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It’s going to be really impressive when Tony goes from being floored by a punch to the gut to beating the stuffing out of Perry en route to pinning him at the next ppv - all in the space of a month or two. Found out about the closing angle via mainstream media this am - lol, that was a surprise - and now I have so many questions. I mean, they’re mostly silly questions, but still…. Does this lead to some sort of gimmick match at a ppv? And does Tony win? (Answer: he’s a carny. Of course he wins). Does TK book himself over Okada by dq en route to the blowoff with Perry? Okada being the gate keeper Khan goes thru to get to Perry might break some brains. Who appears with Tony in the training montage meant to convince us that Tony can go from hero to zero in one ppv cycle? Hangman? Moxley? More importantly, Does Tony license “Eye of the Tiger” for his training skits? He’s a damn fool if he doesn’t. Does he follow Rule 105 of wrestling booking and book a heel turn for himself before the angle is over even though that would probably make no sense? It took TK almost five years to join Vince in the exclusive club of Wrestling Promoters Who Put Themselves Over While Kinda, Sorta Owning Pro Football Teams. I guess that qualifies as admirable restrain these days. No plans to watch the angle, but it will be interesting to see how far into this TK goes. Shad Khan appearing in a wrestling angle was not something I thought I’d see.

Wind-down of the X-Men books seems unnecessarily convoluted. Too much sturm und drang (turmoil) for my liking. It doesn’t really feel like we’re heading anywhere fresh or interesting either. The developments with Xavier seem out of the blue and aren’t having much impact on me because there’s probably zero chance they stick for very long. Nothing I’ve heard about the reset interests me yet, so I am probably out on the X-books for awhile. Simone writing X-Men might be good, but I’m very much wait-and-see on that. I kinda want her to be on the book more than an arc or two before I jump in. i didn’t love the Krakoa era, but it’s still mind-boggling Hickman seemingly got pushed aside for writers like Gerry Dugan. I kinda wish Hickman had been allowed to stick closer to his original pitch for the books and had been allowed to finish as he wanted. House/Powers of X were fascinating, but I lost interest quick once Hickman became more of a creative director and they started interweaving the books. Had practically no interest in X-Men titles not written by Hickman. Gillen & Ewing did interesting work after Hickman left, but had same issues. Anyway, would much prefer to see both those guys on other projects. Gillen’s new creator-owned book will probably be interesting.

Going to be amusing when public domain Superman & Batman titles have better creative teams than their DC counterparts.

Hasn’t it been said numerous times that the confrontation with Tony was a separate incident (later) and may not even have been taped? oops, sorry. I forgot….

I can believe this. I’ve met a number of pro ball players over the years who paid very little attention to their money so long as they had spending cash, and the people they trusted to manage their finances were either corrupt or inept. Kevin Durant’s accountant embezzled $70 million over a couple years. Charles Barkley lost a good chunk of his early fortune because his financial advisor made dumbass investments in things like earthworm farms (Barkley had no idea where his money was going until much later)

And Punk probably picked a fight with Perry over the windshield spot because Perry was a friend of the Bucks and Punk probably figured he could push a midcarder around. You can spin the situation a lot of ways, if you are so inclined, Haven’r seen the footage or the angle around it, but Twitter claims AEW is removing the footage from their social media platforms due to negative reactions. So, yeah, Khan misjudged this one. Meltzer says TK has been wanting to show the footage for awhile. If that’s true, turning it into an angle probably wasn’t the way to win fans over to his side. I probably will avoid the footage just because the little bit I’ve heard about FTR’s promo afterwards sounds cringy and thin-skinned. And AEW apparently already went that route with an Adam Copeland promo.

Watching the Chris Colt episode now and I’m mostly just bored. Colt just seems like an unpleasant weirdo and not an interesting one. Wrestling is full of weirdos and drug addicts who are either more or interesting or at least mildly sympathetic. I’m 45 min in so I’ll probably finish the ep, but I could probably go the rest of my life without hearing any more about Colt. Dark Side is fairly depressing once you realize even the people no one has anything bad to say about were rotten, absentee fathers. There should be a drinking game built around someone saying “_______ was a good father” then telling a story that makes it clear he wasn’t a good father.

The Pirates are 6-1 so far this season and were 20-8 and in first place on May 1 last year. That alone should keep you from getting too excited or too depressed about how your team is doing during the first couple weeks of a six-month season.

Optics are bad, but Sutter Health Stadium is a much nicer place to watch a baseball game than Oakland Coliseum and I imagine Sacramento might provide hot crowds for at least a while, as opposed to Oakland (which allays has some excuse why they’re not supporting their pro sports teams). Probably a positive change in the short-term. Opening a new ballpark in Las Vegas in time for 2028 or 2029 seems a mite ambitious considering they don’t seem to have a blueprint yet, so far as I know.

Punk interview is interesting. Definitely worth a listen if you like fantasy stories.

How May people even know - or care - who Ziggy Haim or Max the Impaler are? It seems more like a couple obscure Indy wrestlers trying to drum up publicity over slight coincidences, I think it’s more likely that Logan is cosplaying the main character from Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (which stars a female Viking).

My takeaway is that Hebron Christian Academy must be really f***ing good. Wonder if Ryan gets his starting job back?

So… what does “who can go fuck himself” add to the conversation? Because you really seem to want me to know that he can do that.

Didn’t all the old accounts get purged in one of the board crashes? I seem to remember having to create a new username from scratch at least once following a major crash. Really surprised someone’s old log-in worked.