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On 10/28/2020 at 10:20 AM, supremebve said:
Yikes, I feel terrible for that guy. I can't imagine losing my legs because I wanted to go out and live the dream on my weekends.
That's awful! I almost feel bad for laughing at the guy, almost...
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On 10/2/2020 at 3:01 PM, EVA said:
I’ve literally never heard of COLD IN JULY before right this instant, and after watching the trailer, I’m wondering how that’s possible. That looks squarely in my southern noir wheelhouse.
It's Joe Lansdale source material. Higher recs than that I don't have.
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20 minutes ago, sabremike said:
"Let me call Minnie Minoso"
"Mr Reinsdorf, he dead"
"What about Hawk Harrelson???"
"He braindead"
I just knew that the Hawk had some outstanding qualities to manage the Pale Hose.
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1 hour ago, sabremike said:
And to tie everything in the past few posts together in a nice and pretty bow: Reinsdorf is the guy attempting to rally the other owners to reject Cohen. I hope he gets approved and then sells Michael Jordan a Jay Z sized piece of the team just to rub that clown's nose in shit.
Word has it that Reinsdorf is trying to coax Harold Baines out of retirement...
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11 minutes ago, twiztor said:
which of the UFC heavyweights of the time (we're talking 2000-2007ish when Pride went under) would have even been in the top 10? the only name is Randy Couture, who the argument could be made that he was a LHW fighting up. Frank Mir maybe but that's due as much to his injury as anything else. Fedor has wins over Heath Herring (when he was ranked #2 in Pride), Big Nog (2x), CroCop, Coleman (2x), Hunt, Randleman, Sylvia (in 2008), and Arlovski (in 2009).
If you want to make the argument that Fedor can't be the GOAT because he fought too many cans, then i won't disagree with that. But to imply that there was some deep talent in UFC that Fedor was avoiding is just completely untrue.
What gets overlooked is timing... Fedor beat those guys when it MEANT something. Cro Cop was deadly until Fedor schooled him, twelve years ago Arlovski MEANT something, Big Nog MEANT something. No, we're never going to see prime Fedor against Jon Jones, that ship has sailed, but to say that Fedor is anything less than in the discussion for GOAT is silly.
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On 10/22/2020 at 11:38 PM, Curt McGirt said:
There's nothing wrong with being maudlin or melancholy. Morrissey is just an asshole.
^ This!
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4 hours ago, jaedmc said:
People going to his house to get fucking hammered for free? Yeah. Who wouldn't do that.
But that ain't a friend.
I would go for the purpose of stretching Saran-wrap over his toilet bowl. Much hilarity will ensue.
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56 minutes ago, RIPPA said:
well this game didnt start well for the Braves
Just gave up 11 runs in the first
Well, this would be a good time to invoke the "Once a season rule", and let Acuna bat 11 times like they do in Crickett... Oh, wait... There isn't any such... Ah, you guys just hate on the Braves...
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On 10/6/2020 at 10:34 AM, The Natural said:
My neurologist said my body has to work four times harder doing the exact same thing as someone without Cerebral Palsy. That really took me, my parents, sister and other people aback.
Amazing what one has to go through just to see some titties flashed...
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On 9/25/2020 at 10:18 PM, twiztor said:
so, my birthday is October 24th. i turn 38 this year. i say that, not to fish for bday wishes, but to mention that every year, i have a 3-day party. we're talking every year for like 15ish years. but of course, this is 2020, so fuck your plans.
i've used this as a chance to reach out to friends that i've fallen out with. not because of bad blood, but just due to life. and i've reconnected (virtually....) with some cool ass people. it feels fucking great. some of these folks i was tight with until life happened. i didn't know how much i missed some of these dudes until i was talking to them again.
now's the time. reach out. set something up. i don't care if it's a zoom call, a lunch meeting, after work drinks, or an online gaming session. make it happen.
Don't wait. Couple of years back I reconnected with my friend Bill up in Eugene, OR, had a really nice chat. On the other hand, didn't make the call to my friend, Harlan, rationalizing that he might have been busy... The dude was like 83 years old, how fucking busy could he have possibly been? ;-(
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8 hours ago, NikoBaltimore said:
So after initially being told my mother-in-law would pass away last week she went a full week and change before passing. Just got the call and I know my wife will be devastated. But considering all that was not done right at the rehab center I'm just so full of rage I can hardly contain it. Those fuckers killed her and all that's left is to see to it that their incompetence doesn't kill anybody else. So there's already an investigation and the lawsuit's going to come down hard on them. But right now I'm just here alone and pissed off. This should not have happened.
So sorry, bro. I'm here 24/7 if you need an ear....
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On 5/4/2020 at 5:05 PM, EdA said:
Boy. I only read Hornbaker's Cobb book, not his Joe Jackson book. And I thought it was brutally written. The NWA book was worse, no question. But boy, was that Cobb book torture for me to get through. It really was as if he had never read a book before.
I'd also say in both Leershan AND Hornbaker's cases, one huge drawback was their need to attack Al Stump's fiction repeatedly. We get it - Stump made the Cobb stuff up. I didn't need them both going at it over and over. I think there probably is a good Cobb book for someone to write. I don't know if anyone has got to it yet.
The Koufax book suffered from Koufax not being very interesting. He's just not a colorful person. All Lou Gerhrig bio's have the same problem. I thought Leavey did fine with what she could do with Koufax. The Mantle book was certainly livelier at least.
The problem with sports bios is that first and foremost they are sports bios. You start and finish with a person who has a single-minded obsession with doing a certain thing better than anyone else in the world. In most cases they at least make it into the top fifty at said endeavor, otherwise we wouldn't be hearing about them... This doesn't leave a lot of room for other hobbies or factoids, in a word they are likely as dull as ditchwater in all other areas. I'm one of those people who is passionately interested in a vast number of unrelated things, so I find the mentality of someone who can be so focussed on one particular thing to be fascinating. I've been told by people that are in a position to know such things that if I just set aside the pool cue and concentrated on the darts I could be world class in fairly short order, or set aside the darts and focus on pool or billiards... Thing is, my mind doesn't work that way, I enjoy being really good at a number of things as opposed to being lights out great at one specific thing. The type of person that Ted Williams was (who famously said: "When I walk out of a room I want people to say "there goes the greatest hitter who ever lived!"). What gets lost in these discussions when Babe Ruth is mentioned is that people tend to forget that he was one hell of a pitcher before switching to the outfield in order to keep his bat in the line-up.
Lou Gehrig was a nice man who played baseball as well as anyone ever has and played bridge for enjoyment. He married his sweetheart and other than a tragically shortened life, he had a happy one, but there's really not much there in terms of tension or page-turning suspense. Mantle and Ruth were certainly more colorful if drunkenness and debauchery are your thing, having been there and done that I have plenty of my own escapades to relate to anyone interested in that sort of thing...
So your sports bios tend to range on one side to the Dale Murphy sort of thing. "I've got this swell religion, I know you'd rather read about baseball stuff, but since I've already got your ten bucks, you might as well kick back and let me tell you all about this dude finding golden plates in the woods and talking to angels and all sorts of cool stuff like that..." Or you might get the other extreme, the Eddie Murray / Don Baylor sort of thing wherein the subject recalls every at-bat they ever had and the result thereof. When you're a player as renowned for consistency to the degree that Mr. Murray was, the virtue of said consistency grows somewhat tiresome after a bit, there are only so many games wherein the virtues of going three for five eor two for five can be discussed at length... Or you get the third thing, which is the biographer making a bunch of shit up. These books should be filed under "fiction", but they are a damn sight more entertaining than the other two groups.
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60 is way too young to go. RIP, big fella!
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31 minutes ago, AxB said:
In Joey Janela is a genius news, firstly he's wrestling Ricky Morton one on one at Spring Break next month, and secondly he said - as a joke - that he'd got permission to name his tag team with Sonny Kiss "The New new Midnight Express" and J*m C****tte got so triggered that he sent a legal cease and desist order to make sure that didn't happen.
I remember the good old days when baiting Corny actually took a little bit of ingenuity.
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6 hours ago, Eivion said:
I'm just happy it didn't flood beyond the streets last night. Its mostly down now though its still flooded in various annoying spots.
Remember: "Get hurtie, call Kurtie!"
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3 hours ago, PetrolCB said:
Only one person can drink beer in WWE and that's Steve Austin. Otherwise, the fans may get confused.
We need a wrestler whose gimmick is that of being a wine snob... It's money, I tell ya, money!
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On 9/21/2020 at 4:32 PM, LoneWolf&Subs said:
He was a face in My Science Project. He was also a heel who turned face in True Grit.
Frank Booth was a face, just misunderstood...
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On 9/20/2020 at 8:58 PM, Peck said:
Pretty sure Corbin was a babyface for awhile when he first broke in to NXT.
Pretty much a tweener, he did this biker without a bike gimmick and the announcers kept trying to suggest that he might be a werewolf. Yeah, it's WWE it doesn't have to make any sort of sense...
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On 9/8/2020 at 10:08 PM, The Natural said:
So that's why Oscar De La Hoya's coming out of retirement ;).
Cocaine's a helluva drug...
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5 hours ago, Zimbra said:
I'm taking care of two certified chonkers this week at the cat rescue. Meet Twinkie:
And Peaches:
They are both huge sweethearts, in all senses of the word. Although Peaches has some pretty serious hygiene issues related to her inability to reach her ass.
Good Lord! That's some feline tonnage! They were at the rescue? What were they being rescued from, dinner? Granted, our Jackpot is just over twenty lbs., and my little guy, Seven (Jackpot's twin bro) is close to 19 lbs. but they're both built for it.
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On 9/12/2020 at 10:17 AM, The Natural said:
Haven't heard this song in many years and now it's in my head.
You want songs about poultry, Hasil Adkins is your man.
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3 hours ago, Eoae said:
I decided to rewatch WWE's Rise and Fall of WCW compilation this week. Still think the doc's kinda dry given how chaotic WCW was behind the scenes regardless of what year it was or who was it charge. But it's a fun collection of matches and not a bad way to pass a few evenings while the family is out of town.
A couple things:
- Was Rick Rude a lifelong heel? I think he was. He started out as a babyface jobber under the name of Ricky Rood, but was doing the arrogant heel character by '84. I don't remember "Ravishing" Rick Rude turning face anytime after that. WCW seemed to be teasing a heel turn and maybe a feud with Vader. but he suffered the back injury before anything came of it.
- Speaking of Rude, "International Championship" seemed lame even at the time. Commentary mostly called it "the International Championship" instead of "WCW International Championship" which made it sound very generic.
-- Never noticed it until now, but the Harley/Vader pairing reminds me a lot of Paul Heyman/Brock. Paul's a better talker, of course, but I'd much prefer to have Harley & Vader on my tv.
-- That Flair/Hogan match from Bash at the Beach '94 is surprisingly fun. I'm not a big fan of Hogan's ringwork and don't really care for Flair after he returned to WCW (Heel Flair in WCW from '93 generally feels a retread of better angles in the 80's and babyface Fliar in the mid and late 90's is ugh - especially he Bischoff stuff). But... both guys were motivated that night and the formula of evil Nature Boy vs. superhero Hulk Hogan works better than it should have.
Rick Rude was one of those guys who could help little old ladies across the street, volunteer at a foodbank, and give half his earnings to charity and he would STILL come across as a heel. Hell, he did the most totally babyface thing ever in wrestling (knocked the fuck out of Warrior) and he still seems a heel. Damn I loved Rick Rude.
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Maybe I'm a bit naive, but I really don't look a guy that beats people up for a living to be the most woke dude in the room. For every Genki Sudo who from all accounts seems to be a really decent guy, there are 100 meatheads like Covington. I hope to see him get his ears pinned back, but I doubt an aging and fading Woodley is the guy to do it. Would be just that much sweeter if he did pull it off, we'll see... I don't know Cerrone's politics and don't much care, he seems like a good dude.
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1 minute ago, Shartnado said:
Well, I have a few non wrestling fan friends who would not be caught dead ever wearing a wrestling shirt, but they might wear this one, regardless!
Yeah, as a professional horror writer, I feel almost obligated to wear one...
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Most Hated Wrestler
in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
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Okay, in a bit of a departure from being the bringer of sweetness and light, to say nothing of being the champion of fair play, here's something a bit more negative. Who among wrestlers past and present do you really, really dislike? It can be a murderer like Benoit (though in all fairness, he appears to have suffered from severe brain damage), (Jose Gonzalez has no such excuse,) a racist twat like Hogan, a basic jerk like the late Bruiser Brody, a card-carrying member of the KKK like Dick Murdoch, or a generally mean-spirited, criminal prick like the Dynamite Kid. Certainly the kid-diddlers like Bob Sweetan and Buck Zumhofe rate highly on my own list, but who ya got?