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I dunno if Cena's just a good actor, but he looked a bit pissed when the crowd first declined to take up the "You can't wrestle" chant but DID hit him with a "boring" chant.

The one thing I have to say about the 'Vince hates Daniel Bryan' angle is that Hunter and Steph are thoroughly superfluous to it. What part of "Scrappy Underdog vs Megalomaniacal Corporate Tyrant" is improved by adding the MCT's weepy daughter and her backstage power broker ex-champ husband into the mix? Amusingly enough, talking about auditoriums and armories, the first place I saw AmDrag live, a typically crappy rec center in Vallejo, CA, was also the same place I first saw Cena. Layla and AJ as happy-go-lucky-and-kinda-crazy heels is great. I'm thinking Lay-J for the team name. For a feud where I like both people in it, I'm amazed at how little I care about the world title. I'm not sure I could be less interested without Miz somehow being involved. And while I like Sandow as well, he doesn't exactly seem like the answer either. I was also thinking Ed Leslie when Vince teased a barber, though I also thought that was maybe a bit unlikely. I was, however, massively confused when it was Barrett who came out. Over/under on when we see Giant Bernard back in New Japan? Punk/Lesnar/Heyman(/Axel...ish) smacks of an angle that WWE's creative team has barely touched. It's probably why it's working so well.

Cuz Chicago doesn't boo heels. Duh

Well that simplifies things.

Traded some stuff in and picked up Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. I really think I missed the boat by skipping Brotherhood and Revelations.

Two pitchers and the all-time steals recordholder? Seems an unfair race...

Of course you're kind of revealing your own prejudices by assuming Kharma can't be considered attractive.

That last one is my favorite. On the day I was born, Hulk dropped a strap and Ox Baker fought a bear to a standstill.

Please tell me it gets better after the first, oh, 10 seconds. Because kittens those 10 seconds were painful. The video is funny, but it basically screams to anyone who isn't already a convert "EVERYTHING YOU THINK IS DUMB AND/OR COMMUNIST ABOUT SOCCER IS TRUE!!!!!! IT'S FUCKING STUPID AND TEHGAY!!!!!!" Really wrong-headed way to sell your product unless you are exclusively going for a tiny MSNBC hipster audience who wants to watch Futbol simply out of spite for Football. oh-kaaaay.....

NBC video about their PL coverage:

Fuck off, Scouser! (You're welcome)

I'm gonna guess he bitched and whined for Spurs to sell him because he wants to make the World Cup squad, and he's sure as shit not making it playing in the Reserves league. Not with the way the 2nd tier wingers were playing in the GC. Be serious. Klinsmann is not replacing Dempsey with Graham Zusi or Joe Corona under any circumstances. If Dempsey has two functional legs next summer, he'll be on the squad. End of. Portland's ahead of them in the allocation table, though. Not sure how they get around that. He'd pretty much be automatically the best player in MLS. There's no reason he can't go to Everton or some other mid-table Premier League side. He'd be on one already if someone had bothered to cough up a couple more million. ...you do realize Dempsey isn't solely (or even primarily) a winger, correct?

Jesus fuck why?

Why, though? What is the incentive from the perspective of a current MLS owner, especially one who just shelled out $40M for a franchise fee, to risk relegation?

Yeah but try explaining that to WWE creative. We all know this but they either don't/don't care. That's why they had the belt on other people from MitB 2011 to Mania this year?

There's no reason to think MLS has any interest whatsoever in engaging in a pyramid system of promotion and relegation with NASL or anyone else.

A DVDVR vote.

Not to try and steal Cornette's shtick, but it's a wrestling show far more than any of WWE's televised product.

For that matter, how do you know "everyone" did greenies?

Congrats. You guys win the "Our division is shit" award.

The Brazilian side that beat Spain in the Confederations Cup Final had 10 players with European clubs and Fred. The Dutch side from the 2010 World Cup final had, at the time, only 3 players in the Eredivisie. If you're going to insist that MLS needs to be as good as top European leagues for top American players, I think we need a better argument than "Spain is really really good."

For the most part, those players are in England or Germany. Make MLS better, sure, but if we're going to compete internationally, Europe is where our players SHOULD be playing.

Translation: Giancarlo is desperate to get out of Miami, and his agent thought this was a good way to stimulate interest.

Intra-division trade as the Angels send mediocre futility infielder Alberto Callaspo to the A's in exchange for 25 year-old AAAA susprospect 2B Grant Green.