Greggulator
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Axel's growing on me a lot. He's the perfect guy to have a manager. He's solid as an actual wrestler in the ring. He'll never have the "it" factor that the others in his class of wrestlers (FCW/NXT alum) have but he has enough to at least be a decent hand for a very long time. They might as well give him some credibility by working with the most talented guys on the roster and getting better by osmosis. There's a good place in wrestling for a guy like that. He won't headline a Wrestlemania ever but he'll be perfectly acceptable as a heel Kofi Kingston.
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I caught the show from Ziggler/ADR on. Really good stuff. Wish I saw the opening match.I really loved Dolph/ADR. Great work from both guys. ADR does so many great little things -- sneers, hand taunts, stretching out a body part after its been worked on for a bit, etc. He's one of the best at facial expressions and subtle mannerisms ever. Dolph is really good at wrestling as a face, too. He gets how to work from underneath. AJ's terrific as usual as the super needy clingy GF. I liked the end of it a lot -- AJ was there "protecting" her man but he didn't need her help. I think AJ might be terrific as ADR's mistress. He could use a new part of the act and it's be funny to see a jealous, pining Ricardo.Cena/Mark was very good. Not a MOTYC but very good, solid big man work. They had a really good story there with the Cena/AA deal. The announcers always miss a lot of the good story work. Cena won because he has two effective finishers, one being a submission that a big man can't counter. It was a race to see who could hit their finisher a second time w/ Cena's experience as a champion getting him the shot. Great stuff.I really liked the final MITB. I was rooting for Bryan like everyone else. I think Orton's a terminal bore. But the match itself was really good. I like the Axel run-in and Heyman move on Punk. I actually thought that the Bray promo video before was a tip-off to him somehow stealing the match. MITB matches are always fun -- just a lot of crazy stuff non-stop. Kudos to Sheamus for taking that crazy ladder bump. RVD was good doing RVD things, too.
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The misses and I are slowly making our way through Friday Night Lights. Just finished Season 3. It's high, high, high on my list as my favorite show of all-time. No show has ever rendered such emotion from me on a consistent basis -- I have probably cried at some point during every episode. The Wire certainly impacted my life quite a bit (especially Season 4) but I also like watching television to escape from the fact that we live in a world that is really crappy for a lot of people.I love that FNL isn't afraid to have happy endings. On top of it, all of their happy endings have been completely earned and feel genuine. Smash's smile when he gets the scholarship, Tyra's acceptance letter are all completely perfect. They're characters I root for and get to see have personal victories.The show also has so many great epic moments. Tyra's college essay while they have the cuts to other people's scenes is absolutely amazing television. So are all the great Coach talks. But the best scenes are in the little moments -- Grandma Saracen and Julie holding hands before Matt's last game, Coach twirling around some little kid at a pick-up game outside Smash's apartment, the Riggins boys rasslin' after the truck breaks down, etc.I really didn't mind the Season 2 silliness either that everyone hates. I mean, it's a dumb sub-plot obviously shoehorned in by some network exec the producers had to cave in on to stay on the air. But Tyra and Landry -- ESPECIALLY Landry -- acted the hell out of crappy material.
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Anyone smart and reasonable will easily find their way out of jury duty.
Yeah, which is the worst.I got selected for a capital murder case. The amount of people getting out of it was sickening. I actually was thanked by the judge for saying that I'm an objective person.
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While I agree with most of your points Greg, one nitpick: While true Rock and Austin were assholes, and Eddie was a cheat, those were still vital parts of there character, in a time where being an asshole ruled. Sheamus is a gigantic bully, while being one of the faces of the companies anti-bullying campaign.
That part's dumb w/ Sheamus. But I pretty much ignore anything he's involved with.Another reason why I like this era: I don't feel like scum of the earth watching it. No men are hitting women or putting girls through tables. I like PG since I'm a grown-up, which is kind of weird.I have no idea how I would feel about ECW now if it was a current product.
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A few points:1) We need smart and reasonable people on juries. It's one of the greatest rights we have in the Constitution. Yet a lot of smart, educated people capable of interpreting legal statutes correctly do whatever they can to escape a jury pool. So, hopefully more people outraged about this verdict (I'm one of them) realize the importance of being on a jury and don't come up w/ lame excuses as to why they can't sit on one.
2) Social media has brought down despotic regimes in the Middle East. Americans organized to a crazy extent in the beginning of the 20th Century to ban alcohol -- think about that for a second, consider how much drinking is ingrained in our way of life. There's a way to tie in social media and things like gun control or misguided stand-down laws taken care of.
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Is there anyone else here who thinks the WWE has a very good product right now?I know it's not perfect. Things aren't executed perfectly 100% of the time (i.e., any comedy segment). I haaaate watching The 100,000,000th McMahon Power Struggle as much as everyone else does. But overall, I like the product more than I ever have.The in-ring talent and depth they have is fantastic. The PPV is so deep today that they can toss out The Shield vs. The Usos as the free match. Those are two legitimately great teams who could have a very high-end match. And they're in that spot not because of a "deemphasis of tag wrestling" but because they have a two ladder matches (completely unpredictable in terms of booking) and two world title matches, both of which have been pretty solidly well-built, heated feuds. Even the AJ/Kaitlyn feud has been great -- it's a very long-term feud now boiling to its apex. When was the last time the two divas (ugh, hate using that) in the spotlight had such a well-done angle?The only guys I really don't want to watch anymore are Randy Orton and Sheamus. They're just snooze fests at this point but they're snooze fests who have high-end matches on a very consistent basis.They have an ace in Cena who, at this point, has probably had as many, if not more, MOTYCs than the guys viewed as the best like Bret, Shawn, Taker, etc. His promos make my eyes roll at times but he's the hero for kids and actual marks. They have an amazing "new generation" of guys underneath in Bryan and Punk who have shown they can be the 1A to Cena. They also have NXT bringing in a lot of depth like The Shield and Wyatt w/ Kassius, Sami and Paige waiting in the wings.People point out regularly how Sheamus is a bully and Cena does heel things. I mean, they do. But the Attitude Era faces were all like that. Austin and The Rock hit their finishers regularly on anyone who they did a ring interview with. Eddie bragged about cheating.It's a really good product. We nitpick it too much. There's certainly flaws but if you let yourself enjoy it you will.I'm also partial to it because it's the only rasslin' I have time to watch, aside from Chikara puts online and the few Chikara shows I get to go to. But I don't have the interest in TNA or ROH or Japan or Lucha and I 100% don't have the money or space to buy DVDs.
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I love no-hitters. I hate Lincecum and the Giants. This is the best scenario possible: A no-hitter that will probably cause the end of Lincecum's career.
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I didn't mind the post-WM crowd one bit. They were really invested the whole night. They made Fandango's career -- it's a dumb (in the best way) character and the fans enjoyed the ridiculousness of it. The pop for Dolph's title win was an absolutely awesome moment. They popped hard for Ryback's turn on Cena. They pooped on the Orton/Sheamus match but screw those guys -- they mailed in that feud (with Orton forgetting his lines) and it showed and celebrated Big Show knocking them out. And even them turning on that match was done in a bizarrely positive manner since they chanted the names of various people in celebration.It was a heel-fan crowd but they were engaged throughout.The Husky Harris thing was just a bunch of dolts. If they hate the product so much why didn't they do a mass boring chant during the neverending Vicke segment?
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My thing w/ the Husky chant is who the hell cares he's Husky Harris? If this is some sort of smark reaction to VInce coming up with a dumb name for a guy five years ago, well, didn't they fix that problem by coming up with a new name for the dude. Let alone he's hitting grand slams with the role.I hope they just ignore the chants. Screw the 5% of fans in the crowd who can't appreciate it. I'm afraid if they do address it -- "I played by their rules with their names" -- then he'll have to deal with Husky chants for a lot longer.Someone (Stroud, I think?) said reports at the live show were that the Husky chants were drowned out really quickly with a "That was awesome" chant.
But as far as smarks shitting on characters and gimmicks -- what can you do at this point? It's just hopeless trying to book to them.
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I know it's knew but Bray's song was done by a dude who was in the Jesus & Mary Chain, one of the greatest bands of all-time. That wins. I actually played the song for my wife just telling her it was a dude who was in the J&MC before revealing it was a rasslin' song.In terms of traditional wrestling cheeze fests -- Bad Street USA, Bret's latter-day Hart Foundation remix, one of the mid-period Cena things that I'm forgetting, CM Punk's Converge rip off deal.
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I'm upset that I'll never be a member of the Columbus Xoggz.
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What is always weird to me is when I hear people who have tried for years to get into the board or whatever. If what we had before was some sort of inadvertently enclosed community I can only wonder just what is to come.
I used to post here years and years ago. I wanted to start again since the WWE has been really good and I missed stuff like Ken The Box in my life. Couldn't get past any registration filters ever, though, for about two years.
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A few that come to mind:
1) The epic Nets/Pacers Double OT playoff game. Reggie Miller dunked (!) to extend the game. Craziness from that brief, fleeting era when the Nets were worth watching.
2) Some Phils/Mets game a few years ago that went into 13 innings. Carlos Ruiz played third base for a bit. Six infielders a few different times. Just one of those crazy nights of baseball. There was also a lot of very good anti-Mets heckling in my section.
3) First game in NYC after 9/11. I hate the Mets but exploded when Piazza went yard in the 8th. I also loved the stunning "Liza!" chant after Liza Minelli's 7th inning stretch.
Best sports, period:
1) La Salle beating Butler this past season. My alma mater upset a Top 10 team for the first time in pretty much history on a late-game layup from senior Ramon Galloway. Ramon struggled the entire game but ended up driving since the Explorers had no time outs. The students stormed the court. A rousing applause for a few minutes for the team post-game. A few La Salle folks (and perhaps myself) wiped a tear or two away.After the game, Ramon broke down in the press conference. Tears of joy? Nope. He said that all he wanted to do was hug his mom after the game -- she was going through some sort of emergency and wasn't there.
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The rumored Kane/Undertaker vs Wyatt Family match doesn't sound all that too appealing to me (Though it probably won't happen because Undertaker is injured again). I'd rather see them go after a less monstrous face, like Dolph Ziggler.
The Wyatt's forcibly baptizing AJ in some brackish stormwater near their compound would rule. AJ in that sheep mask would create an Earth Crisis-level firestorm of pervy fan-fic, too.Wyatt Family vs. Dolph/Big E. would be a lot of fun.
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The Wyatt Family did not look very good Monday. Red beard guy looked lost and tripped up black beard guy more than once. They looked too Nexus and not enough Shield.
I actually liked that. They're supposed to be backwoods monsters. It's supposed to be out-of-control.
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On another note, I could totally see how Bray took ownership of that property. I bet he or Luke Harper's aunt lived there. She ended up with dementia or something. They started living there to "care" for her. She's now in some crawlspace while Bray cashes her disability check at the local payday loan spot on her behalf.
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I kind of want Kane to come back as a crazed hillbilly enforcer for Wyatt.
They like doing the "loser joins enemy" gimmick. They did it with Scott Steiner and Test, John Morrison and Ted Jr., CM Punk and Rey, and Cena and The Nexus. They could do Bray vs. Kane at SummerSlam w/ a losing Kane joining the Family. Or the Wyatt's could just simply kidnap Kane and brainwash him. I'd prefer that, actually.
Daniel Bryan having to try and save his estranged friend would be pretty epic.
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The fans who chanted "Husky" at Wyatt aren't smart. They just remembered who his old character was. Who gives a crap if he had a previous name for the six weeks he was on Raw three years ago? So what he had a dumb name? They've more than fixed that problem and have developed the best new character in years. I've been a huge Bray fan since FCW (and was a Husky fan, too). His NXT stuff has been amazing. His Raw build-up was arguably the best build-up for a new character they've ever done. His debut was absolutely epic -- the video promo ("WAKE UP!") was an all-time great. The darkness with the lantern emerging was awesome. The attack was great. It was an A+ segment.
Fans who are actually smart recognized that. Supposedly, at least according to Stroud, a "That Was Awesome" chant broke out when they stretchered Kane. The nitwits chanting "Husky" are dumb dumbs.
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Defunct sports teams, particularly any Arena Football/indoor soccer/indoor lacrosse teams from the 90s which had needless "x" and "z" lettering in teal.
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The board is a little barren without this.Since the board went down, I read the new Nathan Rabin book about ICP/Phish. Pretty fascinating stuff.Currently reading the new Klosterman and Gaiman books, as well as finishing up my book for the DVDVR summer exchange.
That Nathan Rabin book was pretty solid. I wish he got into the details of his nervous breakdown a bit more. But his breakdown of The Gathering and the cameo of Colt was great.I just read a book by the drummer of Semisonic of all bands. Not just that, but I really enjoyed it. It's a great look at the sleaziness of trying to get a single on the radio and the behind-the-scenes nonsense of corporate rock tours.
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I don't know if they'd hotshot him that fast but Bray Wyatt might finagle his in after taking out Kane. They might as well hand him the briefcase and let him hold it for a while while he wars with Kane or whoever else. No one else in the Raw side of things needs the briefcase to get over. I'd love to see Cena beat Henry and then Daniel and Mark have a brief feud to determine the number one contender. The world wants that. The world needs that.On the Smackdown side of things, I hope they give Wade some shine. He's overdue. He's one of the all-time greatest smug j-o heels. He'd be a perfect foil for Dolph. It'd be great to see AJ start to swoon over Wade's British accent. Maybe he woos her with a Brit-pop mix tape heavy on the Manic Street Preachers?
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I was Zubaz on here during the early days and for a while after that. Been reading it for a while. I was looking at other boards to post at but the literacy rate in wrestling communities isn't too sterling.