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Dolfan's pants just got added to the endangered species list

Tolerance makes for a better place.

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“Oh, someone had a seizure! Better tweet it out to Russo!”

Dana has never held a grudge against people, particularly those who aren't major draws, who are "difficult" (i.e. saying "no").

Decided to put this here, rather than the tag league thread, even though the context is over there: I think it’s only with hindsight that we can assert the first Okada/Omega build was especially hot. That is, I remember plenty of quiet crowds for Kenny, that didn’t buy him at that level, and even more online commentary that expressed as much. And I mostly agreed with them! Of course we now know what the match would be and what the feud would become, but I think it’s important to remember how near to being the cold spray guy Omega was. I don’t think either Tana or Omega will get the rapturous welcome Naito did last year, but the match itself will be really hot, I’m sure. It’s a Tanahashi Tokyo Dome main event—probably his last. There’s no way the crowd treats him as less than a hero the whole time. That said... it’d be better if Kenny were around more, and/or if the feud wasn’t online meta commentary on workrate. There’s something interesting to be done with Old Man Tana, who was once the flashy blasphemer of true strong style, facing off against Kenny’s video game theatrics; but I think they’ve leaned way too heavily on “the other guy is boring” rather than the potentially interesting comparison and contrast.

Your back would be hurt too if you had to carry G.O.D.

Cena and Hailee Steinfeld were guests on The Graham Norton Show over in this neck of the woods and, man, I know it's been joked about before but dude is basically a robotic simulation of what a human being should be. My damn teeth were itching over how cheesy and cringeworthy he is. He can't even sit on a fucking seat like a normal human being without looking awkward as fuck. Anyway, the only thing we learned was that fellow guest, Matthew McConaughey was once thrown out of a building for throwing rotten tomatoes at Skandor Akbar.

Tolerance should be the least of their worries.... who gets a chocolate milkshake with their pizza??

God bless Miami, because I would be throwing things through my tv after the Panthers loss if not for that beautiful finish.

HOLY SHIT MIAMI

UFC has made a late push for the award with booking Greg Hardy on that show (although I guess the show isn't until next year, so maybe they got an early start)

To paraphrase Barnwell - if you are playing Sanchez because he "knows the scheme" the scheme sucks

Golden Boy's use of Chuck Liddell was one of the most appalling things I've ever seen. How the fuck Liddell got cleared for that fight is beyond me. He looked way past washed up, he looked like I could take him and I'm no fighter. Just a sad, sad spectacle that shows MMA can be just as scummy as boxing or wrestling.

Joe Philbin is out of challenge flags for the day. There's 13:37 remaining in the first quarter.

You know, Raheem Sterling should really learn not to antagonise racists by picking up a football and smiling. I also don't think the whole being a young, rich, successful black man helps matters either so maybe he should tone that down a little. He brings it all on himself, he really does...

Not a movie, but figured this might be of interest to the horrorphiles here. BBC Radio 4 reimagined the Case of Charles Dexter Ward as a true crime podcast. ive not heard it but have read a couple positive reviews.

Holy shit, that was a fucking beating. There's no way Ortega could see ANYTHING coming in during the last half of that round. Best call ever stopping it there.

Doc & Gordy

Stolen from Twitter: KILL-EL

Brightburn Superman's origin story imagined as a horror movie (obviously no actual mention of Superman/Clark Kent) James Gunn is a producer. It's written by his brothers.

Cobb wasn't near as bad as he was made out to be by his biographer and Rogers Hornsby finished his baseball career as a manager for the Seattle Rainiers and by all accounts had mellowed to a "pretty nice old guy". A far cry from the days that a team that he led to the World Series didn't want to give him a cut because they all hated his guts. Cap Anson was a chicken-shit from the word go, his main concern was that superior black players would reduce his team to irrelevancy (and they would have). Dimaggio is the coldest fish of a human being I have ever met. The guy was just reptilian in his demeanor. There's a few people that you can spot right off and just know they are basically a sociopathic creep, Dimaggio was one of those people. Clemens is one of the most joyless pricks I have ever had the displeasure of meeting, I only hope that his eventual induction to the HOF gives him as little pleasure as everything else seems to. Clemens is the guy that on being informed he won an all-expenses paid trip to Hawaii would bitch because he had to pack. Fuck him. Barry Bonds was certainly not "Mr. Warmth" when I met him, but he was polite, somewhat distant, and only as pleasant as he felt he had to be, but no more was expected. No one goes to a Barry Bonds signing expecting that he's going to pose for pictures with your runny-nosed rugrats climbing all over him. He's the greatest fucking baseball player who has ever lived and if that doesn't entitle you to be somewhat arrogant and aloof, I don't know what does.

I originally read the book title as "Dinosaur vs the Libs." Wingnuts can never start their kids too young...

This is why I'm a firm believer in adding a BBWAA rule: If you are a BBWAA writer, and you make a ballot this absurd, you must be required to write an article DEFENDING that choice and why you think this guy was a Hall of Famer. Because seriously, Placido Polanco is no HOFer...but tell the truth, who wouldn't love to hear that person's argument? THAT is what the discussion should be about.

Every single team will now be learning how to stop the hook and lateral

He then kicked Enzo in the face.

Man that card was one of the most violent face punchiest cards I've seen in a while. Disappointed Joanna lost, but Max Holloway made up for it with an incredible display. Masterful stuff.

Oddly enough, I consider everyone that you listed to actually be better than Gary Carter despite what the numbers say. If you want a real solid floor for catchers, let's go back to Mickey Cochrane. Berra and Ted Simmons are sort of hard to deal with because they were hybrids that played different positions. Craig Biggio was an easy case, despite moving around in positions, he hit the magic number of 3000, which up until Raffy was a ticket to Cooperstown and I'm starting to think that maybe it still should be. If that means putting Roid-boy Palmiero in the HOF, well then so be it. Like I've said, I never thought "That's a HOFr" when I watched Raffy play, I never thought of Albert Belle as a HOFr either. Now sitting back a comfortable distance from their playing days I can easily see the arguments for both players. Just because you don't have that incredible breakout season or lead the league in a major offensive category doesn't necessarily mean anything. Fred McGriff might well be the poster-boy for the steady high production type of hitter. I don't know if Fred had any league-leading seasons (I don't recall any, but I could be wrong), no he just went along happily banging in 30-35+ dingers and around 100 RBIs every year until he finally flamed out with one bad season that was enough to tell him it was time to quit. I'll say it again, I watched Raffy's career and never thought of him as a HOFr, but the damn numbers are right there. Just as I never considered Gary Carter superior in any way shape or form to either Pudge Version 1.0 or Version 2.0, but the numbers are right there. We have to add context to appreciate exactly what those numbers mean and that's where this gets tricky.

Dolphins cameraman falling on his face running might be the highlight of the game. But hey it is 83 degrees in Miami right now so who is the idiot really

I honestly just stopped caring. Haven't watched Raw or Smackdown in months and was never a network subscriber. Me and my best friend always go to the post Christmas Garden show but I just don't feel like it this year.

Just thought I'd mention that thirteen years ago today we lost the greatest humorist that SF or literature as a whole has ever seen. A guy like Robert Sheckley only comes around this way once. We weren't exactly close friends but something a bit more than nodding acquaintances, our mutual nicotine addiction assured that we would often find ourselves standing outside of a convention having a smoke. We had talked quite a bit about doing a retrospective of his complete works, (there is the Pulphouse set issued in 1991, but it's a piece of garbage as far as bookmaking goes the books are so tight that the text is lost in the gutters and you miss the last or first word on every page.) We will get around to publishing Sheckley at Centipede Press, I'm still thinking a one-volume retrospective of a quarter of a million words at $45 in the Masters of SF series and then do everything else as supplemental volumes.

It's too late

Heh-heh, I was watching New Japan (or rather getting Best of Tanahashi disks from Lynch) before it was cool to do so, so I saw lots and lots of air guitar and reversal dances to the point that I became immune to them. Yes, it's some ridiculous shit, but I've watched Tanahashi for so long that I give him a pass. I don't know, Ibushi does some ridiculous shit too as does my favorite, Naito. I guess I'm more prone to accept the goofy stuff when the native Japanese guys do it, because most them have at least one sillyass thing that they do, I sort of accept it as a cultural thing. However, when an American or Canadian does goofy shit like acting like their in a video game or making faces it's jarring and takes me out of the match, as I'm not so used to seeing gaijin pull this stuff. Does that make sense?

Fuck Saudi Arabia, Hulk Hogan brought back and WWE's exploitation of Roman Reigns cancer. Repugnant.

Comparing a catcher with a shortstop to make a point of similar values, you know better than that. I'll grant that he was hardly a slouch when it came to offense, but to tout Bill Freehan as HOF-caliber, I'm just not seeing it. I'm seeing a no questions asked Hall of the Very Good, and I don't think catchers are under-represented in the HOF at all. If there's a position under-represented, it's going to be 2nd or 3rd base, not catcher. The star catchers of the olden days are all enshrined and once we put in Gary Carter I think the floor was established. If you're better than Gary Carter in you go, if not, please do not apply. And no, I really don't want a discussion wherein I have to advocate Gary Fucking Carter, my debate classes were a long, long time ago.

If ever there was a time for DEAN to start posting regularly again that time is... NOW! James

And the one negative review was because the animation was "janky", which, you know, was pretty clearly the point.

There was a moment during that time period where Buff was absolutely on fire, and was one of the best heel workers in the nWo, as well as the entire company. But then the neck break scare happened, plus the weird fake face turn, then he just completely clammed up as a worker, and a character.

Nakanishi as Kurasawa is so weird in hindsight. Especially because you don't really even get that much of an indication of how good he was going to be real soon.

I'm so glad Manuwa's brain finally stepped in and said "That's enough of this bullshit. We're shutting it down."

"SO HE CALLS ME AND SAYS, GUESS WHAT VINCE? IM IN THE RASSLIN BUSINESS. I SAID, THATS GREAT, TED, I...wait, what?"

One Warrior Network? Destrucity on demand. Anytime. Anywhere. Any device.

Cruise presents himself as a cinephile who watches a lot of movies. So him being the movie star with this very important PSA is what amuses me.

Time to run with Beer City Bruiser! Although I think he needs an actual name before he can be a serious contender.