Hamhock
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Didi Gregorius is returning to the Phillies for two years and $28 million.
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16 hours ago, RIPPA said:
HOT STOVE HAS HEATED UP!!!
Twins sign J.A. Happ to a 1 year, $8 million deal
White Sox right-handed hitters preparing a feast on that stove...
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Apropos of nothing, I just want to say how much I enjoy the little "10 Months later..." tags that appear when an old thread gets updated. It feels like a plot device in an old-timey crime show.
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Important part of the press release:
QuoteMLB and the Elias Sports Bureau have begun a review process to determine the full scope of this designation’s ramifications on statistics and records. MLB and Elias will work with historians and other experts in the field to evaluate the relevant issues and reach conclusions upon the completion of that process.
That’s...that’s Josh Gibson’s entrance music!
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I'll just go with my first show:
QuoteWWF @ Philadelphia, PA - Spectrum - August 4, 1984 (12,908)
Bob Backlund pinned Salvatore Bellomo at 10:56 (Backlund's last WWF match for 8 years)
Gama Singh pinned Dave Barbie at 5:46
Mr. Fuji pinned Tiger Chung Lee at 14:33
Andre the Giant defeated Big John Studd via count-out at 9:47
WWF World Champion Hulk Hogan pinned Greg Valentine with a clothesline and the legdrop at 11:18
Michael Hayes/Terry Gordy/Buddy Roberts (w/ David Wolff & Cyndi Lauper) defeated Ron Shaw/Rene Goulet/Charlie Fulton at 5:12; (the Freebirds' debut)
The Haiti Kid pinned Dana Carpenter at 3:51
Iron Mike Sharpe pinned Jose Luis Rivera at 5:11
Jesse Ventura defeated Rocky Johnson via count-out at 4:46
Kamala (w/ Freddie Blassie & Friday) pinned Fred Marzino at 3:10 with a splash to the back
Ken Patera pinned Steve Lombardi at 5:43
WWF IC Champion Tito Santana pinned the Iron Sheik at 7:51 with a small package; Freddie Blassie was the special referee for the bout-
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All of the MLB teams’ minor league affiliation “invitation” announcements are finally being released now.
Full lists: https://www.mlb.com/news/new-minor-league-affiliates-for-2021
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2 hours ago, D.Z said:
Correction: Big Dog not Big Don.
Phew... Big Don sounded like one of those terrible Vince story cycles (Vince calls himself “The Big Don”, humiliates several wrestlers, feuds with top face for 2-3 months, gets soundly thrashed at a PPV by top face, Vince shows up at Raw and a lower-card wrestler snickers at him, Vince announces new fascistic policy (“Zero Tolerance”/“Merciless Power”/“Violent Reprisals”), repeat next step, repeat next step, etc.)
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Theo Epstein’s last day with the Cubs is this Friday; Jed Hoyer will take his place.
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Well, if Dusty got the Backlund run then there wouldn’t be an unfulfilled Flair/Dusty dream match, because he would have wrestled Flair in the title vs. title match at the July 4 ‘82 show in the Omni, like Backlund did...
Man, this whole alternate timeline is crazy, because then Hogan wrestles Dusty several times for the title in his early heel run, and then maybe doesn’t take the movie offer, goes to Mid-Atlantic/Crockett as McMahon asked him to, wrestles Flair in 1981 before heading to Florida and headlining there against Kevin Sullivan?
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One of the joys of watching the postseason on MLB.tv is the repetitive ads; I do enjoy seeing a deadpan-expressioned Johnny Bench hoist seven hamburgers into the air, however.
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5 hours ago, Kuetsar said:
Have we made all the jokes about how the new Rangers stadium looks like the Sportatorium yet?
Joe Buck ripping off his mask to reveal that he’s Marc Lowrance, without any change in his vocal inflection, and soberly announcing that the next World Series game will be contested as a Captain’s Match...
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19 minutes ago, LoneWolf&Subs said:
Award show, though.
Did Tuesday Night Titans ever have a segment breakout into a musical?
Andre the Giant performed “The Fish Song”.
Jimmy Hart lip-synced “Eat Your Heart Out, Rick Springfield”.
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The Sheik teamed up with Dusty in 1988 for a tag match in Detroit against Murdoch and Sullivan - he turned either mid-match or after the match (and Murdoch turned face at the same time to save Dusty or something), but he technically began the match as a face.
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The White Sox clinched a postseason spot with their win today.
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No one’s mentioned a returning Piper as a possibility yet? He and Savage could have gone 3-4 months easy.
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Apparently it was Wilpon’s terrible idea, not Manfred’s, so Van Wagenen just had to awkwardly apologize via press release.
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At least four of tonight’s games are postponed thus far:
Phillies/Nats
Red Sox/Blue Jays
Twins/Tigers
Rangers/A’s
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10 hours ago, Dolfan in NYC said:
The White Sox's Lucas Giolito has the season's 1st no-hitter. Defeating Pittsburgh, 4-0.
He threw 101 pitches, and recorded 13 K's. This is the first time in baseball history that a no-hitter has been thrown with that few pitches and that many strikeouts.
And with CB Bucknor as the home plate umpire!
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26 minutes ago, RIPPA said:
Red Sox are starting their fire sale and are sending Brendan Workman to the Phillies
I’m just happy the Phillies finally traded away Nick Pivetta.
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6 hours ago, Six String Orchestra said:
I think we're halfway there with their weird fixation on what words are appropriate and what sends you to the Ministry of Catering.
Minifood in Newspeak.
Now my mind is filled with converting Vince-jargon into Newspeak:
championship opportunity = oppochamp
medical facility = medfac
just want to have fun and entertain the WWE universe = doubleunifun
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The more games a team in that scenario doesn’t play, the more that issue cascades to its scheduled opponents’ records as well. For an extreme example, if we pretend that the Cardinals were wiped out for the year at five games played overall, that’s ten games out of 60 that the Cubs/Reds/Brewers don’t play and seven games that the Pirates don’t play.
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Verlander’s out for the year with an elbow injury.
Edit: Apparently not?
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At least the rain will stop Angel Hernandez from umpiring.
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Dr. Fauci will throw out the first pitch at the Nats game on Opening Day.
Royal Rumble XXXIV - 1/31/2021
in WWE PROGRAMMING
Posted · Edited by Hamhock
If the Vaudevillians had worked more silent film bits as distraction spots, they’d have lasted longer. English distracts the heels at the Rumble with the Chaplin roll dance and Gotch throws them out.
Or they scream “MAKEUP!” and blind the monster heels with powder and large makeup sponges, and then Harold Lloyd does an insane climb to the balcony and loses his hand in a explosion match.