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    Y2J, I was 5 years ahead of ya:

     

    If the International Olympics Committee is going to drop wrestling from the Olympics, WWE star Chris Jericho says why not add choreographed pro wrestling to the summer games?

     

    “Think about it, pro wrestling as an Olympic sport would be pretty cool. Look at figure skating or gymnastics, what is it? It’s a choreographed performance that is judged. It’s whoever puts on the best performance," Jericho told Scott Fishman of the Miami Herald in an interview promoting Syfy's new "Robot Combat League" show.

     

    "Why can’t you do that with different countries like a Canadian team, an American team, and a German team go in there. Then whoever puts on the best match according to the judges wins. You take two of the best American workers in a match against each other and get scored by the judges. It’s the exact same thing as figures skating, so why not?”

     

    http://pwtorch.com/artman2/publish/WWE_New...cle_68650.shtml

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    The best team is the one with the trophy at the end of the year. Part of sports (and life) is being able to be your best when it counts. If the Braves get 110 wins and the A's get 90 wins, but the A's beat the Braves in the World Series, the A's are the better team. The Braves may have had more potential, but they didn't bring it to the table when it counted. The best team is not the one that has the most potential. The best team is the one that wins, period.

     

    Note that when I say 'team' I don't necessarily mean just the players, but the coaching staff as well. For example, a couple of years ago the Rams had far better players than the Patriots, but Martz was such a bonehead that he completely negated the talent advantage. In this case I believe that the Pats won because of a far far more talented staff than St. Louis. Soldiers fight the war, but you still need someone to command them.

    THIS.

     

    This is required reading for all sports fans. There are so many morons out there who don't get it.

     

    I don't agree

    Sports fans do need to read that. There are so many fools out there who spout nonsense when a "favored" team gets thumped.

     

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    All sports are random, that's why they play the games. Baseball kills some of the randomness by playing a massive number of games during the regular season. The Wild Card has caused a lot of problems in the playoffs in my opinion. The "Best Team" still wins most of the time, but back in the day of four teams total in the playoffs, the "Best Team" won more often.

    "Best team" does not equal favored team.

     

    Despite the playoff format, it is still fair to call the champ the best team. Always.

     

    I don't agree

    Which line don't you agree with?

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    Whomever is left standing at the end of the season is the best team.

     

    Like it or not, thats why you play the season, to be the team with the shiny trophy at the end.

    That's the way I look at it. Upsets do happen in the playoffs, but a good team should be able to avoid those.

     

    You win the trophy, you have the right to call yourself the best for the year (or for the next 4 years, in the case of the World Cup (I still hate Brazil though) and Olympics)...

    EXACTLY.

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    The best team is the one with the trophy at the end of the year. Part of sports (and life) is being able to be your best when it counts. If the Braves get 110 wins and the A's get 90 wins, but the A's beat the Braves in the World Series, the A's are the better team. The Braves may have had more potential, but they didn't bring it to the table when it counted. The best team is not the one that has the most potential. The best team is the one that wins, period.

     

    Note that when I say 'team' I don't necessarily mean just the players, but the coaching staff as well. For example, a couple of years ago the Rams had far better players than the Patriots, but Martz was such a bonehead that he completely negated the talent advantage. In this case I believe that the Pats won because of a far far more talented staff than St. Louis. Soldiers fight the war, but you still need someone to command them.

    THIS.

     

    This is required reading for all sports fans. There are so many morons out there who don't get it.

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    All sports are random, that's why they play the games. Baseball kills some of the randomness by playing a massive number of games during the regular season. The Wild Card has caused a lot of problems in the playoffs in my opinion. The "Best Team" still wins most of the time, but back in the day of four teams total in the playoffs, the "Best Team" won more often.

    "Best team" does not equal favored team.

     

    Despite the playoff format, it is still fair to call the champ the best team. Always.

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    1. The Playoffs don't determine who is really the best team. Anything can happen in a short series, and upsets are frequent. You get a better idea who is better from looking at the regular season.

     

    2. The best thing to look at is not W-L, but runs scored/runs allowed. There's a thing called the "pythagorean record," which predicts a teams W-L record based on runs scored and runs allowed. A team's pythagorean record is better at predicting a team's future performance than their real W-L record. Espn.com has them on their site. Just go to their standings page and click on expanded. Or you can figure them out yourself....

     

    Runs Scored^2

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    Runs Scored^2/Runs Allowed^2

     

    Sorry if I made you guys think too much about math.

    If the playoffs don't determine the best team, then there is no best team. The regular season sure doesn't. It is only a qualifying phase for the playoffs. Nothing more.

     

    Your #2 is idiotic. A team won't score that many more runs than necessary. And may rack up runs in a blowout.

     

    The champion is the best team, because the championship is everyone's goal.

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    The thing that cracked me up is after the whole Vampiro/Demon deal went down Vampiro came back to the arena and then a coffin and various Sting wannabes were in the ring. Sting popped out and attacked Vampiro, with bandages on his head (selling the Human Torch match). Keep in mind this deranged Undertaker style segment happened right after the whole Russo deal. Quite the juxtaposition of crazy crap.

    The Russo deal was 100% a work, right? So idiotic. So they gave Hogan the rest of his contract off, yet still paid him? For doing nothing? I hate it when they vacate titles.

     

    Why couldn't they stick to the original idea of having 2 champions, 1 for Thunder and 1 for Nitro? That woulda been ok.

     

    What was the reasoning behind this worked shoot? Fans don't like title strips, we like continuity.

     

    The only way this would make sense is if it actually was a shoot. What really happened?

     

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    This is a bit off topic, but do you really have to put that bastard name for this sport in parantheses in the topic description? Football has been globalized enough so that we do not need to differentiate so that the Americans can understand. They know what we mean when we say football.

     

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    Top 5 Superstars of all time:

     

    5. Bret Hart

    4. The Rock

    3. SCSA

    2. Flair

    1. Hogan

     

    Good top 4, but I'd question leaving Andre the Giant off the list in place of Bret Hart.

     

    ok, I meant Top 5 Superstars since January 23, 1984. sorry

     

    No worries, but even with that date range... I'd probably still put Andre the Giant on the list in place of Bret Hart. Even past his prime, Andre was a bigger mainstream star than Bret ever was... but that's just my opinion on the matter.

     

    Your opinion is wrong. Andre was champ for what like, a couple of weeks. The Hitman held the title longer and main evented more. What's wrong with you man, are you French? Bret Hart> Andre and I'm sure everyone else here will agree

     

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    I still need more evidence that that was actually him

     

    Are you for real? He's looked like that for years now. Go look it up, that's what the friggin' internet is for.

     

    dude, i aint got no time to be lookin up pics of the warrior, i barely have enough time to post here

     

     

    FOR YEARS NOW...

     

    ok, now you're pissin' me off. if TSM had a PPV event, i'd challenge u to a match. i'd cut promos leading up to it describing how I actually have a life, so I have no time to keep up with what the Ultimate Mental Case looks like nowadays. I'll show photos on the TitanTron explaining why you know more about him than I. The pics would show me out on dates with various women and then show what you've been doing these past years... sittin' at home in front of your computer, lovingly gazing at pics of The Ultimate Warrior.

     

    FOR YEARS NOW...

     

    It's time for whoever's in charge of TSM merchandising to start cranking out those FOR YEARS NOW... t-shirts.

     

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    Marks like myself? You can fuck right off.

     

    Rather than prove you're not a mark, you tell me to fuck off. Nice, very markish behavior.

     

    Anyway, I think it'd be cool if, at the end of a 5 star spotfest, both wrestlers can bow to the crowd who'd give them a standing ovation, rather than have the kayfabe losing wrestler act pissed that he lost.

     

    I would much rather hear the commentators discuss spot setups and their execution rather than hear JR act like an idiot and call every heel "sick and despicable" even though the previous week, he would praise the same wrestler who was a babyface at the time. Or with the female wrestlers, JR calls them all "jezebels" when they turn heel but when they're faces, they are hard working role models.

     

    I appreciate the artform of wrestling, but sometimes the storylines are unneccessary because they are so fucking absurd most of the time, WWE is basically insulting our intelligence. It'd be one thing if they distinctly said their target audience was preschoolers, but it seems they think we are all like the David Arquette and his friend characters from Ready 2 Rumble.

     

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    3. Did Macho really have Stephanie when she was a teenager?

     

    Personally, I think it's all just internet speculation, but it would explain why Macho Man seems to be blackballed by Vince despite currently having a common enemy with Hogan. My gut sez it's about a 40% possibility.

     

    I could see it happening, now that we all know what a ditz Stephanie is. And since Macho was with Gorgeous George, we know he likes em young.

     

    but, if Stupid Stephanie was legally underage at the time, would Vince seek charges against Macho or would that just embarrass Vince even further?

     

    for all the money the McMahons have, they truly are a joke of a family

     

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    I can't decide whether this is the stupidest idea I've ever heard, or merely the stupidest idea I've ever heard about wrestling.

     

    this could only appeal to smarks. marks like yourself would have to have a storyline involved to be interested. if Vince or Jarrett tried this out, there might be a distinctly different audience to come out for this than for sports entertainment. It would obviously be less popular than sports entertainment, but I think its worth a shot.

     

    The wrestlers can hire road agents to book the matches and they'd share in the prize $$ as well, provided that the agent can only book one match per card and not create a conflict of interest.

     

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