Matt D
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I'd actually run out of those. For you it's just your reply button. You and that ebbie person.
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Can we pause for a moment and give a small (appropriately so) round of applause to piranesi who tried to singlehandedly save Raw this week.
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It's a really good match except for the lack of back selling by Van Dam. The Jerk. Sometimes Chicken McNuggets are good enough when you can't get wings. I think there should be a word filter for RVD into "Chicken McNuggets"
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Let me deflect more. I think the mask is pretty necessary, if only because of his heavy accent. He's probably got the heaviest accent of any wrestler ever. I know what he sounds like and it's still offputting to hear him in an interview in WCW. I was watching a WCW SN from right before Superbrawl 1995 the other day and it was set up really well. There'd be a match and immediately thereafter, you'd get an interview with Mean Gene to set up the PPV. WWE should just do Smackdown like this now. It let everyone talk and get over their programs. Well, the main event was a pretty okay Stars and Stripes vs Harlem Heat match that's mainly notable for how big Booker T's bumps were, and it was set up by Sherri slapping Bagwell, so Bagwell got to talk first. Heat had the belts and were going up against the Nasties at the PPV. He said what he had to say and then it was time for Patriot to speak and I had to do a triple take.
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We totally redid the deck last year and it was a shit ton of work and after the crazy winter we had, the thing is already peeling like crazy again.
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Let me deflect. No, it's true. As a 9 year old, my favorite wrestlers were the Rockers, Brian Pillman, and a year or two later, I was probably super excited for Max Moon to debut. Guys that I talk up now like Eadie or Haku or 90-91 Slaughter are not wrestlers I had any time for as a kid.
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So, the Patriot. It's weird, with all these kids on the board now. I remember pretty distinctly coming home from elementary school in 1991-2 and watching Global on ESPN. I remember being pissed off when it was interrupted by the MLB Expansion draft. I remember being awed by Cactus Jack and the Cartel and I remember The Patriot getting blinded by the Dark Patriot. He's probably the key Top Babyface (see, Hogan, Warrior, Savage, Sting, Luger, etc) of my first fandom. It was probably because his finisher was a dynamic top rope move. That was a hell of a lot more exciting to me at 9 or 10 than Hogan and Warrior. And he had a mask! There was something really earnest and honest about him that came through. You could just tell the guy loved wrestling in a way that Hogan or Sting or Luger didn't. And that's basically it. I wasn't watching WCW when he was there. I didn't catch his WWF run. He retired shortly thereafter. I kind of like him and Bagwell as a team. He has a pretty good shoot because the Baba stuff is really interesting. I imagine he's got some pretty good japan matches I haven't seen too.
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I'm not entirely sure why you didn't like it, save for the "lack of vision." Could you give us some more detail? Did you not like the time travel stuff in general, or were unable to suspend your disbelief for it or what not? I will say that it was the first X-Men movie that really felt like it embraced the fact it was an "X-MEN MOVIE." -
It's a really good match except for the lack of back selling by Van Dam. The Jerk.
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To be fair, all Canadians look alike.
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With that crazy purple hair things? Is this an Orphan Black gimmick?
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Vic's interviews with the guy: More thoughts to come later.
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His finish should be the Buff Bushwhacker battering ram.
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Is there anyone who had a major run in the big two that understands how to put together a pro wrestling match less than RVD? Sid is where I kind of lean, but I think he does get it more.
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RVD Is basically a prop and as wrestling props go, he's well below "inflatable Godzilla."
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I think the biggest thing about having a very young child, especially once they hit maybe the year mark, is to be able to pull back from all the ways you're used to spending/wasting your time. I had to make a very conscious effort to disengage from the internet and some of my interests back in fall because when I got home from being at work all day, she wanted my attention, and I'm really glad I have. They say that it goes quick and they grow so fast and what not, and it's true; it really is, but if you make the most of the time and are engaged and enjoy it, there's so much more weight and meaning and worth to that time, even as it slips away.
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I also get frustrated when people confuse my attempts to organically create opportunities to post Patti Pep matches with trolling.
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Why is there a tiny little tie fighter in your post? Is this an Illuminati thing?
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Hey! I'm all for Becky Lynch. She has pizzazz (I mean not as much as Patti but let's be reasonable here). I hope she does well. I'm still calling it an Irish thing. Or maybe a Rovert thing.
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I think "thoughts" is sort of generous here. Maybe "Pavlovian response" or "sectarian reflex" or "hormonal instinct."
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Is he even old enough to remember the 80s? Granted, Johnny doesn't remember the 80s either (save for the Jimmy Snuka face turn) but that's for a completely different reason.
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There was talk of an X-Force spin off.
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Troll and make shitty threads on a message board?
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His power is being badass... And sometimes doing that stuff Hoardak did.
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Big, dumb wrestling.
