Craig H

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.

The Punk Card (hehehehe) being in their back pocket is one they can play if they do indeed decide to pivot and they could do it as early as Monday. Cody comes out, does his “so…what do you want to talk about?” thing, gets into how the Rock convinced him to let Rock go after Roman and even though it didn’t sit well with him he didn’t want to deprive the people of that match. Seth comes and says something and then Punk comes out. Tells Cody this isn’t happening again, rehashes his history and says even though he’s cool with the Rock now that Cody needs to finish this story at WM like he intended and the difference here is that over 10 years ago there wasn’t much Punk could do about it but now…WM is two nights. Then seal it with if Cody is more of me than me then you need to take what’s yours and finish your damn story. Hell, you can even delay Cody’s answer to his only other booked SmackDown appearance this month where he says the Rock is right…but CM Punk is right too, so I’m sorry Seth, I need to do this and I need Roman at WM. Crowd explodes and chaotic tv ensues all the way up until WM. That all plays very, very heavily off of HHH booking these shows as serialized TV with giving you a taste so you come back the next week followed by an even bigger taste followed by the whole slice. It’s the best way to play this all out and keep things interesting until WM or at least recapture the entire feel of the Sami/KO/Jimmy/Bloodline saga again.

I think if that were the plan then they wouldn’t have had Cody specifically say he’s not going to face Roman at WM.

This is hilarious. WWE gets ratioed on every tweet about the Rock.

CJ had an infection that turned into MRSA where she nearly lost her finger or worse. Miro has been at home with her while she heals up.

#dierockydie

I don’t think it’s a work. This feels like WM 30 all over again. The people want DB/Cody? Ok, let’s give them Batista vs Orton/Roman vs Rock. And for the people that think this is a different time and what happened 10 years ago won’t happen again because those fans are gone, well, they’re not gone. They’re still part of the audience. And now you even have Rock trying to promote this shitshow on Twitter and getting ratio’d at one point. They fucked up. If they wanted to pull this off with no time left on the clock for fans to hijack it, then they should have done this closer to WM.

I sometimes forget it's just constantly dark out so when they were at the school a couple episodes ago, I was a little confused why high school was going on at night. And then I realized I'm dumb. I'm slightly surprised by the low audience score. I may have really loved that first season, but this season has been creepy as fuck in all the right ways and the mystery stuff has been rock solid. Part of me wonders if it has to do with the female centric cast.

It’s my fault. I let SD get me so riled up that I went looking for other people’s takes on this on Reddit and, ugh, Twitter, and then almost immediately regretted it. I then logged out of my Twitter account which I probably haven’t logged into for over a year. Done stare into the abyss, kids.

Maybe because the shows have been better?

I’ve already read people fat shaming Bayley. People fucking suck. Nearly perfect body, but yeah, let’s call her fat. Fucking incels.

Jacob Fatu also now a free agent. Jacob Fatu being the Classic Coca Cola to Solo’s New Coke.

So after a lot of reading this morning, yeah, this looks like a total power grab and ego stroking move. If you’re intent on doing the Rock vs Roman, then fine, but give people a better story for it than this. Not to mention, for the millionth time, Rock vs Roman doesn’t need to be for the title, it could be on night 1 or night 2, but whatever night it’s on you could still do Cody vs Roman on the other night for the title since Roman works like 10 matches a year. But instead we got Seth and his title getting buried, Cody getting cucked (and I really hate that fucking word but that’s the only one that fits), and shoehorning in Rock. I just think you could have done something better creatively if this wasn’t ego stroking and a power grab. And if I’m wrong and this is the best creative they could come up with then everyone in creative fucking sucks.

Honestly the only way to salvage this is if they do a redux of the Glock Anderson promo, just without, you know, the part where Arn says he would pull out his gun and blow a man’s brains out. That would be a wild turn in this story though to have Arn come out on Monday, do the promo of Cody getting soft, saying Cody would just roll over and just hope a carjacker wouldn’t hurt him, and talk some sense into Cody where Cody is like, yeah, fuck all this, fuck the Rock, I want that title, I want it at WM and no one is taking this away from me, and I’m done being the nice guy.

For real, the Rock and Gewirtz are the only two that make me say, you know what, maybe Vince’s creative wasn’t that bad. The only thing worse would be if Vin Diesel somehow wormed his way in. These two though, holy shit, they make one shitty thing after another. Bad tv shows, bad movies, etc. And if Rock and Gewirtz are both involved, then I’m guessing Dany Garcia is too. So this is basically Seven Bucks Promotions taking over WWE because they lost a battle with WB over the future of DC. Raziel is right. We all should have bought in to Black Adam, XFL, etc. And I think my anger and confusion is now more sadness. I feel really sad and bad for everyone that actually stuck around for another year, bought tickets, bought tons of Cody merch, all just to see him come out last night to say, “I had you! You cheated me! I’m going to take that title from you! But not where it matters, come on out Rock!”

What the fuck is happening? Man, this season of Ballers is the fucking worst.

Personally, I know I’m back to how I kept up with WWE before. I’ll catch things on YouTube, maaaaaaaybe I’ll turn on a PPV, but I’m just really back to not caring. Whereas with AEW, I actively watch Dynamite and Collision, I haven’t kept up with Rampage, I watch and rewatch their PPVs, but I don’t feel the vigor to comment as much about it. It’s a different kind of apathy, but it’s the kind of apathy that doesn’t make me turn away from their product. It may also be a Dean being gone thing. Dean brought big time Ryan Davis energy to the AEW posts, but that was well after we all were doing it first. Dean kept the party going when we started to tire out. I don’t know, maybe I should present my positive thoughts again, but I find I like doing that more on a Discord voice chat with my close friends when we’re on to play games. Anyway, this is all to say that I think we go back to the recent status quo of there not being much commenting for either company.

Anyway, can someone ask HHH what inning of the story are we in at this point?