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You know - if all the people complaining about Brooklyn Nine-Nine being cancelled actually watched Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Brooklyn Nine-Nine wouldn't have been cancelled

I didn't see SD this week - Enzo returned?

I've always preferred Bronson, Missouri personally:

32th? What kind of Scott Steiner math is this?

Cass isn't good enough to represent the Vegas name. Maybe Vinny Branson, Missouri.

Is it a reenactment of the Syracuse incident?

Loved, loved, loved the finale. Spoilering some thoughts to not ruin anything for peterien or anyone else.

LET THE WILD SPECULATION BEGIN~!

Better late than never, this should have happened in 2014.

lol, "independent contractors"

Speaking of:

Still true.

It was probably for the best that I had my bowling league championship tonight, so I was not completely shitting bricks during the hockey game. Jets win, my bowling team wins, and that means $350 in prize money for this guy. Even Ice Cube thinks I had a good day.

They could put him in ratty clothes, call him Vinny Vagrant, and finally go forward with the hobo army idea.

At this point just repackage Cass as Vinny Vegas Jr. and see what happens

That's one way to get me to keep not watching that show.

One man made me hate wrestling fans One man made me hate mainstream wrestling

Also, Oblivion is bad.

Mackenzie Dern also seems to be a really large strawweight, it would probably be good for her health, the UFC, and the 125 lbs. division if she move up. To your point though, she doesn't strike me as the personality type that would excel in high level MMA. She's exactly like the goofy, fun loving, dudes you meet in a jiu-jitsu gym. Sure, they can choke you unconscious in more ways than they can count, but after you woke up they'd give you a five and show you how to defend the choke. She ain't exactly a Ronda Rousey "I'm going into the cage to kill you dead" type. I'm rooting for her, but her striking is rudimentary, her wrestling might be worse, and if she is already blowing weight by over five pounds I don't know how far she'll go.

Hold on. I’m officially invoking Hanlon’s Razor.

Then they are going to film a follow up piece an episode of Undercover at the Main Roster to see how they deconstruct new stars

An upside is Rowan has improved greatly since 14.

Humble is running a spring sale right now. It's mostly indie games, but I got Prison Archetict for $4, so that's nice,

If a TV show is on Fox, don't get attached. Ever. If no one has learned this by now then I don't know what to say. What's weird are the shows that wind up being the exception to that rule, like Fringe. How Fringe was allowed to run as long as it did and even be given a final season to wrap things up is beyond me. I'm glad it did because I really liked it, I just don't know how it happened.

Ugh. I mean, this isn't news to me. I feel like this was basically the situation anyway. WWE has grown so large and has so many diversified revenue streams that they can continue to make money even if the core product flounders. They don't need to rely overmuch on attendance, ppv revenue (or networks subscriptions), merch revenue, whatever because if those areas are unprofitable, they'll make money some other way. Which is fine. Impressive, even. But it also takes away the company's incentive to improve their core product. In a nutshell, the company is going to make money even if the booking stinks, so why fall over yourself trying to improve the booking? It's the same situation Marvel Comics is in now that the movie division drives revenue and the comics are a bit irrelevant. I admire Vince in an odd, perverse way. He's managed to dominate the business segment, set up barriers to competition so that no company will probably compete with him in a meaningful way any time in the foreseeable future, and become so profitable that he doesn't actually need wrestling revenue to remain profitable. Yet, at the same time, he's regressed the business so much that the audience for wrestling is a fraction of what it was even 20 years ago and the perception of wrestling among mainstream culture and advertisers is largely negative. TV ratings continue to decline but the WWE has lucked into a spot where they're more valuable to a tv network now than they were 20 years ago when ratings were at their peak. I think WWE will be profitable for a long time to come. I also think that, when the WWE stops being profitable, the demand for wrestling could be so small that no one will be in a position to step into the gap left by WWe. So Vince could possibly end up being the wunderkind of the wrestling industry and destroying it for whoever comes after him. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to applaud him for that or what.

Oh Dave...

Good to see the Crypt Keeper puppet getting work.

I guess it makes me no fun. but I hate when wrestling fans use the term "wrasslin". Not as bad as when they call it "Fake Fighting". But it gets in my crawl.

I'm 100% in favor of El Idolo as the MitB winner.

Well, at least Jorge was legitimately freakishly tall. I'm not saying 6'8" or 6'9" or whatever Cass actually is isn't really tall, but it's not "oh my fucking God do you see the size of that guy!?!"

Considering Big Cass came up for the Total Divas stuff, seeing El Gigante works because he and Big Cass both have the same problem. Both guys are just not jacked enough for the size, and it takes you out of seeing them as this badass because of it. They both just look so much that you can't suspend disbelief of "this is El Gigante/Big Cass, a powerful monster here to destroy the hero!" and more "This is El Gigante/Big Cass, an out of work basketball player who they think is a monster because he's a relatively tall dude!"

This reminds me of the single greatest thing Jesse Ventura ever said: "We don't replace 20 year old school buildings, why should we replace 20 year old stadiums?"

I'll say it. If the Total Divas writers were booking RAW and SDL we would be in a better place than we are now.

LOL, I showed my wife the hamper clip (she doesn't watch wrestling, but does watch Total Divas/Bellas some), Her first reaction: "if I come on to you and you lecture me about hampers, you may sleep in the spare bedroom for a few days." Second reaction: "Lol. Did he stomp off to the clubhouse afterwards and hold a meeting of the He-Man Woman-Haters Club to complain about wimmen?" (That's an Our Gang reference. Google it. Dang kids. Get off my lawn)

Another stats post. This one is about where we ranked the movies. Rather than give the whole 20-movie list multiple times, I'm only posting the top and bottom 3 from each list.

Well, since she asked I lost five pounds this year by jumping to conclusions!

Chris Jericho knows at least 50 variations of the armbar.

I just watched the 4/2/83 Mid-Atlantic episode that had Piper handing out Easter Seals charity t-shirts to kids and he cut this amazing, coked up rambling promo about helping out kids "who are for no reason are all messed up and they're all crippled up because they ain't got no bucks and we gotta help 'em out because they're all crippled up and these kids are the real super heroes and they need a real hero because they're all crippled up and I'm gonna show em a hero right now and get in the ring." Then he got in the ring and beat up some jobber in 30 seconds.

This is the new Celine Dion video:

Why do you enjoy setting yourself up for disappointment?

Money. A lot of the AFL teams were losing money because of all the travel. Some stopped operating, some joined local arena leagues. Cost of players and travel goes down, chance to turn profits goes up. The OG AFL is down to just four teams this season, two of them owned by the same person.

Mandatory:

I am here for Arik Royal vs. Ken Dixon

Full Metal Panic, you've been off the air far too long. Welcome back to TV Sousuke Sagara. If this isn't the final arc, I hope we don't have to wait 10 years for another season.

Winnipeg is loud right now

I think we can all agree that John Cena is pretty damn weird.

Female Eugene works pretty well for Ronda.

Oh and Boogie Woogie Man kept calling the money "One hundred canaries." "You mean to tell me, brotha, that if I hit Kabuki with that stick, you gonna give me one hundred canaries daddy?!"