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Bring the streak of "can't miss" people that they missed on to about 80.

My dad came home from the hospital today. They think he had a brain aneurysm though it seems to have healed on its own before they could find out for sure. He is back to himself and only seems to be walking a little slow right now due to being in a bed for nearly a week. I'm just happy to see him in the state he is now. I'm always a little fearful just for the various things that can happen at his age with some of his health issues, but last weekend was just so damn scary. I'm just thankful that the worst has seemingly passed though my older brother and myself will probably be watching him like hawks for at least a few weeks.

Just make True Lies 2 already. ?

Liger will discuss how to defeat and capture Godzilla

I was like "hah, that's an okay parody headline" and then it slowly dawned on me it was real.

This thing will get loose and maul D'Andre Swift within 15 minutes of me drafting him in fantasy this August.

"This isn't even Nitro no way in hell I'm bumping"

The 70s.

Man, it's not that this PPV was bad. I thought most of the in-ring work was solid, hokey zombie shit notwithstanding. It's how stale and just.... same that product feels. This programming is just screaming for a bevy of fresh faces and instead we get yet another configuration of the same people. I appreciate everything Drew McIntyre did during the pandemic to keep the Raw show watchable, but it's gotten old. Strowman just doesn't do it for me. Lashley is awesome, but how many times can he be expected to have watchable, fresh matches with the same handful of guys? It just feels very.... bleh. Solid ring work from bell to bell, just nothing worth getting the least bit excited over.

I'm not saying you are saying this but I'm using your comment to jump out on. Releasing your lower card talent to make room for more upper card talent is a mistake. It ignores the ideas of roles in the promotion. Remember you not only need roster room but you need someone to lose to that talent. Otherwise you have systemic win trading which puts everyone on the same narrative plain and has historically been a storytelling failure.

Please lord give me Psycho Mode Russ trying to kill his old teammates in the first round.

Will he come back with a full body Cody logo tattoo?

Given that AEW is spending good money to bring people like Christian Cage and Paul Wight, along with licensing deals for the real music for Jungle Boy, Orange Cassisy, and now Moxley, I somehow don't think that Peter Avalaon's contract (likely among the smallest of the regular roster) or place on the roster is stopping AEW from signing Andrade.

Semi-nonsense. Miro is the best guy in the game when it comes to making his midcard holding patterns entertaining and keeping his credibility. Not saying that the gamer gimmick + Kip were necessarily good calls, but few active wrestlers, if any, were going to whip up such nice Chicken Salad (tm). Dude adds curry, walnuts, celery, maybe apples. Uses the good mayo. He was always going to emerge as a main player.

Skimming through some Raw results, it looks like he was on a decent little push before he vanished. A couple wins against Sheamus, a win against Riddle, a competitive title match against McIntyre. Him disappearing completely after getting hurt or sick and people reflexively chalking that up to "Vince bad" as a default position is certainly in keeping with the thought virus that makes him the cause of all wrong in the universe. Not even saying anyone's wrong, but it's interesting what sort of things people do and don't find it acceptable to go off on without evidence. Hope Lee is healthy and back in the mix soon.

Also, let's look at how, yet again, another can't miss person was fucking ruined coming up to the main roster. Keith Lee is immediately over on the main roster after his Royal Rumble and Survivor Series appearances. The Survivor Series appearance is more notable since they actually pushed the guy and made him seem like a big deal. Then he just fucking disappears off the main roster. He comes back and doesn't really get a chance to talk, but gets some cool moments with Braun and shit like that. And then they change his entrance music to some fucking garbage. And then they change his ring gear because to Vince or Kevin Dunn or someone, he's fat. He proceeds to do nothing except winning by DQ or fuck finishes because WWE can't be bothered to heavily push more than 2 guys at one time. By this point, it's hard to believe they'll do anything with Keith Lee. He gets hurt or sick and is just gone from TV. You could build a whole other promotion out of the amount of can't miss guys WWE has fucked around and done nothing with.

I hope Zaslav doesn't hate wrestling...

Especially after LeBron was so vocal about it not being such a good idea (only after the Lakers were in the conversation of course and he had previously said it was a good idea).

I tend not to get toooooooo worked up about offseason moves because who the fuck knows what the roster breaking camp will be. That being said - if I was Evan Engram, I would worry move about Kyle Rudolph being signed.

The Marlins' jersey honoring the old Cuban Triple A team the Havana Sugar Kings

As of right now - it was approved on a one year deal. The NBA really really wants it to become permanent. I think the fly in the ointment is going to be that I don't think you are going to easily get the players to approve it this time.

I totally get that he's not very self aware. But long term, I think it has the potential to go somewhere if done right. Especially if they start touring internationally. Kind of like an anti-1997 Bret Hart? Maybe I'm just viewing this through rose coloured glasses lol.

One of the kids said " This would be ok if it was the Fiend" while we shit on it. He gets it.

If they had Bruce Campbell show up and kill all the zombies it would've went from awful to just about the greatest thing ever.

We made chicken salad out of that lumberjack match. My nephew and his pals sat and made fun of it with us. I had hyped them up about what a lumberjack match is and then that happened. The boys laughed and MST3K'd it with me and my pal Chris.

I hate hockey. More please.

@paintedbynumbersdid you enjoy Graves' Monroeville Mall reference??

YouTube recommended a channel that includes, among other things, a treasure trove of commercials about wrestling or featuring wrestlers over the years. So apparently Jesse Ventura and Nathan Lane starred in a Miller Lite commercial. Wonder if Warrior ever got that Yugo? The last commercial in the 1988 video -- who is the guy with the earrings? The Giant Baba ads are gold. There are more commercials to be found on that channel -- good way to waste an hour or two.

Unless he is filming all four of them at the same time, I really don't see Avatar 2 doing the type of blockbuster business that would justify continuing on for another three movies after that. Is there any other movie made since 2000 that made such a ridiculous amount of money during its initial run while leaving little long-term pop-culture impact at all? Its not a movie that is referenced or meme'd much at all in recent years, and the excitement for Avatar 2 appears to be on par for when Dumb & Dumber 2 came out, which is little-to-none.

Holy

They just uploaded Elevation to Youtube as a video rather than doing a permiere. So you can watch from the start whenever you want, and pause during the show and so on. I prefer it. And Paul Wight just compared Eddie Kingston to the Soup guy from Seinfeld. Does Show lurk? Was Show shouting out Petrol and Eddie?

True, but you get the odd one that stays with people the way Avengers Endgame did. I think possibly the reason why Avatar made such a small cultural impact was that all those people who bought tickets were going for the visual feast. So the plot and characters didn't make the mark. That and whatsisname off that Terminator deal who played the male lead really doesn't have the charisma that they thought he did. I've forgotten his name.

Why not both?

German Suplex was because of Hackenschmidt Gotch, right? e: wrong guy

It wasn't until last night when I was checking the schedule that I realized I didn't know how the play-in portion of the tournament worked. Whatever article I was reading was explaining it and I felt like an idiot trying to understand it. "Surely it can't be this complicated," I thought. Then I went to the NBA site and saw their bracket, and it's not "complicated" but it's not....it's not how I'd chose to do this, let's just say that. Like I feel like everyone was hyping the idea that Lakers/Warriors would be a go home game and it's not.

Apparently the Steelers and Bengals were also considered but he wanted to stay in the division and just put the screws to Washington I guess.

LET'S GO HEAT

While I SHOULD have stayed on top of my health over the last year, I actively avoided in person appointments with my doctor since the pandemic and stuck to phone consultconsultations. So something weird happened, which tldr pre pandemic my last visit in person was in 2019 where I weighed around 400 lbs. Very very not good for my own sake as my knees will testify. Last week's in person check up, my 1st since 2019, I was at 335 lbs. WTF! I exercised way less and went out WAAAAAY much less last year than the year before so I have NO explanation for how I dropped 70 lbs in say 18-20 months eating about the same and getting much less walking done since I tried to be as reclusive as possible to avoid the rona. I did end up catching rona after Thanksgiving, which I suspect one of our office was patient zero because about 6 of us caught it coming back from Thanksgiving weekend and none of us really did anything in person outta the older employees and yet the older ones got rona while our younger staff, 23 and under, were all fine. And I only bring up rona because when I got it I had the WORST shits for about 3 days before my system cleared out. And all i can come up with as to how I lost the 70 lbs, maybe those days with the shits cleared up a backlog maybe? No exaggeration that I was kinda stuck to the porcelain throne for most of those 3 days and thats about the only thing my simple mind can come up with ?

I just realized we're going to get Max roasting Mox and Eddie this week. This could make Max (also Eddie could break Max, and not just in-ring)

As a biracial person, if my white father tried to use my existence for a babyface pop about racial equality in America, I'd punch the old man in his god damn mouth. (And I like my dad) Cody can fuck off forever.