So here's a story about Cutlery and I. Doing my level best not to shade the truth even slightly, because this story is very unflattering to me and rightfully so.
Cutlery asked in IRC yesterday morning if I wanted to play our league match so he could have it done before it was time to play Khalan. I was still feeling very stressed from an awful day on Tuesday, but instead of saying it wasn't a good time to play I went ahead and agreed to start the match. Match proceeded normally, until late in the first half when my cage had started to crumble and I went for a pass. I was mainly hoping for a scatter launch, because I needed a 6 for an accurate, but with a reroll I had a 75% chance of getting the ball there. I threw the pass with 3-4 seconds left in the turn, it switched to Cutlery to pick his player to attempt the interception, and when it switched back to me, it threw a fumbled pass and then immediately asked me if I wanted to reroll the failed pickup roll, never giving me the chance to use a reroll on the pass. Apparently time for the turn had expired either while it was processing or while it was letting Cutlery pick his interception. I lost my temper and essentially quit playing, although I didn't concede because I still wanted my MVP.
The thing is, even if the game hadn't cheated me out of rerolling the pass, the second roll still had a 50% chance being a fumble and the resulting fumble scatter and failed pickup rolls bounced it all the way out of my cage and either into the middle of Cutlery's players or right into the hands of one of his players, I can't recall precisely. Combined with the fact that he had KOed a mummy and my MB/PO wight, and he had legitimately earned a dominant field position. Add to that my two players failing both the recovery roll on Cutlery's ensuing score and on the Halftime roll, and Cutlery was well on his way to a deserved victory even if I hadn't quit.
Needless to say, he had no desire to win the division and league that way, so he wanted to reset the match and play again. While I wasn't interested at first, I realized that he was the one getting screwed out of a good competitive match by me quitting, and he was also willing to give up the fantastic level ups he got that game for the chance to play again, so I agreed that we would play again today. Aside from me killing his troll outright on the first block of the game, the dice were a fairly even back and forth for the first half, with me being unable to stop his score to tie in the first half, and also failing to make a KO recovery on my mb/po blitzer for the start of the second half. During the second half, the dice started tipping pretty heavily in my favor, and after his drive stalled it was looking like a draw, but after a perfect series of blocks I was able to blitz his ball carrier and knock the ball loose, ultimately resulting in me being able to pick it up, break for the endzone and score.
So really, I wanted to make sure that Cutlery came out of this looking like the saint he really is and I come out looking like the bum that I acted like in our first game. I normally pride myself on my sportsmanship, so quite frankly the whole thing is just profoundly embarrassing to me, and I'm ashamed of having lost my temper in such a way. My record for this season definitely gets an asterisk by it in the books.