TimLivingston

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.

So essentially the suite experience but not in a suite and you go get your own food, sounds good

The MLB investigation is official. This is gonna be something else.

The DM story is top drawer, too good.

I have to imagine that with that much debt, collateral was asked for. That’s how Ohtani got involved one way or the other. There’s no way he’d be completely in the dark.

They were waiting for MLB to act on Franco but since it wasn’t coming and they didn’t want to pay him while waiting, they get to go either restricted list or administrative leave, more than likely the latter. The interpreter actually made between 300-500k per year, which doesn’t include any other money that Ohtani paid him for other things he helped him with (he was his driver for a while, helped with errands and such, essentially a clubbie). So essentially he gambled all his salary away and then some, if it’s to be believed.

I think the funniest outcome from all this would be Manfred meddling trying not to get Ohtani in a worse position only to have Congress yank the anti-exempt clause out from under them.

Without a doubt one of the funniest things to ever happen on a basketball court

This has all the makings of a story that won’t go away.

Gambling drama in the other thread, but wild that they couldn’t pack the house in Korea like that. I know that generally baseball culture in Korea is very much insular to the teams you follow and not really wide spread as much, but even then, still wild not to have a huge draw with so many international players at the forefront.

That list is essentially my life force. Blake Snell is a Giant with half his 2024 salary deferred as a signing bonus in 2026, 2/62 with an opt out. Some luxury tax fuckery but he has a home.

Bryan/Shibata was fantastic. Even the slap contest spot, which you knew was coming, made sense. About as good as you could ask of those two.

I know Rock is gonna be the shits in the ring because he has one speed and with all the muscle he’s put on 50+ he’s gonna hurt himself but everything leading up to that match is gonna be absolutely insane. There are promos and then there’s The Rock.