BillThompson
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So Yadier Molina shoves an umpire and gets no suspension from that. Guess that's the Cardinals Way.
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How is baseball ever going to be dead to anyone?
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Gonna be wonderful when Rice serves his suspension and is back in time to wear pink cleats/gloves and a pink towel all through October.
Don't forget the standing ovation that he is going to get in Baltimore. You really think that the same people who cheered in a scrimmage are going to boo now? Not in the NFL.
And before I get bashed on it, I realized that if Ray Rice played on every other team in the NFL the fan reaction would be the same.
I have caught myself coming dangerously close to finding a sliver of benefit of doubt to give Ray McDonald, myself. Or at least thinking "you idiot, the team needs you" as much as "you idiot, beating your wife is wrong."
Sports team loyalty makes hypocrites of us all.
It's hard to stick to your guns on a situation like this, but I've managed to with the Patriots. I won't watch them as long as domestic abuser Julian Edelman is on the team. Every so often I'll turn on a game, then Brady will complete a pass to Edelman and I'll remember how much I loathe his actions and turn the game off. Of course, I'm sure there are people on the Cubs and Red Wings I should take this approach with as well, and I don't, and that does make me a hypocrite.
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Soler still continues to hit like he's been in the majors forever, Turner pitched a good game, our bullpen continues to be surprisingly good, and Alcantra has been aces in the field and is starting to become more consistent with the bat. The Rizzo injury worries me, and watching Baez struggle is tough, but overall I'm very happy with the way the Cubs have been playing lately.
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I'd imagine it has to be similar to being a ten year old who's never seen anything faster than a 50MPH fastball stepping into the Nolan Ryan batting cage and watching a 101MPH heater fly by. Only probably even more intense.
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I hope people are willing to accept him struggling. I have a bad feeling that the majority of the fan base is expecting him to come up and dominate. Maybe he will, but as Brett Taylor wrote about today at Bleacher Nation, he's being brought up to face big league pitching, fielding situations, and the big game in general. He probably will struggle, but all that really matters is that he's getting big league experience and that the club is continuing to move him along on a really good developmental track.
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Anthony Rizzo started bunting against the shift this year, and it's done wonders for him against lefties. The name of the game is getting on base, and if the shift is presented a properly laid down bunt will get you on base. There's no reason not to bunt against the shift every once in a while.
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There are a few good arms in the system though, namely Edwards, Viscaino, and Hendricks. Other pitching will come, because things are too crowded now, or at least will be in a few years. Even if you go with a dream line-up of Castillo at C, Rizzo at 1B, Alcantara at 2B, Russell at SS, Byant at 3B, Scwarber at LF, Almora at CF, and Soler at RF that leaves Vogelbach, Castro, and Baez without positions. And yes, when the chips are down I would use Baez as a trade piece to get more pitching, because I see a better future with any combination of the above minus Baez than I do with Baez (and that's not a knock on Baez, who I like a lot).
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By the time your subscription is up there'll be weekly TV you care about.
I highly dobut they will ever upload any of the WWECW stuff or velocity though which is not at all a draw for anyone (aside from me) so I don't see why that kind of stuff couldn't be there on launch or shortly after. Nobody cares about it so it's not like the Raw episodes where they air them first and then put them up either. It's not like they're only holding the big guns to have something new for when the first subs are up, they still have a lot of stuff that would at least be nice to pad the library even if it's not going to get anyone to buy it.
As it is now it's pretty much just all PPVs with no context aside from 93 and 94 WWF and some WCCW.
I fully expect them to upload stuff like Velocity, Jakked, Super Astros, Worldwide, Saturday Night, etc. They'll need the variety of content as the Network grows and I expect them to use the C shows to boost the amount of content they offer.
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Not to derail the thread, but I was hoping to get something cool out of the AWA title still being active. Sadly (or cool if this were actually a thing and WWE all of a sudden brought back the AWA title) the linear AWA title only lasts until Hulk Hogan's first reign, and then it's the same as the WWF title the rest of the way. Technically that means Cesaro is currently both the WWE and AWA champion (and a quick mock up of the ECW (beginning in 1994 when they officially became known as Extreme Championship Wrestling) linear title history reveals that Cesaro is currently the triple crown champion of AWA, ECW, and WWF). Either way, here's the AWA linear title until Hogan,
Verne Gagne 08-16-1960
Bob Geigel 05-10-1961
Hard Boiled Haggerty 06-07-1961
Bob Geigel (2) 07-07-1961
Leo Nomellini 07-25-1961
*Vacated due to inactivity*
Gene Kiniski 07-25-1962
Buddy Rogers 07-30-1962
Lou Thesz 01-24-1963
*Vacated due to inactivity*
Mad Dog Vachon 07-20-1966
Verne Gagne (2) 02-26-1967
*Vacated due to inactivity*
Verne Gagne (3) 11-25-1968
*Vacated due to inactivity*
Verne Gagne (4) 08-14-1971
*Vacated due to inactivity*
Nick Bockwinkel 06-25-1977
Crusher 02-03-1980
Jerry Blackwell 10-06-1980
Crusher (2) 10-11-1980
*Vacated due to inactivity*
Nick Bockwinkel 05-02-1982
David Schultz 07-16-1982
Gerry Morrow 09-12-1982
Keith Hart 10-08-1982
Hubert Gallant 11-12-1982
Keith Hart (2) 11-19-1982
Leo Burke 02-11-1983
Dynamite Kid 03-04-1983
Cuban Assassin 05-22-1983
Bruce Hart 06-04-1983
Cobra 09-02-1983
Keith Hart (3) 09-12-1983
Cuban Assassin (2) 11-21-1983
Sonny Two Rivers 12-19-1983
Kerry Brown 02-03-1984
Sonny Two Rivers (2) 02-10-1984
Killer Khan 02-26-1984
Dynamite Kid (2) 03-10-1984
Bad News Allen 03-28-1984
Dynamite Kid (3) 04-04-1984
Tatsumi Fujinami 07-26-1984
Hulk Hogan 02-05-1985
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Does the lineal title change hands on a DQ or countout?
Most linear titles mock-ups I've seen follow these general rules,
- Title could only change hands in singles (i.e. one on one) matches.
- Title can not be lost by countout or disqualification (keeping with the traditional rules of pro wrestling)
- Title could be lost by pinfall, submission, or by a match stipulation.
- Title could be lost by Referee Stoppage
- Title could not be lost in an Multiple Man (Triple Threat, Elimination Chamber, etc) or Tag Team Match
- Title must be defended (i.e. wrestle a one on one match) every 365 days.
- The Linear Title is not bound to the "insert fed here". If the champion loses anywhere (Japan, another territory, etc.), they lose the Linear Title.
Those are courtesy of Jason Felix over at Voices of Wrestling, who I believe started this Linear title thing.
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If one accepts that originally TNA used the NWA title and that they eventually switched to their own title this would be their linear title lineage. It starts with Kurt Angle, who was the first TNA champion in a legit sense, and ends up being very TNA in the present.
Kurt Angle 05-13-2007
Jay Lethal 09-09-2007
Christopher Daniels 09-10-2007
Jay Lethal (2) 10-14-2007
Johnny Devine 01-21-2008
Rhino 03-12-2008
Toru Yano 03-19-2008
Giant Bernard 03-23-2008
Hiroshi Tanahashi 03-23-2008
Shinsuke Nakamura 03-30-2008
Keiji Muto 04-27-2008
Hiroshi Tanahashi (2) 01-04-2009
Manabu Nakanishi 05-06-2009
Hiroshi Tanahashi (3) 06-20-2009
Takao Omori 08-07-2009
Masato Tanaka 08-09-2009
Togi Makabe 08-13-2009
Shinsuke Nakamura (2) 09-27-2009
Togi Makabe (2) 05-03-2010
Tetsuya Naito 08-06-2010
Toru Yano (2) 08-12-2010
Hiroshi Tanahashi (4) 08-13-2010
Prince Devitt 08-14-2010
Toru Yano (3) 08-15-2010
TAJIRI 10-11-2010
Michael Kovac 01-29-2011
Tatanka 02-18-2011
Joe E. Legend 02-25-2011
El Ligero 03-18-2011
Deano 03-26-2011
CJ Banks 04-02-2011
Kid Fite 04-03-2011
Chaos 04-16-2011
Killer Karlson 05-28-2011
Chaos (2) 08-27-2011
Lionheart 09-03-2011
Wolfgang 10-21-2011
BT Gunn 04-01-2012
Red Lightning 06-03-2012
BT Gunn (2) 06-29-2012
Red Lightning (2) 07-01-2012
U-Gene 12-07-2012
Dave Mastiff 12-09-2012
El Ligero (2) 01-27-2013
Super Crazy 02-01-2013
Joey Hayes 02-02-2013
Noam Dar 02-02-2013
Andy Wild 02-16-2013
Wolfgang (2) 02-17-2013
Kid Fite (2) 03-23-2013
Johnny Moss 06-21-2013
BT Gunn (3) 09-27-2013
Jack Jester 04-06-2014
El Ligero (3) 06-07-2014
Rampage Brown 06-08-2014
Zack Gibson 06-13-2014
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I don't know either. People are raving about her, but it's just another crazy gimmick for an another diva that is other wise unremarkable.
She's actually proven herself to be a pretty good worker, one of the handful of women currently under WWE employ who can go in the ring. She could use a bigger moveset though.
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I think it works better to start from when the title was actually the TNA title and not the NWA title.
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He consistently shows a lack of understanding of even the current product he watches. I like Meltzer, always have, I greatly respect what he does both as a reporter and a historian of pro wrestling. His relationship with Alavarez has always been an albatross around his neck, damaging his credibility at every turn. Alvarez doesn't know wrestling history, he's unable to keep up with what the present day product offers, and when he did write it was rather insipid and of a very low quality.
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You lads are taking this way too seriously. He never has claimed to be a historian.
He's a paid wrestling writer who wrote a book about the death of WCW, lives in an age where he has instant WCW historical information at his fingertips, and is partners with possibly the foremost historian in the business, there's no excuse for him consistently knowing jack all abut the history to the topic he is paid to cover.
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More gold for all you Bryan Alvarez haters: he was supposed to review Clash of the Champions I on a recent podcast, but he accidentally watched Clash IV, never once questioning the entire time that he might be watching the wrong show and fully accepted that Ric Flair vs. Bobby Eaton was the main event of the very first Clash.
The author of The Death of WCW apparently had no idea that the 45 minute Sting/Ric Flair match headlined The Clash of the Champions, arguably one of the biggest shows in Crockett history.
I imagine Alvarez is defending his stupidity by calling everyone on the F4W boards who points out his stupidity a nerd.
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It's even more damning in this day and age when one can just open up Cagematch and find the card for any of the Clashes.
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Is there no news out of this promotion aside from Youtube videos? That doesn't scream "serious promotion" to me. Have they announced a roster signee or a show or tv deal yet?
I believe their first signing was Lance Hoyt.
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Proof positive one need not be talented to have a professional writing job, well at least one of many examples.
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Did Keller follow through with, recently, saying he would put out a list of all the matches he gave ****+ to?
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Presently Anthony Rizzo leads the NL in just about every important stat for a first baseman. This makes me happy, almost as much as the rest of the league apparently continuing to sleep on him makes me happy.
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It was a random aspect of this Medusa run that she wrestled with bare feet, as Mona/Miss Madness had previously. There was something slightly sleazy about it, and I'm not even sure it's completely on Russo.
At this point in her career Madusa was pure sleaze, and that was well before Russo came along.
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Curt Hawkins isn't going to be alive long based on him thinking that calling Mark Henry an idiot is a good idea.
He will be hiding in micro indies in Jersey. No one knows about them.
Don't tell that to PWS, because they never, ever paper their shows, they really are outselling every promotion in the world every show.
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Oh, the many years of Tenta enjoyment that I lost out on because I was an idiot kid convinced by Scott Keith that Tenta was complete trash.