John from Cincinnati

The lurid details from the suit suggest this will be getting far more attention than the last few rounds of this.

It’s gonna suck when the payoff to this is Curt finding out that Many Saints is mid.

It’s not a Netflix original. That was Warner and New Line and premiered on HBO. Or am I mistaken? Say what you will of Netflix, I haven’t had any problem finding their originals even years after the fact on the service.

If the consolation prize for Cody not finishing the story this year is we get the biggest match in AEW history, Punk vs Cody, I’m okay with it. Get to knock that off my dream board and probably get Gunther winning the Rumble? As much as I don’t care to see the Rock, that’s not a bad way for things to shake out.

If you watched something you liked or that activated you in some way, you’re the winner regardless of what awards giving bodies choose to recognize.

Maybe they should expand Best Picture to twenty nominees to keep everyone happy.

HBO Maxwell Jacob Friedman

Re: Dakota Johnson, I wonder how much of a coincidence it was that news broke about her switching her representation like a week after that trailer dropped.

It’s bad enough that I need to watch an event this weekend that takes place from the armpit of MLB stadiums, the Trop. Stop!

Getting back into WWE for Punk purposes has me reckoning with the fact that they’ve handled Gunther very well. And a wrestling podcaster with some connections has suggested that the WWE pitch for Okada is “Gunther with subtitles.” Not sure old rematches are the metric for success. But I think I know what Okada in AEW looks like, whereas there’s a curiosity factor with WWE.

They’re going to air the SAG awards live on Netflix next month. Me and dozens of other people will be watching.

Am I crazy for thinking Netflix is ubiquitous enough that it’s at worst a neutral move in terms of visibility? Among streamers, I think it’s the only one you could credibly make that claim about.

SRS seemed to hint at the OVW docu-series making an impact. Will be interested if he does any reporting on that.

That was a very qualified answer while also speaking a great deal about the stiff football competition. I think if they were moving, they wouldn’t make that clear until closer to the move so as not to confuse people. It’s eleven months away, why rush to announce such a move?

I guess that’s fair in the sense that the main streamer I kept hearing people bring up as a possibility was Amazon.

Is it that random? Streamers looking to get live sports or sports-adjacent content has been a long developing story.

No time for that shit, gotta talk about OVW.

Hell yeah, let’s get those undercard guys with paper records into the top five so we can pretend their matches against the real stars matter.

Yes, I assume Curt was cracking wise.

Are we still doing Wire references?

Astros signing Josh Hader. Five years, $95 million.

Danielson’s still planning to work multiple times a year once he winds it down as a full-time guy. Think he said a dozen or so times a year, I can’t remember the exact number of matches he said. I worry how max effort he’s gonna go to make those feel special.

There’s something funny about Christian and Dustin being the examples cited in a post that devolves into a grievance against guys who do barely anything and take the night off when their match this past week had (off the top of my head; but I’m happy to go back and rewatch if necessary): -a superplex -a splash -a dive over the post to the floor -a destroyer on the floor -a finisher kick out -very physical collisions This is a TV first promotion and when the red light is on, I frankly don’t see many people assing off or taking the night off. I see a lot of people giving it their best effort every time out. Not everyone’s max-effort is equal, but are we holding it against people for making the most of what they have by deploying it shrewdly? Not being on the most extreme end of the maximalist bombfest scale isn’t a reflection of a lack of effort or a sign the performers think they’re taking advantage of the audience. I don’t want to go as far as to say it’s disrespectful to engage in work like that in this way, but I think we can do better. All of that said, I understand that the Bucks’ promo was repugnant and it was meant to provoke extreme opinions, so I blame them for all of this.

Just going to take the strange developments in this thread as proof that guys like Dustin don’t need to be hitting destroyers on the floor (which I don’t necessarily mind them doing), because the people they’re trying to please with that will still want them to go away.

What’s your desired Okada destination?