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It's the same Thunder as the Candido-Funk horse stall incident. 5/31/2000. It's in a couple of parts through the show, if you want to watch the entire deal.

Thanks, now I will forever see Gulak as the simple dude from Eagleheart.

At some point, the fucking referee has to stop this fight. Every goddamn time Ziggler makes any kind of point, whether on TV or on the net, Owens slays him. I don't hate Ziggler, but I am sure tired of him telling me how great he is without the resume to back it up. Nice to see someone else have the same feelings, and it's double nice that Ziggler is the heel here so that it can be pointed out.

Yeah, it's pretty fucking silly. There's no way that I can conceive that this goes any further than a test run. There was a situation that came up in a different game and it radically changes the rule regarding an uncaught third strike with a runner at 1st.

1st base has been stolen!!

Anaheim with the combined no-no on a night that they all wore "Skaggs 45". 13-0, Trout with 6 RBI. Pena with 1 BB over 7 IP, otherwise it's a combined perfecto. Pretty bitchin deal after the game where they all left their jerseys on the hill. It was pretty fucking rad to be watching it live. Angels are 46-46 today. What if they go on a fucking crazy tear and win it all for their dead homie? I should drive to Reno and lay money on them to win it all. EDIT- Check this crazy shit out:

I think I need an explanation. Does YT have some sort of PPV deal where I can order a video from a content provider, or are they saying that they are kicking in their ad revenue? Also, I thought that pro wrestling-related videos were de-monetized a couple years ago, is that no longer the case?

While I can buy Marisnick's rap that he was trying to evade to the inside and get on the opposite side of where the play is going to be, he never really looks like he is attempting to slide. He gets low, and then it looks like the shoulder comes down to absorb whatever impact is coming. I certainly don't think that he was trying to hurt Lucroy, but it looks to me like he was definitely trying to blow him up. The rule doesn't ban contact with the catcher, just that the runner cannot "deviate from his direct pathway to the plate to initiate contact with the catcher (or other player covering home plate)" His direct pathway initially is being blocked by Lucroy, who doesn't yet have the ball, nor is he attempting to make a play on the ball, so by my interpretation, he is in violation of the rule and the base should be awarded to Marisnick. In this situation, Marisnick's "direct pathway" doesn't take him to the first base side of the dish except for the fact that he made it that way. Since the baserunner dictates his own basepath, and that path doesn't exist until a play is attempted to be made on the runner, I think that the rule is being interpreted incorrectly and the MLB is dropping the suspension on him to send a message about staying the fuck away from any collision. It's kind of an unfortunate situation in more ways than just Lucroy's injury, because the way the play unfolded there was nothing that either guy could do about the contact happening. It's been applied unevenly since its institution, so there's no news there, just another situation where the league doesn't do a motherfucking thing about something unless an injury is involved. On the field anyway. And even then, they don't always do anything about it. See Chris Coughlan's slide on Jung Ho Kang a few years ago. Fan after fan gets lit up by laser beam foul balls? Fuck 'em, let the teams figure out how they are going to handle protecting them.

The Atlantic League wants to get weird with it: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/27168526/stealing-first-gets-tryout-atlantic-league I like the use of the Trackman system, and I like the idea that an ump can override it, especially considering some of the flaws it has like on pitches that bounce and whatnot. I don't give a damn about the dropped pitch rule, and I don't think it will come into play too terribly often. Stepping off before a pickoff throw is asinine, because I think the only thing that comes from it is making a pickoff move easier to pick up on. I am pretty half and half about the extra bunted foul ball on strike 2. On one hand, if you can't get the fucking bunt down, get the fuck out of the box, I dont want ro see you anyway. But on the other, more rational hand I appreciate that sometimes things don't go our way and you need another crack at it. The times, they are a-changing!!

That movie, while enjoyable, had a lot of the "interconnected horseshit for no reason other than it needs to string these plot points together" disease. Perfectly fine that it exists, but certainly not deep enough to find any real enjoyment beyond its most base level, you know?

Goddamn do I love that movie. AV Club posted an article today about found footage movies worth seeing, and while I don't agree with everything on it, it's a pretty serviceable list of stuff to check out. I have a super soft spot for Willow Creek, so it's nice to see it getting a little love. https://film.avclub.com/just-keep-filming-16-worthwhile-found-footage-horror-m-1836018013 I watched "Hell House LLC" not all that long ago and enjoyed it as well. I'm a sucker for the genre, though, I give it far more leeway than I probably should.

I can't be alone in both hating and loving the Pancrase knockoff logo for Extreme Rules, can I? I mean, it looks good, but they just boosted someone else's super dope logo and put their own words on it!

That is George Foreman, yo!

Oh shit. Fucking perfect. Now I want Ibushi to cosplay Violet.

I don't remember that they feuded, especially considering how short a time Candido was there. I haven't gone back and rewatched lately, but I recall Candido being more invested in the Cruiserweight scene, and the Funk match was a one-off. He cut a promo about Funk being an old dog and that he was going to put him down. The tights were something that he rocked on more than one occasion, but I don't recall if there was ever an explanation for them.

Pretty heavy duty shit in the build with the Race bounty and Ace Orton and Dick Slater collecting with the spike piledriver, causing the "retirement" of Flair before his comeback. Pretty sufficient hatred levels to get us to the cage stipulation.

Down 4-3 B9, LAD rings up two quick outs before drawing 5 straight BB to win 5-4. Baseball is the fucking weirdest greatest game ever invented.

I was real jazzed about the potential of copping one of those t-shirts, but to the best of my knowledge they never made any for public consumption. I think I only wanted one because of how potentially offensive they are.

NYM is the dumbest of the goddamn dumb. What a colossal fuck up that doesn't really do any damage to anyone. But it's A+ funny, and exceptionally stupid: https://nypost.com/2019/07/01/mets-botch-apology-to-1969-players-they-thought-were-dead/ They already thought the guy was dead, and then they misspell his name in the apology!! I love it!

I thought Whitaker was a slam dunk when Trammell finally went in. I think he'll get there eventually. Look at all the fucking bums that are in because they played with Frankie Frisch. The whatever the fuck committee meets again in 2021 and 2023, so hopefully soon. EDIT- "Today's Game" is the committee name. As soon as I posted it, it popped into my head.

Visually, I don't know if there is a cooler submission than a Boston Crab or any of its variants. Maybe Cattle Mutilation, that is a good looking sub as well. I would like to vote for the greatest sub of all time in El Nudo Lagunero, but it's just too weirdly difficult and the finished product doesn't really hammer home how painful it is, mostly because you don't have a limb left out to struggle with.

I don't quite understand the idea of the Horsemen being all "anti-gang" anyway. All they ever did was rat pack guys in parking lots and backstage and shit. They were a fucking gang! You can't join a gang and then complain about gangs existing!

Yeah, but what good is that? I feel like baseball is tailor-made for arguing, and all the different ways that people have tried to quantify worth help to allow those arguments to be constructed. I'm with you, though. JAWS is likely the best possible answer to the question of HOF-worthiness.

And lo and behold, it immediately shows its usefulness!! Larry Walker is my HOF measuring stick, and this puts his HOF value at 598.8. I knew I was right, and anyone that says otherwise can eat it!! Seriously, though. Thanks for the heads up. Yet another thing to waste time with to construct arguments that are more fun than whatever else I should be doing.

I disagree wholeheartedly, and if you have no intention on using it, can I use it as my gag name for checking into hotels?