BobbyWhioux

Canadian Destroyer Derby

the whack-a-mole mallet of selling continues to miss John Fisher

And THAT is what's truly "good shit, pal!". Crow Sting vs The NWO was WCW telling about 97% of The Illiad and The Odyssey in wrestling form and I never fully forgave them (Hogan) for fucking up the ending. AEW isn't perfect but from the jump the long term vision revolved around embracing Hangman Page as the closest thing to a Sting-like homegrown Day 1 franchise player they'll ever have and when TK stays on task wrt this AEW comes up with it's best stuff. Not rushing him there, not making it obvious they're "pushing him down our throats" and triggering the inevitable backlash, but letting him travel there more indirectly. Meandering. Getting lost and getting back on track. [An odyssey, if you weeeeeeeeel. ] A hero isn't a hero because they stand up, or even because they keep standing up after getting knocked down, but because they inspire others to do the same, and when everybody keeps standing up after getting knocked down is when things change for the better. Wrestling is so often a "morality play" but that doesn't necessarily have to mean cheap and reductive. It can be something more like this.

Every hall of famer who played for the Expos should have to have an Expos hat on their plaque to remind baseball of what it did

would've been very apropos for the 90s if they'd kept the US Express name while selling out to Dibiase. probably a bit too on the nose for Vince though.

Never should’ve restored fan voting .

Opening soliloquy was a regular feature of both shows in 1997 and was an entrenched feature by 98 which it has remained for far too long. The only real difference is that WCW virtually always had Hogan + Entourage while WWF had greater variety (I specifically remember one where Brian Pillman rather brilliantly got a US crowd to boo a prayer circle.) Sometimes it'd be Bret + Entourage, sometimes it'd be Austin hijacking the opening to call out Bret + Entourage or whoever else he was mad at that week. Nascent Degeneration X took several turns as well. IIRC the "character breaking" pre-recorded Vince segments talking about Bret screwing Bret and We Think Fans Are Tired Of Having Their Intelligence Insulted were used as cold opens, so they established a pattern of Evil Mr. McMahon opening the show once that character became a consistent fixture. Both companies seemed to independently invent it and since wrestling has long since committed to replicating the WHAT of the attitude era divorced from the HOW and WHY of the attitude era in a flawed attempt to recapture the magic thereof, we're still stuck with it.

good. hopefully this shrinks their marketing budget and i'll only have to see 15 gambling ads per sporting event now instead of 20

if "highest bidder" actually mattered when it comes to ownership of MLB teams, Joe Lacob would already own the Still Oakland A's. Ownership is a country club. But good luck to them. I'm always down for more chaos and more egg on Manfred's face however it gets there.

“Red Sox Fan ICE agent gets key foreign Yankee deported just before big playoff push” (or vice versa, or any traditional rivalry) would be the logical final step of this whole trend of indulging fan delusions that they’re a 10th/12th/etc Man and should try to act on the game accordingly

In this milieu Bubba the Love Sponge is the equivalent of a slump buster / homecoming / “get right game”

shittiest King Lear adaptation incoming.

1. Arrogance was not a parfum, after all, it was a steroid. 2. Come on, Roma, you really threw a fit over being too "big" to put Alex Wright over after you sold a beating from Barney The Dinosaur's lackey? 3) Quake really was too big for this though. They really did have no ideas for their monsters after the big loss to Hogan, did they? Alas.

Great, now I’ll be disappointed by anything less

or a human-sized giftbox left on the side of the entrance ramp.