magic. I was shocked I was not removed as GM. Even though we were so fucking bad we would still talk trash and talk shit around the league. Making people hate us more. How can the worst team think they are so fucking good? most people were confused by this. Well it's called fucking ego boys and gals. Does a trash man not think he is the shit? well he does step in literal shit so maybe that's not a good example. Does a normal fuck with a normal job think they are the shit even though their job and life is meaningless. This team had no purpose other then be shit disturb. Hell we had a hit list in LR of people we wanted to attack and go after. We had gloating battles of people saying what they did that day and then we had people trying to top that shit. It was a literal free for all. It was the wild west. The crowning "achievement" of the short bus was the Avangard screw job. Where I made such a bad trade that the other team pretty much owned us for like a few seasons. I am pretty sure a few 1st round picks were in it. I didn't do this out of idiocy. I did it because I knew what it would do. The team would stay the same and I could just continue to laugh about it. Now I know that what I just said sounds like I actively was trying to fuck over these players that assembled in NY but that was not the case. If I was actually offered a trade for any of them I would have traded them. I was just having fun as a GM and they just became my pawns, as shitty as that sounds. Problem was that no one wanted my pawns. In this game of chess the other teams rather get check mated then take one of my pawns. So after all this fuckery my hands were tied. I was not able to fuck around much so I became bored. A bored Robbie is not good for anyone. I hired a AGM in Tarvis Willcox who I got along with and I let him keep the shit cool in the LR while I just bounced around the league making everyone hate me and my team. it got so bad that some prospects refused to play for NY if I drafted them. Something I started but hey i'm sure Kendrick would tell you that he started it. But he is a moron, he's probably busy with another fake wedding or whatever that was. It got to the point that I could not really draft anyone I could trade to fuck around more. Further handcuffing myself. Luckily I was able to draft Brandon Best. A good solid guy, I stepped down thus ending the Short Bus Era.