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Cena failed last year when he cashed in.
Not sure what I would give this show out of 10.
I was slightly disappointed by the Henry vs Cena match but my expectations for that were probably too high. It was good up until the ending though. Just no way for me not to be let down by that I guess.
Pre-show match was great and though I hated all the interference on the show tonight I did get a kick out of an Usos run in not only happening but getting a pop.
Ziggler Del Rio was pretty good up until the end.
Daniel Bryan killed it in the money in the bank match when they looked like they were setting it up for him to win. Sheamus getting "no" rather than a countdown for the forearm spot made me hope a Bryan vs heel Sheamus happens at some point. Guy took 2 of the meanest bumps of the night. That 2 out 3 falls match they had in 2012 was pretty great.
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I have no idea who plays on the Sixers anymore. It's kind of ridiculous considering how good they were getting the year they bounced us in the first round.
I know Doug Collins had to have been having a mental breakdown watching the Bulls get out of the first round even with Rose out. Though Noah was out too at end.
It was an awkward situation but Iguodala did have to be moved in order for Holiday to reach his potential since Collins would have kept running the ball through him. They would have been a better team last year had they not made the Bynum trade obviously but he wasn't the coach to get the most out of that roster. Team needed rebounding help and he wouldn't play Vucevic despite being productive when given the chance. Yeah he gets pushed around but he is also smart enough to get into the right position early enough to get established. It isn't like Hawes is stout in that regard.
I'd say Thaddeus Young is the Sixers best player now and he is at best the 3rd piece on a good team.
pg- Michael Carter Williams
sg- Jason Richardson
sf- Evan Turner
pf- Thaddeus Young
C- Spencer Hawes
That is what I am expecting the starters to be next year. Not all that different from last year only replacing Holiday with a rookie that can't shoot. Holiday was a miracle worker getting as many assists per game as he had being on a team with no other real scorers. He was clearly beat down by mid season and there was a drop off in his play at the midpoint mark and the teams record reflected it. He did deserve that all star spot though and on a team with some other people that can put the ball in the basket he should continue to improve. New Orleans should have a legitimate playoff chance if they can stay healthy. Big if though considering the track record of some of those guys.
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I still miss Cesaro's generic WCW style theme which most people hated.
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Fuck this list for including a woman in it at all, and then even more for singling out one.
Glad I skipped it due to them not knowing how to make a slide show.
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I think the stand out would have to be a Phillies game. David Cone struck out 19 which was the national league record at the time. Had seats behind home plate for the game. Perfect game to have those kind of seats.
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On the bright side, at least you have the Royce White era to look forward to.
Someone calculated he should be able to make 58 games. I suggested to White he learn to fly the plane to follow in the footsteps of Kareem in Airplane but he didn't like the idea.
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I had a response to someones post but actually this article sums it up better than I can. When stuff like this gets the same reaction as Sandy Hook maybe we can actually start moving towards fixing things.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/02/11/dewayne-wickham-on-blacks-and-gun-violence/1906819/
The number of African-American children killed by gunfire is a pandemic.
(Photo: Nam Y. Huh, AP)
STORY HIGHLIGHTS- First lady attended funeral of majorette killed in Chicago in apparent gang rivalry.
- The leading cause of death for black males 15-19 in 2008 and 2009 came from the barrel of a gun.
- This is not the problem of the black community, but of all Americans.
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On the same day Academy Award-winning actorJamie Foxx was in Miami for a march in remembrance of the senseless killing of a 17-year-old Florida boy, first lady Michelle Obama went to Chicago to attend the funeral of a 15-year-old girlwhose slaying also tests this nation's sobriety.
Only a nation impaired by selfish individualism can long ignore the bloody carnage that links Trayvon Martin to Hadiya Pendleton.
Martin was killed a year ago as he walked the streets of a gated community in Sanford, Fla., with the hood of his sweatshirt pulled over his head during a light rain. George Zimmerman, a self-appointed neighborhood watchman who was armed with a 9-mm handgun, thought the black teenager looked suspicious and followed him. During a brief struggle, Zimmerman pumped a single bullet into Martin's chest.
Pendleton -- a high school majorette -- was shot in the back while standing in a neighborhood park just a mile from President Obama's Chicago home. Her death came a week after she had gone to Washington to march in the reelected president's inaugural parade. Her killer, who is thought to have mistaken Pendleton for a member of a rival gang, has not been captured.
The killing of young blacks is an American pandemic.
In 2011, the last year for which the FBI has complete data, 1,668 blacks under the age of 22 were killed in this country. That's more than triple the469 American servicemen and women killed in Afghanistan that year. An average of eight children was killed each day in 2011 -- and half of them were black -- according to theChildren's Defense Fund.
In 2008 and 2009, black children and teenagers were just 15% of the nation's population but 45% of young people killed by guns. If that doesn't cause a churning in your gut, maybe this will: The leading cause of death for black males ages 15-19 in those years came from the barrel of a gun. Blacks in this age group were eight times more likely than whites and two-and-a-half times more likely than Hispanics to be killed by gunfire, the Children's Defense Fund said in "Protect Children, Not Guns," a 2012 report on effects of gun violence on this nation's children.
Even more shocking, the Washington-based children's advocacy group said, the number of black children killed by gunfire since 1979 is nearly 13 times more than the number of blacks who were lynched in this country between 1882 and 1968.
In Chicago alone, more than 270 children have been killed since 2007. And most of them were killed by other blacks, as are most of the nation's homicide victims. But the responsibility for this violence -- and the obligation to do something about it -- belongs to all of us.
This slaughter is also the fault of those who think more prisons, not better schools, is the answer to youth violence. It stains the hands of those who oppose efforts to keep weapons meant for war from being sold as freely as a loaf of bread. It is inextricably tied to the members of Congress who kowtow to the National Rifle Association even as the epidemic of school shootings prove that there is no haven of any of our children from the unchecked gun violence that was once seen as largely a fixture of America's black ghettos.
While young blacks are now disproportionately the victims of gun violence, this bloodshed is a cancer that -- if left unchecked -- will spread to the cul-de-sacs and bedroom communities into which those who think this is not their problem have retreated.
DeWayne Wickham writes on Tuesdays for USA TODAY.
In addition to its own editorials, USA TODAY publishes diverse opinions from outside writers, including our Board of Contributors.
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1) We need smart and reasonable people on juries.
Anyone smart and reasonable will easily find their way out of jury duty.
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Michael Carter Williams 27% shooting percentage and 18% three point percentage during summer league. Not really sure which team will win more games next year. The Eagles under Chip Kelly or the Sixers under, well they haven't actually bothered to hire a coach. Going to be a long, dreadful, season.
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This thread had a lot of quality. Ran into this picture the other day.
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The overall hatred toward McNabb is something I don't understand. Has he ever been liked since being drafted? I'm not aware of any such time. He was an above-average QB, which makes him worlds better than Salisbury if memory serves. But the mere mention of his name sends folk into a tirade. Strange.
He definitely doesn't have a large pool of huge fans. I can only think of 2 people on the Eagles group in the last 10-12 years that approached a level of fandom similar to say The Natural/Daniel Bryan here. He just doesn't connect with people the same way. It is odd since he jokes around most of the time and is generally a friendly guy. I think people just don't want the quarterback acting that way and have different expectations. He is actually a lot like Cena now that I think about it. My first instinct is that it is racial that he gets shit on and Tim Hasselbeck can say whatever he wants. Might not be though. Might just have a demeanor that people don't love and they are just sick of him. I'm indifferent and only noticed when I saw the article of him criticizing Stafford was the most commented on article on PFT.
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I think the vignettes should have ran longer. Also they could have put together some video packages both from his time in WWE and from New Japan (They've licensed footage before). Putting him against Cena so soon was a mistake. They waited months before putting Umaga against DX and Cena.
The ring gear and overall look was a disaster as well. I don't know if gimp diapers exist. If they do it looks a lot like his gear at the time.
I remember a lot of fans on here being royally, deeply offended by Umaga playing a "savage" character. I remember a bunch of folks going "It's a good thing Samoa Joe didn't come to WWE, because this is the gimmick he'd be saddled with".
I bet Samoa Joe thought that at one point as well. They were getting decent buy rates in his matches against Angle around the same time. Getting bitch slapped by Kevin Nash was probably the moment when reality hit.
Is part of this that the writers now rely on talking rather than good story to get people over? The wrestlers shouldn't have to lift all the weight. If the story is good, a short reaction promo is all that's needed, but if you're whole popularity scale is based only on who is the most clever smartass, then you rely on 20 minute vlog promos and you end up with feuds like Cena/Rock where the whole story is "Did you hear what he said!!!???" "Yeah! But did you hear what HE SAID BACK!!!????" OMG WHAT WILL SOMEONE SAY NEXT WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!.
The talking does have to play a factor. Mindset coming into the match is something to consider. It is certainly less of a concern when things are over. I meant getting reactions during the match only. By engaging the crowd rather than working the camera. Which actually makes a lot of sense and this should have been obvious to me before. It might be just how much television they do now. By working towards the hard camera they are being put in a position to fail since that is where the empty seats are hiding on the smaller shows and all the seats that are tarped off. The people they need to engage at eye level to start building a reaction might not even be there at all times. Seems like there are a lot of factors. I wonder if how things are taped actually plays a noticeable role. Will have to watch more handhelds to get an idea.
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Like it or not, if you're doing a thing with American audiences, they're going to have their say. It's actually one of the best parts of wrestling once you get past the why-can't-people-like-the-things-I-like issue.
I hate that fans are a part of the show now. The signs, the "what" during Mark Henry promos, the guys in CM Punk shirts chanting "Husky Harris." It isn't only annoying when it happens during something I like. They do invite it though by having obvious plants in the crowd for reaction shots and trying to start chants that they want on TV.
It seems noticeable to me that wrestlers don't know how to work a crowd anymore. Only a small group with strong instincts/smarts and charisma get reactions; or more more specifically build a reaction. Even they can't always get the appropriate reactions. No surprise though. Just throw on an ROH match and watch the "this is awesome" chants in the first minute of the match after an arm drag. That TNA PPV in 2012 in Nashville was uncomfortable to watch the guys were so clueless how to work a crowd. Fan reaction does effect show quality and leaving it completely in the hands of the fans to react is asking for trouble.
If it were, as you say, just fans having their say it would be one thing. That isn't really the case though. You have crowds that react to everything one night and nothing the next night. TNA is a good example of this since for some reason they would get live crowds on TV and dead crowds at PPVs often when doing Impact Zone tapings. I just don't see how the crowd sitting on their hands during a 3 and a half star match one night. Followed by chanting for Chyna a few days later can be seen as a good thing.
I guess I shouldn't specifically blame the fans. Was the promotions that empowered them. I just still view it like watching a movie or going to a play. Don't really find the audience being involved in one of those types of shows all that appealing either. It is like watching amateur night at the Apollo now.
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Decided to spend more time in the 80s. Haven't watched much from the Von Erichs so randomly chose a match on youtube. Made a great apparently. Von Erichs vs the Freebirds 7/4/83. I didn't really have expectations going in. If I had I am sure this would have exceeded them by a large margin. Just the entrances alone was a major spectacle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeD_UKAXdU8
I typically don't like watching a match more than once. Though I am open to it once a long time has passed since watching it. This was the first match in ages I ended up rewatching immediately after first viewing. I doubt I have seen a better tag team match. I've seen some equals but nothing better.
Watching a lot of late 80s Lex Luger as well. Watched this on recommendation and it was a good jumping off point. Good quick TV match.
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I feel bad for you if you were stuck using the sterile operation room white them on the last board. Because the two black themes were aces.
This x 1,000. I was missing the black theme from the last board but started using home jersey last night and am comfortable with it.
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One thing is for sure: I'm sick of reading about Ron Jaworski's fucking opinions about every QB and team in the league. I think Jaws is an idiot who is wrong on so many levels a majority of the time and the fact that every time I go to a football site and it's littered with quotes and blurbs from him is just the highest level of cringe-worthiness.
At least he is allowed an opinion. Apparently Donovan McNabb is not since there is an uproar every time he comments about a quarterback. Yet it is fine for Boomer Esiason and was fine for Sean Salisbury.
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Next thing you'll tell me is that Dolph has suddenly gotten boring...NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
I thought you were going to take advantage of the board not being up on Monday after RAW. Avoid talk of how horrible he was during that segment on Monday.
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Has anyone here actually gone to a training camp practice?
Because I'm thinking about going to Bourbonnais and camping at Kankakee river and taking the boy to watch Da Bears.
If it is anything like the Eagles camps over the last 10 years it is worth the trip. Average attendance was in the 7,500 range. Different players were made available for the people that want autographs. Unfortunately Eagles are moving camp and this year the camp practices open to the public will be at the stadium. Takes away what made the practices interesting. Being close enough to actually hear the coaching. The year TO signed training camp was a huge circus. It is hard to describe precisely just how popular he was in Philly that first year. 1983 Von Erichs comes to mind. Only replace the screaming 13 year old girls with screaming 30 year old men wearing Dawkins jerseys.
Thank god the board came back before training camps start. Now we can hear Rippa complain about the stupid DC media covering the Skins.
Indeed. Wouldn't have heard that great press conference with the guy from ESPN asking RG3 about the Tebow signing without this place. Hate how likable that guy is for a Redskin.
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The Bynum was signed to help make a run at LeBron talking point is one of the strangest in a long time. I actually wouldn't be surprised if people in Cleveland thought this though. A good reminder as to why he is gone.
They honestly think he will forget this?
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I have gone back to play the playstation Final Fantasy games again.
Started with VII. Really nothing of note with this game. It never had much replay value in my opinion. I liked it on first play through but not enough to relate to the people that have been playing for 15 straight years like some of the people on gamefaqs.
On VIII now. VIII had great replay value once you had a firm grasp of the game mechanics. Such as getting magic by playing cards and using the card ability from one of the summons rather than in battle. The card mini game is one probably the best mini game in the series. Battle speed can be cranked to a really high speed and no encounters can be gotten really early into disc 1 so random encounters are easily taken out of the game. The story isn't exceptional by any means but it does imply a time loop so even that contributes to replay value. Really only X-2 has as much replay value as this game for the FF games; well if using new game plus that is. Only complaint would be Squall being far too powerful. Not challenging enough. X-2 you could max battle speed and it would present some legitimate challenges.
Going to start IX next. I remember this one having good music and some of the worst gameplay in the series. It was the speed of the gameplay that was the issue. Even if you cranked battle speed to max in settings it was slow.