Stefanie Sparkleface

Dollars or people? ("Both" is an acceptable answer.)

Someone else who hasn't seen Pink Flamingos, I see.

Could still be a stellar gate. Let's let it play out.

There's a match between the Dream Team and Ricky Steamboat and Tito Santana in 1985 that was marvelous. Actually, the Dream Team's run as a whole was really good, but people sleep on it because of Beefcake.

I'm sorry, I need to defend Matt here. He was posting videos of the Berzerker being forced to do the splits with German commentary on Bluesky recently, so I think the man appreciates his fun. He just has a different sense of fun and it's focused on what's in the ring rather than the people in the audience. I don't mind fans getting into chant wars like this, but it can very quickly overtake the match. It's a fine line to tread and a good worker will know how to play along and get everyone's attention back into things.

Maybe he gets his team disqualified by refusing to eat since it's not Wingstop, thus ruining the dreams of beating Joey Chestnut for those two lucky fans. What a heel.

Performance improvement plan.

How will he ever get by.

Globe Life has a retractable roof. If it gets too hot or rains, they can close up.

Well therein lies the problem, if you multiply a negative it only gets more negative.

Dillon got forced by Eric Bischoff to overturn Luger and Giant winning the tag titles from Hall and Nash because Luger was medically disqualified from the match due to a broken wrist, but competed anyway. Maybe that's what you're thinking of?

I don't think everyone needs me breaking down how much of a bop Sabrina Carpenter's new single is, but I appreciate the offer.

I think it's a matter of clarification, what goes where. WWE news goes in its thread. AEW news goes in its thread. Indie, TNA, Japan, lucha, all have their own threads. So this specific catchall thread is for... ? Historical info? Current events related to people who used to be wrestlers (ex: the Hulk Hogan "news" from today)? Releases? Finger-wagging about things being posted here that have their own thread? I get people not wanting to see specific kinds of information, but I don't know how well conversation goes with this level of splintering, as evidenced by the fact that nobody posted to this thread for four days.

Co-sign. It's not an enjoyable conversation to constantly relitigate the last however many years.

As a long-time Dalys apologist, I enjoyed the tag match. I was pleasantly surprised with how well Lola Vice did.

I personally don't care if it's a work or not because it spares us months of "we want Truth" chants.

The music is incredible. I don't know how it's possible that Nintendo's music keeps getting better, but it does.

I was pleasantly surprised that having the NSO Expansion Pack gets you the Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom upgrades for free.

Mine is apparently in the hands of UPS for a Thursday delivery, so I'm thrilled beyond words.

Legends deals are just merchandising agreements (mostly to put them in the video game and make new merch for them), with signing bonuses and pay-per-appearance deals, unless I'm remembering the structure incorrectly. It's not a weekly check for most of them outside of their royalties. It's how someone like Jake Roberts can have a WWE Legends deal and WWE can sell Jake merch, but he can be involved with AEW.

Racist-ass Michael Hayes is also a salaried employee who would be eligible for severance if he's terminated for something other than cause, while Truth was a contractor who was not renewed. Corporations always cut contracts where they don't have to pay out severance before they move onto salaried workers when they're looking to reduce costs. That gets exponentially more expensive if Hayes still has a VP title (which he did at one point). Appealing to emotion and reason doesn't work when people are looking at spreadsheets (or worse and increasingly more, AI) to make their justifications as to who stays and who goes.

Sentimentality aside, this makes sense for both sides. There really isn't anything else to do with a 53 year old mostly comedy character that required needing to be on the show every week or being under a contract, and the Cena angle provided some good finality to his run. Taking him off contract lets him start hitting indie/convention dates that he otherwise wouldn't have been able to hit (one could argue that he could have been put under an ambassador or "legends" deal, but some conventions don't like booking anyone under any kind of WWE contract). Optics-wise, it's not great, but I can understand why it was done.

Sandman’s podcast is great. I love how he genuinely loves watching things and wants people to succeed. It also helps that he’s utterly hilarious.