S.K.o.S.

Full disclosure, I do think Hero vs. Ray Rowe from early 2014 deserves a look. Skip to the 2 hour 30 minute mark. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbekomngnm8

I wouldn't say "Fuck Hero" but I kind of get it. I've seen three Hero matches from 2014, and either there's a severe lack of flow when he's on offense, or he's just become such an advanced wrestler that he's bringing a match structure that's too complex for me to understand. Like prog rock.

I gotta decide if I'm going full troll with my defense. Cesaro can't help himself from using flashy power moves even though he's supposed to be a heel! His compulsion to get himself over leads to fans chanting "We The People" after another racist Zeb Coulter diatribe! It makes us all look bad!

Ugh, I gotta look into this. The argument for Cole would be that he's a better promo and a better heel than his esteemed opponent.

So, about this. I've been told by one of the editors that the relevant short is finished, and I do appear in it... but it's in a wide group shot and I'm walking away from the camera, so yeah, you can only see the back of my head and would only be able to tell that it's me based on what I'm wearing. Next time, Hollywood! *shakes fist*

Feeling like I need to personally work on putting together a case for Adam Cole, just to get people to realize that he had a very good year even though he'll be getting roughly 0% of the votes. But it's gonna be tough since recent US indy stuff is (understandably) scarce on the intertubes.

I know you know this, and I'm being Johnny Nitpick here, but it's Masaaki Mochizuki. Looks like we'll be seeing the extent of the pro-WWE bias pretty quickly.

Going to the Raptors game tonight. First live NBA game ever. Bandwagon jumping at its finest.

I think Steen and Elgin could win matchups depending who they were against. Cole is probably deserving too. But I can't say I'd miss any of them if they weren't in.

So I was thinking "Hmm, this is the first WOTD I've literally never heard of" and then opened the thread to a furious GET OFF MY LAWN tirade from Rippa. I nearly fell out of my chair!

No trailer yet, but have you guys heard about this KUMIKO THE TREASURE HUNTER movie from Sundance with Rinko Kikuchi?

May have said this before, but I thought The Mist really needed the Price Is Right losing horn right at the end. For The Prestige... I can see how the full explanation of the sci-fi part of the ending could be considered stupid. Not sure if that's what people are referring to, though.

3/4 of the way there.

Couple quick things: - On Friday I was talking about whether they were going to force Shield/Wyatts into the face-in-peril tag structure. The FIP portion (which was only a small part of the match) was set up really nicely by making Rollins into a face in about 30 seconds with the whole backflip out of the top rope German sequence, then having him get beaten down. - When Josh Matthews asked the 'expert panel' right before the EC match "So no one thinks Orton's going to retain??" they kind of faked me out there. I was thinking that question so obviously telegraphed that Orton was going to win, that it actually meant they were going to have him lose. I clearly cannot choose the wine in front of you...

As of today, the relationship I'm currently in is my longest relationship ever. We still have like nine years to go for it to be her longest relationship ever, but hey.

A hearty fuck you to home ownership. The weekend thaw here was nice, but it meant lots of melting snow, and judging by the two rooms on the top floor of my house that suddenly have wet carpets, it looks like there's a leak somewhere. Quite a few water stains on the walls, as well as on the ceiling of the main floor below.. so the water's coming in somewhere inside the walls or something. This probably won't be cheap to fix.

Not trying to hate on the match before it's even happened, but how likely is it that they force Shield-Wyatts into being a face-in-peril formula tag rather than a crazy brawl?

Has Ron Livingston started morphing into Quentin Tarantino or has there just always been a resemblance that I never noticed?

What's the tiebreaker in case you get a tie within a group? Like if three teams go 2-1 and one team goes 0-3. Would it be total margin of victory by votes?

No idea if this has been mentioned on the broadcast, but apparently Yzerman actually drafted that Latvian goalie last year. Fifth round, I think.

I think it's the report that came out of France a few weeks back basically stating that a deal had been struck to give Russia the pairs gold, and the Americans would get the ice dancing gold in return. If the fix was actually in, there's your "COMPLETE INJUSTICE" screaming. Meltdown at 3:49

I know it says the 17th in the first post, but the due date is the 22nd, right?

I'll say this for the new format: "Here are two guys dunking, pick which one you like better" makes a lot more sense to me than "Give each dunk a score out of 10". But yeah, it felt like it barely got started and then it was over.

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think there was any way for that spot to go well. Trish was just too short to properly catch anyone diving out from between the ropes.

I can still see that "Well, shit, alright!" look on Vic's face.