piranesi
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Lovie was brilliant. Since the Bears get the 1st pick now, they will inevitably pick the guy who is going to bomb out the hardest for no other reason than that they are the Bears and so that saves the Texans from getting stuck with whoever that is and they have the 1st "clean" (non-Bear) pick.
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Just now, Elsalvajeloco said:
I would like to think the folks at AOL are carny enough to understand the wrestling business seeing they are as archaic. The fucker who was behind the bombardment of free internet trial CDs should be forced to wrestle Nick Gage.
I may have mispkoen, they might not be in the running. sorry! but it is after 11 oclock and edibles are legal now.
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5 minutes ago, Elsalvajeloco said:
Nash went it into a little on Kliq This and how the boys made shit payoffs at MSG due to the union.
I wonder if there is a single person on the board of Disney, Warner, Aol, Cabletown, Amazon, Hulu, Netflix, etc who can read this sentence and have any idea it is real.
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I love that man.
You cannot convince me that Telly was not the central hub of all quaalude distribution in Southern California and Nevada from 1967 to 1975.
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On 1/6/2023 at 7:14 AM, RIPPA said:
Also, speaking of Taylor Sheridan
Nicole Kidman has joined the cast of Lioness, the CIA themed show he is doing for Paramount+
2 minutes ago, odessasteps said:One of my internet pals, comics writer Will Pfeifer, is a Kojak obsessive, esp the Xmas episode.
Eventually the lead role in a police procedural swallows us all.
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If you've never watched the 1st regular ep. of Kokak you have to. Kojak is INSANELY OP and just literally superhuman in every way, like when it's absurd you will laugh but you will not believe how far it goes. It is a masterclass in ego release. Also some very familiar faces.It's funny how much the show would become about police corruption and incompetence when it started as insanely reactionary copaganda.
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4 minutes ago, Dolphman 3000 said:
Imagine Epcot, but every "region" of the park has indy shows going on
So you go to "Mexico" to see the twice-daily lucha show, and the indy wrestlers get full pay/free housing just like normal park staff
If you're a young wrestler, there's probably worse ways to break into the business
Camera pans down to tiny baby
Scientist: "[smiling] It's a Haku!"
camera pan to Alan Grant holding tiny baby
tilt up to closeup on Grant
Grant [looking suddenly afraid] "You created a Tongaland?"
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2 minutes ago, Dolphman 3000 said:
Imagine Epcot, but every "region" of the park has indy shows going on
So you go to "Mexico" to see the twice-daily lucha show, and the indy wrestlers get full pay/free housing just like normal park staff
If you're a young wrestler, there's probably worse ways to break into the business
Damn. I say "fuck them wives!"
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12 minutes ago, Dolphman 3000 said:
Wouldn't Disney in theory be able to give WWE land for their Hall of Fame? Rebranding one of the lesser popular theme parks like Disney Hollywood Studios as WWE Land complete with free TV tapings for guests and a giant Hall of Fame seems optimal for what they've been trying to do with their memorabilia
Do you know how many marriages this will end?
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I think it's kind of an unknown. I mean here are the known knowns and the known unknowns:
1) There is the conventional "Meltzer" wrestling wisdom that house shows and touring are absolutely essential and the business will fold without them. That wrestling and wrestling fans are "different" and this is one of the ways.
2) There is the known unknown of whether a corporate buyer will buy into that idea just because the old guys insist it needs it or if they'll be like "media is media. Content is content. it's just bits on our servers."
3) there is the unknown unknown in that we don't really know if that old conventional wisdom is true. Maybe it's wrong and the new WWDisney could be t.v. tapings only and not live and everything will chug along fine. Or maybe the old ways are there for a reason. But that's what old guys always say even when they're wrong. But that's what new business degree types say even when they're wrong.
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I wonder if the sale to a Media company that is not used to having a 200-night-a-year live traveling circus as part of their company (along with all the potential extra liability that entails) means the end of house shows and if that means the end of something that is necessary to keeping the whole operation going?
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So does this sale, when it happens, of WWE to a giant corporate conglomerate mark the end of what will be seen as the golden age (1980s-present)? Or does AEW still count as the tail end of that era?
There has never been a point in my life, or I guess anyone's, when Pro Wrestling was dominated not by a few individuals, but by a few mainstream media companies with little to no connection to the history of the business.
Is this it?
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If they sell to Warner/Discovery there is a pretty good chance all the best stuff in the vault is buried forever as a tax writeoff.
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On 1/3/2023 at 10:56 AM, Pete said:
Ten. Million. Dollars. Just a tick over $67 million in 2022 money. Ridiculous.
and like nine managers (counting interims) over the next 9 years.
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1 hour ago, For Great Justice said:
WWE’s market cap is 5 billion. The Khans are worth 12 billion…
Hell yeah let’s call LBO Lio, get levered up and do this thing. Someone make a reservation at Club La Vela.
Does anyone know Jason Hervey's current liquidity?
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2 minutes ago, elizium said:
Just judging based on Curtis Axel, no
Damn.
I mean.
Damn.
If only Arthur Mendel was right.
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20 minutes ago, tbarrie said:
"Whom would you collect DNA from to make your Wrestling Serpentor" sounds like an interesting topic, though in practice I'm not sure the answers would differ meaningfully from "Who's on your Wrestling Mount Rushmore" and similar questions we've fielded in the past.
It might differ. DNA doesn't necessarily lead to success or even greatness. So who are the guys with the best DNA who didn't make it for one reason or another? And I don't necessarily mean lineage but just who seemed to be born with the best pure physical talent for the sport but couldn't break through to where they should have been.
Curt Hennig might be someone to draw blood from.
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1 hour ago, John from Cincinnati said:
And there won't be. Image threads are out and we've been told to cut back on posting pictures.
We are pivoting to teletext.
It's the next big thing.
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1 minute ago, NikoBaltimore said:
He still has it up despite everybody trashing him for it. Never liked the guy but he can fuck off with that.
All the usual twitter scumbags are going into auto-mode. I would like to think that at least a few of them will catch some actual consequences given how many people are watching this in real time.
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At least we know that if this ever happens to an MLB game they will cut to The Sandlot.
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Didn't Len Bias and and hank Gathers both collapse and die from heart conditions during play?
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motherfuckers on twitter already using this to pump "it was the vaccine" and try to grift a few pennies.
I take back what I said about us not yet being a death cult.
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Stopping this game feels like a very big moment in what's left of our collective conscience. Whatever happens, if they had just kept going and we all just shrugged and said "of course, what else can you don?" it would have been hard to ever think of ourselves as anything other than a death cult.
I mean, it doesn't mean we're not a death cult, but it say something that I'm genuinely surprised they stopped it.
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The fact that they all just assumed they would keep playing just shows that when there's enough money involved every one of these fucker owners and league is Vince McMahon at heart until someone has the guts to step up (the two coaches I guess) and say no.
Good on McDermott and Taylor for realizing they have the power to shut it down and doing it.
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Vince McMahon Returns to WWE
in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
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He has already outlived Murdoch and Prince Philip. I think as long as Kissinger still breathes Vince is at least one step away from getting whatever it is he deserves.