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My favorite pic from my nuptials to Janice Kowalski April 4th 2015 is, far and away, the happiest day of my life!

Who cares what Alex Riley thinks about anything? Can we get Kevin Owens to squash Riley some more?

So... I got married yesterday~! Behold my blushing bride and I in our joy! James

Some people come from the school of "cheer for your conference if your team isn't in it." Others, myself generally included, comes from the school of "fuck every other team in the conference I hope they all lose" But then there's the whole "fuck Duke" thing and, I mean, seriously, fuck Duke.

Justin Roberts now, I'd imagine.

HAPPY EASTER!!!!

There is always this, Brian.

Alex Riley, you should SAY IT TO HER FAAAAAAAAAAAAACE with RAGE and stuff.

Apparently Alex Riley wasn't a fan: Alex Riley ✔ @AlexRileyWWE: I just got 4-3-15 tattooed on my neck

Black Lotus said that her goal was "to destroy the monster behind the bars." It's gotta be Jon Taffer! Wotta swerve!

What's wrong with Wisconsin's style of play? They play a beautiful game on offense.

I don't think I could live in a world where penguins with rocket launchers are a bad idea.

Its just Terry Gordy's belt buckle

Spoilered for size. He's a little person.

All this Riley hate gladdens my heart.

He's a disgrace to his first name. He's also probably the reason Rusev (who is not a disgrace) hasn't got a first name, when he'd be bringing further honour (not that further honour is needed) to it. So bollocks to Riley.

From Rock's Facebook account:

Baywatch Nights' intro was superb:

The Braves are trying to get connor mcdavid.

Still a better wrestler than 2015 Big Show.

The story with her is apparently WWE had another Asian girl on the roster and Vince felt "we already have one of those" so she got cut. Legit. Kinda puts into context the whole idea how WWE has been looking for "a Hispanic star" all these years. Just one! Can't have more than one because that may confuse the fans who can't tell any people apart unless they're white. Next thing you know Vince & Hunter will be putting all the black guys together in some sort of stereotypical group...

The Stackdown universe is so much better booked than the Smackdown one.

I prefer this one:

I am not sure if the default game includes Negro League baseball but I am 100% saying there are add ons for it at the very least. The big historic facegen packs definitely include Negro League so there's got to be a reason for that. I'm not sure about add on compatibility year to year myself. One of us should really get on the official OOTP forums and ask a couple questions. I am really shocked how into OOTP I am because I'm really not *that* into baseball compared to a couple other sports, but '14 is a very solid game, and I love the depth of features and tweakability of the whole thing. It's almost like a programming language built entirely around baseball. I play just as GM and let the AI do tactics, I watch almost all my team's games and just keep hitting the "RISP" button to get to the good parts (though you miss solo homeruns doing that, no biggie). As such I am advancing extremely slowly but enjoying it. I spend so much time digging through stuff between games. I'd actually say in some ways OOTP reminds me of Extreme Warfare Revenge (though it's a far broader and more advanced piece of work). If it exists it can be tweaked and it has a surprising amount of charm for a text based game. Computer can't be screwed over terribly in trades in this game, I find. That's a really big change from most other sports sims I have played. AI absolutely treats even average starting pitchers like gold and the price to get them is crazy. This is a good thing. You can't just trade three mediocre prospects and win the world series. Long term hall of fame candidate to watch on my fantasy team is my closer. I drafted him in the initial league draft, he was only 21 but has really really high end numbers (two pitch killer, fastball and slider both maxed, maxed stuff, high movement and control), closing in on through two seasons he has a WHIP of just under 1 and already is past 70 saves. All other pitchers on my team put together have like 6. If he stays healthy and on his game for the next decade he's got a really legit shot at setting my fantasy league all-time saves record that everyone else would chase forever because he started so good so young. Only thing that honestly bugs me about OOTP '14 is there's no feature to turn off career ending injuries. I'm fine with injuries in general I would just rather turn off the Retire Roll Of Death. You can manually edit any player that has one if you are a league commish, but the problem is the minute they get a career ending injury the game automatically retires them and invalidates their contract, and I don't feel like being picky enough to figure out which team and for how long and at what money guys were at. Very minor quibble. Everything else is quite good. It is not like it is happening all the time either, I just feel bad for the three or four fake computerized baseball players denied the last years of their career. If they fixed this in the newer version I really can't see there would be much I could complain about. Only other really minor thing is there should be a way to export a scorecard into a non-html format. Like a "dump game scorecard to notepad" button would be swell.

I don't know about the clip, but it was Rebecca Budig and she quipped that Stephanie was " twice her size". This took place in October 2000. Awesome. I don't remember this much but always liked Rebecca, would've liked if she stuck around. The moment in question starts around 13:36 That whole thing looks like it was a disaster from Rebecca's dig to the Playboy question to Stephanie uttering the line, "I don't think I could ever compare to Chyna."

As a pretty much lifelong Wisconsin fan I not sure what I like to see more. That the UW basketball team has finally worked past the final four not because they go out and recruit a team full of NBA ready big kids, but instead teach fundamental solid team basketball. or The Big 10 which gets shit on constantly might have both the football and basketball national champs this year.

Sweet Lord.

Doing one of the OOTP random start from 1901 and man the storylines are fun as hell In the early going, the league was obviously dominated by pitching, but the main story around the actual players was a "Which guy will end up having a better career" between Ed Delahanty of the Senators and Shoeless Joe Jackson of the Yankees. Both were drafted at very young ages (22 and 20, respectively), and both were cornerstones of there franchises. Both were generally the face of baseball for the greater part of a decade. 22 years later, the dust has finally just about settled, it looks like this: Delahanty's teams were more succesful (3 World Series rings), and rapped up his career with a little over 2700 hits, a career OPS of .814 and a plain silly 883 steals, sealing his resume as sure fire HOFer with 5 MVP's. And yet he still comes across as clearly the second best. While Delahanty has been retired for 3 years, Shoeless Joe just keeps producing years were he bats in the 330's like clockwork, finishing his age 41 season with a 337 average. A career .331 hitter, the first in the game so far to break 400 (a 410 season in 1902 at age 21 no less), Jackson is up to a 3,475 career hits, and will, by the time he retires, be considered the best hitter of all time, leading just about every counting stat in baseball outside of homers and triples. That said, neither one holds the career WAR for a positional player crown. That goes to Joe Mauer, who put up back to back years of 10 plus in for the Red Sox. He has a pretty good lead in the club house for "Best Catcher to Ever Play" and, his 1907 383/454/470 slash line let to a 12.0 WAR season, which is insane. As for the mound, that's where the only people elected to the Hall of Fame reside. Tommy Bridges and Robin Roberts probably would be regarded as having the best careers, both with over 200 wins and ERA's south of 2.35 career. Red Ames is the all time leader in wins, and a no duh inclusion. Homer Bailey is in, though his career is more a "fringe case" HOF, he got in possibly due to lack of strong other options at that point. But Homer looks likes an easy inclusion compared to the 5th, Hyun-jin Ryu, who got into the hall with a losing record. 209-245 career record with a 2.84 ERA (highest of the field), a career WHIP of 1.32, etc. Just felt like a really weird inclusion. As for present times, a new era has started and it's filled with more great hitters then the league knows what to do with. The Cards have Duke Snider, the Browns have Billy Williams, The Pirates have just decided they hate everyone and have a 3-4-5 of Mickey Mantle-Lou Gehrig-Mel Ott, The Athletics are fielding Roberto Alomar, Stan Musial, Robin Yount, Ernie Banks, Dick Allen, Jim Dwyer, and Jorge Posada in one freaking lineup. The Giants have Larry Walker, David Ortiz, Darryl Strawberry, and Brooks Robinson. The Yanks have Sammy Sosa, Jose Altuve, Wade Boggs, Jack Clark, and Joe Morgan and still manage to be 20 games under 500. The Reds have Eddie Collins and Jose Canseco, The Cubs have Bobby Bonds, the only man with a Triple Crown, while his son Barry plays on the White Sox instead. As for early home run champions: Ken Griffey Jr. holds down the career home run leader crown... for the moment. He is getting old, and others are breathing down his neck quick. The single season record one made me laugh hard, with Cecil Fielder hitting 24. And right now, the best player in baseball seems to be Hank Greenberg, who has been on a complete path of destruction in recent years. He's already up to 49.1 WAR at age 28, headlined by his amazing 1.128 OPS 2021. He has taken the last 3 MVP's. Overall, this is awesome to do.

I say FX should bring back Terriers. The Americans (which is a great show) doesn't exactly get the best ratings, but they're 3 seasons in with a 4th already ordered. Why couldn't they do the same for Terriers? I'm still pissed that show never got a second season.

You can find wondrous things when doing google searches for gifs of Alex Wright dances.

Don't you have to, at minimum, be two out of three of those things to be a member?

I'd be ok with more seasons of CSI: Miami. No, really.

Anyone who modded their playstation and picked the New Japan games over the All Japan game that was the precursor to King of Colliseum failed at modding.

I'm not sure if it's funnier if you intended to make a pun, or if it just came out that way.

Spoiler for size

Benicio Del Toro.

Your dream job isn't always as great as you expect.

God damn Sports Night.

ALF is the obvious choice!

Unfortunately you have to intern in the Dungeon of Doom. Apparently, they don't even get hot water there. But at least there's Hulkamaniacs there, right....?

Roman's theme song is getting updated...

Reality TV star, Wrestlemania headliner, husband of Maryse, SAG member. That monkey's paw is just about done making a fist.

One of the reasons why I always give Harley Race a full paragraph unto himself alone.

No, you see, every time Harley Race is brought up in the same sentence as those two, full grown cats die. I'm sorry, Cristobal

Stop No way, that was awesome. Keep it going! Just because it is April 2 doesn't mean I can't ban people