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McGriff's not really a hero, but he is a marginal case who I have fondness for. That's enough for 1 out of 10 votes. Larry Walker I will defend as one of the 10 most deserving players on here. BTW I consider Aaron the best overall hitter who ever lived. Not Ruth or Bonds. Aaron would have been a HOFer even at only 400HRs for his career. My grandpa's last year in pro ball he played with Eddie Matthews during his first full year. He's go to work, get off work, drink beer, pitch nine innings. He was a bit good for the level at that point, but his chance for a ML career was long gone so he settled down.

McGriff's my homer pick. There are 1B worse than him who have gotten in. Plus he will always make the Defensive Skills Drills video HOF. Also was a key part of the strongest Braves team of their run. Also character. That said, I do find it funny they picked a guy who didn't have a great defensive rep for those videos. I guess Mark Grace wasn't avaliable. As for Larry Walker- even if it was Coors Field- his offensive numbers were insane, and they were good Early on in Montreal, which was a pitcher's park, so it wasn't all Coors. Also a great defensive RFer , not Heyward class, but close. Was still going strong at the end, could have played longer if he had wished and added to counting stats. Larry Walker > Dale Murphy easily, and that hurts me to say but it's true. I think he's underrated. Walker also gets bonus points for character, I remember him being considered one of the ambassadors of the 90s, like how Dale Murphy was in the 80s. My rule on roids is I guess what the roids did for the player, and adjust. Bonds is a HOFer under that criteria, Clemens almost is, Sosa is a Dale Murphy case, McGwire would have been replacement-level. Non-HR, non-power pitcher stats are a bonus in these cases. Also, I require proof of roiding, not just suspicion (so Bagwell I count as legit, as I would Andruw Jones even if his career died early due to a case of the Chris Hero diet) I'll admit to bias against Curt Schilling for his level of douchebaggery post-career, he's hall of very good. As for Pedro- he is HOF-worthy, ran out of names, I would vote him in most years.

UAB has some basketball tradition- I think they make the NCAA's about 1/3rd the time, that's good enough to be decent there, and they've busted a bracket or two in my past. I got a feeling Charlotte's program is gonna flop hard- they'd only be the 7th best team in the state behind the 4 ACC programs, ECU, and App St. I wish ECU and App St. would drop div.I football, it hurts the better teams in NC.

Bandit also works in RoR.

Risk of Rain plays decently solo, though only with certain classes.

Was a fan of his out of the sheer fact we went to same uni.

Goldust is every bit as deserving as say, Fit Finlay. Very similar careers.

Let's just not go there.

Dean-Wyatt. The first one just felt too "normal". Those two shouldn't have sold for each other much. I would have been ok if they just couldn't get two or three moves off in a row without the other guy firing back, and lots of punching and kicking from the bottom like they were both mad. As for Sting, I think a "lights out" finish with the end of it being Sting on the top rope with his bat and everyone except Rollins and Ziggler down, Zig-Zag, win, handshake would have done more for everyone. Have JBL throw out an Iceman Parsons reference during the whole thing.

Jesse Ventura got to be a fucking Governor under his wrestling name, not his real name. So I don't see why not? But Rick Steiner couldn't even make a school board under his wrestling name.

Or Bray reveals Bo is his brother at some point, who run away from the swamp and remade himself into Bo Dallas as an escape from reality.

If Hogan blocked things for too long, what's to keep a bunch of guys from pulling a NOAH? There were still territories as well- Lawler could have kept on going another decade, a bigger Memphis perhaps?

Better than Sting at that time in his career? Not sure I get this one, as Sting was a freakishly athletic heavyweight, Jarrett was more a Memphis/American Lt.Heavyweight of the time hybrid to me.

I thought he was a pretty good young face in Memphis and even World Class.

Don't forget the two rollup finishes a well Wonder how a PPV would work where you could only win by rollup and folks aren't allowed to use their finishers.

Even if he's being buried he'll be back. Look at all they've done to Ziggler, and Cesaro > Ziggler. He may never end up in the big title picture, but he'll be upper midcard for a long time at least. I'm ok with that- he'll get TV time, and he'll have good matches. It's just like WCW in the late 90s where I watched for the first 2 hours and skipped the last one.

Hearing that they're going to be streaming the gameplay next Wednesday. Also, for those PC folks- this will be the first PC fighting game that has true release date parity with consoles.

Risk of Rain update is broken right now- they have some bug in the levelling that makes it impossible to level up. Probably will get fixed soon, but hold off on playing until it patches. Excellent game though.

Well, I watch PPVs now due to the network with a friend who comes down, who only watches the PPVs, and is kinda an old-school fan who likes it but we do it to have an excuse to meet up since my work schedule is brutal. Huge fan in the old Mid-Atlantic days (he's much older than me, pushing 60 now) His favorite guy of all time is Mick Foley,and he's done some Foley cosplay at cons. His thoughts. He loved Ziggler and Cesaro. Was surprised by 2/3 falls being 2 straight. Thought the Bellas match was ok. Loved Paige and AJ in lewd ways , and liked their wrestling skills. Felt Cena and Orton were kinda stale, and this is someone who skipped about 8 of their 10 years. Was openly rooting for the Dust Bros against the Usos, but more because he's a huge Goldust fan out of anything the Usos did wrong. Didn't care for Mizdow one bit. He likes Sheamus and thinks he's a pretty damn good wrestler. Thinks Rusev should be huge, and was really impressed with how he looked in the ring. Loved Lana in lewd ways. Was really seriously marking out for Ambrose at the end of HITC, and was kinda pissed when Bray Wyatt (who he thinks is crap) interfering, and the Obi-Wan stuff was stupid to him. He wants to see Rollins get his ass kicked, so Rollins was an effective heel to him. He wondered why the hell Bo Dallas was in the pre-show and not the main card. He thinks Bo Dallas should get a push. As for who should beat Rusev, how about Ryback when he comes back as part of a reclamation project?

Am I the only one fine with the schmozz and non-finish? Ambrose/Rollins can be finished later, and Ambrose/Wyatt is a great way to figure out if Ambrose is the next main event superstar. If you want a definitive finish to Ambrose/Rollins, it can be done at Mania, preferably over the title. Right now I think Ambrose is likeliest to win the Rumble. Rusev continues to be the super seller and best foreign heel in a long while, and Ziggler/Cesaro was fun. Everything else felt stale or stupid, as I expected.

The Rooster was so bad it killed his career. And this was in an era where you could jump feds. The big difference now, if WWE gives you a crap gimmick, where can you bolt to?

Chris Adams was pretty random, though his run was pretty good.

WCW had all those Akira Hokuto matches. I don't remember any really standing out, but I remember some of the country boys I went to school with loving some Akira Hokuto.

A remake of that will be coming out in 2016.

He had Paul FUCKING Heyman for 6 months. If anything, it hurt him badly. Cesaro is a guy who gets over on mauling guys with his forearms, throwing guys around in a way no other human should, and spinning them until their heads pop. I personally cannot wait to see him and Lesnar tie up. Someone may die. I know but he either needs a mouthpiece or be put over Goldberg style as this machine. The role they have him in now gets very little heat and he will never move up the card to meet someone like Lesnar. They will just cycle him around the mid-card with other guys that work stiff. More like a reason for us to care about the match but it looks like they are teasing a couple of different directions with Orton. Does he go for Lesnar or Rollins after HIAC? In other words, he gets the Greg Valentine treatment. I'm ok with Cesaro having a good career mauling folks in the midcard, and a Mark Henry-esque title run in about seven years time.