Hamhock

I don’t think that anyone here has posted yet about the Immaculate Grid site run by the Baseball/Football/Basketball/Hockey-Reference folks; there is a daily grid game for each sport. Fun and addictive as hell.

There’s this early ‘74 match against Chris Taylor; no corner flip but he does like taking turnbuckles: And then in 1976 Mid-Atlantic there’s a corner flip:

Helen Keller in a wrestling match is the very definition of senseless violence.

Third-fewest; Darryl Kile (83) and David Cone (88) are the two better.

That reminds me of a Little League World Series final way back when in the late '80s, where the American pitcher was getting shelled by Taiwan in the first inning, and his dad/manager left him in the game for another inning-and-a-half until he was completely destroyed 21-1.

In my old-timey day, the only wrestling photos you could see on a computer screen were in WWF Microleague Wrestling.

I guess you could say that you…..lost your sense of humer?

If you want to feel even older, the 2023 MLB Draft was almost certainly the final one to draft a player born in the 1900s (18 out of 614 picked; 1 from 1998, 17 from 1999).

Believe it or not, the first thing that popped into my head was:

I don't think there are innings minimums for BBWAA awards, so sure!

Love the shows -and Rudman was an entertaining sort of awkward.

Dick Graham, on the PRISM broadcasts of the Philadelphia Spectrum house shows. Super annoying and mediocre.

They should just be an evening edition paper, then.

Bring back Armando Estrada as the anti-Heyman that lures away Solo to become the new Samoan BULL-dozer.

I don’t have the game but am curious - couple of questions: 1) What happens if you deliberately lose every match in Road to Elite mode? 2) Is it possible to get a low-star/DUD match rating? Like, if you kept slapping on a headlock for 5 minutes and then got counted out, or something?

There was a comedy spot like this in 205 Live involving Gulak warning Jack Gallagher that something was too risky.

Is it really startling, though? I mean - it can happen to you, it can happen to me, it can happen to everyone eventually…

Superstar Billy Graham?

Inoki and Baba.

“I’m in my boys’ corner, and I’ll be your huckleberry all night long.”

I propose that we use a closed-system instance of the ChatGPT AI and train it on DEAN's posts/DVDVR writings/etc. We then give this to Tony Khan, and the DEANBot singularity can then be an eternal AEW Commissioner that makes rulings and pronouncements on TV. An in-context example: BCC attacks Elite in the ring; both groups fight each other Booming voice heard over PA: "HI~!" "If There is Something" by Roxy Music begins to play; everyone in the ring stops fighting and looks around in confusion A circa-1980s high-school heavy-duty audio-visual cart with a large tube Zenith television perched on top self-propels itself onto the entrance ramp. There is a Max-Headroom-esque animated figure on its tv screen. This is AEW Commissioner DEANBot. DEANBot: If it's a FIGHT that you all want, then you can all take an ass-beating like CHAMPS! I want to see you beat the CRUD out of each other. You GET ALLLLLLLL THIS. BLOOD & GUTS! RIGHT NOW! A referee sprints into the ring, and the Blood & Guts cage begins to lower. DEANBot: I AM DEAN. AEW RULES THE [expletive bleeped] WORLD~! DEANBot's AV cart squeakily wheels an exit to the back.

I’m just chiming in very late on the “could this wrestler beat up my dad” tangent to say that the entire roster could, but as for his dad - my deceased grandfather? 5’8”, maybe 175 lbs., but a man who punched out his commanding officer during the war, and then bus drivers and cops in peacetime, and physically threw an insurance adjuster off of the front porch of his rowhouse down to the sidewalk (clearing a flight of steps)? The guy into slugged it out with his oldest brother after the funeral of their father? I think he’d be AEW champion for life. Jesus; I think I just talked myself into Orange Cassidy legitimately being a realistic AEW champion.

If we go back further into what-if scenarios: if Barry Windham doesn’t jump to the WWF in 1984 and instead stays in Mid-Atlantic with Dusty, Magnum most likely stays in Mid-South at least another year, and I can easily see Vince throwing money at him in late ‘85/early ‘86 - him against Savage for the IC title would have been terrific.

Heel turn by TA as he smashes Undertaker in the lower back with the urn, then holds it against Taker’s back and belly-to-bellies him onto the urn. Taker suffers lower back pain so severe that he can’t do the zombie sit up.

I always loved this kayfabe-breaking outtake with the whole gang: