What is there to say about Savior that hasn't already been said? The opinions of fans on once dominant players is interesting. Outside of specific team allegiances, there are two types of fans, those that cheer for dominance and those that cheer for upsets.

During the bonjwas' reigns, people loved to cheer for the player that would defeat iloveoov, or Savior, or Bisu, or whoever. It was easy to see them as unfeeling machines, young kids who came in and crushed the old favorite. Once they were humanized, like Savior had been in the years following Shinhan 3, do we truly appreciate and understand their struggles. We've watched Savior deal very badly with his loss of confidence and skill slippage. We've seen him struggle hard, fighting for every qualification and inching back to competitiveness, step by step. We've accepted that he's never coming back, nowhere close to where he was before 03-03-07.

Now, we finally see the real Ma Jae Yoon. He's not an arrogant robot who crushed the Terrans everyone loved anymore. He's just a man coming to grips with the fact that he's not the player he once was. That is a difficult thing. He's a man struggling with wounded pride, the leader in spirit, if not in play, of a proteam that masterfully brought up several newer younger players to take his place. We finally see how difficult its been for him even though he's had one of the most successful careers ever.

And that is why we cheer for him now, why all the 2009-Destroyer posts are so frequent it's irritating. It's not because he can eke out some meaningless invite win over Kingdom. It's because we can just appreciate that he's still playing, still fighting, and we can celebrate this fact. If he can come back to win a league, that'd be one of the greatest moments ever. But if not, we can appreciate him for what he is now. That's why I follow heritage, because Savior's in the booth, and that's always worth watching.