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Falcons doing to the Packers what I as an Atlanta native have wished I could do to every northerner/midwesterner who has ever moved here and then talked about how much better it is there since i was a small child. No one cares about how good the flow of traffic was in Sheboygan. We have running water and some museums. Go Home. and #RiseUp.

First of all, the Alma Mater puts one on JSU after a soulcrushing loss to Tennessee. Secondly, Wake Up the Echoes, Shake Down the Thunder, whatever it is you midwesterners do. I could use a week of silence from these hillbilly-ass u(sic)ga fans...

I love Bo Dallas dressing up as the world's sleaziest used car dealer every week. All in on that shit.

It's crazy to me how much Enzo, who's one of the smaller guys on the main roster, just loomed over Neville.

This Cass injury gives them an out with the breakup, though. Have Cass come back like "Zo, I thought about it. I was in the wrong. Sorry." Neither one is anything without the other. You get them back on track this way.

Poop.

I mean, what kind of out of touch old goo.....ah. Got it. Thanks.

Also, why on God's green earth would you let the Miz go out there and say those things, knowing the live audience is gonna take a giant steaming shit on your two biggest stars? Miz isn't wrong, fwiw, but why would you greenlight that?

Yeah, seconded on Cass and Jordan. It takes a special kind of idiot to turn a moneymaking act like Enzo & Cass into two DOA singles stars. And Jason Jordan? Really? I see the talent, but I don't know that I can think of anyone less ready to get the push he's getting at the time h's getting it. Maybe Sheamus' first run.

No.

I'm sorry you think that. MY point, and perhaps I could've made it better, is that sooo many people immediately shit on Braun because he had no indy experience or nXt resume, and now he's probably the guy who's style best fits his character in the entire company.

Getting a little defensive in here. Strowman has FARRRR exceeded any original expectations. And damn, was that match violent...

Y'all remember a couple years back when a bunch of neckbeard virgins burned the internet down when they heard Vince was considering 'Taker/Strowman for Mania that year? People are stupid.

That's fair, and I'm probably giving WWE creative WAYYYYY too much credit...

I feel like the problem with Bayley is the same one as with Cena/Reigns, turn her heel and the crowd dynamic will be the same, just reversed. Kids will boo and grown ups will cheer. If she came back on Smackdown this fall and just jumped Naomi and kicked the living shit out of her, the smarks would dig it and the neon t-shirt crowd would boo. I think it could work if she goes nuts, like that TV trope you see sometime, where this cutesy entity has gone nuts and starts punishing people for not wanting to be their friend. Like, a match where she just snaps on Sasha Backlund-style and puts her in some devastating hold while screaming "why don't you want to be my friend?" while the announcers react by saying that Sasha IS her oldest friend in the business. Just deranged stuff like that. Like AJ mixed with Elmira from Tiny Toons.

Roll Tide on that....

Saw a good tweet tonight: "Cass getting that Test-ass music for his Test-ass heel run." About sums it up. Neither of them is anything without the other. It's a shame they've booked themselves into a corner here. I LOVED Strowman/Reigns. Thought the right guy won, but Reigns has to look really strong, so... Joe/Lesnar was good. Hot start.

My personal theory based on nothing is that either they a) asked him to become a full time commentator or b) he wanted to not be a cruiserweight anymore and they said no.

Sounds like Austin Aries was just released...

DDP should've beaten Goldberg at Havoc. DDP gives Goldberg the cutter from the "jackhammer", Goldberg kicks out at two. DDP goes for another, Goldberg pushes him into the ropes for a spear, DDP gives him a second cutter from an attempted spear. 1-2-3. Goldberg wins the rematch decisively.

Freddie Freeman back for Braves tonight with a John Cena-esque recovery time. Starting at 3B.

I've talked about this before, but I'm from Peachtree City, GA, and knew the Benoits. Not well, but I was on a "greeting and handshake" basis with Chris, Nancy knew me by name and Daniel attended a day camp I was one of the directors of. I think I've told the story before of seeing Chris at the gym in november and december 2003 going 90-100 minutes at a full run on the treadmill and surmising that he was probably going to win the Royal Rumble. What always struck me about Chris is that even when you were engaging him in conversation, he always looked like he was elsewhere. He wasn't. He'd be a full participant in the conversation, but his eyes...he looked like he was somewhere else. Chris doted on that kid. Daniel would sit by the treadmill at the gym (PTC only had two at the time, and Chris and I went to the same one) and play with WWE figures while Chris would work out. I'd also see them frequently at a local pizzeria, where the owner was always good about getting them a table away from everyone. The 4th of July after he won the WWE title, I saw him at the restaurant. Our local fireworks display was shot off not far from there, so those window views were hard to come by. My friends hadn't arrived yet, so when I walked by looking for them, Nancy invited me to sit with them until my friends got there. That night they seemed like a normal family, but in the back of everyone who knew them's mind was the time Nancy called the cops on Chris after she threw him out of their old house one night after he got too drunk and tried to get physical with her. Sorry. I'm rambling. It's so weird to me that it's been ten years. I remember Nancy and Daniel like it was yesterday. I truly hope and pray they are resting in a place far better than this. As a morbid side note, my old roommate was the first responder on-scene out there at the Benoit place, and that case is what took him off the street and into becoming a school resource officer. He said he couldn't handle it anymore. I don't go out of my way to avoid Benoit matches, but I don't seek them out either. I've heard or read Chris Jericho say several times that he feels that a demon came into Chris Benoit for him to have done what he did. Idk about all that, but Daniel Benoit is the one person I would've bet Chris would've never laid a hand on in violence, so something snapped in Chris' brain for him to have done that. That doesn't absolve him, and i think it's irresponsible to say that it does, but we are only just know beginning to learn about the long-term effects of impact to the brain, and I hope one day we unlock the secret to treatment, if there is one. Sorry for writing so much. It all just kind of came out.

It took me til episode 7 to figure out that Liberty Belle's shitass husband was the dude that tried to scam on Pam in "The Office". Double fuck him. I loved it. Thought it got progressively better, with the last 3 episodes being super strong. Good on Alex Riley for getting a payday.

Braves have their doo-doo together the last couple weeks. Playing well.

The Atlanta Braves refuse to completely fade away. Matt Adams putting some #'s up since getting here...