Reflections: Welcome to TPD 2023

 "I might be down for a moment, but I always come back."

What once was, is now lost.

TPD has long endured a haunting nameless shadow. For years it has followed him, sucking the life from his veins. For the world is a vampire, sent to drain. Not a single other combatant in the MFFL can match the unrelenting poor circumstance that TPD faces in repetitive motion. Some have called it the balancing of the scales. For TPD's dominance is so large, the league may have crumbled under the weight of his awesomeness long ago, if not for the shadowy circumstances holding him back. It is his counter part. TPD is memory, precious and pure. He shines on, he shines bright. The shadow is a void. He and it, locked in a prison of perpetual war. But TPD will once again walk out of darkness and into freedom, as once was.

Last season TPD finished in last place for the first time ever, spanning many season and multiple leagues. It's in moments like these when TPD begins to reflect, and also see reflections of his past. Mirrors of the past shine bright with lingering pain, for TPD's 2022 played out eerily similar to another one. Though, if history is to repeat itself, TPD is in for one hell of a bounce back. 

The season we speak of was 2015. He missed the playoffs for the first time. This on the heels of three devastating playoff defeats the three previous years. 2015 took a man on a teetering stack of madness, and dropped him to his knees. The league devoured TPD in 2015. Six teams scored at least 140 points against him. He had the league's toughest schedule by a whopping margin of over 100 points. Fate once again seems to be not without a sense of irony. For in 2022 the exact same number of teams scored over 140 against him, six. He also had the league's toughest schedule like 2015. Both seasons came and went like a raging tsunami, with TPD incapable of preventing the utter devastation, though he tried.

In both seasons TPD wielded arguably the best team in the league. He had total point finishes of 3rd in 2015, and 4th last season. If not for the league smashing against him, the playoffs were inevitable. In fact, if not for bad luck and poor circumstance, TPD would have an undefeated playoff appearance record. You see, nothing has changed. TPD is the same. His bad luck the same. His dominance the same. The fear in the hearts of those would be opposers, the same. The NASTY, the same. After 2015, there was a shift in the wind, and he can feel the breeze once more. 

Everyone now knows the tale. TPD hardened after 2015. He won three straight championships in 16,17, and 18. A dynasty like no other. A true 3peat. TPD had finally cemented his rightful place at the top. An emotion everyone already felt, but now they saw and knew. History is repeating. 2023 is a smash year for TPD. How dare you give this man the 1st overall pick and expect nothing less than greatness. His mind hardened. His wits sharp. TPD has seen this evil before, and vanquished it. It now returns, but once again it will meet its same sticky end. The brilliance of TPD's glow will shine out the clearer. For what is dead may never die, but rises again harder and stronger. This is a resurrection, i'm back from the dead. Everything after is my legacy, like it or not. The crown looks wrong on your head, I want that. 

For you must feel it. This brief slide is soon to stop. TPD's rise back to the top will be swift and terrible. All will crumble under the weight of his awesomeness. For he carries with him a new weapon of destruction. He adopted it following the loss if his perpetual nature. You see, one is not perpetual in last place. So he searched in the dark for new meaning, and found it. It is one of the utmost timing. For The Perpetual Dynasty is no more. Give rise to The Peaking Dynasty. A franchise built around perfect timing, cunning, and preparedness. "I see you."

Now the NASTY from dynasty has a new counterpart. They are the bash brothers. All shall kneel. You down with TPD? Ya you know me. TPD, once shattered, then mended, etched in stone, and finally golden. The path shall be traveled once more. 

Welcome to TPD 2023, Peaking Edition.