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Glorious doesn’t begin to describe it. Purchased it so fast my head spun.

Mima was the first person I thought of when I saw that in the match. Goddess. I think the match is rightfully going to place Will as the best in the world currently (even if I thought the selling was spotty and inconsistent at times; this I believe is more generational than anything, as “selling” has become more about performative stuff around Getting My Shit In as opposed to the more challenging aspect of having that stuff having a match worked around it), Bryan as an all-timer, and amongst the sickos, second best match of the month behind the Blue Panther match. Also, I like that Bryan alluded to the Storm Driver being overkill a while back, then got hit with it in the match, played up the doctor bit, and then got OSPREAY TO KAYFABE RETIRE IT. He’s truly a master of the details. As said before, this means when Ospreay does dust it off, it’ll be necessary and get a much bigger reaction, and I’m sure it was Bryan’s way of giving him a rub to make the move mean more than it has been. I’ll get to the rest later, but suffice to say, I was satisfied with what they did and hope they get to do it again down the line.

I love that stadium. BayStars know how to put on a show.

He somehow won $140M, which is how shit gets you in the end. I have to image the extent as to what he did is gonna get him a good chunk of jail time.

…and when’s the release on twice-taped over VHS? Instead of $10, can we send in a copy of the 1995 Dallas Cowboy Super Bowl Champions VHS?

There’s a few interesting things that stood out to me that I didn’t see mentioned here so far: 1. I thought the production presentation was actively bad more often than not. It seems like they had a lot of new toys and didn’t understand who was lead camera in a lot of the matches. Some weird cutaways and replay choices, especially on Cody’s two missed Cody Cutters that Roman didn’t want to take due to his nose. It seems like they’re gonna be in a transition phase for a while on big shows to get this stuff right. 2. They didn’t understand pacing at all tonight. Across the board. It seemed like the entire show was built around getting people a moment to look good as opposed to telling the stories that needed telling. The only time it really worked was with Sami’s brainbuster because, like Claudio hitting the UFO, it was meant to mean something big on a big show. I was amazed by this. The NXT model of basically making each match distinct and essentially stand alone while not considering the show as a whole is not how you do it. Yea, you’re ending storylines across the board on this show, but you also have to make the show flow cohesively. And that did not happen tonight. There were plenty of opportunities throughout to wake up the crowd and none of them hit. 3. I’m now pretty confident that Trips is not going to be involved in any of the Vince fallout given his prominence this weekend. Heyman went out of his way to verbally fellate him last night at the HOF, he led the show off tonight, and everything seems to point to his direction being the one forward even with the looming presence of Gerwitz dealing with Rock’s involvement. I’m jnot sure how much I believe it and how much this has the chance to blow up in their faces, but it would really be something if they trip over themselves to force the new direction only for the result to not land nearly as good as the build-up on what was one of the most anticipated shows in company history. This has happened many times before at WM because they force too many things through instead of trimming the fat and hitting the beats that need to be hit, and those issues only get compounded when the spotlight shines bright. There’s a feeling that things tomorrow night don’t go nearly as smoothly, especially if the rumored cameos hit during Cody’s homage to the Avengers assembling. A truly weird show given so much of it seemed overproduced when the strengths of peak NXT was keeping that side of things simple. I don’t see that happening tomorrow, either.

A MILLION STARS~!

Ever since he wore that damn belt in the All-Star game that year.

Joey Bart is a Pirate.

Jokic loves his game, which makes me think he’d angle to get him a shot in Denver. To see those two play together would be magical. LSU/Iowa lived up to the hype and then some. We don’t deserve Caitlin and Angel, let alone in the same game. Near a 40-point triple double and a damn near 20/20 game? Outstanding.

It really is. And they just won so now we get to hear more lovely sound bites.

Red = Green.

Sean had a bunch of funkiness to him. Essentially a slider that no righty saw. Was an amazing performance. A joy to call on the radio. The next year, he unfortunately arrived out of shape and took a long time to even really get going, then ended up having some injury issues and was ineffective. Sonoma DID win the title that year, however. The way back machine has officially been engaged.

19 pages and over a decade of content, including a book written about the team independent league team I worked for, trips to Korea AND Japan for baseball, and my time with the Blue Jays beforehand and I haven’t posted in this thread yet. Feels like diving towards the ocean and missing water completely. I even missed the naming of the Montgomery BISCUITS!!! Chuck Knoblauch didn’t have as many unforced errors, jeez. EDIT: I guess I posted about the Stompers in 2015 one time about the book project and then became a ghost?

St. Mary’s loses to the premiere online school in the country. Frauds.