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Lovie was brilliant. Since the Bears get the 1st pick now, they will inevitably pick the guy who is going to bomb out the hardest for no other reason than that they are the Bears and so that saves the Texans from getting stuck with whoever that is and they have the 1st "clean" (non-Bear) pick.

I may have mispkoen, they might not be in the running. sorry! but it is after 11 oclock and edibles are legal now.

I wonder if there is a single person on the board of Disney, Warner, Aol, Cabletown, Amazon, Hulu, Netflix, etc who can read this sentence and have any idea it is real.

I love that man. You cannot convince me that Telly was not the central hub of all quaalude distribution in Southern California and Nevada from 1967 to 1975.

Eventually the lead role in a police procedural swallows us all.

If you've never watched the 1st regular ep. of Kokak you have to. Kojak is INSANELY OP and just literally superhuman in every way, like when it's absurd you will laugh but you will not believe how far it goes. It is a masterclass in ego release. Also some very familiar faces. It's funny how much the show would become about police corruption and incompetence when it started as insanely reactionary copaganda.

Camera pans down to tiny baby Scientist: "[smiling] It's a Haku!" camera pan to Alan Grant holding tiny baby tilt up to closeup on Grant Grant [looking suddenly afraid] "You created a Tongaland?"

Damn. I say "fuck them wives!"

Do you know how many marriages this will end?

I think it's kind of an unknown. I mean here are the known knowns and the known unknowns: 1) There is the conventional "Meltzer" wrestling wisdom that house shows and touring are absolutely essential and the business will fold without them. That wrestling and wrestling fans are "different" and this is one of the ways. 2) There is the known unknown of whether a corporate buyer will buy into that idea just because the old guys insist it needs it or if they'll be like "media is media. Content is content. it's just bits on our servers." 3) there is the unknown unknown in that we don't really know if that old conventional wisdom is true. Maybe it's wrong and the new WWDisney could be t.v. tapings only and not live and everything will chug along fine. Or maybe the old ways are there for a reason. But that's what old guys always say even when they're wrong. But that's what new business degree types say even when they're wrong.

I wonder if the sale to a Media company that is not used to having a 200-night-a-year live traveling circus as part of their company (along with all the potential extra liability that entails) means the end of house shows and if that means the end of something that is necessary to keeping the whole operation going?

So does this sale, when it happens, of WWE to a giant corporate conglomerate mark the end of what will be seen as the golden age (1980s-present)? Or does AEW still count as the tail end of that era? There has never been a point in my life, or I guess anyone's, when Pro Wrestling was dominated not by a few individuals, but by a few mainstream media companies with little to no connection to the history of the business. Is this it?

If they sell to Warner/Discovery there is a pretty good chance all the best stuff in the vault is buried forever as a tax writeoff.

and like nine managers (counting interims) over the next 9 years.

Does anyone know Jason Hervey's current liquidity?

Damn. I mean. Damn. If only Arthur Mendel was right.

It might differ. DNA doesn't necessarily lead to success or even greatness. So who are the guys with the best DNA who didn't make it for one reason or another? And I don't necessarily mean lineage but just who seemed to be born with the best pure physical talent for the sport but couldn't break through to where they should have been. Curt Hennig might be someone to draw blood from.

We are pivoting to teletext. It's the next big thing.

All the usual twitter scumbags are going into auto-mode. I would like to think that at least a few of them will catch some actual consequences given how many people are watching this in real time.

At least we know that if this ever happens to an MLB game they will cut to The Sandlot.

Didn't Len Bias and and hank Gathers both collapse and die from heart conditions during play?

motherfuckers on twitter already using this to pump "it was the vaccine" and try to grift a few pennies. I take back what I said about us not yet being a death cult.

Stopping this game feels like a very big moment in what's left of our collective conscience. Whatever happens, if they had just kept going and we all just shrugged and said "of course, what else can you don?" it would have been hard to ever think of ourselves as anything other than a death cult. I mean, it doesn't mean we're not a death cult, but it say something that I'm genuinely surprised they stopped it.

The fact that they all just assumed they would keep playing just shows that when there's enough money involved every one of these fucker owners and league is Vince McMahon at heart until someone has the guts to step up (the two coaches I guess) and say no. Good on McDermott and Taylor for realizing they have the power to shut it down and doing it.

Still....