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Looooool oh holy shit. “That dude look like a Skinemax vampire” is going into my lexicon. The last time a DVDVR insult stuck with me, it was DEAN’s description of Jim Hellwig in a suit, “he looks like landscaper with a court date.”

Quick follow up. The biggest revelations were J.C. Tretter basically told running backs to fake injuries to get better contracts and then told everybody on a podcast. There is also an interview where Lloyd Howell, who claims he's not a part of the venture capital side of Carlyle Group, basically saying "me and my colleagues at the venture capital firm Carlyle group sure are interested in investing in the NFL." The interview was posted by the NFLPA, but with some fairly obvious cuts that completely remove the sections about him being part of the venture capital group. But, because he said these things at a public press conference a newspaper posted it in its entirety. Two things that are important about this. The players who are on stage, don't react at all to this comment. A lawyer for the union immediately filed paperwork looking into Lloyd Howell and this obvious conflict of interest. The thing people miss about how sports unions work is that the members of the unions are all dudes in their early to mid-20s who do not notice these types of huge red flags. He publicly admitted in front of the people he's potentially screwing over that he wants to be on the other side of their negotiations, but they didn't even notice. When I was 25, I don't think I would have noticed that shit either. I don't think I know any 25 year olds who would. These are all guys who have millions of dollars on the line, but are too young and immature to know how guys like Lloyd Howell are trying to screw them out of their money. He knows that, said it in front of them, and then had it posted on YouTube without the parts that would catch anyone else's attention.

also shout out to Kip Sabian for looking like every vampire in a Cinemax softcore porn last night

TJ Watt is now the highest paid non-QB in league history. He extends with Pittsburgh 3/123 (108 guaranteed).

I feel like I'm just DVDVR's Pablo Torre correspondent at this point. He did a deep dive on the Malik Beasley situation and it's pretty apparent that Beasley is at the very least a dumbass. All of these things happened in the course of a week. He signed a $60 million dollar contract, he got arrested, he got photographed holding hands with Larsa Pippen, and his wife filed for divorce. I'm 44 years old and I haven't done any of those things, he got it done in a week. Other things of note in the episode. When the news about Terry Rozier dropped, a full six months before the Malik Beasley news dropped a Twitter account tweeted the something to the effect of, "next player will be M**** B******." Then when someone called him on it, this dude posted a betting slip of a Jontay Porter under slip that was bought days before the game that got him banned for life and months before the investigation was made public. At some point this dude deleted his account, but created another anonymous account that only seemed to exist to gloat about that deleted account knowing that Malik Beasley was the next shoe to drop. So long story short, Pablo Torre was able to find this person and found that he's cousins with a guy named in the Jontay Porter case. When they asked him about it, he said "I don't know that guy, I got all of this from Reddit. I'll send you a DM with the thread." They tried to send him a reminder, and he's deleted all of his social media. With that said, Malik Beasley seems to be terrible at point shaving. He's the type of player who puts up big numbers when games don't matter not only for the game he's playing in, but the betting lines.

It didn't help that every joke was "_______ is here. [insert insult]" over and over again with little/no variation on that format.

Louisiana and Louisiana-Monroe didn't want Louisiana Tech in the Sun Belt when the C-USA teams originally joined (Old Dominion, Marshall and Southern Miss), because they thought LT big-timed them when they moved to the WAC, and then C-USA.

I (already) forgot all about that Danielson/McGuinness match. They really should have just done that at All Out instead of Danielson/Perry. Putting it on TV with a rushed and somewhat garbled build (I seem to recall there was speculation Danielson wouldn't show up or something? And it wound up being non-title?) just made it feel really flat.

i started a new job in early March. it's my first time coming into a job cold as a "manager". The industry is tangentially familiar to me, and one of my departments is well within my history, but it's been a weird experience. I've never heard anybody talk about stepping in with little-to-no direct knowledge but still being expected to answer questions and make decisions. Luckily, my teams have been great and were understanding and helpful. Yesterday, one of my team leads (two steps below me on the ladder but significantly more experience in the company) paid me what i consider a pretty big compliment: "you've been here less than 6 months? Wow, you really learned a lot and know your stuff already."

The really obnoxious thing is thwt it's only like that because of booking changes after it had been awarded. At the time of the match, Darby had a title shot for a date to be named later banked from a battle royale, and the All In Casino winner (Christian) would get their shot at Dynamite Grand Slam. Without warning or explanation, suddenly Darby's shot was for Wrestledream (and Mox beat him to steal it AT Grand Slam), while Christian's became a One Free Ambush coupon, and Danielson had his farewell-tour match with Nigel at GS. I get that plans changed to accommodate Danielson and McGuinness, but there were ways to do this without unleashing a MitB knockoff into the world.

Their (EXTREMELY large) child will either be a WWE or Super Bowl Champion. Maybe both.

Good riddance. (seriously, look him up)

Ultimate Endgame https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/marvel-comics-ultimate-unverse-approaches-its-endgame

I'm not sure if it's the fact that the "bro-sphere" doesn't click with me or if I'm just too old to enjoy younger comedians, but I've never seen his appeal. I couldn't give two shits about KillTony or his minions. And don't get me started on Rogan's "stand up".

Nick Wayne reminded me a bit of Bret Hart in his promo. He even threw in a weird mispronunciation ("I'm going to win plenty of champions") and said it twice! Okada music change will take some getting used to. I liked it better toward the end where the lyrics switched to Japanese, maybe a remix is in order Bucks stuff was great, like the uneasy alliance with Callis. Excaliber's "any port in a storm" after that cracked me up. Loved the "we just teamed together a couple weeks ago!" after getting clowned on by Ricochet. Everyone treating the Bucks like shit is fun! Also liked the little touch of them messing up their signature spots more often than usual in the match, showing they were off their games. They both caught the other with an accidental superkick in a way that doesn't happen that often Show had a botched start on max (sorry hbomax. just when the branding permanence was taking hold too....). Started a minute late, then cut immediately to commercial seconds after Hangman's music hit, and came back with Tony handing him the mic. I was curious if Tony K/production knew what was happening and got them to stall in the ring before Hangman started talking, because they got going right when hbomax fixed itself

I haven't listened to it yet, but apparently Pablo Torre and Mike Florio have a follow up episode that dropped today. This is not going away. It's not just that too many people are paying attention, but all of the reporters who seem to love nothing more than making your life a living hell are looking into it.

He was limping when he came down for the opening promo. I think (hope) he's just selling from the All In match or maybe has a slight injury that's uncomfortable, but not enough to miss time.

Look, I'm just gonna apologize in advance for this. But if I saw it, you must too. (RED BAND TRAILER - Language, Sexual Situations, Just... ugh, you'll see) FIXED Starring Adam DeVine, Idris Elba, Kathryn Hahn, Fred Armisen, Beck Bennett, and Bobby Moynihan Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky (Samurai Jack, Hotel Transylvania, Primal) Premieres on Netflix, August 13th. --- I didn't realize a director could flush all his good will down the toilet in 90 seconds, but here we are.

Felix Baumgartner - know for being the man who "jumped from space" in 2012 - passed away in a paragliding accident in Italy. He was 56 years old

Chargers WR Mike Williams (via his agent) has announced his retirement from the NFL at the age of 30

Hope the first people impacted are the dummies doing the Trump dance after a touchdown https://x.com/SBNation/status/1945856847812120660

Yeah, "I didn't understand a word you said" was great...

The new AJPW World Tags https://x.com/Meh_ItsIrv/status/1945804540516635044 https://x.com/alljapan_pw/status/1945880683311943896 They made two new sets based on the old sets to replace the old two sets. They're not bad looking. The even kept the chains on the international tags Wish they redid the Triple Crown and split them into 3 belts.

I don't like the way Hangman was limping during that match. At all. Particularly that it started after a springboard-type move. I hope I'm wrong...

I generally avoid the often mundane TK press, but this is one worth checking out. Case Lowe does an excellent job keeping TK comfortable enough to move passed the regular rinse repeat promotional stuff. Lots of interesting banter here.