SirFozzie
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So, my last set of Wireless Headphones crapped out, and I decided to spend more than I really actually should to replace them.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09TRW57WB?psc=1
(costs $190, but I'm paying over three months). 300 hours of battery life on a single charge !
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It does have hall of fame voting, and I've very rarely seen players get 100%. I'll report when I get that far
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My super pitcher Jeff Baird has finally retired after the 1961 season ( I had to demote him to the pen, as he was dropping fast, and had a large contract for 1962 tied into a 22 games started clause). Thankfully we won the title, but this is the stats he ended his career with.
387 Wins, 172 Losses, 1 Save (final year), 2.72 ERA, 5125 1/3 IP, 4101 Hits Allowed, 1773 BB issued, 5,875 K. Career WAR: 157.5
9 Time Pitcher of the Year (really should be renamed the Jeff Baird award), 6 MVP, 4 Championships, 15-time All Star.
To go with that, his performance in 7 World Baseball Tournaments: (20-7, 2 SV, 2.07 ERA, 430 K)
He had over 6,300 K in competitive highest level play.
Pitcher of the year: 1946-1950 inclusive (5 in a row), 1953, 1955, 1956, 1958
MVP: 1947, 1949, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1958.
Enjoy your retirement. See you in Cooperstown.
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Honestly, if you don't give Kingston the title over MJF, a very long program with Jon Moxley over the NJPW Strong Openweight Championship would be nice.. maybe they can run back the barbed wire exploding ring death match, and with the same detail of Eddie covering Jon.
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So, I'm trying to get a game together of Cities Without Number elsewhere. I mentioned this game before, but you definitely should read it (especially as I'm pretty sure that when the game hits release, they'll take down the free beta/RC google drive they set up and allowed people to share..
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12HH1k-ZTV_TnoQmJqXQre9jGak-9pq1d
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MJF just loves these odd couple angles where it's "Hey, I'm an asshole, you're an asshole, let's hang out and be funny assholes while we wonder who's going to be the first to stick the dagger into the other's back (it's going to be me, by the way). First Jericho, now Cole. Think he had a couple other ones.
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And Football Manager just got more evidence that it's so real... Mexico just got FM'd in real life.
Possession 76-24
Shots 25-1
Corners 7-0
Passes completed 580-127All in favor of Mexico. Final score? 1-0 Qatar.
It's their tactics, mate.
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Lzzy Hale, who I know from Shatter Me (with Lindsey Sterling), and her cover of the Lita Ford and Ozzy Osborne's "Close My Eyes Forever", had another one that just hit my playlist, this time, covering Journey with Daughtry
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Nearly 700 runs in two days on a green tinged pitch
. BazBall is DIFFERENT
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Funny moment: I was doing a round up of all my unclaimed Humble Bundle games for a game giveaway thread on another forum (I'd link it, but not sure of the etiquette), and I have over 350 games to give out.
In other words, "Hello, I R STUPIDFACE who should have cancelled Humble Bundle a while ago :P"
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No one else said it?
Fine, I'll do it:
It's JUNE 29TH.. YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS......
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turn collision into the zero hour for those shows (and of course, you'd have to move it forward in time.
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I think what they might want to do is the following:
A) If you're going this big, make it a two night thing like Wrestle Kingdom was or that. Fewer, but longer matches each day.
If the goal is to build up AEW in Japan, then host it on a Saturday Night so it's sunday in japan, not sunday Night.
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I think I get what Meltzer means, that it was quite clearly, Ok, we do the four pump kicks, then the four suplexes.. very impressive spots but not something you'd see in a fight. They were all hit perfectly mind you.
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I'm beginning to wonder if they give Sammy the sting retirement match.
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oh, before I forget. for someone as claimingly disrespectful to the wrestling business as MJF is, I really appreciate the nearly perfect "Flair hits the corner with the flip over the ropes to the apron, runs to the next turnbuckle, climbs it, only to be slammed off it". I mean, if Flair doing it is the 1.0 standard, this was at least a .95.
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or the reverse, they used his "bad press" over "poor behavior" as a way to work the turn?
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Oh random thought, sorry Baltimora, your 2020's run of "relevancy" is over now that Perry has turned.
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So. Turns out watching it in a Movie Theater was a bad idea. With my bad leg, going up a lot of stairs to get to my seat was no fun, and by the time we got 3 hours in (I showed up just before zero hour begin) I was about a 12 on a 1-10 scale of pain. There wasn't any room to stretch out the leg to get relief, and you can't get up and walk around a dark theater like you can at home to try to relieve the pain
I had to call it around 10 pm, and caught up to results while icing down my hip/back/leg and taking a pain pill.
Thoughts:
Something Jeff Cobb does better than just about anyone I've seen as a monster heel is "right-selling" opponents offense. Not no-selling it, but selling that it was a hard hit but he's a fucking monster, by attacking you're in his range and he'll gladly take it if that means he can serve up destruction to the opponents. Underrated skill in today's era (Solo Sikoa does it pretty well, just that monster aura)
I don't watch Japan regularly, so my note on El Phantasmo was "If Logan Paul signed a full time deal with WWE, they'd bring in El Phantasmo to try to pull some Bella Twin Magic with him"
Billie Starkz sells a hell of an ass beating. Which is good, because Athena gave her one.
Underwhelmed by MJF-Tanahashi. Tan really needed to learn from Rampage that he has a problem with the way the buckles are here, and him constantly trying to not lose his footing on the top rope took away from the match. I'm officially over the Dynamite Diamond Ring as a finish. Also, way to piss off the company you're working with MJF with the robe.
I'm of two minds regarding Punk. He seems to have unleashed his inner wrestling troll (the hoganish cup of the ear followed by the leg drop, for example), and it can take away from the story of the match as he plays with the crowd. I did pop for the Pulsating pec-off with Kojima however.
The four way was fun as heck. You get the requisite "everybody does a move, and then gets hit by the same move from the next guy", but Daniel Garcia's sports entertainment bullshit was funny as heck. It was like an annoying playground kid demanding that they play along with his antics, but every time he tried to get involved in big boy fighting games, they would just SWAT him away as if he was disrespecting their fighting spirit by his bullshit. If Cassidy makes many more defenses of the title he's going to be swathed in so many bandages we'll be referring to him as "El Hijo Del THE YETI"
Sanada vs Jungle Boy needed about 5 more minutes, but was inoffensive to good (a solid single or double in a show of homeruns). One thing that AEW does very well is that while long term wrestling fans spot the turn about to happen, they don't telegraph it in the moment. I like that they were talking about something unrelated when Jack Perry went down on a knee to set up the turn, and then.. boom. Did the fans really expect Tazz to get up and run to his son's aid? That's the only reason I can imagine for them to be chanting his name. (And I don't think Taz will go for it, still being a really tough guy, I'd love to see something where Jungle Jack Perry soldiifies his turn by beating on Taz, forcing Hook to break his "whatever" facade and really unleash hell on someone for it). Love the extra spot where Perry did the Jungle Boy wave one last time as a "Oh, you're not going to cheer for me anymore? GOOD" bit of added bonus to the turn.
Stuff that I'm going to have to do a watch on when I figure out how to get my hands on the video.
Storm-Nightengale was..again inoffensive to good. They need to figure a way to bring the OUtsiders down a bit, because I think they're getting to NWO-ish levels of needing to be taken down a peg because they don't take setbacks.
The ten man brawl wasn't over the top crazy, but it teetered on the edge of it. Considering the past bits of the feud, I was fully expecting gushers of blood, but that didn't deliver. There's a very good reason for that. It was because of what was coming up. The only question is whether Kingston-Claudio is going to take place in AEW, or ROH. Personally, I think it could be the tentpole for a ROH PPV, in a Fight Without Honor/
While this card showcased the best of NJPW and AEW wrestling styles, Ospreay-Omega was the best (story telling, selling actual hate in a wrestling match terms) and the worst (Finisher Spam, kickouts where they should be wrestling's equivalent of clinically dead. Also, big black mark on the storyline is Callis being ejected from ringside, but coming back and being part of the finish. It should be a cathartic moment where the heel manager gets caught and can't save his man any more, instead it was a cheap pop because it wasn't honored.
Reading about the 6 man was painful as it fell well short of expectations. Thankfully, Sting wasn't injured, but yeah, the calendar's sadly running out on him. Surprised they're doing a tornado match on Wednesday.
Danielson-Okada.. well, everything's been written about this in previous pages, so I won't go into detail, except to say I wonder if Danielson tried to call an audible to get his arm checked out, and decided the only way to do that was the convulsions. If so, bad call, Bryan, but understandable. Although you know he'll work that into future promos. "I WRESTLED THE RAINMAKER FOR FIFTEEN MINUTES WITH A BROKEN FUCKING ARM"
Seemed to me that AEW got the better of this, so I hope NJPW gets to do the return at Wrestle Kingdom. (hear me out, Coach Tony, MJF tries to be a multi-continental champion, and enlists gedo/jado to come up with as much outside help possible to take the title from SANADA or whoever has the belt at that point, only to take a puroresu sized assbeating.
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I found my internal testicular fortitude (tm Mick Foley) and bought the movie theater tickets, about 15 sold so let's see
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https://twitter.com/EuroAthletics/status/1672621749379416068
Shotputter fills in for injured teammate in a.. very different event (the 100M hurdles) at the European Team Championships. She "ran" the 100M hurdles in 31 seconds, but earned her team two points (as one other competitor false started)
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I'm tempted to go see it at the local regal movie theater in Bellingham (MA), but I think my crippling social anxiety will make it a no go
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3 hours ago, Octopus said:
I flatten a bit in the seat, but thick enough I can still grab a bear and get comfortable.
And the bear doesn't maul you? Bears are very touchy about invasions of personal space. Ask Bryan Danielson. He knows.
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Hell, bring Disco Inferno too. As someone for all the members of the roster to practice their finisher on.
"MJF, as we go into this main event against Hiroshi Tanahashi, are you ready?"
"That's a stupid question. I mean if I wasn't ready, would I do this?"
(puts Disco in the Salt of the Earth, and holds it for a good fifteen seconds despite Disco tapping and screaming)
"yes, you probably would do that anyway."
"You know what? For once, you made a good point."
(goes back, puts Disco Inferno in the Salt of the Earth again, camera fades 15 seconds later with Disco still tapping and screaming in pain)
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SOCCER - SUMMER '23
in SOCCER/FUTBOL
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Pulisic completes his move to Milan. In other news, just like ESPN+ is going to become the Wrexham network, CBS Sports (+Golazo) are probably going to air a AC Milan game weekly.