Brian Fowler

Well, they said they would distribute it. But I doubt Smith has six million just laying around. Self funded is gonna be a lot cheaper.

Joshi I've seen virtually nothing.

Shit, I did mean to include Harper. He's definitely my vote for best of the Wyatt Family.

Yeah, Tusk is out later this year.

I think I only like three matches more: Shield/Wyatts 1, Bray/Bryan and Shield/Wyatts 2. It's between that and Bray/Cena for me. I'll probably lean back to Bray/Cena because of stuff like the steps but Bray/Dean is a fresh match-up and that gets some points from me. Cena/Cesaro and Bryan/HHH also need to get rewatched promptly for my half-year list. I know I'll be taken to task to this in some form but Bray's the best worker in the WWE right now. I don't think there's even much of an argument at this point, either. He's been involved in possibly the five best matches of the year. Honestly, I think the only two of those that make top 5 for the year so far for me are the Shield tags, and I feel pretty comfortable saying Bray was, at best, the 4th best guy in those matches. Not that I disliked the Bryan match or the Cena match, but I don't think either makes my top 5. Cena/Cesaro on RAW and Bryan/Triple H at Mania were both, for my money, pretty clearly better. And the first Shield/Evolution six-man was right there with the two Shield/Wyatt matches. None of which is to put Bray down as a worker. But I don't think he cracks the WWE's current top 5 in ring guys with Cesaro, Cena, Rollins, Ambrose and a theoretically healthy Daniel Bryan.

I'd kick, like, 25 bucks for it.

1996. Year one of the two year "How the West became the dominant conference" story. (Year two is, of course, the following year, with San Antonio winning the lottery, and the Bulls breaking up at the end of the season.)

But they are a better one adding Bosh (who can also guard stretch bigs and help keep Howard in the paint) than adding Melo.

Even during that abortion of a season in L.A. Dwight was still the difference between a roughly league average defense when he was in the court and the worst in the league when he sat.

Shit, a few years back, me, Matt, and Vic were going to do a big Hulk Hogan project along the lines of their Demolition project. It feel apart pretty quickly because of real life and shit, but I think I still have the write ups to a dozen or 15 matches on my computer somewhere. Early WWF title reign Hogan was awesome.

I've been conflicted on Azz's run since basically the beginning. (With the caveat that I think #22 was the last issue I read.) It's incredibly well written and developed, but But damn does he do those bad ideas well. And Chiang's art is gorgeous. But it should have been a creator owned book that was a thinly-veiled riff on Dianna, not the actual WW book.

There is a Triple H/HBK vs. Mankind/Undertaker tag from raw in 97 that is right in the middle of the feud and basically the birth of DX.

I don't think it's the pace, though. I love 70's movies. I can watch The Godfather and The Godfather Part II back to back and not get bored at all. There is something about Jaws though that just doesn't work for me. I've seen the beginning and the end, but I have never seen the middle.

With all apologies to the Heat fans, I'm really intrigued by the Bosh to Houston idea.

I tried to watch Jaws twice. Fell asleep both times.

Is there a coach they can hire who likes Josh Smith and will maximize the possibility of Detroit being able to trade J-Smoove to LA? Well, that's an even better idea. Shit, two bags of new balls and a case of polish for the Palace floor should cover it. May the both of you spend your nights watching Kwame Brown highlights until your eyes bleed! Hey, I had to live with him as a Piston for awhile, I've suffered enough.

She is an excellent reason to watch Firefly.

Well, I heard he always gets the replay, and personally, I've never seen him miss. (If you get there first, Kuetsar, save me a seat in hell.)

At the time, I felt that Orton going over Taker was the right call to make. Orton hadn't been completely "made" at that point. He had that terrible baby face turn and really needed something big once they abandoned Orton the face in favor of a more interesting heel Orton. Keep in mind, the streak was not "THE STREAK" at that point. It was highlighted, but I felt that Orton match was the beginning of what was a pretty incredible run for Taker. The only not great matches from Orton until the end were: Mark Henry Triple H (WM 27) *GrumbleGrumble* Wrestlemania 27 was the best match of the whole run, maybe the best Mania match ever *GrumbleGrumble*

I'm now getting curious about rewatching this stuff. It's been a long time since I did (and I probably haven't seen all of the matches for this thread, but I'm terrible at remembering matches by date instead of nice easy event titles in English) but for me, when I went through all the AJPW stuff back in the early/mid 00's, I never quite "got" Taue. To me, he was always the weakest link in the big matches. But my taste in wrestling is a ton different now, so who knows?

Is there a coach they can hire who likes Josh Smith and will maximize the possibility of Detroit being able to trade J-Smoove to LA? Well, that's an even better idea. Shit, two bags of new balls and a case of polish for the Palace floor should cover it.

Sure, you'd rather see that than Mark Jackson coach them. But what you rather see that CALLED BY MARK JACKSON?

I haven't had the courage to watch it yet.

Oh, also, since the Lakers need a coach, and because he actually did a good job of getting The Dubs to buy in on defense, and ran pretty creative offense... Any chance L.A. will do us all a public service and hire Mark Jackson? Hell, someone convince him to change his name to Mike.