This is my hail mary, as I feel I may be trailing EBW. This really should have been my Candidate Speech.
You All Are AmericansYou all are Americans. Great Americans, who are playing this game, and reading this thread because you are great freaking Americans. I believe I am most fit to lead you outstanding legions of great freaking Americans.
Should I be your candidate? I am Oriolekid, hailing from the so-so city of Baltimore, in the great state of Maryland. I am eighteen years old, and I work as an EMT because America! I've been on this game for fifteen full seasons, and over four freaking years! I was a freshman in high school when I started this game. And now, as seen earlier, I am posting on my phone from the passenger seat of an ambulance, in the middle of who knows where D.C., just because I care so damn much about this beautiful creation they call Buzzerbeater.
For Christ's sake, I bought a years worth or supporter yesterday, just so I could post a poll in the "vote for Oriolekid" thread. Do all candidate do that? No, just the ones that care like I do.
Vote for the best candidateYou all should vote for the best candidate, an I feel I haven't proven why I'm the best manager. In season 12 I brought back the team training diaries, which had been idle for over two years, and never very popular to begin with, because I wanted a place for the u21 manager at the time, Jelme, to give me advice on how to train my very first prospect, Dan Gardner
(12473644) . And fifteen plus season later there have been 221 freaking diaries! Do you know how many NT players have started because of my innovation? It would take me at least an hour to research it all, which is a testament to it's effectiveness.
Go back to the first season the NT manager volunteered for scouting help. Season 14, and October 20th 2010 to be more specific, is the day I published my first scouting results. And so I did it again, for five more seasons. I'm sorry if I've missed the last five, but if you really believe I've lost any scouting touch than I don't know what to tell you.
I have a vision. That we will breeze through continentals, with a kickass roster, learning all we can about GDP because if you're not first, your last, and I want us to be the first to know GDP's effects so we can better prepare ourselves for a vicious world's season. And guess what? We have an absolutely loaded aged 20 class, and we have a legitimate chance of winning worlds next season on talent alone. But this game is not won on talent alone, and I feel I can give that worlds team the additional spark it needs. Because this is America and we don't lose at the game of basketball to European teams.
And all while dominating the next two seasons, I am going to plant seeds for the next U21 manager to harvest, and benefit from if I choose not to run again. Look at our database if you have access. Now imagine the top level talent the same, but now we'll have some players that can shoot the ball in his sleep, some that can thread the rock through an anthill, or score in the lane if he chooses, or a guy that can shutdown the worlds best guards, and bigs at the same time if he wanted. That is my dream. Because this is America.
Oriolekid will lead you to greatness.Take my hand and I'll lead all of you to greatness, even if you don't see it right now. I love BB, but the last frontier that I have yet to discover is a NT manager position. I've shown a fiery passion for BB once before. If I am the U21 manager you all will see that passion again, and it will be glorious.
And if you still don't know who to vote for, read the first bolded word of each slugline. Because I'm the kind of guy that would write an essay and have a hidden message. And that's exactly the kind of manager the u21 need.
Last edited by oriolekid at 12/30/2013 10:23:08 PM