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A tradition unlike any other, punishing the replacement coach for the cheating the previous coach did to win the championship.

See, this is where we always lose the plot. Logan Paul and Pat McAfee are loud, but generally harmless shitbags. I'm not a fan of either, but their shit is kind of like the class clown who is a distraction from the kid who is selling crack in the back of class. One thing isn't nearly as bad as the other. The actual people making decisions in WWE/TKO/Endeavour are fucking monsters who are actively making the world worst for their employees. They are not just doing the shit you noted, but they're trying (and it looks like succeeding) in overthrowing the Muhammad Ali act in boxing, which is why boxers get paid what they get paid and MMA fighters don't. It is illegal for boxing promoters to prohibit boxers from fighting against fighters promoted by another entity. If you are being promoted by Top Rank, Top Rank cannot stop you from fighting against someone promoted by Golden Boy. They want to turn boxing into the UFC, where they can sign a bunch of boxers and prohibit them from boxing against anyone outside of their promotion, which keeps salaries low and control high. When I was young, my grandfather told me that the reason you have to work hard to improve your life is because the people who want to make the world worse never stop working. These are those people. They are working their hardest to make your life worse, but put people like Logan Paul and Pat McAfee in front of you to be mad at when they're literally just loud assholes. They put micro-level annoyances in front to hide the macro level evil in the back.

The cherry blossom festival sucks, but it is tucked away in one little corner. You can kind of maneuver around it if you know your way around, but it's probably #2 on the list of worst weekends to be in DC. The weather factor is what makes it a distant #2. Spring in DC is short and unpredictable, but when it's nice it's really nice. Summer is long and predictable, it's not only hot, but the weather gaslights you because the heat index is always 5-15 degrees hotter than the temperature. I don't care that the temperature is 92 if it feels like 108...as far as I'm concerned it's actually 108.

How much more of a step back can Stugotz possibly take. He's been off the air for most of the year. Lucy and Jessica both seemed to absolutely hate living in Miami, but from what I understand both of them still work there but will be working from elsewhere. I would listen to a Foot-girls pod, but that show definitely needs a female voice or two.

I think the greatest consensus you will find in all of the DMV is our utter disdain of July 4th weekend. The combination of tourists, traffic, and weather all combine to become the single largest possible shit show.

WWE news is like the Thong Song, it's terrible, it's the same verse multiple times, but somehow they sing it with so much feeling you don't realize it and the next thing you know you're singing along to that ridiculous shit.

I always preferred this version. https://youtu.be/XC6qOvfgDJI?si=16Bb61ocuPq4Wj3W

Yeah, I was completely incapable for rooting against anyone with face paint. If you add a cool top rope move to the face paint, I was all the way in on Muta. The only problem is I grew up without cable, so I rarely saw WCW let alone Muta.

We really are at the point where discourse about anything on the internet is almost impossible. The number of outlets that actually discuss video games without having to parse through internet trollery is incredibly small. Dragon Age Veilguard is a flawed game, but I don't know if I ever read or heard a single review of the game that discussed the game's flaws in an honest way. Literally everyone took a side and discussed that side. It's either the single best game ever made or the single worst game ever made and it's nowhere close to either. So, we just have to guess whether or not we'll like a game, or a movie, or a TV show, because no one will ever actually talk about the merits of the game, movie, or show. I generally don't discuss video games, Star Wars, hip-hop, wrestling, or about 384 other things online, because it's near impossible to find people who discuss any of these things in good faith. I just want to discuss things I enjoy for better or worse, with people who actually want to talk about those things. So, I'm with Craig H with this one, it sucks that we'll have one fewer outlet where people talk about games because they genuinely enjoy games.

Rick Rude. I stuck with Randy Savage when the Mega Powers broke up, but I'm pretty sure Rude was the first guy I was introduced to as a heel, who I immediately loved without ever seeing him as a face.

We also have to remember that record sales are a terrible metric when it comes to discussing the relevance and/or quality of music. Vanilla Ice sold 15 million copies of To the Extreme. I don't think anyone would possibly call that a great album. Stevie Wonder's best selling single is "I Just Called to Say I Love You," and quite frankly that may be the single worse song in his entire catalog. People have terrible taste, and you should not use their buying decisions as a metric of quality.

I don't think there is a vehicle on earth that people treat less seriously than a golf cart. I've seen and done some incredibly stupid things involving golf carts.

I feel like you just described what would make someone a huge babyface in 2025.

Yeah, but it's awesome for guys like me who like to try to quantify the unquantifiable.

Wait, how does this relate to Bobby Brown? Do people think Bobby Brown was a one-hit wonder?

To quote the great poet and philosopher Slim Charles, "The thing about the old days is that they are the old days." Just because something worked one way before it has no relevance to whether it would work now. If you want to make wrestling better, you can take inspiration from the past, but you cannot replicate the past. The world changes every day and everything needs to change with it or be left behind. If you are feeling nostalgic, go watch the old shit. Don't try to turn new shit into old shit or you'll soon end up being the old shit.

I had this argument with a friend a while back. Is Montell Jordan a one-hit wonder? The answer is no, but I think he's the best example of what I'm saying. If you ask 100 people to name a Montell Jordan song, 100 of them will say, This Is How We Do It, but he has multiple top 5 hits and and a bunch of top 40 hits. No one remembers any of those other songs, despite them being very popular at the time. Everyone remembers Wonderwall and to a lesser extent, Don't Look Back in Anger. Whether or not they were "hits," is irrelevant when we all remember the Oasis songs and have forgot the Montell Jordan songs.

Step 1. Start a YouTube channel Step 2. Gain a following Step 3. Get Rhea Ripley to wrap her thighs around my neck. Step 4. Die happy.

The term "hit" in music is as arbitrary as the word "over" in wrestling. Not only that, I don't think we should use album sales when we are discussing the artistic merit of music. Being popular and being great are not anywhere close to the same. For instance, Future has 16 #1 albums. I don't think he's going into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (by the time he's up for a vote, who knows). He's an incredibly popular artist, who plenty of people love, but there are probably 100 rappers who aren't going in, who I'd put in before him. This isn't to disparage Future, he's perhaps the greatest mumble rapper of all time, but I think you can tell the story of American popular music(which is what this museum is) without him.

Honestly, if Giannis would have beat his ass at midcourt, the NBA shouldn't even fine him. I'm still mad they suspended Jermaine O'Neal for punching the chipmunk looking dude on the court during the Malice in the Palace. If you aren't on the staff of either team or the arena, you are trespassing and the players should have free reign to enforce that particular rule in any way they desire. Giannis is pretty low on the list of dudes I'd want to get punched in the face by. That's a big ol' dude who has seen some things in life. There is no telling what kind of fights him and his brothers had to fight to get this far. You do not want those problems, I promise you.

I imagine most of those other pranks don't have anything to do with NFL teams. They can't stop random assholes from pulling pranks during the draft, but they can and should put their foot down when it comes to their employees and their families pranking people during the draft. I can't imagine costing my parents six figures because I was trying to be funny, but the NFL is 100% in the right here.

I'm happy to learn that Paul Heyman is not Bill Belichick.

Apparently Paul Heyman is engaged with a 22 year old woman. I just don't want to be the only one to know this information.

I read this as SWV and spent a few moments wondering if there was a promotion called Weak in the Knees Wrestling.

Is there a single person who thought Travis Scott was necessary for any part of this feud?