🎼 Do you not hear me anymore, I know it's not your thing to care... I know it's cool to be so bored.

Last week!   We had some creepy kooky disguises!  Including one that fooled everyone!  

Does someone named Tony Schiavone actually exist?  No, right?  What a stupid name to even think is real.  

🤼‍♂️ It sucks me in when you're aloof... It sucks me in, it sucks it works... I guess it's cool to be alone...

On Saturday, it was a repeat of Good Friends, Better Enemies!

 

👬🏾 Will you never rest? Fighting the battle of who could care less.  Everyday you wake up late, sometimes I wish I was... That way!

And what's on tap for this week???   Well I'm glad you asked!

...speaking of Good friends, better enemies. 

(Ah Ben, you may have been a colossal pain in the ass to work with, but you are always Rockin' The Suburbs.)

Enjoy your week!

 

In the time it took you to write that post Ben Folds married and then divorced three more women.

On the live album, Ben Folds Live, there's a song called "Rock This Bitch". Some of the audience are yelling out various requests and one person just yells, "Rock this bitch!" and Folds says what? Fan yells it again, and Folds makes up a little song on the spot. The dude who yelled "Rock this bitch!" is my best friend from college's older brother. He was (is?) a HUGE Ben Folds fan. Love that he's now actually part of one of his albums.

Back in the day, I thought "Ben Folds Five" was a wacky bandname referencing folding a hand of poker, and that no one in the group was even named "Ben". Kinda like how none of the guys in Tony Toni Toné are named "Tony".

Years later I found out this dudes name was actually "Ben Folds".  How weird. 

25 minutes ago, SovietShooter said:

Back in the day, I thought "Ben Folds Five" was a wacky bandname referencing folding a hand of poker, and that no one in the group was even named "Ben". Kinda like how none of the guys in Tony Toni Toné are named "Tony".

Years later I found out this dudes name was actually "Ben Folds".  How weird. 

Yeah, his name is Ben Folds, but there were only three of them in the band. According to wikipedia, they just liked the sound of Ben Folds Five better than Ben Folds Three.

5 minutes ago, Log said:

Yeah, his name is Ben Folds, but there were only three of them in the band. According to wikipedia, they just liked the sound of Ben Folds Five better than Ben Folds Three.

The Ben Folds Five currently refers to the band his ex wives have formed.

I bet King had to hide his erection when he found out he was facing Shibata

This is a neater idea than a fake coin toss even though the outcome will be the same.

6 hours ago, Log said:

Yeah, his name is Ben Folds, but there were only three of them in the band. According to wikipedia, they just liked the sound of Ben Folds Five better than Ben Folds Three.

"There's three of you. You're not exactly Lone."

AEW finally returns to Houston PROPER this week, and the wife and I will be attending both Dynamite on Wednesday and Collision on Saturday!

Sign update: We may not be able to bring them, as the venue has rules stating that you're not allowed to bring signs that may block the views of other spectators. It's a smaller venue, by no means a stadium or even arena, so we're deciding our best route of approach on that.

2 hours ago, The Green Meanie said:

AEW finally returns to Houston PROPER this week, and the wife and I will be attending both Dynamite on Wednesday and Collision on Saturday!

Sign update: We may not be able to bring them, as the venue has rules stating that you're not allowed to bring signs that may block the views of other spectators. It's a smaller venue, by no means a stadium or even arena, so we're deciding our best route of approach on that.

Enjoy yourselves. Road Report please.

Edited November 5, 2025Nov 5 by The Natural

15 hours ago, Zimbra said:

This is a neater idea than a fake coin toss even though the outcome will be the same.

I really like this booking. A slight bounce back after the microwaveable heat and set-up of the BNG matches. Of course, the heels have to win. BNG matches needing the heels to always have the advantage is another feature I loathe of these matches. Are there any examples of Wargames/BNG working particularly well with the babyfaces on the advantage?

IMHO, the fact no one ever gives the babyfaces the advantage just speaks to how uncreative the booking ideas are.  

The interesting thing (to me) about the advantage matches is that in a vacuum I'd expect Orange to beat Claudio and Darby to beat Garcia. But that would not only give the babyfaces the advantage, it would mean a best-of-three series ending after two matches. Neither of those happen very often in pro wrestling. So I guess either Orange or Darby are getting upset. Likely Orange, I think.

With the women's matches, it seems obvious that Bayne, Hayter, and Thekla will win. Small chance they throw a curveball.

I said this on the Discord but I'm going faces win and we scratch Mox/Roddy. Women's is Bayne/Hayter/Thekla for sure. 

3 hours ago, HarryArchieGus said:

I really like this booking. A slight bounce back after the microwaveable heat and set-up of the BNG matches. Of course, the heels have to win. BNG matches needing the heels to always have the advantage is another feature I loathe of these matches. Are there any examples of Wargames/BNG working particularly well with the babyfaces on the advantage?

There was a Women’s Wargames in NXT, where the faces were supposed to have the advantage, then Dakota Kai turned on Tegan Nox (?), eliminated her from even entering the match and also took off without entering herself. If I recall correctly, the face team still won, however. 

2 hours ago, SovietShooter said:

IMHO, the fact no one ever gives the babyfaces the advantage just speaks to how uncreative the booking ideas are.  

Agree. I feel like if you had a monster on the heel side, you could make it work. Like, someone who can handle the disadvantage. The problem is, everyone wants to start their workhorse (see: Arn) since they'll be going longer than everyone else. 

3 hours ago, SovietShooter said:

IMHO, the fact no one ever gives the babyfaces the advantage just speaks to how uncreative the booking ideas are.  

I want to say one of the womens WWE wargames matches had the babyface team with an advantage but I can't fact check myself right now.

The face women had the advantage in the 2024 War Games. Nia Jax led off for the heels. 

The male faces winning in two straight matches would be unexpected but not necessarily bad, in my opinion. Is Claudio enough of a monster to serve as the heel who has to fight one-on-two for a while?

1 hour ago, tbarrie said:

The male faces winning in two straight matches would be unexpected but not necessarily bad, in my opinion. Is Claudio enough of a monster to serve as the heel who has to fight one-on-two for a while?

He's enough of a monster if the two faces are the smallest on the team.

8 minutes ago, porksweats said:

He's enough of a monster if the two faces are the smallest on the team.

Hmm. I guess that would be Darby and Orange - but they're also the two most over and heavily pushed guys on the team, which would make them odd choices for this.

3 hours ago, just drew said:

The face women had the advantage in the 2024 War Games. Nia Jax led off for the heels. 

Technically not War Games but the legendary ROH vs CZW Cage Of Death saw the face ROH team win the toss (because JJ Dillon was calling the toss). They came up with a pretty clever way to negate the advantage by having Danielson turn on Joe and walk out early in the match.

1 hour ago, tbarrie said:

Hmm. I guess that would be Darby and Orange - but they're also the two most over and heavily pushed guys on the team, which would make them odd choices for this.

Also both have victories (maybe even multiple) over him in singles matches.

5 minutes ago, sabremike said:

Technically not War Games but the legendary ROH vs CZW Cage Of Death saw the face ROH team win the toss (because JJ Dillon was calling the toss). They came up with a pretty clever way to negate the advantage by having Danielson turn on Joe and walk out early in the match.

I fucking love ROH vs. CZW Cage of Death. Best match in ROH history. *****.