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  1. The Enquirer didn't break anything, Gawker Media pushed the story to the Enquirer and Media Take Out to dirty him up over the $100 Million lawsuit.
  2. Pie Traynor, Paul Waner or Ralph Kiner should have gone in over Maz or Bonds. Bonds didn't play long enough in Pittsburgh to be one of the franchises top 4 and his bat was no existent in the playoffs. I could see taking Kiner over Bonds for the reasons Tabe mentioned - although his insane homer totals were the vast majority of his value as a player (Whereas Bonds was infinitely more complete) and those should come with an asterisk because the Pirates moved in the fences just to help him - but the playoff argument makes no sense. KIner (and Waner too) didn't even sniff the playoffs during their Bucs career as everybody remembers the recent run of 20 Consecutive Losing Seasons but the Pirates were nearly as bad during the entire 40s and 50s. In fact, for the Baseball History lovers out there, Kiner was the inspiration for one of the more well-known sports sayings/cliches. When Branch Rickey took over after being fired from Brooklyn he was charged with turning around the team and he hated Kiner, who was constantly holding out for more money. So despite him being the team's most popular player and a huge draw, he traded him to the Cubs for peanuts. When the press was like, "how could you do that?" he coined the phrase, "We finished last with him, we can finish last without him." The left/left center fences at Forbes Field were moved in for Hank Greenberg(Greenberg Gardens) after he retired they kept them in and renamed the area "Kiner's Corner," the distance's with the fence moved in were on par with the other stadiums in that timeframe. Waner played in one World Series but unfortunately it was against the 1927 Yankees, Waner was also the NL MVP that season. Also Waner's teams finished in the First Division(top 4 teams in the league) eleven times in his career, the Pirates were consistently a good team up until WW2. Kiner's teams stunk there's no arguing that.
  3. Pie Traynor, Paul Waner or Ralph Kiner should have gone in over Maz or Bonds. Bonds didn't play long enough in Pittsburgh to be one of the franchises top 4 and his bat was no existent in the playoffs.
  4. Watching Celebrity Wife Swap with Charo swapping with Vicki from the Love Boat! My god why doesn't Charo have her own series?
  5. I've always said that Vince was an idiot for booking Dusty as a midcarder during his brief time in the WWF. He was the #3 face right behind Hogan and Warrior and worked with three of the top heels in the company, how could have they booked him higher than that?
  6. Saw Entourage yesterday afternoon. It was ok I guess, had some funny moments but a lot of trying to hard jokes.
  7. Watching Battle of the Network Stars reruns on ESPN Classic, the late 70's ones are so intense! Howard Cosell called the 1979 tug-of-war with the same intensity as the Fraizer-Foreman fight. Also no matter what year a celeb has no clue how to work the inflatable kayak, as I type this Gabe Kaplan flipped his and lost the oar.
  8. AMC owns 49% of BBC America.
  9. It's XICW they're the epitome of bush league, that's part of their appeal! Their show's are always a lot of fun.
  10. I'm going to take Lucille Bluth's advice and "go see a Star War."
  11. NBC should just bring back more halfway decent late 80's/early 90's sitcoms, I'd watch reboots of Night Court and Wings.
  12. BBC Worldwide produces the show so I doubt it. I wonder if they'll keep running Top Gear reruns on BBC America, they're about 70% of the programming on the channel.
  13. Mister TV

    30 For 30

    I have no idea who Ariel Helwani and Pete Rosenberg are and I found them very annoying, on par with Steve Lombardi in WWE docs. I found this one sorta average, the way it bounced around annoyed me and it kinda dragged at the end. I found it funny that they sorta painted Michigan as the antithesis of Duke, most of the Fab Five and Duke players came from similar backgrounds and Michigan has a lot of rich east coast students who couldn't get into a Ivy League school just like Duke. I never really hated Duke until after the Laettner era, before that it always depended who they played, I always pulled for them against the likes of Michigan, Kentucky, UConn, Kansas, UCLA and North Carolina and was against them when they played the likes of UNLV, Arkansas and Seton Hall.
  14. Sadly it's not. If I remember right Vince and Andre made Heenan stomp grapes for some reason and Heenan bitched the entire time he was doing it so Andre pushed him down. It happened sometime after WM7 when all the heel managers were trying to sign Andre.
  15. They could probably get a lot of stars from the movies. The article I read said the concept was going to be "Iconic TV Badasses Team Up!" so I don't think they plan on using any of the movie actors. Yes, I know Norris had that cameo but his biggest fame was as Walker Texas Ranger so he's more of a tv guy anyway. For me it would only work if they were the actual characters they played in the old shows, so Walker would move up to U.S. Ranger and travel the country teaming up with the likes of Sonny Crockett in Miami to take down some cartel, Ponch and John in LA investigating a car theft ring and maybe head over to Hawaii for some R&R at Robin Master's estate but get's caught up in one of Magnum's cases.
  16. I could see Muta with Hart having a great house show run with Savage or Warrior when they were champs, Muta v. Savage could have been a classic feud, he would have been the perfect guy to bring in for the Warrior after he won the belt and after either of those feuds he could have moved down the card and feuded with Jake Roberts before heading back to Japan.
  17. Wow, Joe Piscipo! I figured they'd skip over him and everyone else from that era not named Edddie Murphy.
  18. Wow, so was that Californians thing their version of a popcorn match? That was not funny at all.
  19. Ugh! Jimmy Fallon, Justin Timberlake and unfunny characters from the 2000's to kick off the show, I have a feeling this nights going to be rough. Also, wow are the Today show people horrible!
  20. The Slap was pretty bad but I guess you have to commend NBC for trying something out of the box. I don't see this show being a blip on the radar of America or causing any discussions outside of Comcast/Universal/NBC owned news and entertainment outlets and pro wrestling message boards. The concept could have made for a great Curb Your Enthusiasm but Larry not actually slapping the kid, just and exaggerated fake slap that everyone thinks was real.
  21. Anyone else think "The Slap" is going to be unintentionally hilarious?
  22. Is it wrong that I'm more disappointed in the offsides penalty at the end over the slant pass call? I really wanted a safety, either Seattle stuffing them or New England taking one on purpose, so we could have seen the Super Bowl end on a 70+ yard fair catch kick attempt.
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