I'm not going to write this one as Kian Davies.

It's Session 11. The Phillies are 4-7 after a brutal come-from-behind defeat to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Everyone's feeling a little hopeless. I'm offering people the chance to play in other teams, playoff teams, to go somewhere with a bit more of a chance instead of staying in Philly, to perhaps resign the following season.

Not a single person even gives me the time of day. The Phillies Discord has about 30,000 messages, it's pretty active for a subgroup of a larger entity, but it goes quiet for the rest of the night. Another conversation is picked up, and we move on from the loss.

This is around the time where the Split was happening. I had just left the main Discord because finals were happening and because a lot of people were angry at me. Things were pretty dismal; we weren't playing too well, people were threatening the league's health. After a week or so of quarantining myself in the team Discord, Pie reported to the team chat. As an OotC member, he was going to each team and asking them who was leaving for the newly-created MLN.

As with my trade proposal, not a single person said they were leaving. Actually, they expressed support the opposite way. Player after player stood by me while the Split was happening, encouraging me and being good friends. The Phillies stayed intact after the Split, without a single person abandoning the team.