(S28) PT 3 - What If?

[IsaStarcrossed]

If I had to look at one moment in ISFL history that could have easily been different and potentially changed the scope of things in the league, we would need to go back to the free agency of Adelie de Pengu. Leaving NOLA was one of the hardest things I'd ever done in this league, but I knew I needed to do it for myself. When I hit free agency though, there were only two teams I'd have even seriously considered. One of them was in fact Colorado. They reached out within 10 minutes of free agency launching and I had soft committed by the next day. The decision was actually made easy by my number one choice never reaching out to me. During my time in GM chat, I'd gotten to somewhat know Bayley, a guy I hadn't really had much communication with before. While in GM chat thought I found that I liked his management style and I loved the direction he was taking Chicago. When leaving NOLA, I was looking for a chill environment where I could decompress and just have fun and that seemed to be what Bayley was building with the Butchers. Had he reached out and asked, I'd have gone to Chicago in a heartbeat. With Adelie de Pengu joining Chicago, it would be very likely that the team would have taken a different path. As one of the guys who has been highly involved with recruiting free agents and sim testing and theorizing for Colorado, I feel like Chicago would look like a very different team than they are now. If they'd be better or worse, I'm not brave enough to say, but they'd definitely be a different team. Unfortunately Bayley never reached out to me and we'll never know because I've fallen in love with Colorado and am likely to never leave. Smh, Bayley.