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That's the thing, he's not from Cleveland, he's from Parma, which is 93% white. He's from one of those places that exists so white people can say they are from a major city without actually ever having to deal with any black people. It's like white people who claim to be from Baltimore, odds are those people don't live in Baltimore. They probably never even go to Baltimore. This country is extremely segregated. The president is campaigning on saving the suburbs, which is basically an argument for continued segregation. Did anyone read the Washington Post article about Ferguson that came out about a year after the Mike Brown riots? It was basically a list of bullshit charges that the Ferguson Police Department filed against black people in Ferguson. I remember that they arrested a dude named Michael for identifying himself as Mike. Ferguson was pretty much the blackest part of St. Louis and it was clear that the entire police department was exploiting the citizens of Ferguson for profit. Here's the thing, in comparison to dangerous ass St. Louis, Ferguson was a pretty nice place to live. Ferguson used to be the place where black people who made enough money to get out of St. Louis wanted to move, and they were rewarded with a police department that arrested them for bullshit and made their lives miserable. A large percentage of the problems that are going on in this country are based on the fact that it is always going to be an "us against them" situation because the country is so segregated. The best thing I can say about Miz is that by the end of his Real World season, he seemed to have learned a lot and all of his castmates seemed to legitimately like him. He could have very easily just been a dick and stuck to his bullshit ass guns.

Miz and Morrison are doing WWE-sanctioned comedy. Big E is an actual funny person. That's the difference.

Miz is a guy who thinks he's far funnier and charismatic than he actually is. And I'm absolutely not shocked a white kid from the midwest has some pretty ignorant views on race and privilege. Hearing that story about his dad rings so true. It's the kind of ingrained soft racism that's so casually passed down generationally, where the kids coming up need to really pay attention and wake the fuck up, lest you end up on a talk show arguing with a black guy about how you've faced the same barriers they have.

This is amazing. That we look to sports for political change is fucked up, but here we are and I'll take anything at this point.

I disagree with this too. I honestly think the thing that turned me off of modern wrestling is that everything felt paint by numbers. Everyone kind of became good to great technical wrestlers, with 4 signature moves, a dive, a top rope move, and a finisher. Every match is pretty good, but all of them feel the same. Give me a show where every match is different, even if some of them aren't very good. Give me a wild brawl, give me a spotfest, give me a couple guys just wrenching on holds, and then the epic main event will feel epic. But telling people that these are the best practices are just going to give us more of the same, when what I actually want is variety.

THAT'S MY TEAM!

Honestly, I hope this ends the NBA season. And I say this as a Lakers fan who wanted them to win it all. The boycott would be an empty gesture if they just took one or two days off and then went right back to it. If you're done because you're done with this bullshit, be DONE. Also...let these guys go home. The bubble is pretty much a human zoo.

Video of the Kenny Smith walkout.

Also, even if they could, I don't think they're going to want to capitalize on NBA protesting the FUCKING. BULLSHIT. in Kenosha.

I don't know how this ends but it's pretty heartening in a time full of disheartening news.

After only working there since July 1st, I have been promoted to supervisor of the bakery/deli at my Walmart Neighborhood Market. It blows my mind to think that this time two years ago, I was at the absolute lowest of low. Hoping for death and laid up in the hospital, unable to walk or really do anything, due to extreme alcoholism. Ever since I moved down here, I've really turned my life around and am quite happy. I have managed to put a concrete dome over the suicidal depression that once plagued my soul.

Yeah, I don't think we're seeing any basketball today. E: Pretty sure that's a wrap:

I care about storytelling, but not everything needs to be the Odyssey. Sure, the Odyssey is a great story, but sometimes I want a big dumb crime thriller. Other times I want to read about a heist where I have to pay attention to every little detail or I won't understand how the ending makes sense. I might want to read a mystery with a huge twist that I never saw coming. All of these stories are worth telling, but you can't really use the same set of guidelines to tell these stories effectively. The finishing sequence for every match needs to reflect the story that each match is trying to tell. Wrestling is desperately in need of new ideas, and giving a set of best practices/guidelines/rules is the last thing we need.

Agreed. The less formulaic pro wrestling is, the better it is.

The worst part about this is that this dude thinks this about Mr. Hero, a job that no one with any education would even apply to do.

If you're gonna post a goddamn Manami Toyota taking someone's offense gif, don't pussyfoot around.

mah eye, RAF

See you in two days.

With all this being said...(even though I never called them this) seeing as AEW is the "woke" promotion, how do they even go forward with a pro wrestling taping? Wrestling seems a bit trivial right now say the least.

Game's off. Reds decline to accept a forfeit.

You take America's football away and stuff will happen.

Respect to the Bucks.

I'd like to use this opportunity to say, there should be no hard and fast rules about what makes good wrestling. Some matches would be better served with a closing 6th, some a closing 3rd, and others a flash finish. Trying to establish rules would actively make wrestling worse.

Mr. Hero sounds like a made-up name they'd use on a sitcom because they can't say Subway

FIFY

Definitely agree with the top reply about Michael Rooker but also half of the cast of King of the Hill.

100% Well, if they play. My first thought was wow this will give Russ more time to heal! Second thought was that the season shouldn’t be in jeopardy because Kenosha and the state of Wisconsin will do the right thing and arrest the cops who participated in the shooting of Jacob Blake. Third thought was yeah right Trump will blame the players and nothing will happen to those cops, like nothing will happen to the cops who killed Breona Taylor, etc.

Fuck the entire Call of Duty franchise for putting out a kill the commies for Reagan sama trailer a day after a Boogaloo Boy killed two protestors.

Floodgates appear to be open.

Raptors and Celtics are both discussing a boycott for tomorrow night.

I mean I am glad that they are trying to take a stand and be serious about. But the people who need to change this shit don't fucking care about this game. Hell they didn't watch game 1 through 4. If this game was in Milwaukee it would make a difference because it hits the pocket books You can see their frustration and it just sucks

No significant addition to this other than being shocked my current residence of Parma, Ohio, would ever be mentioned on DVDVR. Yeah, he was very 'middle class' from the school he went to all the way the specific area of town he grew up in, and, while not entirely horrible or great itself, Parma is surrounded by some of the nicest communities in Northeast Ohio, all of which are know to be somewhat intolerant, in general. Parma is diverse, but in the "Is your family originally from Poland, or are they from the Ukraine?" sort of way.

You guys are preaching to the choir, I'm of the opinion that creativity dies as soon as an artform becomes a capitalistic venture. As soon as profit becomes the main consideration, it's really hard to take the kind of risks that it requires to be truly creative.

The thing with formulaic matches is, the biggest promotion in the world is also the most formulaic, and so a generation of wrestling fans (and wrestlers) have grown up thinking that's the best and only way to do it. Shame. So apparently Wikipedia has reinstated finishing moves to Wrestler's pages. But they're in italics now, because they're ironic or some shit.

Oh man, Vader arrives to the ring on a CHERRY PICKER while a guy grunts on the mic.

I'd like to use this wonderful opportunity to once again bring up my recently derived theory that finishing stretches should be closer to 1/6th of a match than 1/3rd. It just seems like the proper time and place.

I grew up in a city demographically similar to Cleveland and I can tell you that white middle class racism is thriving in places like that. I grew up around some real bigoted shitheads and I'm glad I got away from that. I firmly believe that once you reach a certain level of money and fame, you sure as shit are not taking care of your own kids the way non-rich, non-famous people do.

Tenet.

What an amazing lineup, and also Ludvig Borga

I could see none of today's games being played in protest. Great to see the players take a stand.

OSJ, every time you think you're being funny, it's only you who thinks that.

Yup, not fixing that.