With all due respect I am not a fan of you shilling your own pay-for-play business interests by posting your real name and beating your chest about the way you have turned your season around. That kind of stuff belongs in the Site Promo forum, that's what it's for. You're smart enough to know people can now google your name and get on board with you given your "god-like run"...we can put the pieces together too
I know you want to come back here and get your word back in after several trashed you but the best revenge is to let your record do the talking. Their silence can be deafening if you catch my drift.
Coming back in here and touting yourself looks bad man. Just a piece of friendly advice.
Completely understood. That was not my intention, especially if that rubs people such as yourself the wrong way, as I view you as one of my more favorite commenters on here. You're a class act and I always respect your kind words that you've given me in the past, so if you say I was coming off like that, I apologize.
My only intentions:
1. To once again point out what a retard NFLTrends was for bashing me early on in the season (This thread originally is actually from early June lol). Since he wanted to point out my record from back then, I am fully 100-percent within my right to point out my final regular season record. If anything, he was defaming and slandering my good name and reputation that I worked
very hard to build. Thus, I am fully within my right to restore said criticism, especially if it gives people the wrong idea about me who are not as familiar with my work. So, yeah, as far as my battle goes with NFLTrends, it looks like I easily got the last word, while that clown didn't even make it through baseball season (What a shock).
2. Someone made the strong assessment that "all" people who go "tout" end up sucking after doing good work here. Keyword: "All." Once I saw that, I had to fully defend that statement because that, too, might slander my good name, for those who haven't been keeping track of what I did in baseball this year off The RX. In actuality, I AGREE with this sentiment: Most people fail in this endeavor because when it becomes a job, you just think differently. It's hard to explain but you sort of lose your usual "feel" for games, and in my opinion, a handicapper's "feel" is the most important tool you can have. Period. Thus, you somewhat lose that and you leave your comfort zone because you're pressing way too much when you know that your clients are, literally, paying you hundreds of dollars for you to consistently make them money. At first, it's a very humbling and difficult transition to make, and that's why so many people fail. It's why I was failing in the beginning of the season. When it becomes a job, you also lose that "fun" aspect of handicapping, and let's be honest, another crucial element that goes into being a successful consistent handicapper is if you're having fun with it, rather than going through the motions and forcing action. Once you settle in, just as I did, you regain that feel and can be yourself. It's actually quite an interesting dynamic that I could probably write another thousand words on. It's all mental. It really is.
You're absolutely right, though. Generally, one all needs to do the talking is their record. But since this was from months ago, and people may have assumed I was "finished and left for dead," I just wanted to point it out so that EVERYONE, after all the work I put in here, knows the true story of how I panned out. As clearly emphasized, I'm one of the rare exceptions to the sentiment that these people fail. Clearly, in my situation, I've excelled tremendously, and at the same time, I've represented The RX EXTREMELY well, as everyone there knows that I came from here. And I never forget my roots, which is why I still do football here for free.
Hope that makes my self-boasting at least a little more tolerable
