Mike Campbell
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After having a full day to process it, my only real reaction is that whatever Ryan Poles sees in Caleb Williams, Drake Maye, or whomever he decides is the Bears QB of the future better live up to those expectations, and then some. Because this is the first big move that Poles has made that has really PO'd a large portion of the fanbase.
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17 minutes ago, Kevin Wilson said:
Keenan Allen traded to the Bears for a 4th. Such an eventful week, I love it.
This only leaves Chicago with four or five draft picks. Looks like Ryan Poles will be playing chicken with some other GM's to see if they make the right offer for the #1 pick.
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I love it that Jay and Gunns are back to being dick heels. I honestly never liked the whole Bang Bang Scissor Gang thing in the first place. The Gunns and Acclaimed had been pretty much joined at the hip for two years now in various forms. When they started putting the boots to Darby and Billy and the Acclaimed hit the ring, I was expecting a massive beatdown by all six to send Darby off. I'm much happier with what happened instead.
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22 hours ago, RIPPA said:
Aaron Jones goes to the Vikings - 1 year, $7 million
Whether they stay with Darnold or try get get someone in the draft, whomever Minnesota keeps at QB just got a big load off their shoulders being able to hand off to him.
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I finally caught Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning. Is it still considered part one, or are they pulling a Star Wars/A New Hope deal and retroactively changing the title? I can appreciate some of the risks they took, like killing off a well known character (at least until the upcoming sequel) and almost doing a rehash of the first movie as far as the train and not knowing if the IMF ally can be trusted. But, the whole AI plot came off to me like they wanted to do something topical, and the "entity' gives off vibes like a less cool version of Skynet.
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Best case scenario: Jack gets to sit under the learning tree of Dick motherfucking Togo!
When he made the appearance at the Strong show, I thought that he'd created a little buzz for himself, sort of like what Steen was able to do in ROH with his quasi feud with Cornette. But putting him in with HOT (and I'm not even so much knocking the group here) makes him just another American who went over there and got shunted into one of the factions.
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1 hour ago, The Green Meanie said:
One thing I forgot to bring up, was Excalibur getting upset about Kenny Omega being fired from The Elite - he kept getting upset and saying that Omega was fired (from the company, not The Elite) was this just him not paying attention or being obtuse or what exactly? Boy, I sure hope someone got fired for that.
It's kind of hard to say, because it could go either way. Excalibur may have been just extra emotional after seeing the Bucks threaten Tony and then suspend Hangman, so he just jumped right to the worst possible conclusion. Or, he just wasn't prepared for what was happening and just started spouting off. I'm remembering when Punk got hurt after he won the AEW Title the first time and cut that promo on Rampage, and nobody actually knew what was happening, until a couple of segments later when they had to spell out that Punk was still champion, but they needed to run a tournament for an interim champion.
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I'm on Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok. I'm most active on Twitter, with my nerdy fandoms like wrestling and horror movies. I only signed up for TikTok because my wife would constantly text me links to videos she thought I'd like, and I opened one at work and it was a guy screaming "FUCK" - which if my boss was within ear shot, he would not have been impressed with. I've toyed with the idea of doing Insta, but I doubt I actually will. My work buds told me to do SnapChat and that shit literally lasted less than a day.
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My first experience with Sting was at the age of six, when he was teaming with Flair and feuding with Terry Funk and Muta. I was 14 when he came down from the rafters and laid waste to the entire nWo at Uncensored 1997. My youngest daughter is 12, and she thought I was just teasing her when I told her that I'd been watching him wrestle since I was younger than her. I had to fire up YouTube and show her some actual dates on matches before she beleived me.
And just to take the generational anecdotes the other way. When Dynamite was showing the highlights of the match and Sting's post match interview, I'm not ashamed to admit that I was tearing up a little bit. My phone goes off and it's my father (who only lives about 1,900 miles away) texting me to say "Don't cry, Mike."
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I saw a post on Twitter saying that the Okada turn on Kingston was Angle of the Year. I wouldn't go that far, but I will fully admit thay my jaw legitmately dropped when Okada grabbed Kingston and hit the Rainmaker.
Me and a friend were brainstorming (more like wishful fantasy booking) what team CMLL should send over for the tag title tournament. I'm hoping for Averno/Mephisto (since Hechicero was one of the dudes who lost his visa), and he was more in tune for Atlantis and Atantis Jr.
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Chicago has thankfully locked up Jaylon Johnson for another four years.
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I wonder if the outpouring of people who talk about how great he was and how much they respected him, will cause an uptick in votes and get him into the WON HOF. I have to say that it'd be pretty funny for him to get in after he passes. Considering that his reaction to getting passed over 20 years ago was basically "I don't give two shits about this goddamn hall of fame!"
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9 hours ago, Contentious C said:
Also, as I sit here and watch the last Mission: Impossible movie, I realize Tom Cruise and Ving Rhames (and to a lesser extent, Simon Pegg) are so damn old they're going to have to call the next movie Mission: Incontinent.
When I was watching M:I Fallout last weekend, my first reaction to seeing Ving Rhames was "Wow, age is not being kind to him." It was like seeing Q out of breath and popping pills in The Living Daylights.
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Every now and then, when we're watching Dynamite, Rampage or Collision, my dad will hit me with some sort of comment that I'm not expecting and make me bust out laughing. Last night on Rampage during Roddy vs. Hager, this was what he came out with. "A few more of these throws and Roddy is going to need that neckbrace again."
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Since I enjoyed Mission Impossible III so much, I've been making my way through the rest of the series.
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol - Not nearly as good as MI: 3, but still a good action movie. The plot device of the whole IMF Team being disavowed harkens back to the original film, and the scene of Ethan climbing the windows the ridiculously high hotel buidling is one of the best scenes in any of the films.
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation - Another great entry in the series, with tons of callsbacks to the other films in the series. The Alec Baldwin Character talking about the NOC list from MI 1 and then the last movie with the explosion in the Kremlin. The Syndicate is definitely reminiscent of SPECTRE from the Bond series, and I mean that in the best possible way. Great scenes at the Opera and the underwater scene where Hunt has to switch out the secuity credentials. And an awesome twist at the end where it's learned how the Syndicate came to be, and the villain actually being captured and not killed.
Mission Impossible: Fallout - Hands down my new favorite of the series. If only the Owen Davian character had been allowed to live, he'd have fit right in with this Syndicate group. My wife was decribing it as if it was a movie where I was actually the agent. With every possible thing going wrong and mucking things up. The only thing that I could have done without was the constant questions with who is really on who's side. I'm still not entirely clear if the Henry Cavill character was actually CIA or really just a Syndicate operative.
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Someone on Twitter checked the address that Christian listed for Daniel Garcia's mother, it turns out that it's the address to a graveyard.
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51 minutes ago, (BP) said:
I thought about this on my last watch too. I’m pretty sure Paulie compromised with the Lucchesi family so it’d be one of his for one of theirs. They wanted satisfaction and were reasonably sure it was someone from Paulie’s outfit. Of the three, Tommy is clearly the easiest one to point the finger at for Batts, plus he’s the biggest liability. Jimmy is an earner and Henry hadn’t become unreliable yet.
Plus, the guys who were in the restaraunt with Billy can vouch that Tommy was the one starting shit, and Jimmy and Henry were trying to keep the peace.
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I was listening to Between the Sheets this morning, and they got talking about Psicosis and how he's so well known for the matches that he had with Rey, that people never realized how verstatile he was, as shown in his matches with Santito and the WCW matches with Regal. With my curiosity thoroughly piqued, I fired up the Tube of Yous and checked out a WWA Title match between Santito and Psicosis from AAA in 1995 that lived up to the anticipation.
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Tuesday is going to be a long day, which I'm simultaneously excited for, but also dreading. After putting in our full ten hour day myself and the two guys I work with in the field are attending a training course for another 2-3 hours that night. It'll be great to make some extra coin, get free dinner, and also to be able to do our jobs better, seeing as my boss already informed us we're going to be a lot busier now. But holy shit 6:30 AM - 8:00 PM is going to be a long fucking day. The one thing that I'm amusing myself with is that I already showed my wife the text we all got about it, and joked that's how she knows I'm not off with my girlfriend. But I'm keeping shut and not reminding her, I'm wondering if I can expect a text around 4:00 asking me to bring home bread, or one at like 6:00 asking where I am.
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I fired up Mission Impossible III last night, since I've had the Blu Ray box set for close to four years and have only ever seen the first two. And holy shit, I'm kicking myself for waiting so long to do it. Easily my favorite of the first three films so far. Philip Seymour Hoffman is the best antagonist of the first three films by a freaking kilometer. And I'm seriously sad that his character wound up dying, because of how great he'd have been as a Blofeld sort of recurring villain for future movies. And the scene where Hunt is making his escape through the elevator shaft and takes over the radio frequency and plays a loop of "We Are Family" over the Walkie Talkie had me laughing my ass off.
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6 hours ago, sabremike said:
No, he was "big mad" that the entire interview/segment was completely stupid and counterproductive as it:
A) Presented the rantings of idiots like Corny as the babyface position
B) Was centered around promoting the guy headlining your competitor's biggest show of the year
C) After getting destroyed in a super heavy angle the week before Darby comes out like he was totally fine.
The Bucks whole deal right now is that they're annoying little shits who brag and throw around their vanity titles like it really means something. Darby's promo basically pointed out that they're actually really bad at their jobs, passing on talent like him and preferring to hire their buddies. No, the "Not Kenny Omega" line wasn't necessary, but it wasn't really that out there. If the Bucks are the heels, then shouldn't people who oppose and dislike them be construed as babyfaces? I'd be shocked if anyone was even thinking about Cornette when Darby was out there yelling at them.
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A guy I'm friendly with made the proclamation that "Hereditary" is the scariest film made in the last ten years. So, since it was streaming on Max, I fired it up on Thursday night after the rest of the family had gone to bed. It's not a half bad film, and I've always been high on Toni Colette, but at no point did I think it was scary. It had a few scenes that definitely grab your attention, but that's pretty much it.
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On 2/10/2024 at 9:15 PM, Octopus said:
Derp. What is everyone’s 5 favorite Lucha matches of all time?
I'm not too much of a bandwagon jumper, but the first three that Curt listed are also on my list as well. I've seen the Atlantis/Villano mask match, and I really liked it. BTW, Curt didn't specify which of the two trios matches between those groups, although they're both fucking awesome.
I'll also add the Tag TItles and Hair/Mask match from When Worlds Collide, and the CMLL Tag Titles match between Volador Jr./La Sombra and Mephisto/Ephesto from the 2009 Sin Salida show.
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How about Baker Mayfield?