* Darren Smallwood comments on the trade.

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So I want to start by calling people out, both good and bad.  I’m told to always end on a high note, so starting with the bad.  Bailey Cook, I’m calling you out. (1) You have leverage by being a great wide receiver, I respect that, but using that leverage to go a different team, and a specific team, simply because your friend didn’t play for the same team (2) is not rising to the occasion and challenging adversity. (3)  Luke Long is a good friend of mine, I look forward to playing against him as much as I would look forward to playing with him. (4)  This is Kevin Durant part 2, (5) but without the ring because a wide receiver doesn’t do too much in terms of impacting the game, especially on the Wraiths. (6) Moreover, if you expect to be hailed as a legend, you’re in for a world of hurt.  You came in as the team finished the road trip, you got the easy road until the playoffs, and everyone knows it. (7) You have to sacrifice to get where you are, I know I can, will, and did. Can you? (8)

1) Ok, so you're going to call me out? Fair. I'm excited for this!

2) This is false. That was not the primary reason for my trade request.

3) I mean, no, it's certainly isn't. But that's not what happened here.

4) Trust me, we will have plenty of chances to play against each other throughout our time in the NSFL.

5) Kevin Durant is my favorite NBA player.

5a) Kevin Durant is the best player in the NBA.

5b) I am currently wearing KD shoes.

6) Again, false. @Aenir is a top tier quarterback and now has two elite targets to throw to. I could be the #1 receiver on every team except this one, and I'm more than happy to surrender that role to Garden.

7) Uhhh...I don't care?? Who said I wanted to be hailed as a legend? All I care about is being a part of a cohesive team with an attitude geared towards winning and locker room activity.

8) Of course I can. I have. In various sim leagues before I have stayed with an often fruitless team in order to keep them on track, when I could've easily bounced around and chased cups instead. Now it's my turn to write my own sim league narrative.

Thanks for the comments, though, @tlk742 and if you have any more feel free to send them over. I'll be interested in responding.

Until then, though, see you on the field I guess. No hard feelings over here. I hope you become a better part of SJ than I would've been. That may be a tough task but I feel you are up to it.