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Mark Henry as Rick Ross

Found a HUGE flaw in the game. They are still trying to push the fraudulent story that Randy Savage was fueled by jealousy when the Mega Powers exploded. Hulk Hogan was a grand standing, scene stealing asshole, who did everything he could to try to overshadow the World's Champion. The final straw was when Hulk Hogan tried to steal Macho Man's woman, by leaving ringside and letting the Twin Towers to beat Randy Savage into a pulp. When Macho Man went to find where the love of his life had disappeared to, he found Hulk Hogan trying to molest her unconscious body in the locker room. Enraged by the betrayal Randy Savage did the only thing any real man would do, he kicked Hulk Hogan's ass. It pains me to have to use Hulk Hogan in this match, because I was raised right and I don't condone such bitch ass behavior.

I don't know, I'm leaning towards someone did NOT have to..

SHUT THE INTERNET DOWN. This wins. Also was that Halloween Havoc 2000 ad supposed to be in reference to something in particular? That was when my interest in WCW was at an all time low but I cant remember anything futuristic or historic or whatever about that show.

There are 100 caw slots. I downloaded a community creation of Mr. Peanut. I used said peanut in an online match. I won an Elimination Chamber match with Mr. Peanut.

"Look Big Daddy, it's regular daddy!"

Had my second child today. It's a boy! Little Landry and momma are doing great.

"The celebrity buyer of TNA you ask? That's right you guessed it, Frank Stallone."

Well, if he's going to be like that about it, I wouldn't buy it for him.

I don't know why I am even bothering after that Mark Henry as Rick Ross photo.

By virtue of not being in the World Series, it's necessarily behind Maz, Carter, Fisk, Gibson '84, Gibson '88. Probably on the level of Ozzie's "Go crazy folks!" home run in the '85 NLCS, maybe a bit ahead because it was a grand slam. It's "importance" will get overinflated because a Boston guy hit it and half the people telling the story in 5 years will have it happening in game 7 in the bottom of the 9th. I'd say it's comfortably in the top 10 of postseason home runs but also comfortably behind at least 5 others.

DTA YOU DUMB SUMNABITCH!

[Looks at the crowd for help deciding what to do] The answer is clearly KICK! WHAM! STUNNER! AWWWW HELLLLL YEAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

Why is Edge wearing a Kane mask? Man, You think you know someone.

Since he has the Yes/No lock, it should be called the Maybe Knee. As in "maybe what happens when this match finishes won't suck ass."

They should call it a Suplex.

Fortunately, he'll still be a sharp dresser.

An old classic:

To me it had one redeeming quality. It had one of my favorite horror cliches. There just happens to be a guy right there who is a "dream mythology" scholar or something...a thing that DOES NOT EXIST AS A SPECIALTY IN THE HUMANITIES!!!! but always seems to show up in these movies. I love movies where a character goes to a local college and someone is like, "You should talk to professor Reinicke in our occult history department. I think he wrote a book about the transmigration of souls through REM sleep." And it was Yaphet Kotto.

Good fucking lord, people, calm the fuck down. (And, yeah, Wal-mart has almost certainly done some really good things, and some incredibly shitty things, and, hey, that's the world.)

I don't have anything against the company. I worked for them for a while at Sam's Club. It's a company you can go work for out of high school and if you have any brains inside your head at all you can make a career there and move up rather quickly if you choose to go that route. They have a lot of really good benefits. They also provide a lot of people with jobs.

It's time for cute nephew pics! Third Birthday party last week. I got him his first Broncos jersey. Him tonight as the Sorcerer's Apprentice before trick or treating.

Yes. I wrote an article about NASCAR a few months ago. Fox and TNT inked their deal w/NASCAR when the sport was hyped as becoming the new American pastime. That didn't happen. At all. NASCAR's live attendance has completely tanked to the point where they don't announce figures anymore. (The excuse is that a lot of publicly traded companies own NASCAR venues and publishing those is advanced guidance, which is a hilariously lame excuse.) The reason for this is twofold: 1) When it was trying to become the new pastime, they put in stadiums in a lot of cities that didn't have any history of racing -- Chicago, Phoenix, LA, etc. They had some success at first but then the fad ended. In order to stage those races, though, they had to take events from elsewhere. So a lot of their small tracks in their southern core were dismissed. And that leads to 2) Their core fanbase is the white, rural/southern, working-class. This demographic was largely hurt the worst in The Great Recession -- all those Sun Belt construction jobs vanished and haven't come back. North Carolina is the essential capital of NASCAR and their blue collar job base shrunk by a giant amount and hasn't returned.Their TV ratings have completely tanked since they signed their first big deal in 2005. They're down almost 50%, in fact. But they still just signed a crazy deal despite the absolutely terrible ratings and demographics hardships. And they still inked a billion dollar contract.The answer is because of programming. Fox and NBC have new sports ventures and need live programming. The WWE is a different venture in that it can place its shows on sports networks AND strictly entertainment networks. NASCAR had pretty much four competitors for its product -- and two of them, Turner and ESPN, were already soured on them -- and drew a 10-year deal. The WWE has more options for broadcasting, is live, and has a decades long history of being one of the most-watched cable TV programs. Aside from football on ESPN, Raw usually is the most watched cable show of the week. That's an historic track record of ratings that any advertiser would want. Even if the ratings aren't what they were in the 90s (or even down from a few years ago), it doesn't matter. They're usually number one every week and they can appear on either USA/Spike/NBC Sports/Fox Sports/etc. without anyone blinking an eye. The WWE is the only national game in town for wrestling. It's an internationally known brand. It has changed its marketing and programming to avoid controversy. It broadcasts live and has a dedicated that has followed the product for decades. The fanbase is nationwide and not dependent upon one region. And it's a product that's built-in to have its audience "grow up" with the product -- like us, you get hooked as a kid and stay with it for years. The production values of the company are amazing. They're going to sign a ridiculously huge deal. It's a great television product.

Don't make me come in here and flash my badge. Jesus. I go out for a couple of hours.

Some good news:

Well, I wouldn't call myself a celebrity or anything, but it's true that I found some change in my couch and I hope you guys are ready for missile dropkicks and a heavy dose of Sid every Thursday night!

If he turns heel, he can turn it into an eyepoke and call it the Third Eye Blind.

Llub Eht YnnhoJ doesn't spell "killer," you fucking liar!

WCW Halloween Havoc 2000 PPV Advert *Click to Enlarge* Sting vs Jeff Jarrett - WCW Halloween Havoc 2000 [10/29/2000] *Click to Enlarge* The Yeti Climbs into the Ring - WCW Halloween Havoc [10/29/1995] *Click to Enlarge* "The Road Warriors: ‘Sting, Dusty, & The Fans Can Go to Hell!’ - The Wrestler *Click to Enlarge* "Halloween Havoc Horror!" - Inside Wrestling *Click to Enlarge* WCW Halloween Havoc 1990 PPV Advert *Click to Enlarge* Also, anyone out there with wrestler themed Halloween costumes? I'll be headed out tonight with this particular one:

WWE CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE: "Stone Cold" Steve Austin™ has offered you a can of an alcoholic beverage. What would you like to do? A -- Accept the Steveweiser™ B -- Decline the Steveweiser™ If you Choose "A"

This looks like some theology students receiving their degrees from a snake-oil preacher at his Shopping Center in Christ College.

That's a nice black pussy. ... What? Someone had to.

This week's episode was the best in a long time. Who else could parody Obamacare and Miley Cyrus at the same time, and make it work? Plus Puberty Ike is awesome.

Zombie Akebono attacking unsuspecting victims.

I lost track of who posted that recap while I was reading it and when I got to the part about Regal and Renee's commentary.... and relationship.... and sensuality.... I said to myself, "This is almost as great as a Greggulator post." Then I scrolled up and laughed and laughed and laughed.

I've said this to others, and I'll say it to you--no one is looking to starve and be homeless if they can help it. A crummy job is better than no job at all, especially with the weak job growth currently surrounding us. Walmart is like any other big company--it has pros and cons. Ultimately, they're only doing what they've been allowed to do within the law. I'm not angry with Walmart as much as I'm disappointed in the system that gives them too much room to play loose with the rules. And they're not the only ones. Frankly, both sides are so full of shit at this point, why anyone would argue for either is beyond me. I suppose one side is somewhat better than the other, but I'm damning them with faint praise. Look out for you and yours, because no else will. Do what you must (within the law) and improve when you can. That's the name of the game.

All the while keeping their employees on SNAP. FUCK WAL-MART. Fuck it, you would love Wal-Mart. They're the type of expolitive, money above all company that you Individualists worship.

Good 'ole J.R. killing time while waiting for someone (Joel Watts?) to finish putting together a highlight video he needs to narrate.

One of the Divas uses a variation of the NLS I believe, Maybe Alicia Fox.

I decided to do some WWF snowflake analysis with match lengths to investigate how much did longer matches and higher meltzer star ratings correlated. http://indeedwrestling.blogspot.com/2013/10/systematic-analysis-of-meltzer-ratings.html tl;dr version = there is a definite progression where the all the metrics (25th to 75th quartiles) all move in lockstep with the star rating; however, if you just look at the scatter plot it reinforces that there there is a still a huge amount of variation which completely obfuscates the relationship.

First streak breaker- Retro Flair. Worked the legs between getting murdered. Go to put on figure four, lights go out. Reverse Taker's attack into a roll up and pin his ass in under 8 min. Only got like 20k score because ending wasn't dramatic enough and I didn't reverse a tombstone. After the lights went out Taker tried striking instead. Fuck you that's how Flair would have won!

Meltzer gave the main 5 stars. I'm not sure if I liked this one or Invasion Attack Okada/Tanahashi back to back. I think I need to watch them both next to each other

Glennishmore?