Hamhock
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Last night was the first time HHH looked/sounded old - I don’t mean wrinkles, just the way he seemed.
Did Coach inadvertently spoil that Braun was coming out next? Commentary got a little quiet and stilted right after that.
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Everyone has their specific pet peeve that they feel adds the most time to the game, but what we feel is subjective. There's at least six or seven factors (time between pitches, stepping out of the box, replay review, multiple throws over to first base, mound visits, commercials) and certainly more. Tackling each of them by themselves saves very little time, but after all of them are eventually addressed over several seasons there will be a cumulative effect.
It's like speeding up a train. Straightening a curve saves 2 minutes, a higher class of speed saves 10 minutes, triple-tracking at a bottleneck saves another 10, a new bridge saves another 5. It's only after it all happens that you get what you want.
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12 hours ago, El Dragon said:
So, the players union should go into the next labor blah blah (let's be real, it's going to be a strike) with 2 major goals in mind. No.1: A hard salary floor so shit like the Marlins are doing right now can't happen, cause that IS bullshit. and No.2: Shorten the amount of time teams get control of a player before they hit free agency. If you want there to be mega deals for the union, the players being a year or two younger when they hit the market will be the cornerstone of that.
I like the above ideas, along with a higher minimum salary (makes older players more valued), and a maximum cap set on number of years that can be offered in a contract (limited length of deals helps teams out of bad deals, and drives up money-per-year which helps players).
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11 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
Gordy would have fit right in with the Muppet band.
Here you go. “What’s the word on the Badstreet?”
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15 hours ago, elizium said:
Blair's a great pick. Heiden maybe had the single greatest Games ever, but it was the only one that he competed in. I feel like longevity needs to be a factor as well.
Sonja Henie, then? Though we should downplay Nazi sympathizers.
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HHH had good tv matches against Rikishi in 2000. He gets destroyed throughout the first one in January, and then stinkfaced into oblivion in July.
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And for the non-metric, that's 44 pounds of yayo.
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Without watching it, my most vivid memory of it is Lord Alfred Hayes trying the drink and hating it while Hogan reacts with a sarcastic/dismissing face.
Edit: Screengrabs:
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Oh no, they overdubbed the Coliseum opening theme music. Dammit.
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A 40 in one hand, and an engagement ring on the other, as someone plays part of the Rocky Theme on a horn and a guy shouts an EAGLES chant with missing letters.
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https://twitter.com/barstoolhrtland/status/960377958555938817
I can't figure out how to embed tweets. Also, here's a link to the Philly police scanner - absolute anarchy going on..
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There being a Wawa on the corner makes that perfect.
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Well, now I finally get to find out if my hometown will be completely set on fire or not.
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23 hours ago, Lawful Metal said:
Solution: put Kairi in the match, and after they quadruple team Nia, Kairi hits the elbow off the chamber.
Considering the height of the chamber and how vertical Kairi lands ordinarily, she'll end up doing a Shooting Star Elbow.
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..and now the Brewers have signed Lorenzo Cain as well.
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Brady should wince and flex his hand, then do the Michael Jordan “I just can’t explain how I’m overcoming this adversity” shrug after every completion.
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The use of Michael Cole being destroyed as a "Super-Rare Spanish Announcing Table" for when monsters truly snap is perfect. Much like when Brock F-5'd him and he screamed during the descent.
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Kharma needs to enter both Rumbles so that she can press-slam Dolph.
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1 hour ago, cwoy2j said:
Ha, I always noticed Watts' pronunciation of Duggan/Doogan as well.
The angle with II taking Magnum TA under his wing and teaching him the knee lift and then turning on him later was great stuff.
I just wish they'd put up all of Mid-South rather than just a sprinkling of episodes from each year. I want to see all of '84, '85 and '86!
I really, really like the DiBiase heel turn and the ensuing aftermath - that being said, his shocking use of a hidden foreign object in the glove would have had a better contrast with the others if they didn't have The Grappler loading his boot and mask and Buck Robley "adjusting his forearm brace" on the same show.
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1 hour ago, Edwin said:
Not sure were to post this, but I just finished watching Starrcade '86 last night...
The first 7-8 matches were pretty forgettable. I believe I mentioned this before; I don't know the background, but Héctor Guerrero and Baron von Raschke vs. Shaska Whatley and the Barbarian? It just seems like someone came across these 4 guys in the locker room and told them to gear up and do whatever they wanted for 10 minutes.
The only knock I have on Bubba vs. Garvin was that first shot with the racket from Cornette which looked exceedingly weak.
Baron had been in the awful Paul Jones' Army stable with Whatley and Barbarian, and had been turned against on a random TV show.
Edit: Baron's face turn:
Cornette said something on a random podcast that he slipped/wiped-out on a spilled drink as he was trying to do the racket shot, so it looks bad and also hurt his knee, which he then proceeded to destroy later on when falling off the scaffold.
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4 hours ago, Web Conn said:
I thought the same thing. I thought AJ should have kicked out of that F-5, it should have taken atleast 2 F-5's to put AJ down . I also thought it should have took like 5 F-5's to take Braun down.
There’s a happy medium they could have settled on, which is that Brock could have delivered two F5s in a row before going for a cover. Much like how Cena’s elimination earlier was softened by a finsher spam.
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How hard could it be to put a rush job on some new ballots? Any half-wit print shop could have it done overnight.
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Roy's perfect game in 2010: https://www.mlb.com/phillies/video/halladays-perfect-game/c-8495331
and his postseason debut no-hitter that same year: https://www.mlb.com/phillies/video/halladay-hurls-no-no/c-12756599
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2 hours ago, HumanChessgame said:
Or intramural softball season...
♫ Well, Shane McMahon had done it,
The Smackdown gang had won it,
With Michael Cole clucking all the while,
Bray Wyatt's tragic illness made us smile,
Matt Hardy lay unconscious on the bathroom tile....♫
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Raw Is I Don't Fear That Bitch - 2/26/2018
in WWE PROGRAMMING
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I don't understand - they don't have Lesnar under contract through Wrestlemania?