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Not the only time Houston went toe to toe with Funk and Buck http://youtu.be/r7BdBE19n3U Probably the only time having Erik Watts as a tag team partner can be seen as an upgrade. That said, Terry Funk piledriving Erik Watts repeatedly on the concrete floor would have been far more entertaining.

Cubs avoid arbitration for Travis Wood. $3.9 million. That's a smart move. He'll cost about $10 million less than Ubaldo Jimenez and Garza, and be better than those two.

They could show the HOF ceremony on the WWE Network. Unedited! Uncensored! Never before seen!

I think Ricketts is willing to see it through since he (or his daddy depending on your perspective) bankrolled a major part of the purchase price. I also don't see the Ricketts family doing a Miami Marlins and coercing a city to give them a crap load of money for a stadium renovation only to gut the team a year later, seeing as the potential big time pieces will be team controlled and bargains in MLB money. Furthermore, if Theo and Jed are really into sabremetrics, it doesn't make sense to grossly overpay for one or two more wins from starting pitchers who aren't getting any younger and have lots of mileage on them. I agree the pitching prospects in the minors aren't all there, but by stockpiling all these minor league pieces, it's conceivable the Cubs will in fact make a move to obtain David Price via trade. That's the one guy I feel that is available that would really be worth making a push towards, with the added plus that he's an awesome left handed pitcher, and those guys don't at all grow on trees. The Yankees would be maxed out as they'll be paying through the nose for aging dudes and Tanaka, don't have the minor league system to pull it off, and I highly doubt the Rays would trade Price to a division rival. Same story for the Red Sox. The Dodgers have tons of money tied up as well, and I don't think they have the minor league pieces either. Ubaldo Jimenez and Matt Garza aren't the kind of guys at this stage in the game that will be difference makers for the salaries they believe they merit. David Price is a different story. He's going to cost you prospects, and $$$ but he has a proven track record.

Over tanning, most likely. Sheamus is still alive. Didn't work.

The backup plan was to try and sign Tanaka. The main idea is still in play, developing Baez, Soler, Alcantara, Bryant, etc. The days of trying to do it a la Jim Hendry are over, and I for one am glad to see it.

I had no idea Colonel Parker was anything other than a Southern gentleman in WCW, so seeing him manage the Amazing French Canadians in that get-up was a WTF.

Nah. It was Yoko. And then the Ghost of Hulkamania came back to try and haunt the WWE and this guy was all like "I HATE GHOSTS." SQUEEZE! SQUEEZE! SQUEEZE! One of my favorite matches. I don't remember if the camera got a glimpse of fans high-fiving each other like it did when Yokozuna beat Hogan at King of the Ring 1993.

Jimenez is pretty bad and is going to want Edwin Jackson money, and isn't worth it. Signing Maholm wouldn't be the worst idea in the world. Now that Tanaka is a Yankee, it's a matter of time before he either blows out his arm because of the NPB workload or gets suspended for PED use, since one overpriced Yankee is contractually obligated to be on the stuff.

Friday Night Lights in the playoffs? Monday Night Football playoff games? Roger's gone mad! http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/01/21/nfl-may-expand-to-friday-night-monday-night-playoff-games/

Roger Goodell, job destroyer: http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/10324658/roger-goodell-says-pats-abolished This idea seems stupid.

Oh, CC has signed up with Jay Z's Roc Nation. http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2014/01/cc-sabathia-joins-roc-nation-sports.html

At this point, fuck the BWAA and get the calls right.

Listened to Parv's rant about that match last night. I'm wondering what could possibly make him madder than that match did.

I would think a pildedriver would hurt the top of your head, but with everything else like your neck taking the brunt of the impact, I don't think your head is what you would be worried about in that situation. In some ways, it might be like taking a shoot DDT.

The sweet nectar of DVDVR is back.

Mr Niebla in his new gimmick with the Peste Negra is unbelievably fun.

I only recognize the name from old PWI 500s where he'd always seem to hang around the #450-Mr Irrelevant range.

Any kind of investigative crime drama where Samoan badasses like Haku kick ass and get to the bottom of things. "Nobody Potatoes Me" is a show hosted by or starring Stan Hansen where he lariats the fuck out of bullies and shows them what it's like to really be potatoed.

I've been making the same joke on Twitter, with the only exception is she'll be Clark's lady friend.

Man I really want to be able to watch the 1994 Fall Brawl Wargames match as I can't find it online in the usual places, and watching the buildup to it of late is phenomenal.

In the yammering thread and to the Beyond Wrestling Twitter account, I mentioned that some indies may want to become Single A or Double A affiliates to WWE, seeing as NXT is the Triple A affiliate for WWE, if we are to use the baseball model. Also, I'm pretty sure MLB offers a streaming service for their Triple A affiliates, so that may be another avenue to explore to become the real One Stop Shop for everything any everything pro wrestling.

Cabana with co-host Rob Naylor. Dusty Rhodes would work as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI9-MHAKPvg

For the big shows like Mania, I don't think so since the live gates are lots of $$$ and the fan Axxess I would think would give them lucrative photo-op opportunites. For the smaller shows, maybe. But at the point that millions of viewers are also watching the PPVs with the new system, it shouldn't affect them as much as we may think it might.

She'd probably want to take lariats from Stan Hansen, Kobashi, JBL, and Okada consecutively and still tell them to hit her harder. Oh, and TMZ is reporting she's not dead yet, but gravely ill. http://www.tmz.com/2014/01/09/mae-young-wwe-dead-dies/#ixzz2pv9WbudR