Cobra Commander

Bottom of the 6th in Toronto: Royals up 2-0. Cole Ragans pitching. Ragans retires the first two batters. Then Ragans walks Vlad Jr on 6 pitches. Followed by walking Davis Schneider on 7 pitches. First pitch to Alejandro Kirk, wild pitch where Ragans falls down pitching. Runners advance. Second pitch to Kirk, wild pitch to the backstop. Run scores. Third pitch to Kirk, wild pitch and Ragans falls down again. Run scores and the game is tied. Then Kirk is walked on the 4th pitch and Ragans is pulled Of course the thing about this sequence is that the Royals pitcher, who was over 100 pitches in the 6th inning, having walked the last two batters. Threw 3 consecutive wild pitches with no trainer or coach visit until the third wild pitch. One could dispute how much Quatraro has to work with here but, holy shit, he got hit by something there and none of them had any clue of what to do. No catcher visit. No coach visit. No ask to work on the mound because the pitcher wasn't getting his footing. None of that. Rookie manager. Rookie coaching staff. Deer in the headlights. So the Royals did have the fortune that their pitcher didn't get hurt (that we know of). Unlike on Friday when Austin Cox tore up his knee running to cover first in Toronto. If Ragans goes down, the pitching staff is basically Brady Singer and a bunch of non-factors. I don't expect them to fire Quatraro, even if the team is 44-100, the worst team in baseball, and on their way to the worst team in franchise history. But they're also thinking about asking for taxpayer money for a new stadium in a vote next April and they will lose that vote if they lose 110 games and don't make changes while asking for a billion dollar stadium. These people are incompetent and there's a reason why the Royals have won 44 games and are 10 wins behind what their run differential says they should be doing. Oakland is pretty much what they should be based off their run differential. Royals are way underperforming because they're the worst team in baseball in high leverage.

at least that Giants/Cardinals game next week has the potential to be a rebound game

if this shutout holds, it'll be the largest shutout in the series history, ahead of the 35-0 Cowboys win in 1995 when the Cowboys won the Super Bowl and the Giants had a game where their fans nearly caused a forfeit by throwing snow

I think this slice also involves being able to watch every non-NFL professional football league too

the way this game is going, the Cowboys are gonna score on a play where they have 10 players on the field like the "Raiders scored with 10 guys and Al Davis' ghost" play after Darth Davis died

hey, Brandon Aubrey is a two time USFL champion

Cowboys with an amazing tribute to Dean with that blocked field goal return and the missed extra point

not sure how many Extended Highlights videos of RWC matches i'll watch before I forget to watch them but.. I am confident I would have gotten wrecked if I did any rugby stuff. Not just because of the Samoan % of my hometown (a percentage that occasionally means that my High School's football team has good linemen)

I know the norm is to think that the most valuable players in the NFL are always QBs but I think Tyreek is more valuable than Tua. If not that, Tyreek Hill is the most valuable non-QB in the NFL. He won't get much MVP play because (a) he's not a QB and (b) his past. But he's the playmaker WR of this era.

I'm confident a Hugh Freeze team will find some way to get escorted to the end zone during the 4th Quarter

one small thing... the text for the read notifications is the same color as the background on the Cowboys theme

never noticed the option to switch themes before... the VaporRun is really tempting too

well I guess giving people a ten count to get up is telling them to get up in a sense

let's watch more wrestling Mid-South Wrestling (10/30/1982) Boyd Pierce gives us the intro, the Louisiana State Fair is going on (da da da).. Bill Watts is in the audience with Paul Boesch, some kids, a Gorilla (da da da).. there'll be a Mid-South Tag Team Title match where the loser of the fall leaves Mid-South. One problem though, Hacksaw Doogan isn't here (he might be in jail) and Matt Borne has been called in from Atlanta, potentially as a sacrifice since Borne doesn't even work here (TM). Tonight's also no disqualification. Before all that, here's a tag team match taped from Houston. Killer Khan, Tully Blanchard and Gino Hernandez take on Andre The Giant, Mil Mascaras and JYD. Killer Khan might have won the timing lottery by being in the vicinity of Andre when Andre hurt his ankle one morning. Bill Watts has drifted to the commentary table. Now a studio match. Ted Allen takes on Kamala The Ugandan Giant. Kamala has so much stuff with him, no wonder he needs a handler. You wouldn't trust Mel Phillips with that stuff, would you. Kamala wins with a few splashes. It's time for the big match: Ted DiBiase and Matt Borne face JYD and Mr. Olympia for the Tag Team Titles/No DQ. Matt Borne appears to have similar tastes in hats as fellow Oregonian Billy Jack Haynes. Reeser just casually gathers his things and departs as a brawl goes on around him. Hey, JYD pulling out a Russian Legsweep. JYD and Dibiase tag out to give Borne and Olympia a go. We see a shot of the gorilla in the audience (da da da). So was Mr. Olympia gonna win gold medals in the 1980 Olympics if not for Jimmy Carter? Of course Olympia's in all red so how patriotic is he really. Doug Gilbert could show up as the Dark Mr Olympia. No DQ means unlimited saves. Gotta love how refs will occasionally forget who the legal man is and allow heel teams to switch behind their back. Matt Borne hits the future whoopie cushion and DiBiase hits the powerslam. JYD makes the save and gets the hot tag. JYD gets the loaded glove and Borne gets hit. Meanwhile the Gorilla has bodyslammed Mr. Olympia and speared JYD. DiBiase gets the pin and JYD must leave Mid-South for 90 days, a stipulation that he will certainly faithfully adhere to. Also, the Gorilla was Hacksaw Doogan. But I figured you probably knew that by now. It's time for standby matches! Grappler 2 vs Tony Atlas: Bill Watts has lost his voice and heart over the last match. Nice dropkick and headscissors by noted foot enthusiast Tony Atlas. Bill Watts will need to collect his thoughts and talk to JYD after what just happened. Atlas wins after a press slam and a splash. Gino Hernandez vs Jesse Barr: Paul Boesch is taking over for Bill Watts for this match, gotta love how all these pieces come together. Boesch takes responsibility for Gorgeous Gino's entrance in wrestling (not in that way, those rumors were refuted). Gino's hair is immaculate. Gino wins after a suplex and a second rope back elbow. Paul Boesch interviews Ted DiBiase, Matt Borne, and Jim Duggan. Ted noting that Money is the Name of the Game. As the State of Mississippi can attest to, that is true. Marty Lunde vs Mr. Wrestling II: Arn looks almost exactly the same as he would look for most of his career in late 1982, when he was 24 years old. This is a fine matchup of guys who always looked old. II was 24 years older than Arn. Nice jazz hands from II before his final kneelift of the match. Hiro Matsuda & Yoshi Yatsu vs Vinnie Romeo & Tim Horner: Hiro Matsuda wasn't the oldest worker on this week's card thanks to II. Yoshi Yatsu would have competed at the 1980 Olympics if not for Jimmy Carter, the rare wrestler who actually would have competed at the 1980 Olympics. Yatsu wins with a "Japanese Body Slam", or as normal people call it, a neat looking Belly to Belly Suplex off the ropes. And that's all for this week! Next week is Wrestling II and Buck Robley vs the Grapplers and Gorgeous Gino vs Tony Atlas and certainly nothing else important.

*gets to the part about and laughs*

IIRC, the St. Louis pronunciation was "De-bee-az" and Akbar pronunciation was "de-bussy"

"if my group has a Shawwwrk... why can't we have a Gorillahhh?" In the scheme of things, Duggan is up there with the Bushwhackers for being able to just make money without working himself to death

considering Hogan and Savage are at least kinda-sorta Italian, they could have both joined the Full Blooded Italians "Whatcha gonna do Paisan when the Hulkster and the Big Don Tommy Rich and the Full Blooded Eye-talians run wild on you"

somehow Dungeon Jim Duggan would just be him doing his 1980s Mid-South gimmick, only if he was a member of Sullivan's Florida group

for a guy whose last name was pronounced a few different incorrect ways in Mid-South or St. Louis... BiBiase is a new one

He finds out why Chief Jay Strongbow is on the Italian Wrestlers Wall of Fame

I think the WWF only interviewed Hulk Hogan’s very Italian-looking parents once (on the 1/23/84 Garden show) but it’s interesting how many top WWF/WWE guys were Italians not doing ethnic acts. Hogan, Randy Savage, John Cena. You could do a Sal’s Wall of Fame of Italian pro wrestlers with some surprises as local patrons ask why no black wrestlers are on the wall.

Also Ted DiBiase was adopted by Mike DiBiase and originally named Theodore Willis. On the other hand, a Ted DiBiase vs old man Bruno match in 1988 would have been something

Toney would have had a better catching night wearing gloves that didn’t look like yellow cleaning gloves

in a game where there was a reasonable argument to turn down a penalty because you'd prefer giving the Chiefs 4th and 2 instead of 3rd and 17, the Chiefs kicking a field goal on 4th and 2 to go from up 3 to up 6 was pretty darned sad 23 rushes by the Chiefs and i'm guessing most of the 17 non-Mahomes rushes were on first downs. Basically the Chiefs set of downs is... rush first down, pass second down, successful 3rd down conversion despite all logic, and lather rinse repeat Which can work out pretty well when you have two of the best players on the field with Mahomes and Kelce out there. But it's an offense where your QB can lead the team in rushing because he's also gonna throw for a lot of yards too It'll be a little difficult to compare the Lions and Jaguars if Kelce plays against the Jags after missing this game but it would surprise me if the Lions were a better team than the Jags this year