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After hearing the "bottom of the third" reference in regard to this storyline, I'm wondering if there are any other baseball references that can be made. Should the umps call curfew on the game? Do we add someone from NXT in as a September call up? End it now via the 10 run mercy rule, Roman wins again.

Battle Royal and last two matches were a lot of fun. The rest was middle of the road at best. Did JR have a more censored version of the Heenan/Pillman "What the F are you doing?" moment at the Clash? He yelled "Hey! Stupid!" at one point and no attention was brought to it. Excalibur said at one point their ankles were getting bumped into, so I wonder if that happened to JR (what with his surgery scar and all).

I'll say it's jarringly weird to hear Bobby Heenan reference high schools you're familiar with, one of which you went to.

Felt like a flash pin by Cody, I'm wondering what that exactly does for the story. Is a rematch coming? Hopefully the Bloodline angle will move out of the stasis it's been in for the past few weeks. I guess Kevin and Sami can say that they followed through with their mission statement of bringing down the Bloodline, technically speaking, but it's seems more like the Bloodline is doing it to themselves. Otherwise the show was A LOT of fun, which I wasn't completely expecting.

"Now go with me here...instead of hunting crocodiles...he hunts...PEOPLE!" I can visualize that conversation being had.

They just put the trailer with the 10 episodes out on Twitter. With cursory knowledge of some of the topics, there are certainly going to be some grim ones. But then there will be episodes on BATB 2000 and Doink the Clown...

It may be worthwhile to revisit the old wrestling saying: is they money in the chase anymore? Is the money in the catching now? Or should we just say "the money is in the TV rights deals" in current times.

I was set to give things a chance last night, but then was left thinking "does WWE even know what a babyface is anymore?" after Raw last night. But then, I thought "well, we have to go alllll the way back to...Saturday night to see them present a babyface well". ." I then thought that I'll be going back to watching 10% of Raw like I have been for the past 5 years.

Just saw this now, Roman "Dostoyevsky" Reigns says we're only in the 3rd inning? He's probably going to get a few pitch clock violations throughout the rest of this game. Remember, only two pickoffs per batter now! Pace of play!

Maybe just me, but I think Cody winning would have been the perfect bow to the story between Roman and Sami, since he'd have gotten some consequential revenge against Roman with the helluva kick.

Sami didn't need to appeal to Kevin's better angels or use a logical argument. All he had to say was "I love you" to break through. Love always wins!

Any guesses on the next Shawn Michaels homage they're going to do? Maybe a bodyguard turning on their client angle ending with an out of control power bomb, a la Sid and Shawn in '95?

Agreed. Wrestling show as participatory experience, whether you want to or not, is an interesting choice.

One more observation before I sleep and groggily work my way through Monday: I called the OT period. The match started a little after 10:30 and thought that there’s no way an AEW PPV ends that much before Midnight.

Excellent show, the theater experience was great. I'm probably in the minority, but I'm not a huge proponent of MJF throwing the drink on the kid. (SRS tweeted that the kid was visibly upset.) I don't like when comedians make someone who doesn't want to be, a part of the show. I guess I don't like it when wrestlers do it either. Is the front row the theoretical "splash zone" at the water park? Was that always the case? Should front row fans be prepared for that like fans that bring tarp to a Gallagher show?