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Hopefully. That’s at least more understandable than being such a fanboy that he let Punk run over the rest of the locker room. I watched a couple of Metlzer’s YouTube videos over the weekend ri catch up on what’s i missed the last few months. At one point, Meltzer said Punk became unhappy again when Omega and the Bucks signed new contracts. So now I’m wondering if Punk thought TK would basically shove the Elite towards WWE for Punk? I dunno. I don’t have a lot of time for Phil Brooks whiny adolescent routine. Metlzer also threw out the idea that Punk attacking both Jack Perry and TK was a calculated move to get himself fired (I guess to be free to go to Stamford without a oersky non-complete clause), though Dave immediately said he wasn’t sure Phil was that clever. Not a good look for whiny man-baby Phil either way.

When I saw the ESPN headline about Punk’s firing, I assumed that Tony Khan had finally gotten the go-ahead from legal to fire Punk for the Buck’s fight instead of paying him to sit home. I didn’t know till next day that AEW had a Saturday show, had brought Punk back, had apparently given him some sort of creative control and say over who was on the show, etc. Yeah, I don’t get that all. Tony set the whole situation on motion when he let Punk run down his coworkers at the media scrum while he sat there and smiled. I’m more interested in this Saturday night show. Saturday night seems like an uphill battle in 2023 under the best of circumstances and damn stupid during football season. I’m kind of interested in checking it out, but odds are I will forget about it by the weekend.

Hadn’t planned to post here again, but a couple people have reached out and asked about my health. Long story short, I’m as fine as you can be with advanced stage lung cancer. Since the last round of chemo, I’ve felt mostly fine. Scans have been encouraging. I see my oncologist every six weeks for immunotherapy - a half hour of Keytruda run through an iv - but other than that, I’m back to a somewhat normal routine. Been busy lately. Got an opportunity at work, so wife and I are moving to Dallas next month. I’ve been spending a lot of time in TX lately getting ready. It was time to move. Several of our kids have migrated west and we were looking to get out of our gross college town. Nice place to live even ten years ago, but the problems that have always been there have finally taken over. Lotta drugs, lotta addicts, lotta perverts. We no longer felt safe or comfortable in the community, so the job opportunity is a win on all fronts. I hate heat, but so far I’m acclimating to Texas well enough. I’ll manage. Probably my last post. No plans to watch wrestling or log back in in the foreseeable future. Take care.

ESPN says it is going to honor contracts, so Keyshawn can either negotiate a buyout and go work somewhere else, or sit home and be paid by ESPN several more years. I took most talent will end up negotiating buyouts. Talent like Kellerman, Keyshawn, Van Gundy, etc. would probably be awfully attractive to someone looking to make a splash by hiring a big name (Fanduel, for example).

A few months ago, my wife refilled the soap dispenser built into the sink by emptying an entire bottle of liquid soap into It. When it still didn’t work, she called me to look at it. Took me all of sixty seconds to look down into the soap dispenser and realize I could see the floor of the cabinet below. The bottle connected to the dispenser had somehow become unscrewed and was lying at the bottom of the cabinet - next to the puddle of liquid soap my wife just dumped in. No harm done, but it took us awhile to sop up the soapy mess. There were several bottles of various products right below the opening, so lots of things got sticky.

She’s the female Stlng.

She makes it pretty clear that she doesn’t believe the girl and implies several times the the girl has previously made up stories and put the family through a lot. How much stronger of a denial do you want? I’m not saying I necessarily believe her. I don’t know the first thing about Vickie, the girl, or the family situation. I find it impossible to have a valid opinion without more information.. I’m usually inclined to believe accusers, but people lie (now more than ever) and I’m not a rush to judgement type, so I dunno. Bringing up the cars is odd, since it doesn’t seem to have much to do with the accusation one way or the other. In any case, the daughter has since deleted the tweet.

Sorry to hear about your wife, Not that we’re having a contest, but I can lap that, lol. As mentioned previously, i did four rounds of chemo between late November and the last day of January. Then I caught Covid a few weeks later, so, yeah, I’m on a roll. Covid was interesting, Wife and I were somewhat concerned since my immune system was weakened by the chemo, but, welp, we were the only ones. Wife tested positive on Saturday. By Monday, I’m still negative but have a sore throat and congestion. Was scheduled to be at my oncologist the next morning for immunotherapy, so I call them to explain the situation and, surprisingly, am told to come on down unless I actually test positive between now and then. Seems like cavalier advice, but ok. Tested positive the next morning, called oncologist again to see what she wanted me to do and she was pretty causal about it. Didn’t think I needed to go see my gp or get whatever the pill is called, just told me to rest and come in the following week for my appointment. I was a little skeptical, but, as it turned out, that was good advice. Was tired for about two days, had a two day cough and a mild sore throat, but all in all, I’ve had much worse cases of actual flu. Wife and I were mostly symptom free by weekend and both were testing negative by that Sunday. We are up on all our booster shots, but, honestly, I didn’t expect that to do much for me if I did get Covid. I’m also on a steroid to boost my immune system, but I dunno how effective a substitute that is. Anyway, got over it pretty quickly. No lingering symptoms. Still kinda tired from chemo but that’s getting better too.

I wonder the same thing every time people here melt down over some ridiculous tweet by Austin Aries or Flip Kendrick or whoever. Either don’t follow the dude if he’s going to say something that annoys you or just ignore it and don’t give it minutes of your life. Some people seem to enjoy being constantly offended (and want me to know it, lol).

They emphasized that last night. Heyman said a couple times that Jimmy had until Friday to get Jey back in the fold or Roman would take it out on him (Jimmy).

Totally bot on Sami/Jey and didn’t see the turn coming. Figured they would get a couple weeks of Sami/Jey before a turn, if there was a turn. Well played. The crowd completely bought into the hug too.

I thought it was legit and later inspired a parody account, but Google makes it seems like it was never anything but a goof.

Edit: I threw out Andrew Luck as an example of a star quarterback who is relatively well-adjusted, but my wife immediately pointed out that he used to pretend he was a Confederate soldier and write long letters to his mom “from the battlefield”, so, yeah, I am withdrawing his candidacy. My mistake,

Yeah, I can see that. And Russell has always seemed a little out there. I’m a devout Catholic but I’m never been as pushy or public about as Wilson seems to be. I imagine most people at work only know I’m Catholic because I walked around with ashes on my forehead earlier this week (Ash Wednesday) or occasionally am out of the office because I’m over at a local Christian school. It’s not something I bring up much. I generally think your faith is a matter for you and God. No one needs it pushed on them. I apologize if I came off as touchy above. I tend to bristle at the idea being devout makes you nutty. On the other hand, lol, I’m Roman Catholic. Given the behavior of a lot of our clergy. It’s not always easy to argue against the idea.

I’ve never even heard of either comedian. And one of them is the funniest man in America, according to the trailer. Trailers don’t lie, so it must be so, Just another weekly reminder that I am hopelessly uncool. Youth culture has passed me by.

Eh, some people do, but there are still people going out of their way to talk about how they’ll never watch WWE. I’m not on Dave’s site but I assume at least some of the people posting are open-minded or pro-WWE. The WWE threads seems to get relatively little traffic compared to other parts of the site, unless there’s if you disagree, fine, it’s not worth arguing about but this site has a bit of a reputation. I imagine Dave’s site is worse, but I have no interest in trying to find out.

Pardon my naivety, but how is being a Christian a tip-off that he’s a “psycho”. I don’t think trying to get his coach and gm fired is indicative of much except that Russ badly overestimated his value to the franchise. Power struggles between coaches and athletes are common in pro sports.

I’m confused. It sounds like you’re describing this site at least as much as Dave’s.

Preferable to Lesnar vs. Wyatt, which they teased last week on SDL.

Lol, silly wabbit, the majority of posters on this site will never admit the ratings are bad. Just to clarify, I’m not saying they are bad. I have no idea, outside of an occasional comment from Meltzer.

I’m very intrigued by Humanity, but, yeah, I was underwhelmed too.

Just when I think I’m getting a handle on my comics spending, I realize I’ve overlooked a bunch of runs I really want to read. So far this week, I have bought the Peyer/Rags Morales Hourman run, Rucka’s run on Checkmate, Andreyko’s Manhunter run, Simonson’s Orion run, the Arcudi/Mahnke Major Bummer series, Peter David’s Fallen Angel book (DC run only), Kyle Baker’s short run on Plastic Man, Giffen’s Five Years Later LSH book (vol 4, 1-38) and the Ostrander/Mandrake Spectre run. This may or may not be the month I finally pick up Morrison’s Doom Patrol and Geoff Johns’ Hawkman series. Yeah…. That’s a lot. I mostly did not read comics between 1995 and 2018, so there’s a lot of great stuff out there to cherry-pick. I also bought a few things last week from Barnes and Noble’s Image sale. Some of the above really needs collected. Or collected again, Not too interested in the gigantic 5YL hardcover. Would much prefer a couple trades collecting about 12 issues each. I’m really surprised issues 23-62 of the Spectre run have never gotten collected. I don’t like IDW’s trade so I wish DC had collected the last eight issues of DC Fallen Angel. And someone should reprint Major Bummer. It was DC book but never got collected by them. Dark Horse put out a tpb in 2011, but it’s out of print and goes for absurd money on eBay. It gets the coveted title of most money I’ve ever spent on one trade paperback. Exit: and the lcs just texted to ask if I still want the Denny O’Neill Question tpbs. Someone traded in nice copes of the full run last night. I haven’t read it in 30 years but I really dug that book at the time.

Scans were encouraging. Spots on my lungs are slightly smaller. No growth or new spots/tumors/nodules. No further spread. Chemo is over, I’ve going to go in once every three weeks for the next two years for Immunotherapy. Only takes 30-40 minutes, but the oncologist is in another state two hours away. My choice. We live in a college town with a well-respected cancer center as part of the university hospital, but when I was first diagnosed nine years ago, we decided to go out of state. Local docs wanted to simply remove my right lung. Doc we went with removed 2 lobes of right lung, but saved part of it. It’s much easier to live a mostly normal life with 1.5 lungs than it is with 1.0. Fun fact: the surgery to remove an entire lung is fairly straightforward compared to the surgery to cut out part of a lung. Removing the lung would have taken two hours. Removing half my lung took almost 14 hours. And then I started chemo. Anyway, situation looks to be improving, I’m not expecting too much from the future, so we’ll see where this goes.

I wonder where they would have gone if they had been able to do the Rock match. Meltzer thought it would have been hard to get the Rock back for even one more date to drop the belt. His theory was that they might run Rock-Roman on night one, then have Rock drop the belt back to Cody on night two. it seems likely to me that the Sami-Bloodline angle is going to go on for awhile and Sami will get a pin over Roman once Roman drops the belt. I also wonder how they’d book it if they did put Sami in the WM title match. I’d have Cody pin Sami, then pin Roman in the 1x1 rematch, but that might provoke a riot.

The director said in an interview that Cassie is 18 during Quantumania (the actress who played Cassie in Antman & the Wasp is 19, so that lines up).