Craig H

The one thing I don't get about the situation with Bret leaving for WCW is why they didn't think of the many other, much simpler ways of getting the title off of Bret, or better, just taking the belt from him. Have him say that win, lose, or draw, it's his last night in WWE. He wins, goes to the back, and right as he gets back to gorilla... YOU TAKE THE FUCKING TITLE FROM HIM. HELL, HE WOULD HAVE JUST HANDED IT OVER. You listen to Bret, Shawn, HHH, Vince, etc. and you'd think that Bret was a fucking ninja, like he'd go back to gorilla, drop a smoke bomb, and then vanish. Anyway, you do that same fucking thing regardless of the end result. Work an injury angle, have Bret relinquish the title, tell Bret to stay home, ANYTHING. They were just so fucking insistent on having the match between Bret and Shawn though. It's just insane. You know Bret is leaving, in your head you're going to screw him over. That's the plan. At no point did it cross Vince or Shawn's mind that maybe, just maybe, since they're planning on screwing Bret over, that they could do anything else with Bret and the title. Vince's giant concern was the world title appearing on WCW TV and there were so many simpler and less convoluted options that wouldn't have burned any bridges. Nevermind that Bret probably has a world title or 2 sitting at home from WWE, so him handing over the one that appears on TV is meaningless.

This crowd is going to be electric.

I thought that maybe the Rangers would have a slim chance against the O's, but not against the Jays. The Rangers have been a massively lucky team all season. A +8 run differential, tons of 1 run games, etc. The team is nowhere near as good as their record and a team like the Jays is the perfect team to exploit that. That said, I did not envision the beating that the Jays would put on the Rangers. Game 1 of Cleveland/Boston was certainly intense. So many stranded runners. Boston has to be kicking themselves.

Oh, the last thing I saw about Goldberg vs Lesnar was that it's planned for Wrestlemania. If that's the case, then this company never learns.

Imagine what Snitsky would have looked like in HD.

Liked for the image from Silicon Valley.

I didn't want the Giants in the NLDS. Fun fact, Mets hitters, specifically Cespedes, can't stand up to heaters. Madbum exploited that and threw a ton of heat. You know who else has trouble with that? The Cubs. Whatever. Go out and do your thing.

OMFG, how much shit is Dan Matha on?!? He looks worse than Gene Snitsky. That looked disgusting. That said, I love that they hyped him for weeks to have him get destroyed by Joe. Awesome. Also awesome? The AoP murdering the Bollywood Boys. Someone make a stable with Joe and the AoP. They would be unstoppable. Rich Swann is so fucking cool. The face he makes at the start of the match had me in stitches. The commentary made me laugh even more. I think it was Phillips who said that Patrick looked like he wanted to play Swann in a game of basketball and then serve him pancakes. I was dying. Peyton Royce is the next big female star. She works so well in the ring and has great presence. It doesn't hurt that she also has better looks than Eva Marie.

I forgot about that. I vaguely remember it. I may or may not have had it. The M.A.S.K. Boulder Hill base is another I had that I have fond memories of. Looking back at all of these makes me think that toys were way fucking cooler when we were kids. Now toys are more expensive and not nearly as cool.

I'm getting too much of a CW vibe from this young Han Solo movie, but I'm fully on board with Donald Glover as Lando.

Bob Ryder is denying it on twitter, which of course means that for sure this is going down.

If that's true about Dixie, is anyone surprised? What a piece of shit. Why any wrestler would ever trust her is beyond me.

Yeah, but compared to Castle Greyskull, it was the shit. The Ghostbusters HQ is still the best. Ghostbusters HQ > GI Joe HQ > Death Star > Castle Greyskull. And while not a "base," I had fond memories of the Millennium Falcon.

When I read about Dixie saying she wouldn't let that happen, the first thought that popped into my head was, "TNA is dead, she's selling the library to WWE."

RIP TNA

Member when the action figures cost $3.88 at Toys R Us? I member! (I actually remember that specific price because GI Joes cost the exact same amount and so that information sticks with me like glue for some reason.)

OF COURSE Brees and Travis Benjamin would both suck yesterday. Lost by 8 points in the 12 man PPR league. No longer undefeated. On the other hand, I'm now 3-1 in both leagues because I started Julio Jones in the 2 QB league. This was a team I thought would be bad because I had to draft for it online at the same time I was doing the last half of a live draft at my cousin's house. Drafted Cousins, Dalton, and Tannehill as my QBs. Oddly enough, combinations of those 3 have been enough to get the job done. Now that I look at that team, it looks ridiculous. Yesterday I started Cousins, Dalton, Bell, CJ Anderson, Jones, Hopkins, Hilton, the Ravens D, and Hopkins the kicker. On my bench was Demaryius, Mathews, Duke, Tannhehill, Snead, Chiefs D, Ebron, McKinnon, CAP, and Crowder. Most of the bench guys were a complete bust this week, except for Demaryius.

Can't believe they're still alive. TNA is like a patient on life support and in a coma. It's just that now they have encephalitis, hence all of Broken Matt stuff. Every now and then the people in the waiting room are called in because it looks like they're going to die, only for them to live just a little bit longer.

Dicks out for Man-Ape.

The ND defense isn't going to magically get better this season because of the epically poor job VanGorder did, but it at least won't get much worse. The biggest positive is the players are back to the one coach they like yelling at them, instead of the giant douchebag trying to do the same routine. The offense on the other hand remains great. Had this team not had VanGorder at DC the last three years and was better than this, who knows what their record would be.

Two episodes into Luke Cage. Fuck yeah. This is awesome.

He actually lives in a trailer park. The only way that story would be better is if his girlfriend was Nidia. To this day, my friends and I will still say Nidia like Noble used to.

I don't regularly watch TNA. I think the last thing I really saw was Final Deletion. Sometime in the last few weeks though, I wanted to see how EC3 was doing. HOLY SHIT! You guys are totally right. First thought was, "man, he's on more shit than Lashley."

Watched the latest two episodes. They weren't the funniest, but like someone else mentioned, I'm totally into the story. I did laugh my ass off any time Garrison would turn around in frustration and the end of episode three had me in stitches.

At the time, I thought even if you're recently signed, you had to show up. After I asked that about Tommy, I saw Meltzer say that Strong wasn't required to go. At that point I figured that Tommy probably wasn't either. I think they could do something special with Tommy, but they could very easily fuck him up by making him another Wyatt family member. It will be interesting to see what they do with him. He's got a great personality, looks good in the ring, but I could see Vince or others thinking his body looks too soft.