The Comedian

I feel the same way about LA Knight that I do about Greta Van Fleet; yeah, the act is a complete rip-off of a legend, but it's a pretty good rip-off, and if you're gonna rip somebody off, why not The Rock/Led Zeppelin?

Man is this an all-time fuck-up... This dude had people eating out the palm of his hands on his return, and ended up taking it as permission to continue doing his silly puppet shows and avant garde theatre routine, when really they were cheering the (apparently false) notion that the silly puppet shows and stupid magic tricks were Vince's bad creative, and that Bray was going to return to the bad-ass Cape Fear / Night of the Hunter cult leader they actually loved... I know Hunter's been giving people freedom to sink or swim on these return hires, but he had to know he was dealing with the Titanic here at some point... HHH: So now that you're back, what's the game plan? Get your new Family put together, right? Bray: Can we start by bring my brother back? HHH: Yeah, sure, I guess he'd make an obvious member for the new Wyatt Fam... Bray: Oh no, that's not what I want him for. HHH: Oh? What for then? Bray: I want him to dress in an uncanny valley mascot costume and play a nightmare version of my namesake uncle Barry, who may or may not be my ally,,, HHH: WTF...

Woll is disappointing but not unexpected. After She-Hulk it seems like they're interested in not having Matt Murdock tied down to a love interest. And she's easy enough to write off; Karen's off doing investigative journalism somewhere. Hensen is tougher to cover for because he's Matt's best friend and Season 3 ended with them reforming Nelson & Murdock. You have to come up with a fairly big off-camera falling out, or even worse (FAR worse), hard reboot him out of continuity. Any kind of hard rebooting like that will make fans of the original series seriously pissed...

Now I'll really be furious at next year's WO Awards if Dominik doesn't get Best Gimmick for his "privileged Mexican-American lad play-acting Blood In, Blood Out" schtick... I wish DVDVR could have it's own awards, but we can't even have a Top 500 without some Thrillseeker getting his knickers in a twist...

Folks, to clarify, when I say MJF is Shane Douglas with better press, I mean that MJF is an OK worker whose mic work is heavily overrated by his fan base because his boss let's him cuss and say shooty things...

Honestly if the Observer Awards voters were really smart they'd give all the awards to TJPW. Every wrestler has a well-defined character, most with long and compelling story arcs. And every once in a while their best wrestlers show up in AEW to do jobs for Wrasslin' Pittsburgh Dentist. And of course Kento Miyahara's out there in AJPW having 5-star matches with anything that moves. But God forbid they look at a non-NJPW or NJPW-affiliated fed in Japan...

I probably wouldn't mind as much if MJF wasn't basically Shane Douglas with better press...

Agreed. This has never been more clearly "Dave's Personal Wrestling Awards for his Subculture of Smart Marks with 0% Objectivity Hatred for WWE".

I hope it's good. If only because it was partly shot in my hometown of Tabernacle, NJ. Which gives us another thing to be famous for besides being where "Mexican Lindbergh" Emilio Carranza crashed and died on his way from NYC to Mexico City.

A Dookie gimmick will get Corbin more heat than his old "I hate Indy guys" schtick ever did ...

I feel like a lot of people are preparing for a fan turn on Cody that's not gonna happen, or at least not for a while. Certainly not before Mania. Keep in mind Cody's actually got a closer storyline to Bryan than Sami does. "Evil WWE Creative tried to bury me but I persevered and now I'm gonna take the gold to prove them wrong once and for all." That will carry him through this. And WWE won't let him do the kind of dumb "Codyverse" shit he got away with in AEW. This isn't like giving the fans a choice between Bryan or Batista, it's like giving them a choice between Bryan or Punk. Either way they're gonna cheer. It's a win/win...

Eagles always prioritize the O line too. You got two future HOFers there in Kelce and Johnson and three young studs. They just made their O line coach the highest paid position coach in the NFL. Good O line makes everything better. Don't need to waste money on big name RB's if your line can open holes my grandmother could run through.

Natural, are you currently on any anti-depressants? I've been on Lexapro for 7 years, it's like night and day. No more voices in my head telling me that everyone hates me and wants to hurt me and that I should just beat them to it and put a bullet through my head, no more hiding in the bathroom at work to bawl my eyes out over a minor setback, stuff like that. Much love and well-deserved peace to you.

Also RockNRolla is super underrated and deserves as much love as Snatch...

Yeah, the whole, "Let's root against this underdog fan base that stays passionate despite hardly ever winning anything" narrative has gotten pretty tired. I'm 46 years old, and Philly big 4 teams have won 4 titles in my life, half of which were before I was cognizant of the sports world. So the '08 Phil's and '17 Eagles are the only championships I've experienced.

Eagles vs. the long-time former head coach Kelce brother vs. Kelce brother and for the first time ever, black QB vs. black QB ...and yes, sadly, somewhere in the suburbs of Philly, there's still some middle-aged white guys grumbling about how "Wentz coulda done this too if we'd given him all these weapons", long past the time when they could still hide their desire for a white QB as "reservations about Jalen's ceiling as a starting QB"...

Well, "let's hate Philly!" Is the oldest, tiredest trope in American sports media. It's just a shame when it affects how players are covered. I mean, Jalen Hurts' success through hard work, determination, and great character should be one of the feel-good stories of the season, but he plays in Philly so instead we get jackasses like nepo baby Simms trying to tear him down...

Vikings fans shoulda told the Niners fans what happens when you hang your jersey on the Rocky statue... Now that we've emerged out of a conference final four featuring 3 teams I despise (beating the living shit out of 2 of those teams in the process), I feel pretty good about the Super Bowl. I mean, if the Eagles lose I won't be happy, but at least I won't be angry if the Bengals finally get one, or our old pal Andy gets another...

"Hey Vince, me and that microphone just doesn't work for me brother. I just don't see it being a main event-level mic."

No I think you make a perfectly valid point as well supremebve. I totally get where you're coming from.

Speaking as a depression sufferer with suicidal ideation, I really don't have a problem with Nash even if he is joking. Humor is a coping mechanism. I use gallows humor all the time. I refer to my anti-depressants as my "don't kill yourself" pills. I also have a mix of songs about suicide on Spotify. It seems counterintuitive, but as the late Bushwick Bill once said, "Why must I always sing these sad songs?/ Because it comforts all my feelings inside til all the bad's gone". If you suffer then by all means get help though. I medicated depression with whiskey for way too many years because of stubborn pride...

Hogan's ability to always be able to find a way to make himself an even bigger douche nozzle is truly impressive...

That's some pretty awesome fridge logic on the WWF's part; Taker's undead, so for all we know he could've been around in the 18th century, chokeslamming Hessians and tombstoning Redcoats...

JLowe's pretty much right. Look at Taker's first face turn logic. "Even an evil zombie demon wrestler from Hell like me wouldn't hit Miss Elizabeth with a chair! Oh, btw, forget dominating the WWF, now I just want to waste several years of my career safeguarding the fed from the freakishly tall and morbidly obese, basically anyone who's too big for me to hit my cool finisher on."

My money's on Comcast. They've already shown that they're open to owning an organization run by dinosaurs who keep putting out an antiquated, unappealing product, yet still make money off a loyal fan base. They own the Flyers...