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  1. 17 hours ago, odessasteps said:

    There are plenty of stories nowadays about fishy games in the lower levels of sports around the world, just not the major leagues. If Asian betting syndicates can make their money fixing third tier Canadian or Malaysian soccer, which goes almost everyone’s radar but Declan Hill and company, why try and fix the Premier League or nfl? 

    Grigor Sargysan sees some dark potential in you, steps.

  2. On 3/20/2024 at 3:21 PM, Leonidas said:

    I'm sorry no, not allowed. James Bond can't be younger than me, it will rip a hole in the fabric of spacetime or something.

    Don't worry he will age quickly. By the third film he'll look 65.

  3. I mean Lebron James's face is all over DraftKings ads. Why shouldn't everybody be gambling. It's obviously an incredibly healthy thing for all of society to be basing our lives around. Kevin Hart wouldn't lie to us about how great gambling is would he?

    Let me consult with the people at the "Oddsmakers.net presents the Baseball Hall of Fame" in Gamblegobble.com presents Cooperstown, NY and find out.

     

     

     

     

    They say it's fine.

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  4. I too have this weird Mandela effect memory of seeing a news story using the “motherscratcher” clip from Raising Arizona so,e time in the 2020s. I wonder if it was being referenced for some other reason like he….did something that none of us remember?

    I guess if he was still working it could be for him getting cast in something and it wasn’t the “news” so much as like twitter. All that stuff blends together now. 
     

    while I’m typing this I remember that when Trey Wilson died the clip they all played was from Bull Durham not Raising Arizona an I kinda think one news source would have had the vision. 

  5. 3 hours ago, jaedmc said:

    This is really a problem with the entertainment industry as a whole(not just a rasslin' problem.)

    People talk about Love Bombing, and with entertainment the bombing comes from fans. There is nothing like performing and feeling even just a handful of people love what you're doing, let alone arenas full. And if you want it again you gotta go back to the person who gave you the opportunity to get on stage, in the ring, in front of a camera. That's a terrible amount of power to have over generally insecure people(as entertainers and artists are prone to be). And I don't think we'll ever be rid of people(male or female) who exploit it. I don't mean that cynically like the entertainment business is trash forever. I mean that people have to be more aware of their own self worth and when other people are taking advantage of it. You don't need Vince to feel valuable.

    the love, laughter, and approval of a live audience is probably one of the most immediately addictive things in the world. I’ve heard otherwise really smart and level-headed people like comedian Andy Daly have to kind of admit that once it has you there is almost nothing too demeaning to keep you from going back. 

    pursuing fame must be terrible  if you get it you spend your life in a never-ending panic over it running out and if you don’t you spend your life feeling like you’ve beeen denied the only thing that matters to you. Emily Dickinson was the sane one it turns out. Do what interests you not what might make you famous  

     

     

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  6. 11 hours ago, Technico Support said:

    Meltzer made a great point the other day about how, generalizing here, real sports' athletes have such a different mentality than wrestlers.  For the most part, athletes understand their worth to the team and expect to be paid accordingly.  Wrestlers, on the other hand, mostly are just happy to be there and approach their job from a "this promoter took a chance on me" point of view.  One recognizes their worth and demands things.  The other feels like their success is all owed to someone else, instead of understanding that this someone saw value in their skills, something they could make money on.  There's no doubt in my mind that Vince absolutely played this shit to the hilt his entire career and it's easy to see how Cena was absolutely Jedi mind tricked here.  I'm sure he feels he owes his life to Vince and not his own talents.

    I remember I think in Beyond the Mat someone mentioned that Vince’s greatest advice to him Was “never let the workers know how much they are worth.”

     

    kind of a moral imperative at the boss level now. 

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  7. 1 hour ago, Curt McGirt said:

    This is pretty wild; one of the new streaming Dish channels, The Film Detective, has a Wednesday post-9 PM lineup of selections from... Something Weird Video?! Cool! Coincidentally, they're still in business, and partners with other notables like Severin and Kino and AGFA. And of course you can see their stuff on Night Flight Plus. 

    The Night Flight Plus Something Weird streaming section has been there awhile but not a huge list of them. Maybe the Dish one is a bigger collection?

    Nighrt Flight also has  a few other sections just for boutique blu ray label titles. Highly recommend.

  8. 4 minutes ago, RazorbladeKiss87 said:

    I started seriously watching in 1997 at age ten. I was casual before then but seeing The Giant chokeslam someone on a random Saturday Night got me to stop flipping channels. I was an internet newz site fan and discovered the Observer in like 99. Joined here not long after and got in trouble for trolling Mike Sweetser so I went to CZWFANS for a bit but eventually came back. Long way to say, yeah I did that and I know others my age who did.

    I only got back into wrestling around that same time (1998 or so) as an adult. And it was 100% Mankind that did it.

    And that's why I can't seem to just shake this loose and why I see it as different than abuse in the military, in the film industry, or any other. I didn't follow or have any part in any of that. But like I "know" Mick Foley (not "know him" know him but you know I read his book . i watched the docs. on him. I held him up as an inspirational story). And yeah, he already is implicated in some various shady shit and whtiewashing of nasty stuff over the years and just being a company shill. And that's my culpability and another reason I can't like shake loose from this story.

    I could've disowned him as a sycophant and follower and apologist for some of the most sadistic people to every work in entertainment 20 years ago. but I didn't because none of that stuff was "bad enough" for me to be bothered with having to rethink my enjoyment. It took a lot I guess.

    This clearly is. bad enough. But so many workers in that company, some that don't need that work at all to just live a decent life and raise their families, are like "Well, seems like this much might blow over. No ones really pressuring me yet. But hey, If more bad stuff comes out, then I might have to make a move. But I don't HAVE to yet...."

    In other words this story is only "bad enough" if some outside market force tells them so...and that's kind of fucking gross. This is clearly bad enough. But they will smile right through it until someone else (the media, the public, stock people, The DOJ???) decide that it can't be whitewashed and THEN they'll stand tall!

    They're not the band playing on while the titanic sinks to soother the other doomed souls. they're just not that bothered with any of this, I guess. And a lot of them knew deep down that this shit was happening and just buried. And I can understand that. I did too and I had a hell of lot less of a direct economic stake in it. But this is bad enough. Anyone who doesn't see that is...just kind of lost for good.

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    ‘Well kid, these are the breaks,’

    scumbags every single one. Disgraces.

    No one should have a single bit of respect for anyone who is 1) wealthy enough to leave 2) has daughters of their own 3) brands themselves as some great hero to kids and an icon of "hard work" but still stays to milk a little extra money out of this sick company or to keep their platform in place so they can promote their next big brand move in their precious "career."

    It's not a career anymore.  Dwayne, at this point you're just a rich cowardly weakling and your "brand" is just a lure for more prey and a distraction.

    Nice work if you can get it. But be careful. If yo buy into the dream you might just end up on the wrong side of "the breaks."

     

     

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  10. "We're just such a close family it's hard to process."

    father of family after a family member is given a paralysis drug and raped at a show "Kid, shut up about it, this is good PR for us. Remember we're all a family."

    So who is in the family I wonder? I guess Brock is family. But Ashley Massaro was not and neither was Janel Ganet. Nor was Rita Chatterton part of "the family." All those ring boys weren't part of "the family" either.

    It's kind of like how most companies will tell you this is a "team effort." Who's on the team? Not the workers. Maybe the top executives but no one below that. Not the customers. Not the small owners you sell products to. It turns out "the team" is like five guys and everyone else is blood for the machinery.

    I wonder how many people who are going to tell us soon how much of a tightly knit family the WWE is were or are really part of the family? How many really think they are part of the family. I guess the family dog is sort of part of the family. But most families wouldn't do to their pet what these families do to their sons and daughters.

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    “He told me not to let one bad experience ruin the good work they were doing,” Massaro said of McMahon in the affidavit.

     

    How sick is it that what Vince said to this woman is basically what all the rich famous workers are all asking us to do with all of it.

    But it's not one bad experience. Now it's two women who were professionally and efficiently raped that we know of (and some others that we kind of know about...and the many many others that deep down we know about but don't "know" yet).

    I repeat my original question. How many gang rapes does it take before we can be okay with ruining the good work of the WWE?

    The sane answer was always and remains: 1...1 is enough to tear this company down and for any person who has the slightest human conscience left in them to never have anything to do with it again.

    The new answer is: As many as it takes to keep the $$$$ flowing, I guess but I'd rather focus on my Wrestlemania moment right now.

    and that's basically the answer you get too from your boss about how many people have to lose their pensions. How many people have to get laid off this week. How many people have to drown in the Rio Grande or the Mediterranean.  How many poors have to die of painkiller ODs. How many nurses have to work triple shifts until how many patients live their last days being warehoused like dogs to be put down.

    A lot of these situations are far bigger and harder to solve and more difficult to avoid being part of than this one. And few are a simple and clear a line staring us all in the face as this one. And yet we still wait for one human being to emerge from this company and say anything other than "let's not let one bad experience ruin the good work we're doing."

     

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  12. 15 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said:

    Grammys live from the... Crypto.com Arena?

    It makes sense. Buying the naming rights to an arena has always a brilliant use of money considered by only the smartest CEOs.

    Why I was just at Guarnateed Rate Field the other day and was zooming with a friend of mine at Enron Stadium about how the new renovations at FTX arena look amazing.

     

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