Cobra Commander

Royals got Hunter Renfroe (the baseball nomad) and Michael Wacha. 2/13 for Renfroe (player option for the second year) 2/32 for Wacha (player option for the second year)

on a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being "Gordon Solie cashing checks in 1990s WCW while drunk", how is Al Michaels handling tonight's game

oh yeah.. did we just have a Dynamite episode where the previous week's main event maybe got a brief mention and both competitors in that match were pretty much absent? although AEW sorta works on 2 week cycles for some of the roster

not sure what they're more hesitant to do in a CC match, a draw or breaking the interference rule

I think Joe is a little heavier now than the last time he was kidnapped on wrestling TV, so that might make him harder to kidnap

time for TK to bring Eric Bischoff in to negotiate TV deals (so that Bischoff will stop criticizing TK in public for a few weeks)

MJF having so many people mad at him that two different people stole his devil gimmick does seem oddly apt for some reason

yeah, Hobbs slammed very large person Paul Wight on a car like a month ago and Hobbs been on TV like twice since then?

unless it's Nikita Koloff using his Russian voice on the Crockett plane

yeah if AEW could actually get through this TV deal period without getting booted off of TBS/TNT by the WWE, maybe they just need to make Rampage into the ROH TV show if they can't get a 4th show from WBD. Either way, turn the whole Ring of Honor thing into just an AEW TV show instead of pretending it's a wrestling promotion that isn't the AEW Junior league.

Also happy 19th birthday to Billie Starkz who just got to experience being namedropped in a bad segment for no good reason (edit: but this is probably the best era in history to be a 19 year old woman in a wrestling federation, for whatever that's worth because there's still awfulness that gets noted from time to time)

we already established that the Devil communicates through text messages 2 weeks ago, but maybe the Devil is using AI to generate a fake Ole Anderson voice

Are the goons two different groups or are they just working for both devils not realizing they’re two different people?

I guess by now, Adam Cole is the safest pick compared to Jungle Boy or Sami Callihan. But we just sped past an off-ramp to split MJF and Cole and turning Cole now feels like driving off the bridge to make the exit. Also if you’re feuding MJF and Cole, how in the hell can Cole be the heel vs MJF? MJF looks like a dude expelled from a frat chapter for excessive hazing and Cole looks like a guy who donates to multiple NPR stations.

Omega and Jericho have the visual energy of two washed up 80s hair metal bands interacting because they’re touring with each other

Now it would be in bad taste to have

This 2006 Angle run led to me getting an Angle MACHINE tshirt for a discount from the WWE Shop after Kurt departed from the company.

Now if they called him Bob Gibson, his gimmick could be that he attacks people for looking at him the wrong way. Then again if Giant Gonzalez came out dressed like an assassin to attack the Undertaker, it would have been better than being dressed like a caveman. It would have been elegante in fact.

“Mr. Hausen, can you remove a curse for me”

in theory, if they do the CC next year, there could be matches before the CC to qualify (hopefully not just battle royals) for at least the lower half of the tournament (wildcards)

waves hands in air claiming that some of the top AEW guys aren't in the CC because they already had matches booked during the period of the tournament and therefore couldn't make the schedule hey it beats "some of our top guys didn't wanna do this"

yeah a certain amount of online reactions to BPJ's Lexis King work is a bit like "hey, you know he's trying to be a heel, right?".. like we haven't seen enough of this and we think that the heels are just the people we don't cheer as loudly like the reactions to his intentionally shitty facial hair but yeah, in theory, we're not supposed to cheer the people who don't fight fair

can Joe do the "walk away" spot to counter the buckshot?

doing the "you're crotched on the top rope and I'm moving the rope up and down" spot with the ring apron was interesting.. in theory the ref wouldn't be able to clearly see what was happening either so that's an advantage on just running your opponent's balls into a solid object in front of the ref

how many promos by people going up against Ricky Starks have we had where it might give one the impression that Ricky's leaving the company as soon as he can? although having an obviously on his way out Ricky trapped in feuds with Jericho might be irony considering that Jericho was pretty much staring at the door for the last 9 months of his WCW stint in 99