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There is not an inch of Indiana I'd visit over Cleveland or Detroit. That state sucks. Indianapolis is just a giant convention center. The best food in the state is a shrimp cocktail, which says everything you need to know about the rest of the food. The best they can do is cold shrimp. If Sophie Cunningham feels this way about Ohio (My home state) and Michigan (which I'll only defend as better than Indiana), I'd like to invite her out to dinner and drinks to discuss it, as long as the food and drinks are from anywhere but Indiana.

I was having this conversation with my coworker. Is there a single person on earth who can tell someone, "I'm going to hang out with Puffy," without judgement from the person they are talking to. Seriously, male, female, gay, straight, bi, trans, who could look someone in their life in the face and say, "I'm going to hang out with Puffy," without the person thinking they were some type of deviant. He claimed that there are people who have people in their lives who would be OK with someone in their life hanging out with Diddy, I don't believe these people exist. I'm sure that there are some people in the amazon who never heard of Diddy, but amongst the world who knows who he is, we ain't about to let that one slide.

The crazy thing about Ma$e is that he can really rap. It's really just his Bad Boy stuff where he raps like he's falling asleep in the booth. As far as the Diddy stuff goes, he has been pretty vocal about not being down with Diddy's lifestyle which is what lead him to turning to religion.

Tom Haberstroh looked into the games where there seemed to be strange betting and those bets lost(I can't find a non-paywalled article). There was a game where the line went from +120 to -250 on the under of 2.5 rebounds and he ended the game with 6 rebounds. It's going to be really bad if he doesn't get the money he earned because a bunch of people were betting on him tank his rebound numbers without him even knowing. He was one of the best role players in the league last season, and 3-for-$42 seems like a steal based on the numbers he's put up the last couple years.

Tim Kurkjian told a story about Dave Parker on his podcast about Parker wearing the Star of David. When asked why he did that, Parker responded, "well, my name is David, and I'm a star." There are now officially two days where Dave Parker was the coolest motherfucker on the face of the Earth.

I don't remember Parker much as a player, but the picture of him smoking a cigarette in the dugout is a top 5 all-time coolest sports picture. At that moment, that was the coolest motherfucker (respectfully) on the face of the earth.

Khaled is a man with a big rolodex, and pretty much all of them swear that he's been instrumental to their careers. He's the type of dude who knows everyone and will introduce you to the exact right person you need to meet at the right time. He's not the most talented person, but he recognizes talent and connects talent as well as anyone ever. His recording career is essentially calling up the biggest artists, asking for a favor, and never being turned down because when those artists needed him, he always came through. Nobody gets to where Khaled is by accident. He's legitimately great at the relationship-building part of the music business, and it's paid off tremendously for him.

Not only that, being told you aren't good enough to do the job they hired you for, only to ask you to do a job you'd do even worse. All of this is happening while you are the best performing player on the team.

I'm not excusing Devers' behavior, but I kind of understand why he was mad. He's not a good third baseman, but he was absolutely the best player on the team. They gave his position away to a one year rental in Bregman and made him the DH, which he wasn't happy with, but accepted. Then they asked him to play 1st, a position he's never played, and he balked because they pretty much told him he's not a good enough defender to play in his actual position. They were putting him in a position to fail, and then acting like he's the problem when he calls them out on it. He didn't tell them he wasn't good enough to play defense, they told him he wasn't good enough to play defense. So, why are they asking him to play defense?

I don't think I'll shed a tear when he goes, but he's undeniably the most important wrestler of my lifetime. I don't think there was ever a time where he was my favorite wrestler, but I feel like he was the gateway drug to me becoming addicted to wrestling as a kid. He opened he door to my fandom, but I quickly moved on to Savage, Rude, Flair, and other characters who I enjoyed more. He's up there with someone like Jim Brown or James Brown for me (it's crazy that these are the most apt comparisons) who mean so much for something I love that I will feel emotion, despite the fact that both are people who I don't necessarily love as individuals.

I'm absolutely convinced that Denver would have been his ideal situation during his prime. He's the super hero version of Jamal Murray. If there was an alternative timeline where they drafted Westbrook and Gordon where they drafted Murray and Porter Jr., this team would be in the middle of a dynasty. Westbrook's biggest issue is that he's no longer good enough to just out athlete everyone to success. He's still close enough that he still tries to do it, but he's just not the same guy he was in his prime. He was really important to Denver this season, because they needed someone who could fill multiple holes because of the lack of depth on the bench. I stand by my notion that if you were making a list of all-time great players, Westbrook would be the hardest person to place. He's definitely on the list, but he's the kind of player who can do almost everything at an elite level on any given day, but he's also someone who will lose you games trying to do too much. He's the guy who dragged Bradley Beal and the Wizards to the playoffs because he wasn't going to allow them to act like a bunch of bitches, but he's also the guy who didn't trust Kevin Durant enough to defer to him in big spots. Some times he's a hero who went out on his shield and other times he's LLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY JJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNKKKKKKKKKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sly is also pretty instrumental in the beginnings of Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead. Sly in the early 60s intentionally decided to integrate everything he did between races and gender. We lost two guys who affected every single musician who came after them within days of each other.

The Bengals first round pick left mandatory minicamp with a contract dispute. Apparently, they are trying to put language in his contract that would allow them to void guaranteed money. This is the type of shit that never happens these days, because the terms of rookie contracts are essentially all spelled out in the CBA. Never change Mike Brown.

I can see him being autistic, but I can also see him being someone who was extremely successful doing the popular thing, but wanted to do the great thing. A lot of his issues seemed to stem from him wanting to remain the popular thing while doing the great thing, but being great wasn't nearly as popular. I don't have a lot of hip-hop conversations with people, because I've found that there are people who care about hip-hop as an artform and there are people who when they listen to music they listen to rap music. The former is a much smaller group than the latter. I don't really spend a lot of time worrying about the opinions of the latter, because not only are they in it for different reasons than I am, they tend to be far less invested in why they like what they like than I am. Brian Wilson seemed to want to have conversations with people interested in the art and people who just turn on the radio and like what is playing. The people who cared about the are were with him, but he couldn't seem to get over the fact that the average pop music fan didn't care. You can never please everybody, no matter what you do. He was 100% invested in his art, but couldn't get over the fact that not everyone was as invested as he was.

This is Bootyman erasure.

We are rapidly losing the BC/AD type musicians. Modern music doesn't exist in its current form without the two of them. Pretty much everything you listen to, no matter the genre, has either some of Sly Stone and Brian Wilson's musical DNA in it. Sly Stone is the bridge between James Brown and George Clinton, but was also really influential to the 60s San Francisco music scene. Bob Marley's first American performance was as the opening act for Sly and the Family Stone. There are not 10 more important American musicians than Sly Stone. Brian Wilson influence is harder to pin down, but I think his influence has as much to do with how we feel about music as much as it's about the music itself. Brian Wilson was the quintessential pop act, who literally drove himself crazy trying to elevate the art. He wanted to make the type of music that everyone loved, but more than that he wanted everyone to want more from the art. It was a revolutionary idea for someone who was at the top of the success ladder to reach down and try to elevate the art from the top. His music was less successful commercially, but almost every pop artist who was a serious musician followed his lead. Everyone from The Beatles, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Michael Jackson, etc. made pop music that pushed artistic boundaries that may not have been explored without Wilson blazing the trail. Rest in Peace to them both.

It wasn't a work, but for what it's worth, they should do stuff like this as a work. They should have learned with Drake Maverick that this type of thing could really get the crowd behind a guy for a bit. I don't think they should do this often, but this R-Truth situation would have been a perfect time to do a fake firing to have him come back and attack Cena.

I can't believe that she hasn't walked into the locker room and found the entire roster sitting there looking somber before someone walks up to her, holds both of her hands, and says with as much compassion as they can muster, "Maricela, we need to have a conversation about that wig."

I honestly think we should have an anniversary thread and/or folder, especially for like matches like this where they are readily available on YouTube. If I had time today, I'd definitely watch this, but stupid work and stupid friends are going to delay my rewatch by at least a day. My wrestling fandom these days is much more about nostalgia for great matches of the past than anything else, and this match is one of my all-time favorites.

Umm...I haven't watched them, but think I'd have a pretty hard time watching any Tony Atlas intergender match. Just saying.

That's extremely low, but I honestly think the worst way to evaluate a quarterback is yards. Kerry Collins has more yards than Joe Montana, but bad quarterbacks can rack up yards playing on teams that are always behind. For instance, Steve DeBerg has more yards than Steve Young, but DeBerg won 38% of his games and Young won 65% of his games. I know wins isn't a quarterback stat, but the entire population of Earth would rather have Young than DeBerg. It's also why I think people are crazy for thinking that Matthew Stafford should go into the Hall of Fame, he's up there with Carson Palmer, Vinny Testaverde, and Joe Flacco. Just because you have stats comparable to Hall of Fame players, does not mean you are a Hall of Fame Player. Randall Cunningham is not a Hall of Famer, but when he was good he was better than a lot of dudes in the Hall of Fame. He's up there with Kurt Warner (only about 3,000 yards difference between the two) for guys who can elevate a great supporting cast, but he cannot elevate a bad supporting cast. He's the quarterback equivalent to Phil Jackson, he's at his best with the best. If you switched Troy Aikman and Randall Cunningham as rookies (I know the dates don't match) Cunningham would be in the Hall of Fame and Aikman would have taken over for Pat Summerall in 1995.

You may have a point, but still.

You and me both. It is the closest thing the WWE ever got to the chaotic energy of Sabu matches. Seriously, if nothing else, Shane earned my respect in that match. He could have tapped out on the suplexes through the glass, but even after getting dropped on his head multiple time, he got up and asked for more. That match is a mess and a half, but it's riveting mostly because of Shane's determination. What they planned could have been a five star classic, but it wouldn't have been nearly as memorable as what we got. It's an example of why trying to control every little thing is usually a bad idea in wrestling. I don't believe the audience would have ever connected with Shane like they did, if it wasn't for the heart he showed in that match. It's why I believe kayfabe is largely overrated. I didn't respect his character any more than I did before the match, but getting dumped on his head and telling Kurt to try it again made me respect the person more. He was willing to put his body on the line for the sake of the match, and knowing that was better than anything that they could have scripted. For what it's worth, this is also the reason we all love Foley. We enjoyed Mankind and Cactus Jack as characters before the "shoot" interview series with J.R., but when we saw the sacrifices the man Mick Foley made for the characters we loved him for it.

He might have my least favorite punches in the history of wrestling. He got out there and shuffled around like the world's worst boxer and threw a bunch of goofy jabs and crosses that look like ass. I didn't realize that they were stiff until I heard Jericho talk about it. For what it's worth, I think Shane held his own in almost all of his matches, but there is not a single match where his punches didn't make me like the match less. He's the boss' kid so no one was going to sit him down and tell him that shit sucked and looked like ass.

He seems to be throwing shoot punches instead of worked punches. They are the double whammy of looking terrible on TV, but actually hurting. The hierarchy of worked punches: Punches that look great, but don't hurt. Punches that look great, but do hurt Punches that look like shit, but don't hurt Punches that look like shit, but do hurt Shane is the king of #4