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I could definitely see a scenario where Cody/Gunther is a lot like Brodie/Cody, basically Clubber vs Rocky 1.

BTW, I may think Seth’s gimmick is shit, but man, that dude has been done so incredibly dirty and been buried so hard over the last week. It’s crazy. Like, they kinda threaded the needle with Cody, but no one is even talking much about how Seth is being buried. Maybe it’s because he’s had his big WM moments and has been a top guy. Still, they’ve buried him and the title to the point where if you’re a casual fan how could you not wonder the same thing Roman and even Rock is saying about him. He looks like a total geek.

They did cover it pretty well on Monday. Seth got in Cody’s head and fucked up his decision making as Drew pointed out, so much so that he wound up talking to the Rock and Cody gave his spot at WM to him. Then it became clear during the press conference that this was a power play by the Rock, it’s easy to fill in the blanks that Cody was vulnerable and even Roman called him indecisive which lead to Roman vs Rock, and Cody finally came to his senses seeing that this was all about Rock and Roman thinking their family is bigger than wrestling and saying fuck all of that.

If Cody loses or gets pinned at WM, again, I'm convinced that nothing will ever get better. Trying not to be cynical.

Haku is Tongan.

As for Starks, I’m kinda over him. He can go in the ring, but he does lean into being mini Rock a little too much. The guy to hold onto is Big Bill. By God he’s figured it all out. He fucking rules. That Boss Man Slam is a million times better than Baron Corbin’s. More and more I get some legit Sid vibes from Big Bill.

There were a couple moments during Swerve and Hangman where I thought, Jesus, this guy was a hair away from never walking again. One of those was on Swerve flipping out of the powerbomb and the other was Swerve giving Hangman a Dead Eye off the ring through a table. Like, Hangman came so close to getting spiked. Aside from that, I could watch these two feud forever and they already had maybe the damnedest death match I’ve ever seen. I don’t know how you further raise the stakes with these two. Hair vs hair? Loser gets 10 shots with a cane or rope just to repeat Dreamer’s “thank you sir I’ll have ANOTHA!” A proper barbed wire exploding ring death match?

Heel Hangman driven crazy and being a heel by Swerve fucking rules. Can you imagine if Sting’s one son, the taller and more muscular of the two, the one who looks the most like Sting, were also a wrestler with his dad’s same charisma and ability? He’d be the biggest draw in the country. Dude is an absolute unit. It’s crazy. He’s like a fucking action figure.

Their frontman is a Covid denier or at least Covid vaccine denier, RFK Jr. supporting dork. So nah. I’ll pass on that idea.

Mercedes AND Okada

Time to muddy the streaming waters. Again. ESPN, Fox, and WBD announced a joint streaming venture today for all of their sports broadcasts across all of their channels. No word yet on if that will include AEW.

My hypothesis is that Dave is a lot like one of my close friends where his bit was to always be extremely literal as a goof. That was back in high school. We’re both 43 now. He’s done it for so long that now that’s just how he is. It’s like a bad habit he can’t break and we just go along with it.

The Switch Pro controller is…alright. At the very least it’s their best normal controller ever simply because it just copies the other two companies. Even still, the d pad stinks and the buttons are too squishy, but I’ll take that any day over using Joycons. My daughter likes the Joycons if they’re in the little handle for them, but even she is using the Pro controller more and more.

Meltzer first said it happened on Seinfeld 100 years ago, but because he is nearly Drax levels of not understanding or using sarcasm, he had to immediately correct himself by saying, “well, not 100 years ago, probably more like 10 or 15.” It’s too bad for Bryan that they’re on video now and can’t mute himself before banging his head against his desk. Oh Dave.

There is part of me that feels like WWE co-opting a fan movement to make it artificial is pretty cynical. The other part of me says, fuck it, whatever delivers us Cody vs Roman at WM is fine as long as that happens and Roman vs Rock happens. But it looks like Cody vs Drew vs Seth? Or not because there was that Sami promo?

Well, to be fair, Sega got out of the hardware business so it was publish their games elsewhere or die. And a lot of us near the end of the Dreamcast were saying the same when 3rd party support for the Dreamcast sucked. Hell, it wasn’t that long ago that it looked like Nintendo could have headed down the same path until the Switch changed everything.

I don’t see stuff like Halo being multiplatform, but it’s still kind of bananas that Bethesda would be tied to only Xbox and PC. Timed exclusives seems more likely than anything.

What? You need to stop taking such huge leaps in logic. Cody feuding with Brock for a part of last year has literally no bearing on anything happening right now. Also, why wouldn’t Cody beat Roman for the title?

I still don't get why it's such a mountain of a problem to do Cody vs Roman on one night and Roman vs Rock on another night. It's two fucking nights of WM. So who the fuck is blocking this simplest of ideas and solutions? Rock? Roman? There's no reason to do a triple threat unless, of course, it's the only thing Roman and Rock would agree to. Roman doesn't strike me as someone with that big of an ego to not work both nights of WM and take an even bigger payday. Hell, I don't even see why the Rock would give a shit, unless of course the Rock is trying to weasel his way into winning the title. Or creative is really that braindead. This shit isn't hard to figure out.

I seriously doubt anything happens to Nick Khan or Ari Emmanuel. Well, maybe Nick Khan, but Ari isn't going anywhere. I'd be willing to bet that whatever Vince did, Ari has done, seen, or knows of way, way, WAY fucking worse stuff and has paid people to clean up those messes. Of course, who knows if anyone speaks out against Ari.

4 days until Helldivers 2. I’m ready to do my part! SERVICE GUARANTEES CITIZENSHIP

Also, Enshrouded still rules so hard. If they can make enough money to get their own servers for players to play on then that would be awesome.

This is pretty close to being as big a shitshow as Curt Schilling’s foray into video games. Curt still takes the cake as biggest scumbag for essentially stealing a bunch of money from RI, talking shit about government handouts and welfare, stiffing employees on paychecks and overtime, then shuttering the studio without paying a ton of people their backpay and keeping the money RI gave him.

Aside from the first episode, I hit skip intro for everything. When my wife or daughter have the remote they just let it play and it drives me nuts. Even for shows with really long intros like For All Mankind.

That is an impressive level of projecting you have going on. Why is it so hard for you to accept the reality of the situation? You’ve made about every excuse possible, but this is maybe the lamest.