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(194602.4) (12 balls)
Possibly the most underrated post on this list, this is a classic moflaffle post right here. BB-Edju made a thread asking if his team was Salisbury's team, because his team name is the Salisbury Auerbachs. I was up to the task of going in depth with what team should be chosen as the representative of being Salisbury's own buzzerbeater team. This was not easy, because there were at the time four teams with the Salisbury label. I could've gone with the quick route of picking the team with the best world rank, but that would not analyze enough. Instead, I went player by player looking for role models, people that the citizens of Salisbury could look up to as idols. It turns out, the Auerbachs have a bunch of lazy players that can be useful, just not in Salisbury, and Salisbury North was decided to be Salisbury's team. My ability to stand up to one of the BB's and tell him that his team just wasn't the best in his city earned me some balls, because it showed that I have balls and speak the truth. Also, I earned some balls because people found this post to be true and helpful, because in Edju's poll, only 7% of voters believed that the Auerbachs were Salisbury's team.
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(208991.3) (14 balls)
This was my speech to run for Polish national team manager for season 19. I ran because they had just won the World's Tournament, and I felt like I needed to sabotage them so we could win. What better way to do that then run for the manager of their team? Now I wasn't gonna just go ahead and tell them that I was gonna sabotage their team. I needed them to believe in me so I could be voted manager, and then I could sabotage their team. However, I wasn't gonna just flat out lie about what I was gonna do, so I put down some realistic goals, like going for a 10% approval rate and making players eat in sync because it would look cool. Then I showed why people should vote for me, and I did not mention in any point in here how I would help Poland's national team get better. Lastly, I knew that they speak Polish in Poland, so I put my entire speech into google translate and pasted the Polish part, to make it look more official. Swag.
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(234011.7) (14 balls)
This prodigious post was in response to another of Mickey LT McCoy's great threads, where you could talk about what managers on BB that you hate. Prior to my post, there had only been two names mentioned, which I thought was rather pussy-like, because there's a lot more managers that people hate on BB. I decided that it was time to throw down everyone that I hate, no sense hiding it. I mean YOLO and sh*t like that. On my list was 31 managers, most of them well known on BB, with relevant reasoning behind each manager such as "Seems like the kind of guy that makes references from movies that never watched" and "Wtf kind of name is that anyway". This post got so many balls, because readers agreed with me on most, if not all names, so they just balled my post instead of rephrasing what I said to make the same message.
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(222461.2) (15 balls)
My most balled up recap ever, this was for the U21 game against Bolivia in season 20. The outcome of the game was no surprise, the US winning in a blowout, but the biggest news of the week was magiker's random callup of an 18 year old named Michele Bello, who's skills were nowhere near U21 caliber. In my recap, I talked about what it was like having him surrounded by older, and much better basketball players, which revealed that he was often bullied, but I came to his side on several occasions. This heart-warming story of a bond between a manager and a player, despite not even being on the same team, was likely the main reason for the amount of balls that it got. The other reason was bringing back one of jfarb's usual moves in his recaps, having wozz dress up as someone to give a speech to the team, which leads to confusion as people figure out that it's wozz. I am such an amazing w