8:30 p.m.
• Oh
Lenny Dykstra
David Segui
Larry Bigbie
Brian Roberts
Jack Cust
Tim Laker
Josias Manzanillo
Todd Hundley
Mark Carreon
Hal Morris
Matt Franco
Rondell White
Andy Pettitte
Roger Clemens
Chuck Knoblauch
Jason Grimsley
Gregg Zaun
David Justice
F.P. Santangelo
Glenallen Hill
Mo Vaughn
Denny Neagle
Ron Villone
Ryan Franklin
Chris Donnels
Todd Williams
Phil Hiatt
Todd Pratt
Kevin Young
Mike Lansing
Cody McKay
Kent Mercker
Adam Piatt
Miguel Tejada
Jason Christiansen
Mike Stanton
Stephen Randolph
Jerry Hairston
Paul Lo Duca
Adam Riggs
Bart Miadich
Fernando Vina
Kevin Brown
Eric Gagne
Mike Bell
Matt Herges
Gary Bennett
Jim Parque
Brendan Donnelly
Chad Allen
Jeff Williams
Exavier "Nook" Logan
Howie Clark
Paxton Crawford
Ken Caminiti
Rafael Palmeiro
Luis Perez
Derrick Turnbow
Ricky Bones
Ricky Stone
Rick Ankiel
David Bell
Paul Byrd
Jose Canseco
Jay Gibbons
Troy Glaus
Jason Grimsley
Jose Guillen
Darren Holmes
Gary Matthews Jr.
John Rocker
Scott Schoeneweis
Ismael Valdez
Matt Williams
Steve Woodard
Benito Santiago
Gary Sheffield
Randy Velarde
Jason Giambi
Jeremy Giambi
Bobby Estalella
Barry Bonds
Marvin Benard
How could you do it – CHEATING!?!?!? My national pastime is RUINED~!
8:15 p.m.
• Denver will beat Houston. I was filling in my kkk Bowl scores so I get a break.
Best Horror Movie: Grindhouse. Honerable mention goes to Zodiac and Bug (which are only sort of horror), 28 Weeks Later, The Mist, 30 Days of Night, and The Host.
Worst Horror Movie: TIE Captivity and Skinwalkers. Honerable mention goes to Unearthed, Hills Have Eyes II, The Hitcher remake, Rise, Blood Hunter, and Hannibal Rising.
Goriest: TIE Planet Terror and Hatchet
Funniest: All the trailers to Grindhouse, especially Werewolf Women of the SS. Honerable mention goes to Severence.
Most Disappointing: Rob Zombie's Halloween. Honerable mention goes to The Last Winter and the adaptation of Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door.
Best Sequal: 28 Weeks Later
Most Cringe Inducuing Moment: Melting balls in Planet Terror. Honerable mention goes to the Belt Sander scene in Hatchet and the castration scene in Hostel II.
Best Cameo: TIE Nicolas Cage in Werewolf Women of the SS and Ruggero Deodtro in Hostel II.
Best Kill Mouth and skull torn apart in Hatchet.
Best Actor: TIE Robert Downey jr., Mark Ruffolo and Jake Gyllanhall in Zodiac. Honerable mention goes to Thomas Jane in The Mist, Kurt Russell in Death Proof, Robert Carlyle in 28 Weeks Later, Danny Huston in 30 Days of Night, Nathan Baesal in Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, Malcolm McDowell in Rob Zombie's Halloween, and Brian Cox in Zodiac.
Best Villain: Marcia Gay Harden in The Mist. Honerable mention goes to Danny Huston in 30 Days of Night, Kurt Russell in Death Proof, and the monster in The Host.
Best Actress Ashley Judd in Bug. Honerable mention goes to Rose McGowan in Planet Terror and Marcia Gay Harden in The Mist.
Best Indie and/or Foreign Movie: The Host. Honerable mention goes to Severence, Mullberry Street, Behind The Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, Hatchet, and The Living and the Dead.
Finally on DVD: From Beyond, Night of the Comet, and Monster Squad.
Look Forward to in 2008: George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead, Dario Argento's The Mother of Tears, Stuart Gordon's Stuck, Cloverfield, Frontier(s), The Lost, Red, HeadER (not a typo btw), The Signal, Inside, and Hellboy II.
9:15 p.m.
• So I’m in a bit of a predicament. A week or so ago I got the James Bond DVDs – all four volumes – and finally got around to opening them up and checking them for quality and all that other stuff. I noticed that in two of the 20 disc cases that some of those little prong thingys are busted off and “Goldeneye” seems to have a noticeable ding. Now do I go back and get these discs exchanged? I don’t buy used DVDs because I don’t trust the viewing quality. CDs and video games are fine. If a used CD has a skipped track, then I just move to the next song. If a movie has a similar malfunction then the whole viewing experience is gone. However, this is America. The land of rugged individualism. It’s not like I didn’t actually pay retail price for these movies. Besides, I fast-forwarded through “Goldeneye” last night and everything was fine. I also moved the two discs from the busted prong holders and put each one on the other prong thingy in each disc case. I don’t really watch special features anyway, so if there was going to be any damage done it would be to those discs.
Now my biggest problem is to decide whether or not to watch these movies in chronological order or by the order in which they are place in each of these four volumes followed by “Casino Royals.” What a quandary. Good thing I don’t have anything else to fret about.
• Peep this.
What I find funny is the dateline to this story: Detroit. Then I read the next paragraph.
Woo-hoo – hometown representin’.
• I was flipping channels tonight and saw that I had the OMGFAUXBIGBIZNESSCHANNELLOL2007~! Whatever. Then I saw who was on -- my n*gga Dave Ramsey. I guess he does an hourlong show 8-9 p.m. Cool beans. I'm gonig to have to remember this is on.
Could you see these bureaucrats trying to tell Muslims or other freedom-haters that they can't burn Old Gloy due to pollution concerns?
Problem with the shorties section, I'm not doing them. There's nothing obscure, and almost everything they're posting defeats the point of reviewing the entire shows that they're on when they get around to putting them up. Unless there's something like Flair/Perfect from the 3rd RAW, I'm not going to review it. That DOES mean I'll be adding Regal/Finlay to whatever else obscure gets put up. Sorry for that, what they're putting up is bugging the shit out of me, and I can barely even get around to watching it.
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First match of 15, is Yokozuna w/Mr. Fuji vs. Kevin Kruger. As I've said, I don't do squashes on the NWA or PTW shows. It ends at 2:something with a Banzai Drop. Sorry for the lack of time, I was caught in la-la-land about something that happened yesterday, and forgot to time it. *.
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Reverend Slick(!) follows this up with a promo. WOW. Haven't seen the Rev. Slick gimmick in a LONG time. Great stuff.
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The 2nd match is Big Bossman vs. Barry Hardy. DOINK THE CLOWN comes to the aisleway, and ties something to the guardrails. Well, Bossman wins after a Bossman Slam at 2:something (again, sorry). He goes to the back after handcuffing Hardy to the bottom rope, and we see what was tied onto the guardrails. It's a TRIPWIRE. I really laughed. Bossman trips over it, and Doink laughs at him. *.
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Bill Koby faces Kamala w/Kimchee and Harvey Wippleman next. The big splash gets the pin at 1:56. Kamala couldn't quite figure out how to pin Koby, so they rolled around on the mat for a good sized portion of the match. RETARDED. DUD. The announcers said that Kamala's been different since losing to the Undertaker at Survivor Series.
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Next up, is Rick "the Model" Martel vs. Brian Costello. Martel has the pink thing goin' here, of course. So, he finishes the match at 3:23, with a Boston Crab. At least he let Costello get some offense in. *1/2.
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Gene Okerlund's at the promo area, and he's talking with the WWF Champion, Bret Hart. Bobby Heenan comes out, and introduces us to two wrestlers. One's Ric Flair. The other is Razor Ramon. And they both attack Bret, until Mr. Perfect comes out, to fend both off. It turns into a wild brawl, which the officials come out to break up. Afterward, we see a promo spot with Flair and Razor. Razor's Cuban accent is overly ridiculous at this point, I'm glad they let him tone it down.
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Jameson comes out to the roundtable with Heenan, Jerry Lawler, Sgt. Slaughter and Hillbilly Jim...we'll skip past that.
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The Nasty Boys take on Chris Allen and Gus Kantarakis next, and of course, Doink comes toward the ring again. The Nasties are babyfaces. I don't quite get that. Anyway, Knobs powerslams Allen, and Sags comes off the top giving Allen an elbowdrop, getting the Nasties the pinfall at 2:19. *1/4. Doink gives both Knobs and Sags a gift, one of the gifts being replica tag team titles, and the other being a picture of Money Inc. and Jimmy Hart. Ok.
After the bout and postmatch, there's an ad for WM IX, from the family entertainment capital of the world, Las Vegas. Now, if you think Vegas is somewhere you should take your family, raise your hand...
I don't think I would either.
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Damien Demento squashes Kerry Davis at 2:13, with a neckbreaker and a kneedrop. During the match, the screen split, and one half showed a promo from Demento. TERRIBLE. DUD. Honestly, that's one of the worst gimmicks, if not the worst that I've ever seen.
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Bam Bam Bigelow defeats Mike Collins, in the next match, after a headbutt from the top rope, at 2:24. You rate squashes like this. If you like the spots used, you rate it well. You don't, it sucks. Simple. *1/2.
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The Undertaker and Paul Bearer are now talking about Nailz. They will make him rest in peace, and all that jazz. Good thing this never went anywhere.
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A YOUNG Louie Spicolli takes on El Matador next. Wow, that was a surprise, Spicolli, that is. Gorilla Monsoon and Lord Alfred Hayes put Yokozuna over HUGE as a threat to win the Royal Rumble. Not too surprising. Santana finishes the match with the Flying Jalapeno, at 2:49. *1/2. I have to say, everyone's entrance music is great.
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Gene Okerlund has the rundown of the Royal Rumble, in which he announces 6 of the participants, in the Royal Rumble, of course. They are Tatanka, Ted DiBiase, the Undertaker, Bob Backlund, Yokozuna, and the Berzerker. The signing of Rick and Scott Steiner gets announced when the roundtable is shown again, and the two new wrestlers hype their match against the Beverly Brothers at the Royal Rumble. I kinda got lost here, but Mrs. Claus is supposed to be coming up to the roundtable soon.
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The first non-squash match is Papa Shango vs. Marty Jannetty. Yay, Papa Shango!
Marty gives Shango an armwringer, and Shango responds with a chokehold. He misses a charge to the corner, but gets a backdrop anyway. Shango then gives Marty THREE elbowdrops, and applies a neckvice. Shango then misses another charge, and Marty beats him up a bit, until Shawn Michaels makes an appearance. Marty gives Shango a backdrop, but as Marty's distracted by Shawn, Shango gives him an axhandle to the back. Marty gives him two dropkicks, which put Shango on the floor, and then, Marty goes up top, and gives Shango a missile dropkick. Yes, from the top to the floor. Marty begins to chase after Shawn, and gives Shawn a hurricanrana in the aisleway. Unfortunately, he also loses the bout by countout, at 4:43. *, and only for Marty's missile dropkick.
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Razor Ramon faces __________ next. No, the name of the other wrestler was not given, and it'll be impossible to find it. Anyway, he finishes the guy with a Razor's Edge at 2:47. The squashes here are of the short variety, making them good. *1/2. Razor abuses jobbers.
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Mrs. Claus shows up on set, and gives Bobby Heenan a Jameson mug, because Heenan's been naughty. Heenan tells her that he can show her where they keep her misteltoe, and as they go off set, standing under the misteltoe, she slaps Heenan. Heh.
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The Bushwhackers then come out, and pass out gifts, dressed up as Santa Claus. How sweet.
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Skinner's next, facing Bob Backlund. Have I ever mentioned how much I like Skinner?
Both men go on the mat and wrestle, until Bob Backlund gets the best. He takes down Skinner, so Skinner ducks under the top rope, to stall. Skinner gives Backlund a headlock, and Backlund responds with a droptoehold. Backlund wins the TEST OF STRENGTH, and takes Skinner to the canvas. Backlund gives Skinner an atomic drop, but Skinner rolls him up, only getting 1. Skinner slams Backlund, but Backlund rolls Skinner up for the win at 3:42. I really would like to see a match between these two, with more time, of course. *1/4.
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Lavern McGill and Chris Hawn take on Money Inc. w/Jimmy Hart (WWF Tag Team Champions) in a non-title match, and the Million Dollar Dream finishes things up at 2:36. *1/4. The Nasties came on the split-screen during the bout, and said they want Jimmy Hart's head, along with the Tag Titles.
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Crush faces Dark Destiny next. WHO? The HEAD CRUSH finishes the bout at 2:56. *.
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Next up, is GILLBERG vs. The Undertaker w/Paul Bearer. It's just Dwayne Gill, but who cares. It'll always be Gillberg to me. The TOMBSTONE PILEDRIVER finishes at 1:53, and Taker puts Gill in a bodybag. *.
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The Headshrinkers w/Afa take on Matthew Williams and David Morgan next. Doink comes out, and hits a child on the head with a rubber mallet. Kinda funny. Samu finishes the bout after a diving headbutt from the top, at 2:16. At least all the squashes have been short. *.
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Lastly, Vince McMahon talks about the debut of MONDAY NIGHT RAW on January 11th. We'll be seeing that next month on WWE 24/7. Afterward, we go to a Bret Hart promo, talking to, well, who else but.......SANTA CLAUS. All Bret wants for Christmas is to be able to face the best in the World Wrestling Federation.
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Show's over.
Rating: Poor. The non-squashes weren't too great, so the show wasn't either. I'm glad I got to see so many matches, though. That's a positive.
Best Segment: Razor and Flair attacking Bret, until Perfect made the save.
Worst Segment: Damien Demento. Simple as that.
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Ok, I'll do Tribute to the Troops '06 next. I'm interested to see that one.
Best Poster: Czech. He cracks me up, and while we may not always see eye to eye, is the best we have here. Plus he gives me albums sometimes. Honerable mention goes to Slayer, Coat is my Father, and Venkman.
Worst Poster: Douchebag aka Deon. A dumb motherfucker who is worthless in every way imaginable-and in some ways unimaginable. Honerable mention goes to Carlito Brigante, razazteca, Marvinisalunatic, VanHalen, C-Bacon, Jingus (at least in the CE folder), Matt Young, and Cheesalaisgood.
Best Thread: Carlito's gonna be a daddy. A goldmine of comedy-or at least comic potential. Honerable mention goes to Pitctures I like, best album of 2007, and Campaign 2008 begins.
Worst Thread: Deon ruins two lives, which deserves no further explaination. Honerable metion goes to the Chris Benoit Thread, any thread started by C-Bacon, Cheesalaisgood posting a conspiratorial "documentary", the "Boycott TNA" thread, Matt Young's cock (Matt can be a creepy bastard), and the thread where I acted like a bitch when Inc insulted me.
Best Bud: Lushus. You the man!
Best Sig: Czech.
Welcome back: Milky returned, giving us more um, interesting looks at his life and looks at the world.
Farewell: Kotz left, and I miss the guy. Leena left, and I don't miss her-and I still don't care about her. Masked Man of Mystery seems to be gone as well. I miss Special K.
Best New Feature: TSM chat. I enjoy chatting it up every Monday with Invader3K, Lushus, Hawk, and Downhome.
Travis Fryman - Third Baseman
Detroit Tigers 1990-1997
Cleveland Indians 1998-2002
Awards
1992 A.L. Silver Slugger - SS
2000 A.L. Gold Glove - 3B
All-Star Selections: 5 (1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 2000)
League Leader
None of note
Career Ranks
None of note
Best Performance
July 28, 1993 - New York at Detroit
Hit for the cycle (5 for 5, 4 RBI) although in a losing effort against the Yankees.
Hall of Fame Stats
Black Ink: Batting - 2 (582) (Average HOFer ≈ 27)
Gray Ink: Batting - 20 (991) (Average HOFer ≈ 144)
HOF Standards: Batting - 26.4 (371) (Average HOFer ≈ 50)
HOF Monitor: Batting - 36.0 (491) (Likely HOFer > 100)
Similar Batters in HOF: None
Top 10 Similar Batters: Ken Caminiti, Bret Boone, Vern Stephens, Miguel Tejada, Larry Parrish, Benito Santiago, Doug DeCinces, Gus Bell, Richie Hebner, Bobby Grich
Year-by-Year Win Shares & Wins Above Replacement Level (WARP3)
1990: 8/3.6
1991: 17/4.3
1992: 19/9.0
1993: 28/9.7
1994: 15/6.4
1995: 19/9.4
1996: 17/8.1
1997: 17/7.8
1998: 18/6.6
1999: 7/1.8
2000: 22/6.8
2001: 5/0.1
2002: 7/0.8
Career Win Shares: 198
Career WARP3: 74.4
My Stupid Opinion
He was to be the heir apparent to Alan Trammell at shortstop in Detroit but eventually ended up at hot the corner where he became a very good defensive third baseman. Outside of an outstanding 1993 season at age 24 he never quite became the offensive threat some thought he would be but was a very solid, consistent performer through out the decade. Nagging injuries cut his career short at age 33.
8:15 p.m.
• So this past weekend was pretty big one for me. After all, I got a new job that I will begin at the start of the year. Sure something may fall through and then you'll get several months of me pissing and moaning even more than usual about this topic. But I'm not that cynical (or so you think). Anyway, Swift Terror made a post in Sunday's entry in which I talked about my new soon-to-be-place of employment. He said, "now it's time for PS3 or XBOX 360...more takehome cash = electronic toys."
Not so fast.
First off, this may be odd but I'm actually content with my PS2 and the games I have. Perhaps I hit my peak with video game tastes because the new consoles don't seem to be worth the price. Then again, I'm not in the mood to shell out several hundred dollars on a new video game system when I'm perfectly content playing Madden '05, NCAA Football '05 and Star Wars Battlefront games. I must note however that this may be changing because the last two games I played on NCAA Football the disc has frozen on me. Grr. At least when I simmed these contests my team won (as it should have because I won my OT game against Wake Forest and was leading by 10 with another scoring drive in the works against UConn in the fourth quarter). But I digress.
This new job won't be much more pay than where I work now, but that's not the reason I'm switching jobs. I'm doing so because the place I work at now is a complete and utter shithole to work at and I need out. However, this new job isn't the only big news I got this weekend, and today's visit to the doctor only confirmed the kkk household's suspicions.
Unless God does a quality check and realizes what he let slip through (it's still the first trimester), I'm going to be a...
...do I need to say anything more?
A prequel to the excellent TV mini-series "Lonesome Dove" is finally coming to network television in a few weeks. It was filmed a couple years ago and has bounced around in limbo ever since. The title is "Comanche Moon". This is based on the novel by the same author as Lonesome Dove. I saw the previews and I'm afraid this may suck royally. Why? Well, anyone who knows anything about Lonesome Dove knows that the success of the original was due to the great characters of Gus and Woodrow Call. They are the central figures in the story.
So I'm watching the previews--I've seen two different versions--and between the two of them, the character of Gus appears for about 3 seconds and Call does not appear at all. I believe this is because the two actors playing the parts are awful. Awful casting that is, they may be fine actors otherwise. The guy playing Gus, Steve Zahn, (Gus is a hard-ass Texas Ranger of the old west, a traditional western badass) is the same guy who has played such goofball roles as the boyfriend in "Riding in Cars with Boys", Marvin in "Daddy Day Care", and Phoebe's husband on "Friends".
Am I being unfair by type-casting the guy? Maybe, but by any reckoning this is poor casting. I've read the book "Comanche Moon" and lest you think that maybe Gus and Call are not the central figures in the story, I'm here to tell you that they are indeed the most important characters. They are the reason for writing the book; it follows their early career as young Texas Rangers. But of course I'll sit my ass down and watch the whole darn thing anyway. Actually I'll DVR it because it is airing right in the middle of the primetime college bowl games. This is another red flag as to why I fear this will suck--why would CBS air it opposite BCS bowl games unless they are trying to hide it?. The demographic for this series is mainly men 18-50. Precisely the same demographic for college bowl games. I'll report back once I've seen it and admit my error if indeed it turns out to be excellent
How do you make a slasher flick with potential a bad movie? When you are WWE Films.
First things first: See No Evil is not the first movie WWE films produced, in spite of what some will tell you. It was actually co-producer of Scorpian King and The Rundown (the latter a pretty damn good action flick). It is the first though, in movies that had potential to be to be a watchable B-Movie, but somehow manages to fuck it all up.
The plot: A group of juvenile delinquents who you don't really give two shits about have to clean up an "abandoned" hotel, only to run into a reclusive psychopath with mommy-issues named Jacob Goodnight (played by Glenn "Kane" Jacobs), who proceeds to knock them off. Oh, and he loves gouging out his victims eyes (hence the title, which is essentialy a bad pun. Better than the previous title of Eye Scream Man, though the thought of Kane as a killer ice cream man is amusing. Hell, he was a dentist.)
While there's some decent kills (including a nice bit with a cellphone), the movie also manages to get this right: sleaze. The flick oozes with the kind of seedy vibe found in late 70's and 80's era exploitation movies. Unfortunately, Jacob is not exactly a very threatening villain, as he's just another stock slasher with mother issues. Oh, and we get to see him punish the pope. Yep, Vince McMahon was involved with it!
Another problem is the filming style. The whole thing, directed by former porn director Gregory Dark (he of New Wave Hookers and White Bun Busters fame) feels more like Saw lite instead of a slasher movie. What could have been a fun throwback to 70's and 80's slasher flicks like The Toolbox Murders and The Slayer ends up being another hyper edited, annoying horror flick. In short: Once again WWE films fails, only here it's for the first time.
Oh, and no Vince, people do not want to see Kane spank it.
Rating: 3 out of 10.
Oh, yes. This is EXACTLY the sort of stuff I love to see the Texas Legislature get involved with...
Link
I have Comcast. I can get NFL Network if I want. I choose not to. Why? Because I don't think it's worth paying $7.95 a month for what amounts to eight (mostly crappy) regular season games and expanded combine/draft coverage (something we already get enough of thanks to ESPN and the bajillion draft websites that exist).
Would I watch the NFL Network if it were on basic cable? Yeah, probably, at least from time to time. Do I want the cable companies to be forced to put NFL Network on their basic packages, thus causing my cable bill to go up a couple of dollars a month? Hell no. Do the thousands of people that have no interest in the NFL at all want to pay that extra couple dollars a month? Definitely not.
There is no way that Comcast and their money-grubbing brethren should be forced to carry the NFL Network on their basic package. Not when the NFL wants an insane $0.70 per subscriber from the cable companies (more than CNN charges) that would just raise everyone's rates, and definitely not when there is no overwhelming public demand for the NFL Network. If that tide shifts one day and the public is suddenly in favor of the NFL Network being widely available, sure, bring it on. Until that happens though, keep the NFL Network exactly where it is. As with nearly everything else in this country, the market will dictate what should happen. Certainly there shouldn't be any legislation on this under any circumstance.
I found this page on Yahoo, and thought I'd share. When I get time, I'll try to add 40-point games into the list.
1948-49
2/10/49 - Joe Fulks, 63, Philadelphia Warriors vs Indianapolis Jets
2/26/49 - George Mikan, 53, Minneapolis Lakers vs Baltimore Bullets
3/13/49 - George Mikan (2), 51, Minneapolis Lakers vs New York Knicks
1949-50
1/14/50 - George Mikan (3), 51, Minneapolis Lakers vs Rochester Royals
1951-52
1/20/52 - George Mikan (4), 61, Minneapolis Lakers vs Rochester Royals (2OT)
1953-54
2/16/54 - Neil Johnston, 50, Philadelphia Warriors vs Syracuse Nationals
1957-58
12/21/57 - Bob Pettit, 51, St. Louis Hawks vs Syracuse Nationals
1/15/58 - George Yardley, 51, Detroit Pistons vs Boston Celtics
2/4/58 - George Yardley (2), 52, Detroit Pistons vs Syracuse Nationals
1958-59
1/11/59 - Bob Pettit (2), 50, St. Louis Hawks vs Detroit Pistons
1/20/59 - Bob Pettit (3), 52, St. Louis Hawks vs Boston Celtics
2/1/59 - Dolph Schayes, 50, Syracuse Nationals vs Boston Celtics
2/25/59 - Elgin Baylor, 55, Minneapolis Lakers vs Cincinnati Royals
2/25/59 - Jack Twyman, 50, Cincinnati Royals vs St. Louis Hawks
1959-60
10/18/59 - Elgin Baylor (2), 52, Minneapolis Lakers vs Detroit Pistons
11/8/59 - Elgin Baylor (3), 64, Minneapolis Lakers vs Boston Celtics
11/12/59 - Wilt Chamberlain, 55, Philadelphia Warriors vs Cincinnati Royals
12/11/59 - Richie Guerin, 57, New York Knicks vs Syracuse Nationals
1/15/60 - Jack Twyman (2), 59, Cincinnati Royals vs Minneapolis Lakers
1/25/60 - Wilt Chamberlain (2), 58, Philadelphia Warriors vs Detroit Pistons
2/21/60 - Wilt Chamberlain (3), 58, Philadelphia Warriors @ New York Knicks
2/23/60 - Wilt Chamberlain (4), 53, Philadelphia Warriors vs Boston Celtics
1960-61
11/15/60 - Elgin Baylor (4), 71, Los Angeles Lakers @ New York Knicks
11/25/60 - Elgin Baylor (5), 51, Los Angeles Lakers vs Detroit Pistons
1/2/61 - Wilt Chamberlain (5), 56, Philadelphia Warriors vs New York Knicks
1/5/61 - Wilt Chamberlain (6), 56, Philadelphia Warriors vs Syracuse Nationals
1/21/61 - Wilt Chamberlain (7), 56, Philadelphia Warriors vs Los Angeles Lakers
1/24/61 - Elgin Baylor (6), 56, Los Angeles Lakers vs Syracuse Nationals
2/3/61 - Wilt Chamberlain (8), 52, Philadelphia Warriors vs Cincinnati Royals
2/5/61 - Wilt Chamberlain (9), 55, Philadelphia Warriors vs New York Knicks
2/16/61 - Elgin Baylor (7), 57, Los Angeles Lakers @ Detroit Pistons
2/18/61 - Bob Pettit (4), 57, St. Louis Hawks @ Detroit Pistons
2/25/61 - Wilt Chamberlain (10), 58, Philadelphia Warriors @ Cincinnati Royals
3/1/61 - Wilt Chamberlain (11), 56, Philadelphia Warriors @ Syracuse Nationals
3/9/61 - Wilt Chamberlain (12), 67, Philadelphia Warriors vs New York Knicks
1961-62
10/20/61 - Wilt Chamberlain (13), 57, Philadelphia Warriors vs Los Angeles Lakers
10/21/61 - Wilt Chamberlain (14), 53, Philadelphia Warriors vs New York Knicks
10/27/61 - Wilt Chamberlain (15), 55, Philadelphia Warriors vs Syracuse Nationals
11/4/61 - Wilt Chamberlain (16), 58, Philadelphia Warriors vs Detroit Pistons
11/8/61 - Wilt Chamberlain (17), 58, Philadelphia Warriors @ Detroit Pistons
11/9/61 - Wilt Chamberlain (18), 55, Philadelphia Warriors vs Syracuse Nationals
11/17/61 - Wilt Chamberlain (19), 56, Philadelphia Warriors vs Los Angeles Lakers
11/19/61 - Wilt Chamberlain (20), 51, Philadelphia Warriors vs Chicago Packers
12/1/61 - Wilt Chamberlain (21), 60, Philadelphia Warriors @ Los Angeles Lakers
12/4/61 - Elgin Baylor (8), 50, Los Angeles Lakers vs Syracuse Nationals
12/6/61 - Bob Pettit (5), 51, St. Louis Hawks vs Philadelphia Warriors
12/8/61 - Wilt Chamberlain (22), 78, Philadelphia Warriors vs Los Angeles Lakers (3OT)
12/8/61 - Elgin Baylor (9), 63, Los Angeles Lakers @ Philadelphia Warriors (3OT)
12/8/61 - Elgin Baylor (10), 52, Los Angeles Lakers @ Philadelphia Warriors
12/9/61 - Wilt Chamberlain (23), 61, Philadelphia Warriors vs Chicago Packers
12/11/61 - Elgin Baylor (11), 52, Los Angeles Lakers vs St. Louis Hawks
12/12/61 - Wilt Chamberlain (24), 54, Philadelphia Warriors vs Detroit Pistons
12/13/61 - Wilt Chamberlain (25), 52, Philadelphia Warriors vs Boston Celtics
12/13/61 - Elgin Baylor (12), 52, Los Angeles Lakers vs St. Louis Hawks
12/16/61 - Wilt Chamberlain (26), 50, Philadelphia Warriors vs Chicago Packers
12/19/61 - Wilt Chamberlain (27), 57, Philadelphia Warriors @ Cincinnati Royals
12/20/61 - Wilt Chamberlain (28), 55, Philadelphia Warriors vs Detroit Pistons
12/23/61 - Wilt Chamberlain (29), 53, Philadelphia Warriors vs New York Knicks
12/25/61 - Wilt Chamberlain (30), 59, Philadelphia Warriors @ New York Knicks (2OT)
12/26/61 - Wilt Chamberlain (31), 51, Philadelphia Warriors vs Syracuse Nationals
12/29/61 - Wilt Chamberlain (32), 60, Philadelphia Warriors vs Los Angeles Lakers
1/5/62 - Wilt Chamberlain (33), 53, Philadelphia Warriors vs St. Louis Hawks
1/7/62 - Wilt Chamberlain (34), 55, Philadelphia Warriors vs St. Louis Hawks
1/11/62 - Wilt Chamberlain (35), 52, Philadelphia Warriors vs Cincinnati Royals
1/13/62 - Wilt Chamberlain (36), 73, Philadelphia Warriors vs Chicago Packers
1/14/62 - Wilt Chamberlain (37), 62, Philadelphia Warriors @ Boston Celtics
1/17/62 - Jerry West, 63, Los Angeles Lakers vs New York Knicks
1/17/62 - Wilt Chamberlain (38), 62, Philadelphia Warriors vs St. Louis Hawks (OT)
1/18/62 - Wilt Chamberlain (39), 54, Philadelphia Warriors vs Cincinnati Royals
1/19/62 - Wilt Chamberlain (40), 53, Philadelphia Warriors vs Detroit Pistons
1/21/62 - Wilt Chamberlain (41), 62, Philadelphia Warriors @ Syracuse Nationals (OT)
1/24/62 - Wilt Chamberlain (42), 55, Philadelphia Warriors vs Chicago Packers
1/27/62 - Wilt Chamberlain (43), 53, Philadelphia Warriors vs Boston Celtics
1/30/62 - Wilt Chamberlain (44), 55, Philadelphia Warriors vs New York Knicks
2/1/62 - Wilt Chamberlain (45), 53, Philadelphia Warriors vs Cincinnati Royals
2/8/62 - Wilt Chamberlain (46), 59, Philadelphia Warriors vs New York Knicks
2/11/62 - Cliff Hagan, 55, St. Louis Hawks vs Cincinnati Royals
2/13/62 - Wilt Chamberlain (47), 65, Philadelphia Warriors @ Cincinnati Royals
2/14/62 - Richie Guerin (2), 52, New York Knicks vs Boston Celtics
2/17/62 - Wilt Chamberlain (48), 67, Philadelphia Warriors @ St. Louis Hawks
2/22/62 - Wilt Chamberlain (49), 61, Philadelphia Warriors vs St. Louis Hawks
2/25/62 - Wilt Chamberlain (50), 67, Philadelphia Warriors vs New York Knicks
2/27/62 - Wilt Chamberlain (51), 65, Philadelphia Warriors @ St. Louis Hawks
2/28/62 - Wilt Chamberlain (52), 61, Philadelphia Warriors @ Chicago Packers
3/2/62 - Wilt Chamberlain (53), 100, Philadelphia Warriors vs New York Knicks
3/4/62 - Wilt Chamberlain (54), 58, Philadelphia Warriors @ New York Knicks
1962-63
10/23/62 - Wilt Chamberlain (55), 56, San Francisco Warriors vs Detroit Pistons
10/28/62 - Wilt Chamberlain (56), 53, San Francisco Warriors vs Cincinnati Royals
10/30/62 - Wilt Chamberlain (57), 59, San Francisco Warriors vs New York Knicks
11/3/62 - Wilt Chamberlain (58), 72, San Francisco Warriors @ Los Angeles Lakers
11/9/62 - Wilt Chamberlain (59), 54, San Francisco Warriors vs Chicago Zephyrs
11/10/62 - Wilt Chamberlain (60), 57, San Francisco Warriors vs Chicago Zephyrs
11/16/62 - Wilt Chamberlain (61), 73, San Francisco Warriors @ New York Knicks
11/18/62 - Wilt Chamberlain (62), 59, San Fancisco Warriors @ Cincinnati Royals
11/21/62 - Wilt Chamberlain (63), 61, San Francisco Warriors vs Cincinnati Royals
11/23/62 - Wilt Chamberlain (64), 53, San Francisco Warriors vs Los Angeles Lakers
11/29/62 - Wilt Chamberlain (65), 53, San Francisco Warriors vs St. Louis Hawks
12/2/62 - Wilt Chamberlain (66), 59, San Francisco Warriors vs St. Louis Hawks
12/7/62 - Wilt Chamberlain (67), 51, San Francisco Warriors vs Detroit Pistons
12/11/62 - Wilt Chamberlain (68), 61, San Francisco Warriors vs Syracuse Nationals
12/14/62 - Wilt Chamberlain (69), 63, San Francisco Warriors vs Los Angeles Lakers
12/14/62 - Elgin Baylor (13), 51, Los Angeles Lakers vs San Francisco Warriors
12/15/62 - Elgin Baylor (14), 52, Los Angeles Lakers vs San Francisco Warriors
12/18/62 - Wilt Chamberlain (70), 61, San Francisco Warriors vs St. Louis Hawks
12/21/62 - Wilt Chamberlain (71), 52, San Francisco Warriors vs Detroit Pistons
1/11/63 - Wilt Chamberlain (72), 67, San Francisco Warriors vs Los Angeles Lakers
1/24/63 - Wilt Chamberlain (73), 58, San Francisco Warriors vs Detroit Pistons
1/29/63 - Wilt Chamberlain (74), 62, San Francisco Warriors @ New York Knicks
2/7/63 - Wilt Chamberlain (75), 56, San Francisco Warriors @ Cincinnati Royals
2/13/63 - Wilt Chamberlain (76), 51, San Francisco Warriors vs Detroit Pistons
2/16/63 - Wilt Chamberlain (77), 56, San Francisco Warriors @ Los Angeles Lakers (2OT)
3/1/63 - Wilt Chamberlain (78), 54, San Francisco Warriors vs Cincinnati Royals
3/6/63 - Wilt Chamberlain (79), 51, San Francisco Warriors vs Chicago Zephyrs
3/8/63 - Wilt Chamberlain (80), 51, San Francisco Warriors vs Detroit Pistons
3/10/63 - Wilt Chamberlain (81), 70, San Francisco Warriors @ Syracuse Nationals
1963-64
11/2/63 - Wilt Chamberlain (82), 55, San Francisco Warriors vs Los Angeles Lakers
11/16/63 - Bob Pettit (6), 52, St. Louis Hawks vs Baltimore Bullets
12/6/63 - Wilt Chamberlain (83), 59, San Francisco Warriors vs Los Angeles Lakers
1/28/64 - Wilt Chamberlain (84), 59, San Francisco Warriors @ Philadelphia 76ers
2/11/64 - Wilt Chamberlain (85), 59, San Francisco Warriors @ Detroit Pistons (OT)
2/17/64 - Wilt Chamberlain (86), 52, San Francisco Warriors vs Cincinnati Royals
2/18/64 - Wilt Chamberlain (87), 52, San Francisco Warriors vs Detroit Pistons
2/25/64 - Wilt Chamberlain (88), 52, San Francisco Warriors vs Cincinnati Royals
3/14/64 - Wilt Chamberlain (89), 55, San Francisco Warriors vs Los Angeles Lakers
1964-65
11/6/64 - Wilt Chamberlain (90), 52, San Francisco Warriors vs New York Knicks
11/12/64 - Wilt Chamberlain (91), 53, San Francisco Warriors vs Detroit Pistons
11/15/64 - Wilt Chamberlain (92), 62, San Francisco Warriors @ Cincinnati Royals
11/26/64 - Wilt Chamberlain (93), 63, San Francisco Warriors @ Philadelphia 76ers
12/1/64 - Wilt Chamberlain (94), 56, San Francisco Warriors vs Baltimore Bullets (2OT)
12/15/64 - Wilt Chamberlain (95), 58, San Francisco Warriors @ New York Knicks (OT)
12/18/64 - Oscar Robertson, 56, Cincinnati Royals vs Los Angeles Lakers
1/3/65 - Wilt Chamberlain (96), 53, San Francisco Warriors vs Baltimore Bullets
1/29/65 - Jerry West (2), 53, Los Angeles Lakers vs Cincinnati Royals
3/14/65 - Wilt Chamberlain (97), 51, Philadelphia 76ers vs Baltimore Bullets
1965-66
10/29/65 - Sam Jones, 51, Boston Celtics vs Detroit Pistons
12/3/65 - Jerry West (3), 51, Los Angeles Lakers vs Cincinnati Royals
12/10/65 - Jerry West (4), 51, Los Angeles Lakers vs Cincinnati Royals
12/14/65 - Rick Barry, 57, San Francisco Warriors @ New York Knicks
2/7/66 - Wilt Chamberlain (98), 65, Philadelphia 76ers vs Los Angeles Lakers
3/3/66 - Wilt Chamberlain (99), 62, Philadelphia 76ers vs San Francisco Warriors
1966-67
10/29/66 - Rick Barry (2), 57, San Francisco Warriors @ Cincinnati Royals
12/25/66 - Rick Barry (3), 50, San Francisco Warriors vs Cincinnati Royals
1/14/67 - Rick Barry (4), 50, San Francisco Warriors vs Detroit Pistons
2/13/67 - Wilt Chamberlain (100), 58, Philadelphia 76ers vs Cincinnati Royals
2/14/67 - Rick Barry (5), 50, San Francisco Warriors vs Boston Celtics
2/16/67 - Rick Barry (6), 52, San Francisco Warriors vs Chicago Bulls
1967-68
12/1/67 - Wilt Chamberlain (101), 52, Philadelphia 76ers vs Seattle Supersonics
12/16/67 - Wilt Chamberlain (102), 68, Philadelphia 76ers @ Chicago Bulls
12/20/67 - Wilt Chamberlain (103), 53, Philadelphia 76ers vs Seattle Supersonics
2/13/68 - Earl Monroe, 56, Baltimore Bullets vs Los Angeles Lakers (OT)
3/18/68 - Wilt Chamberlain (104), 53, Philadelphia 76ers vs Los Angeles Lakers
1968-69
11/13/68 - Elvin Hayes, 54, San Diego Rockets vs Detroit Pistons
1/26/69 - Wilt Chamberlain (105), 60, Los Angeles Lakers vs Cincinnati Royals
2/9/69 - Wilt Chamberlain (106), 66, Los Angeles Lakers vs Phoenix Suns
1970-71
11/4/70 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 53, Milwaukee Bucks vs Cleveland Cavaliers
11/20/70 - Elvin Hayes (2), 50, San Diego Rockets vs Seattle Supersonics
1/21/71 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (2), 53, Milwaukee Bucks vs Boston Celtics
2/19/71 - Walt Wesley, 50, Cleveland Cavaliers vs Cincinnati Royals
2/21/71 - Dave Bing, 54, Detroit Pistons vs Chicago Bulls
1971-72
12/10/71 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (3), 55, Milwaukee Bucks vs Boston Celtics
1/16/72 - Pete Maravich, 50, Atlanta Hawks vs Philadelphia 76ers
2/5/72 - Pete Maravich (2), 50, Atlanta Hawks vs Cleveland Cavaliers
2/6/72 - Chet Walker, 56, Chicago Bulls vs Cincinnati Royals
2/9/72 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (4), 53, Milwaukee Bucks vs Cleveland Cavaliers
2/13/72 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (5), 51, Milwaukee Bucks vs Boston Celtics
3/17/72 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (6), 50, Milwaukee Bucks vs Los Angeles Lakers
2/18/72 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (7), 53, Milwaukee Bucks vs Philadelphia 76ers
2/23/72 - Nate Archibald, 55, Cincinnati Royals vs Portland Trailblazers
1972-73
11/8/72 - Nate Archibald (2), 51, KC-Omaha Kings vs Houston Rockets
12/6/72 - Phil Chenier, 53, Baltimore Bullets vs Portland Trailblazers
1/3/73 - Spencer Haywood, 51, Seattle Supersonics vs KC-Omaha Kings
1/9/73 - Nate Archibald (3), 52, KC-Omaha Kings vs New York Knicks
1/17/73 - Rick Barry (7), 51, Golden State Warriors vs Houston Rockets
1/20/73 - Geoff Petrie, 51, Portland Trailblazers vs Houston Rockets
1/27/73 - Nate Archibald (4), 52, KC-Omaha Kings vs Atlanta Hawks
3/16/73 - Geoff Petrie (2), 51, Portland Trailblazers vs Houston Rockets
This list is incomplete, because Wilt retired after this season, and he is officially recorded as having 118 50-point games. And we've only got 106 here.
1973-74
2/22/74 - Bob McAdoo, 52, Buffalo Braves vs Boston Celtics
2/23/74 - Rick Barry (8), 51, Golden State Warriors vs Philadelphia 76ers
3/23/74 - Fred Brown, 58, Seattle Supersonics @ Golden State Warriors
3/26/74 - Rick Barry (9), 64, Golden State Warriors vs Portland Trailblazers
1974-75
1/2/75 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (8), 52, Milwaukee Bucks vs Atlanta Hawks
1/23/75 - Rick Barry (10), 55, Golden State Warriors vs Philadelphia 76ers
2/22/75 - Bob McAdoo (2), 51, Buffalo Braves vs Houston Rockets
3/26/75 - Gail Goodrich, 53, Los Angeles Lakers vs KC-Omaha Kings
1975-76
11/20/75 - Bob McAdoo (3), 50, Buffalo Braves vs Cleveland Cavaliers (OT)
1/8/76 - Phil Smith, 51, Golden State Warriors vs Phoenix Suns
3/17/76 - Bob McAdoo (4), 52, Buffalo Braves vs Seattle Supersonics
1976-77
12/11/76 - Phil Smith (2), 51, Golden State Warriors vs Houston Rockets
12/14/76 - Pete Maravich (3), 51, New Orleans Jazz vs Kansas City Kings
12/26/76 - Pete Maravich (4), 50, New Orleans Jazz vs Washington Bullets
2/25/77 - Pete Maravich (5), 68, New Orleans Jazz vs New York Knicks
3/18/77 - Pete Maravich (6), 51, New Orleans Jazz vs Phoenix Suns
1977-78
10/29/77 - Rick Barry (11), 51, Golden State Warriors vs Philadelphia 76ers
3/18/78 - Calvin Murphy, 57, Houston Rockets vs New Jersey Nets
3/25/78 - Rick Barry (12), 55, Golden State Warriors vs New York Knicks
4/4/78 - John Williamson, 50, New Jersey Nets vs Indiana Pacers
4/9/78 - David Thompson, 73, Denver Nuggets @ Detroit Pistons
4/9/78 - George Gervin, 63, San Antonio Spurs @ New Orleans Jazz
1978-79
11/21/78 - Truck Robinson, 51, New Orleans Jazz vs New Jersey Nets
12/30/78 - John Drew, 50, Atlanta Hawks vs Denver Nuggets
1/11/79 - George Gervin (2), 52, San Antonio Spurs vs San Diego Clippers
1979-80
11/27/79 - Adrian Dantley, 50, Utah Jazz vs Los Angeles Lakers
12/16/79 - Mike Newlin, 52, New Jersey Nets vs Boston Celtics (OT)
1/8/80 - George Gervin (3), 53, San Antonio Spurs vs Denver Nuggets
1/19/80 - Freeman Williams, 51, San Diego Clippers @ Phoenix Suns
1/23/80 - George Gervin (4), 55, San Antonio Spurs @ Atlanta Hawks
3/30/80 - Larry Kenon, 51, San Antonio Spurs vs Detroit Pistons
1980-81
10/31/80 - Adrian Dantley (2), 50, Utah Jazz vs Dallas Mavericks
11/11/80 - Billy Knight, 52, Indiana Pacers @ San Antonio Spurs
1/3/81 - Bernard King, 50, Golden State Warriors vs Philadelphia 76ers
1/7/81 - Adrian Dantley (3), 51, Utah Jazz @ Denver Nuggets
2/6/81 - Adrian Dantley (4), 55, Utah Jazz vs Denver Nuggets
3/11/81 - Moses Malone, 51, Houston Rockets vs Golden State Warriors
1981-82
2/2/82 - Moses Malone (2), 53, Houston Rockets vs San Diego Clippers
3/6/82 - George Gervin (5), 50, San Antonio Spurs vs Milwaukee Bucks (3OT)
4/10/82 - Adrian Dantley (5), 53, Utah Jazz vs Denver Nuggets
4/17/82 - Ray Williams, 52, New Jersey Nets @ Detroit Pistons
1982-83
12/4/82 - Adrian Dantley (6), 57, Utah Jazz vs Chicago Bulls
1/19/83 - Kelly Tripucka, 56, Detroit Pistons vs Chicago Bulls
3/5/83 - Joe Barry Carroll, 52, Golden State Warriors vs Utah Jazz
3/30/83 - Larry Bird, 53, Boston Celtics vs Indiana Pacers
1983-84
12/13/83 - Kiki Vandeweghe, 51, Denver Nuggets vs Detroit Pistons (3OT)
1/7/84 - Purvis Short, 57, Golden State Warriors vs San Antonio Spurs
1/11/84 - Kiki Vandeweghe (2), 50, Denver Nuggets vs San Antonio Spurs
1/31/84 - Bernard King (2), 50, New York Knicks @ San Antonio Spurs
2/1/84 - Bernard King (3), 50, New York Knicks @ Dallas Mavericks
1984-85
11/14/84 - Moses Malone (3), 51, Philadelphia 76ers vs Detroit Pistons (OT)
11/17/84 - Purvis Short (2), 59, Golden State Warriors vs New Jersey Nets
11/24/84 - Bernard King (4), 52, New York Knicks vs Indiana Pacers
12/25/84 - Bernard King (5), 60, New York Knicks vs New Jersey Nets
2/16/85 - Bernard King (6), 55, New York Knicks vs New Jersey Nets
3/3/85 - Kevin McHale, 56, Boston Celtics vs Detroit Pistons
3/12/85 - Larry Bird (2), 60, Boston Celtics vs Atlanta Hawks
1985-86
11/19/85 - Alex English, 54, Denver Nuggets vs Houston Rockets
3/10/86 - Larry Bird (3), 50, Boston Celtics @ Dallas Mavericks
4/10/86 - Dominique Wilkins, 57, Atlanta Hawks vs New Jersey Nets
1986-87
11/1/86 - Michael Jordan, 50, Chicago Bulls @ New York Knicks
12/10/86 - Dominique Wilkins (2), 57, Atlanta Hawks vs Chicago Bulls
1/8/87 - Michael Jordan (2), 53, Chicago Bulls vs Portland Trailblazers
1/12/87 - Dominique Wilkins (3), 53, Atlanta Hawks vs Los Angeles Clippers
2/26/87 - Michael Jordan (3), 58, Chicago Bulls vs New Jersey Nets
3/3/87 - Dominique Wilkins (4), 54, Atlanta Hawks vs Boston Celtics (OT)
3/4/87 - Michael Jordan (4), 61, Chicago Bulls @ Detroit Pistons (OT)
3/24/87 - Michael Jordan (5), 56, Chicago Bulls vs Philadelphia 76ers
4/8/87 - Moses Malone (4), 50, Washington Bullets @ New Jersey Nets
4/12/87 - Michael Jordan (6), 53, Chicago Bulls vs Indiana Pacers
4/13/87 - Michael Jordan (7), 50, Chicago Bulls @ Milwaukee Bucks
4/16/87 - Michael Jordan (8), 61, Chicago Bulls vs Atlanta Hawks
1987-88
12/17/87 - Michael Jordan (9), 52, Chicago Bulls vs Cleveland Cavaliers
2/16/88 - Dominique Wilkins (5), 51, Atlanta Hawks vs Sacramento Kings
2/26/88 - Michael Jordan (10), 52, Chicago Bulls vs Portland Trailblazers
3/1/88 - Dominique Wilkins (6), 50, Atlanta Hawks vs Detroit Pistons
3/18/88 - Michael Jordan (11), 50, Chicago Bulls vs Boston Celtics
4/3/88 - Michael Jordan (12), 59, Chicago Bulls @ Detroit Pistons
1988-89
11/9/88 - Michael Jordan (13), 52, Chicago Bulls @ Boston Celtics
11/16/88 - Michael Jordan (14), 52, Chicago Bulls @ Philadelphia 76ers
11/26/88 - Michael Jordan (15), 52, Chicago Bulls @ Denver Nuggets
1/6/89 - Clyde Drexler, 50, Portland Trailblazers vs Sacramento Kings (2OT)
1/21/89 - Michael Jordan (16), 53, Chicago Bulls vs Phoenix Suns
2/16/89 - Michael Jordan (17), 50, Chicago Bulls vs Milwaukee Bucks
3/10/89 - Alex English (2), 51, Denver Nuggets @ Miami Heat (2OT)
1989-90
11/3/89 - Michael Jordan (18), 54, Chicago Bulls vs Cleveland Cavaliers (OT)
11/9/89 - Dale Ellis, 53, Seattle Supersonics @ Milwaukee Bucks (4OT)
11/10/89 - Larry Bird (4), 50, Boston Celtics vs Atlanta Hawks
12/20/89 - Michael Jordan (19), 52, Chicago Bulls @ Orlando Magic
12/22/89 - Karl Malone, 52, Utah Jazz @ Charlotte Hornets
1/27/90 - Karl Malone (2), 61, Utah Jazz vs Milwaukee Bucks
1/31/90 - Terry Cummings, 52, San Antonio Spurs vs Charlotte Hornets
2/18/90 - Tom Chambers, 56, Phoenix Suns @ Golden State Warriors
3/24/90 - Patrick Ewing, 51, New York Knicks vs Boston Celtics
3/24/90 - Tom Chambers (2), 60, Phoenix Suns vs Seattle Supersonics
3/28/90 - Michael Jordan (20), 69, Chicago Bulls @ Cleveland Cavaliers (OT)
4/19/90 - Hakeem Olajuwon, 52, Houston Rockets vs Denver Nuggets (OT)
1990-91
12/1/90 - Patrick Ewing (2), 50, New York Knicks vs Charlotte Hornets
12/1/90 - Charles Smith, 52, Los Angeles Clippers @ Denver Nuggets
12/29/90 - Bernard King (7), 52, Washington Bullets vs Denver Nuggets
1/26/91 - Vernon Maxwell, 51, Houston Rockets vs Cleveland Cavaliers
3/6/91 - Bernard King (8), 50, Washington Bullets vs Utah Jazz
3/23/91 - Michael Adams, 54, Denver Nuggets vs Milwaukee Bucks (OT)
1991-92
12/7/91 - Dominique Wilkins (7), 52, Atlanta Hawks vs New York Knicks (2OT)
3/19/92 - Michael Jordan (21), 51, Chicago Bulls @ Washington Bullets
3/24/92 - Michael Jordan (22), 50, Chicago Bulls vs Denver Nuggets
1992-93
11/20/92 - Michael Jordan (23), 54, Chicago Bulls @ Los Angeles Lakers (OT)
11/28/92 - Reggie Miller, 57, Indiana Pacers @ Charlotte Hornets
12/23/92 - Michael Jordan (24), 57, Chicago Bulls vs Washington Bullets
1/16/93 - David Robinson, 52, San Antonio Spurs vs Charlotte Hornets
1/16/93 - Michael Jordan (25), 64, Chicago Bulls vs Orlando Magic (OT)
3/12/93 - Michael Jordan (26), 52, Chicago Bulls vs Charlotte Hornets
4/23/93 - Nick Anderson, 50, Orlando Magic @ New Jersey Nets
1993-94
2/21/94 - David Robinson (2), 50, San Antonio Spurs @ Minnesota Timberwolves
4/20/94 - Shaquille O'Neal, 53, Orlando Magic vs Minnesota Timberwolves
4/24/94 - David Robinson (3), 71, San Antonio Spurs @ Los Angeles Clippers
1994-95
11/12/94 - Jamal Mashburn, 50, Dallas Mavericks @ Chicago Bulls (OT)
11/26/94 - Jim Jackson, 50, Dallas Mavericks @ Denver Nuggets (OT)
12/13/94 - Willie Burton, 53, Philadelphia 76ers vs Miami Heat
12/20/94 - Cedric Ceballos, 50, Los Angeles Lakers vs Minnesota Timberwolves
3/14/95 - Dana Barros, 50, Philadelphia 76ers vs Houston Rockets
3/28/95 - Michael Jordan (27), 55, Chicago Bulls @ New York Knicks
4/15/95 - Glen Rice, 56, Miami Heat vs Orlando Magic
1995-96
12/7/95 - Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, 51, Denver Nuggets @ Utah Jazz
12/9/95 - Karl Malone (3), 51, Utah Jazz vs Golden State Warriors
1/18/96 - Hakeem Olajuwon (2), 51, Houston Rockets vs Boston Celtics
3/7/96 - Michael Jordan (28), 53, Chicago Bulls vs Detroit Pistons
3/29/96 - Alonzo Mourning, 50, Miami Heat vs Washington Bullets
1996-97
11/6/96 - Michael Jordan (29), 50, Chicago Bulls @ Miami Heat
1/21/97 - Michael Jordan (30), 51, Chicago Bulls vs New York Knicks
4/12/97 - Allen Iverson, 50, Philadelphia 76ers @ Cleveland Cavaliers
1997-98
2/10/98 - Tracy Murray, 50, Washington Wizards @ Golden State Warriors
4/2/98 - Shaquille O'Neal (2), 50, Los Angeles Lakers @ New Jersey Nets
4/7/98 - Karl Malone (4), 56, Utah Jazz @ Golden State Warriors
1999-2000
1/16/00 - Clifford Robinson, 50, Phoenix Suns vs Denver Nuggets
2/6/00 - Allen Iverson (2), 50, Philadelphia 76ers vs Sacramento Kings
2/27/00 - Vince Carter, 51, Toronto Raptors vs Phoenix Suns
3/6/00 - Shaquille O'Neal (3), 61, Los Angeles Lakers @ Los Angeles Clippers
2000-01
12/3/00 - Antawn Jamison, 51, Golden State Warriors @ Seattle Supersonics
12/6/00 - Antawn Jamison (2), 51, Golden State Warriors vs Los Angeles Lakers (OT)
12/6/00 - Kobe Bryant, 51, Los Angeles Lakers @ Golden State Warriors (OT)
1/2/01 - Tony Delk, 53, Phoenix Suns @ Sacramento Kings (OT)
1/5/01 - Chris Webber, 51, Sacramento Kings vs Indiana Pacers
1/6/01 - Allen Iverson (3), 54, Philadelphia 76ers @ Cleveland Cavaliers
1/21/01 - Allen Iverson (4), 51, Philadelphia 76ers vs Toronto Raptors
2/13/01 - Stephon Marbury, 50, New Jersey Nets vs Los Angeles Lakers (OT)
4/3/01 - Jerry Stackhouse, 57, Detroit Pistons @ Chicago Bulls
2001-02
11/23/01 - Shareef Abdur-Rahim, 50, Atlanta Hawks vs Detroit Pistons
12/16/01 - Tim Duncan, 53, San Antonio Spurs vs Dallas Mavericks (OT)
12/29/01 - Michael Jordan (31), 51, Washington Wizards vs Charlotte Hornets
1/14/02 - Kobe Bryant (2), 56, Los Angeles Lakers vs Memphis Grizzlies
1/15/02 - Allen Iverson (5), 58, Philadelphia 76ers vs Houston Rockets (OT)
3/8/02 - Tracy McGrady, 50, Orlando Magic vs Washington Wizards
2002-03
2/12/03 - Kobe Bryant (3), 51, Los Angeles Lakers @ Denver Nuggets
2/16/03 - Allan Houston, 53, New York Knicks @ Los Angeles Lakers
2/18/03 - Kobe Bryant (4), 52, Los Angeles Lakers vs Houston Rockets (2OT)
2/21/03 - Tracy McGrady (2), 52, Orlando Magic vs Chicago Bulls
2/21/03 - Jamal Mashburn (2), 50, New Orleans Hornets vs Memphis Grizzlies
3/16/03 - Allan Houston (2), 50, New York Knicks vs Milwaukee Bucks
3/28/03 - Kobe Bryant (5), 55, Los Angeles Lakers vs Washington Wizards
2003-04
10/31/03 - Rashard Lewis, 50, Seattle Supersonics vs Los Angeles Clippers
11/14/03 - Tracy McGrady (3), 51, Orlando Magic @ Denver Nuggets
11/29/03 - Allen Iverson (6), 50, Philadelphia 76ers vs Atlanta Hawks
3/10/04 - Tracy McGrady (4), 62, Orlando Magic vs Washington Wizards
4/11/04 - Jamal Crawford, 50, Chicago Bulls @ Toronto Raptors (OT)
2004-05
12/2/04 - Dirk Nowitzki, 53, Dallas Mavericks vs Houston Rockets (OT)
12/18/04 - Allen Iverson (7), 54, Philadelphia 76ers vs Milwaukee Bucks
12/20/04 - Allen Iverson (8), 51, Philadelphia 76ers vs Utah Jazz
1/2/05 - Amare Stoudemire, 50, Phoenix Suns vs Portland Trailblazers
1/4/05 - Jermaine O'Neal, 55, Indiana Pacers vs Milwaukee Bucks
1/14/05 - Damon Stoudamire, 54, Portland Trailblazers @ New Orleans Hornets
2/12/05 - Allen Iverson (9), 60, Philadelphia 76ers vs Orlando Magic
3/20/05 - LeBron James, 56, Cleveland Cavaliers @ Toronto Raptors
2005-06
12/10/05 - LeBron James (2), 52, Cleveland Cavaliers @ Milwaukee Bucks
12/20/05 - Kobe Bryant (6), 62, Los Angeles Lakers vs Dallas Mavericks
12/23/05 - Allen Iverson (10), 53, Philadelphia 76ers @ Atlanta Hawks
12/23/05 - Vince Carter (2), 51, New Jersey Nets @ Miami Heat
1/7/06 - Kobe Bryant (7), 50, Los Angeles Lakers @ Los Angeles Clippers
1/19/06 - Kobe Bryant (8), 51, Los Angeles Lakers @ Sacramento Kings (OT)
1/21/06 - LeBron James (3), 51, Cleveland Cavaliers @ Utah Jazz
1/22/06 - Kobe Bryant (9), 81, Los Angeles Lakers vs Toronto Raptors
2/15/06 - Paul Pierce, 50, Boston Celtics vs Cleveland Cavaliers (2OT)
3/23/06 - Dirk Nowitzki (2), 51, Dallas Mavericks vs Golden State Warriors
4/7/06 - Kobe Bryant (10), 51, Los Angeles Lakers @ Phoenix Suns
4/14/06 - Kobe Bryant (11), 50, Los Angeles Lakers vs Portland Trailblazers
2006-07
11/11/06 - Michael Redd, 57, Milwaukee Bucks vs Utah Jazz
11/30/06 - Kobe Bryant (12), 52, Los Angeles Lakers vs Utah Jazz
12/15/06 - Kobe Bryant (13), 53, Los Angeles Lakers vs Houston Rockets
12/17/06 - Gilbert Arenas, 60, Washington Wizards @ Los Angeles Lakers (OT)
12/22/06 - Gilbert Arenas (2), 54, Washington Wizards @ Phoenix Suns (OT)
12/27/06 - Richard Hamilton, 51, Detroit Pistons @ New York Knicks (3OT)
12/29/06 - Kobe Bryant (14), 58, Los Angeles Lakers @ Charlotte Bobcats (3OT)
1/12/07 - Ray Allen, 54, Seattle Supersonics vs Utah Jazz
1/15/07 - Gilbert Arenas (3), 51, Washington Wizards vs Utah Jazz
1/26/07 - Jamal Crawford (2), 52, New York Knicks vs Miami Heat
3/4/07 - Michael Redd (2), 52, Milwaukee Bucks vs Chicago Bulls
3/16/07 - Kobe Bryant (15), 65, Los Angeles Lakers vs Portland Trailblazers
3/18/07 - Kobe Bryant (16), 50, Los Angeles Lakers vs Minnesota Timberwolves
3/22/07 - Kobe Bryant (17), 60, Los Angeles Lakers @ Memphis Grizzlies
3/23/07 - Kobe Bryant (18), 50, Los Angeles Lakers @ NO/OK Hornets
3/30/07 - Kobe Bryant (19), 53, Los Angeles Lakers vs Houston Rockets (OT)
4/12/07 - Kobe Bryant (20), 50, Los Angeles Lakers vs Los Angeles Clippers
4/15/07 - Kobe Bryant (21), 50, Los Angeles Lakers vs Seattle Supersonics
2007-08
12/5/07 - Allen Iverson (11), 51, Denver Nuggets vs Los Angeles Lakers
1/15/08 - LeBron James (4), 51, Cleveland Cavaliers @ Memphis Grizzlies (OT)
3/2/08 - Kobe Bryant (22), 52, Los Angeles Lakers vs Dallas Mavericks (OT)
3/5/08 - LeBron James (5), 50, Cleveland Cavaliers @ New York Knicks
3/28/08 - Kobe Bryant (23), 53, Los Angeles Lakers vs Memphis Grizzlies
2008-09
11/5/08 - Tony Parker, 55, San Antonio Spurs @ Minnesota Timberwolves (2OT)
12/18/08 - Brandon Roy, 52, Portland Trailblazers vs Phoenix Suns
12/20/08 - Jamal Crawford (3), 50, Golden State Warriors @ Charlotte Bobcats
2/2/09 - Kobe Bryant (24), 61, Los Angeles Lakers @ New York Knicks
2/4/09 - LeBron James (6), 52, Cleveland Cavaliers @ New York Knicks
2/20/09 - LeBron James (7), 55, Cleveland Cavaliers @ Milwaukee Bucks
2/22/09 - Dwyane Wade, 50, Miami Heat @ Orlando Magic
3/13/09 - LeBron James (8), 51, Cleveland Cavaliers @ Sacramento Kings (OT)
3/14/09 - Dwyane Wade (2), 50, Miami Heat vs Utah Jazz (3OT)
Yeah, Christmas Albums
The Christmas Cocktails series are worth every penny. That's good too, since they are cheap. Loungy takes on old Christmas classics, and Dean Martin (among others)
Christmas on Death Row boasts one awesome song in Snoop's "Santa Claus goes to the Ghetto", and a whole bunch of filler-including cliched gangsta rap, r&b, and new jack swing.
Mariah's album has "All I Want for Christmas Is You" and "Miss You Most (At Christmas Time)". It's worth it for those alone.
Yeah, I don't know what they were thinking either.
Jethro Tull's Christmas album is actually one of the better Christmas albums, in the fact that you can listen to it regularly. Granted, it's no Thick as a Brick or A Passion Play, but it's still pretty good.
10:45 p.m.
• My county makes me so proud sometimes.
I noticed when posting this image that its link reads:
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• So I mentioned a while back about my recent job interviews. Let me recap.
Had two job interviews on November 27. Both went well. Had the second interview to Job A on December 6. Now what was funny about this one is that the first interview with this place dealt with the Human Resource person, who was doing everything in her power to convince me that her place was a great place to work at. She also said that she wanted me back for a second meeting. After thinking about this for a day (this job wouldn't be the same thing as I'm doing now), I agreed and met up with my would-be boss on 12/6. Everything that this poor HR person did to build this job up was torn down by my new interviewer. First off, he was 20 minutes late. OK. That’s understandable. Secondly, he hadn’t even bothered to look over my resume until the actual interview. Look, if this was a big corporation I could understand. However, there aren’t that many people in his department to oversee. Sorry, but I found that very unprofessional. However, what made it even worse was that he was trying to go down the “overqualified” route, which made me laugh because when he brought up workplace scenarios that he was hoping the ideal candidate would be able to excel in I gave real-life ordeals I’ve gone through that dealt with the exact same topic. As I left this place I thought, “I’d probably choose this place over the shit hole I work at now, but Job B just got the inside track.” I had the second interview to Job B on Friday, and I completely brought down the house. Later that afternoon I got the offer. There’s a few things that need to be ironed out, but nothing that would make me stay where I am now. (“Ironed out” isn’t the right term. Wanting some specifics answered due to the sodomy I’ve experienced at my current place of employment would be more accurate.)
Due to some paperwork that needs to be filed and approved, I’ll be starting January 2 or 3. Of course, there’s always the chance everything will fall through. However, this is unlikely, and this is coming from one paranoid mo’ fo’. All I have to say is that this will probably be the best three weeks of work I’ve had in quite some time.
8:45 p.m.
• Nuts. I almost forgot about my Heisman prediction. Have no clue who did what. I’m guessing Tebow will win, but I’d vote for McFadden. I’m sure Tebow got a bunch of those touchdowns by Jew 1-yard runs. That’s all I got.
• Pickkk time.
Chicago @ Washington (3.5)
Shit.
Carolina @ Jacksonville (10.5)
The Panthers win last week was due. I just hope Jacksonville doesn’t play down to their competition.
(10.5) Dallas @ Detroit
The Lion free-fall continues.
Miami @ Buffalo (7.5)
Why in the hell do I bother with this? Oh yeah, because this week will be the WEEK.
N.Y. Giants @ Philadelphia (2.5)
I still think the Giants will flounder and all, but why not pick them?
Oakland @ Green Bay (10.5)
Here’s hoping Charles Woodson returns an interception for a touchdown so I look smart. Here’s hoping Charles Woodson is actually playing this game.
Pittsburgh @ New England (11.5)
Let’s see. Who did the Steelers lose to on the road this year: Cardinals, Broncos, Jets. Couple that with the guy who ran his mouth this week about guaranteeing a win and I’ll take the Pats. Steelers will score 17.
(1.5) San Diego @ Tennessee
Tennessee finished strong last year. They’ll stumble this year. I have no proof to back this up.
St. Louis @ Cincinnati (6.5)
I think somebody important is hurt for the Rams. Or was it the Bengals? Uh oh.
(3.5) Tampa Bay @ Houston
Somebody’s got to win the NFC South.
Arizona @ Seattle (7.5)
Sure. I’ll take the Cardinals. No idea why because they’ll probably fall like a house of cards.
(8.5) Minnesota @ San Francisco
Time for the Vikings to make a playoff run where they will lose in the first round.
(3.5) Cleveland @ N.Y. Jets
Ew. Only 3.5 points? Somebody’s hurt.
Kansas City @ Denver (6.5)
Somebody’s got to win this game: But 6.5?
(9.5) Indianapolis @ Baltimore
Will the Ravens be drained from their game with the Pats? I sure hope so.
(4.5)New Orleans @ Atlanta
You know, for as bad as the Falcons have been this year, from the predictions I heard before the season began they don’t seem to be that terrible. Then again, the Dolphins are 0-16. So remember, if you finish first in the Special Olympics, you still finished first in the Special Olympics.
Easy lineup, with two matches I love. Should be easy to knock out.
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The first gift this time, is from Mickie James. It's Wendi Richter w/Cyndi Lauper vs. Leilani Kai w/The Fabulous Moolah for the Women's Title, from WrestleMania. Rock and Wrestling...
Blow-by-blow: Richter punches Kai, but Kai follows with a kick, and an armdrag. Richter applies a hammerlock, and throws Kai to the canvas, but Kai gives her two snap mares to get out of it. She pulls on Richter's hair a whole punch and chokes her, until Richter applies a body scissors. Kai stands up, and gets taken to the canvas for 2, and then rolled up for 2. Kai misses a charge to the corner (eats feet), and Richter covers her for 2. Moolah pulls Richter's hair, so Lauper comes over and hits Moolah. Kai pulls Richter back in, and gives her a big boot. Richter gives her this F-U looking thing for 2, but Kai comes back with a backbreaker for 2. She slams Richter and goes up top for a crossbody, but Richter reverses it, winding up on top for the cover at 6:12. New champion, yeah, and all that.
Match Analysis: Was a mess. One that I'd rather not waste more words on. 1/2*.
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Jonathan Coachman's gift is Rock vs. Hogan from WM X8. That's all the description you need.
Blow-by-blow: The staredown before the bout still gives me chills, even though I've watched this match at least 20 times. Both wrestlers lock-up, until Hogan pushes Rocky to the canvas. He poses, and the crowd goes apeshit. I still mark for this entire match, so everything is going to be insanely biased. Hogan gives Rock a shoulderblock, and poses more. Hell yeah, son! He gives him a clothesline, but Rock comes back with one of his own, and tells him to BRING IT. Rocky gives him the SPIT PUNCH, but Hogan seems deathly terrified of taking a bump over the top, so he scoots out of the ring under the bottom rope. Rocky throws Hogan back in, and clotheslines him after Hogan isn't able to backdrop the Rock. Rock goes for ROCK BOTTOM, but he gets elbowed away by Hogan, and then given a running elbow. Hogan gives him 2 elbowdrops, and a face stomp to boot. Rocky gives Hogan a spear, and the mount punch. Hogan then gives Rock a back suplex, which gets a 2 count. Hogan goes to the ABDOMINAL STRETCH, and then rolls Rock up for another 2 count. He gives Rock the BACK RAKE, and a few chops, before taking him to the corner. Over there, he gives Rock two punches, and bites him. Rocky gives him a few chops (huh), and Hogan misses a charge to the corner, but quickly gives Rock a chokeslam afterward. Hogan takes the tape off his wrists and chokes the Rock with it, and tosses Rock out over the top rope. He rams the Rock into the steel steps, and slams him throat-first onto the barrier at ringside. Hogan begins to take apart the announce table, seemingly to slam Rocky onto it, but the Rock gets there first, and rams Hogan into the table. Rock grabs a chair, but the official takes it away, preventing him from using it. Back inside, Hogan gives Rock a clothesline, and sidesteps when the Rock's running afterward, forcing the Rock to run into the official. Rock comes back with an ugly spinebuster, and the SHARPSHOOTER. Hogan gets to the ropes, but since the ref's out, why break the hold? Once Rock thinks he's done enough, he revives the referee, as the crowd chants "Rocky Sucks." Gee, they love him, don't they. Hogan gives the Rock a low blow, and a ROCK BOTTOM, which only gets 2. Hogan takes off his weight belt now, and hits Rock with it three times. If Hollywood hasn't used his belt yet, the match isn't going to be ending. Of course, he has to take some punishment too, after he misses a punch with the belt on his hand, and gets caught with a DDT by Rocky. Rock grabs the belt now, and hits Hogan with it 7 times. He gives Hogan ROCK BOTTOM, which gets an early 2 count. Oh my GAWD, he's HULKIN' UP! Boom, boom, boom, big boot, DROP THE FUCKING LEG, but it only gets 2. JR was going into raptures about how Hogan pinned Andre with the legdrop, so it's fitting that the move iddn't finish the match. Hogan gives Rock another big boot, but is unable to DROP THE FUCKING LEG. Rock gives him ROCK BOTTOM, and sends him down to ROCK BOTTOM AGAIN, then kips up and gives him the MF'ING PEOPLE'S ELBOW for 3 at 16:23. After the Rock celebrates for a bit, Hogan extends his hand in friendship. The Rock accepts the gesture, so Scott Hall and Kevin Nash go to the ring. They thought Hogan was NWO 4 LIFE, but I guess he's not, so they attack him. The Rock runs back down to the ring, and cleans house, along with Hogan. He wants Hogan to pose, so he does. That's the end of WM X8...oh wait, it's not.
Match Analysis: ***. I don't have any problem with those that say the match wasn't that good, but come on. Not only that, but it should've been their only match, and the match at No Way Out 2003 should never have happened. But yeah, the show should've ended here. It would've been the perfect ending, Hogan passing the torch, and then Rocky coming back to help run off the dastardly NWO, who turned on the guy they thought was NWO 4 LIFE. For shame WWF, for shame.
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Ok, here we go. CM Punk's gift is sure to be something good, and it was. Rey Mysterio Jr. vs. Eddy Guerrero in a Mask vs. Title Match, for the WCW Cruiserweight Title, from Halloween Havoc. You know, when being Cruiserweight Champion meant something.
Blow-by-blow: Eddy taunts Rey at the beginning of the match, but misses the punch he said he'd hit Rey with. Rey comes off the ropes with a quebrada, and he turns it into an armdrag. He gives Eddy a HUGE monkeyflip, then knocks him over the top rope and to the floor with a crossbody. He goes to dive onto Eddy from the apron, and gets knocked straight down to the floor, landing on his back. Eddy rams Rey, head-first into the steel steps. Ouch. Eddy hilos onto Rey when he comes back in, and gives him a European uppercut. Rey gives him a dropkick and goes for a handspring elbow, but Eddy gives him a back suplex after catching him. Eddy gives him a delayed vertical suplex for 2, and then a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker. Eddy tears at Rey's mask, but doesn't rip it, yet, anyway. He then gives Rey an abdominal stretch, and turns that into a pumphandle backbreaker, which gets two. Then they do the typical lucha sequence, where a guy rolls up from the mat and onto the opponents shoulders, taking him over, BUT THIS TIME, Rey springs onto the top rope instead, and gives Eddy a backflip DDT. Wow. That's way better than AJ Styles' quebrada reverse DDT. Part of that is because AJ does it EVERY match. Rey gives him a dropkick that puts Eddy on the outside, and springs up to follow Eddy, but Eddy gives him a dropkick, knocking Rey to the floor. Eddy rams Rey into the guardrail, and throws him back in, where Eddy applies a camel clutch. Love the back-oriented offense here. He tears at most of Rey's mask, leaving it with a gigantic hole in the material. Eddy applies a Gory Special, and Rey armdrags his way out of it. Rey misses a dropkick, so Eddy gives Rey a dropkick to the head, as Rey's down on the canvas. Eddy gives Rey an Argentine Backbreaker, and then applies a bow and arrow lock. Eddy gives Rey a back elbow afterward, and puts his foot on the ropes to CHEAT, but only gets 2. Eddy gives Rey a European uppercut, and then tosses him into the corner, where Rey goes upside down. Eddy gives Rey a dropkick, and then tries to get a running start to give him a baseball slide to the face, but Rey raises up, causing Eddy to slide into the ringpost, nuts first. Good thing the post was padded. Rey now FLIES off the top with a plancha (I figured out the difference between a plancha and a pescado the other day. What a fucking buffoon I am.), onto Eddy, who's on the floor. Back inside, Eddy tries a tilt-a-whirl slam, but Rey finds his way out of the hold, and gives Eddy a rana for 2. Eddy gives Rey a clothesline, but Rey finds a way to go through the ropes, 619 style, and headscissor Eddy to the floor. Rey flies out onto Eddy, who's on the floor, with a DRAGONRANA. No shit. Great stuff. Rey comes back in off the top, with a standing corkscrew senton, onto Eddy. It gets 2, so Rey slams him, and tries a springboard split legged moonsault, but eats Eddy's knees. Eddy gives him a sick looking powerbomb, which gets 2. The "Eddy Sucks" chant begins, so Eddy takes Rey into the turnbuckle. He misses a charge, and Rey gives him a spinning heel kick. Rey's springboard hurricanrana misses, as Eddy avoids it and catches Rey, turning the move into a backbreaker. Eddy goes up top, and Rey avoids the frog splash, so Eddy rolls through, as he usually does. Rey gets up on the top rope, and he gets crotched. Eddy tries to give him a back suplex, but he's pushed away. So now, Eddy goes for SPLASH MOUNTAIN. He gets ready to drop Rey all the way down to the canvas, but Rey counters with a hurricanrana, for the win and the Cruiserweight Title at 13:51. But most importantly, Rey gets to keep his mask. Eddy is really pissed off, so he attacks Rey after the match and throws him out of the ring.
Match Analysis: It's certainly the best Cruiserweight Title match ever. Can't recommend this one enough. Most of the matches that feature this many highspots have a fuckup or two, but this one doesn't. It's an easy *****. I liked Eddy's back work the most. Almost all the moves and holds he used were moves that are supposed to target the back.
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From the David Von Erich Memorial Show at Texas Stadium, it's Mike, Kevin and Fritz Von Erich vs. The Fabulous Freebirds (Michael Hayes, Terry Gordy and Buddy Roberts), for the World 6 Man Tag Team Championship. Self explanatory, isn't it. This was Shawn Michaels' gift.
Blow-by-blow: As soon as the match starts, Fritz attacks Hayes. The Von Erich's clear the ring, so once Gordy finds a chair, he throws one in. It hit Kevin's hands or something, cause he's bleeding pretty badly from that area. David Manning grabs the mic, and says that the only rule in the match is that two people are all that's allowed in the ring. Kevin and Roberts start as the bell rings (I was timing before), and Kevin rams Roberts to the turnbuckle. As a result, Michael Hayes comes in, and basically says, "fuck the rules." Roberts hits Kevin, but misses a charge to the corner. Kevin drags Roberts over to Mike, who tags in and elbowdrops Roberts in the knee. Hayes comes in and slams Mike, but misses a splash off the 2nd rope. Fritz comes in and kicks Hayes, so everyone else joins in the fight. Fritz takes his belt off, and whips Hayes' ass with it. Harhar. Kevin and Gordy stay in when the ring clears, and Gordy rams Kevin to the buckle. I guess Fritz can't handle watching his sons get beat up, so he comes in and clobbers Gordy. If the Von Erich's win, Kerry takes Fritz's position in the team as a champion. Kevin goes for the CLAW, but Gordy stops it. Hayes comes in, and gives Kevin a clothesline, then takes his boot off and hits Kevin in the head with it. Roberts comes in, and thrusts his crotch into the face of Kevin. That's how it looked, but really, he was hitting him with his belt buckle. Roberts gives Kevin a backdrop, but Kevin lands near to Fritz, tagging him in. Fritz gives Hayes and Roberts a double noggin-knocker, and applies the CLAW, to a bleeding Michael Hayes. And then, Fritz gives Roberts the CLAW, until Gordy forces him to break the hold. See, this is one thing I don't like about World Class. Old man Fritz has to dominate, whenever he steps in the ring. Gordy and Hayes are then rammed into each other by the Von Erichs, and Kevin comes off the top with a crossbody to finish Roberts at 8:53. The crowd goes apeshit, but they were doing that for the duration of the match anyway. After the match, a "big Oriental" attacks the Von Erichs, until Kerry comes in the ring to break it up. The "big Oriental" was Killer Khan.
Match Analysis: Wild. It's really hard to go into great detail, though. ***1/4. Just trust me, you want to watch it.
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Ok, I'm done for a day or two. Nothing to watch, nothing to review.
Shawon Dunston - Shortstop
Chicago Cubs 1985-1995, 1997
San Francisco Giants 1996, 1998, 2001-2002
Pittsburgh Pirates 1997
Cleveland Indians 1998
St. Louis Cardinals 1999, 2000
New York Mets 1999
Awards
None
All-Star Selections: 2 (1988, 1990)
League Leader
None
Career Ranks
None of note
Best Performance
June 4, 1989 - Chicago at St. Louis
Hit two homeruns and a triple in a rout of the Cardinals.
Hall of Fame Stats
Gray Ink: Batting - 6 (1622) (Average HOFer ≈ 144)
HOF Standards: Batting - 16.9 (835) (Average HOFer ≈ 50)
HOF Monitor: Batting - 14.0 (950) (Likely HOFer > 100)
Similar Batters in HOF: None
Top 10 Similar Batters: Jim Fregosi, Juan Samuel, Terry Steinbach, Carlos Baerga, Phil Garner, Greg Gagne, Bill Freehan, Granny Hamner, Hubie Brooks, Daimon Easley
Year-by-Year Win Shares & Wins Above Replacement Level (WARP3)
1985: 8/3.2
1986: 14/4.7
1987: 5/2.2
1988: 13/5.2
1989: 18/6.1
1990: 15/3.6
1991: 14/4.1
1992: 1/0.6
1993: 1/0.2
1994: 8/2.5
1995: 16/4.9
1996: 8/3.4
1997: 11/3.7
1998: 3/0.1
1999: 8/1.8
2000: 4/1.2
2001: 4/1.7
2002: 0/-0.8
Career Win Shares: 151
Career WARP3: 48.3
My Stupid Opinion
Gives Todd Stottlemyre a run for his money for the weakest player on the ballot honors. Decent player in the late 80's and early 90's but back surgery basically wiped out two seasons for him in 1992 and 1993. Had decent power for a shortstop but never saw a pitch he didn't like (.296 career OBP, 203 walks in 6276 plate appearances) and was a mediocre defensive shortstop. He lasted 18 years but the second half of his career was as a utility player and clubs loved his "veteran presence", especially the Giants.
Now, to follow up...
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Welcome everyone to Monday Night RAWWWW. Flashback to Steve Austin/Bret Hart from last week. As much as I liked the angle, I could've done without that.
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Brian Pillman comes out to the ring, with a mic I might add, and begins to talk about religion. He wants everyone to pray for Bret Hart, and the people who liked what Austin did to Bret. He prays for the destruction of Austin, and that people everywhere will begin to listen to Bret again. Austin comes on the TitanTron, and says that Pillman had better pray. Pillman says he'll turn the other cheek, then turns around and bends over so that his ass is facing the TitanTron. Here comes Austin to the ring, and it was a trap. Owen and Bulldog try to attack Austin, but Austin runs through the ring and into the crowd. Davey and Owen stay in the ring, and pray along with Pillman. Both Davey and Owen pray for Bret, and Austin comes back in, with an axehandle that he broke the end of an ax off from. He chases the three guys away and into the crowd, and tells them they better give their souls to the Lord, cause their asses are his. That segment is open to interpretation. Some may like it, some may not. I thought it was just decent.
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Pillman's praying in the back, before the match between Flash Funk and Rockabilly w/Honky Tonk Man.
Not bad on paper, but the gimmicks. Oh Lord, the gimmicks. Flash dances, until Rockabilly pushes him to the ground. Flash gives him a dropkick and a hiptoss, and then a springboard crossbody for 2. Flash gives him an armdrag, as we go splitscreen, with Bret sitting in an ambulance, waiting to make an appearance. Back to the action, where Flash dumps Rockabilly to the outside, and follows him out with a clothesline from the 2nd turnbuckle. Honky distracts Flash while Flash is on the apron, which leads to a Rockabilly clothesline. He suplexes Flash in, and gets a cover for 2. A FAMEASSER follows, and Rockabilly goes up to the top. Flash crotches him, but is given a swinging DDT, for 2. Didn't know Billy Gunn had that in him. Honky gets on the ring apron, and Rockabilly runs into him, which leads to Funk giving Rockabilly a hurricanrana, and the pinfall for Flash, at 4:21. I don't quite get why they'd have Rockabilly lose this match. **. After the match, Honky hits Flash in the head with his guitar. Poor guy.
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Bret Hart comes out of the ambulance, and to the ring. He talks about Pillman's praying, and says that it can't help you all the time. More anti-American stuff, mainly talking about how bloodthirsty we are. He says that Austin and Shawn Michaels will be the next to get put in an ambulance.
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Austin's in the back, looking for the First Aid room. After that, there's a FUNNY WWF commercial. Prelude to the attitude.
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The next match is the Legion of Doom v. Doug Furnas and Phil LaFon.
Before the match, we go split screen and listen to Furnas talk about being a legitimate wrestler, and that it's the fans fault they haven't been able to win matches. That's cool. Animal and LaFon start, and Animal gives him an elbow to the head. LaFon comes back with a spinning leg lariat, but Animal gives him a flying shoulderblock and an elbowdrop. Furnas and Hawk tag in, and Hawk gives him a clothesline and neckbreaker. Hawk gives him a fistdrop, but Furnas quickly gives him a belly-to-belly suplex, and a legdrop. LaFon tags in, and they both give Hawk a shoulderblock, for 2. LaFon gives him a trapping suplex, and a cross armbreaker. He lets go quickly, and gives Hawk a snap suplex. Double colission follows, and so does the hot tag to Animal. Dropkicks for both and a powerslam for Furnas, until Hawk clotheslines both. They go for the DOOMSDAY DEVICE, but Furnas gives Animal a dropkick, knocking both he and LaFon out of the ring. Hawk goes through with the move though and gives Furnas a clothesline off the top rope, which gives LOD the pinfall at 3:47. *1/2. JR's in the ring with Furnas and LaFon, and they say what they said before the match. The fans suck.
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On Shotgun Saturday Night, Sunny was under cover. Literally. Well, the Headbangers came out, and sat in the bed with her. So, she models an Austin shirt on RAW, as Michael Hayes is giving us the rundown on sizes and all that. Whenever Sunny's on my screen is a good thing, but this is lame. Still feel bad for Hayes....
And Ahmed Johnson's backstage. He's sick of the Nation, so he wrecks shit.
Now Pillman kisses Owen's Slammy's, before...
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For the Intercontinental Championship, it's Owen Hart w/Bret Hart and the British Bulldog vs. Rocky Maivia. Owen's family hangs out near the TitanTron, and that'll be the case during the later match as well.
Owen says he's going to win it for Bret. How sweet. Owen attacks Rocky at the start, but Rocky quickly responds with a clothesline, dropkick and an armdrag. He gives Owen a powerslam for 2, and applies an armbar. Rocky gives him a backdrop, and goes back to the armbar, before giving Owen a shoulderblock. Strong start from Rocky. Owen tosses Rocky out of the ring, and gives him a baseball slide. Then Rocky comes back in, and Owen gives him a missile dropkick for 2. Owen goes to the chinlock, and gives him a droptoehold. He snaps Rocky's lower leg back twice, and begins to work on the left knee, with an indian deathlock. Rocky rolls him up for 2, but Owen goes back to the knee, with three leg whips. He goes for the SHARPSHOOTER, but Rocky won't allow it. Owen gives him a suplex, but Rocky comes back with that floatover DDT of his, which gets two. He gives Owen ROCK BOTTOM, but it only gets 2. Certainly wasn't his finisher then, if you didn't know. Rocky rams Owen into the buckle, but Owen comes out with a spinning leg lariat. Owen goes up top for a moonsault, but he gets crotched, and back suplexed off by Rocky, which gets 2. That spot always makes me cringe, with the way that the recipient lands on his head. Rocky tries a suplex, but Owen rolls through it and winds up behind Rocky, where he pins him with a rolling clutch hold for 3 at 8:26, and the INTERCONTINENTAL TITLE. As much as it boggles my mind to say this, that was his first singles title in the WWF. Yeah, really. **1/2. Rocky did the best he could. Owen celebrates by placing the Intercontinental Title in Bret's lap.
Backstage, Austin's in a wheelchair. What?
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We're in the Warzone, and it's Austin, again. He's carrying that wheelchair through the crowd, and to the ring. He sits in the wheelchair when he gets in the ring, and asks the crowd if they want to see a wheelchair match between him and Bret. He says he'd whip Bret's ass for sure. Austin's gonna whip Taker's as at A Cold Day in Hell, or so he says. Bret pops up on the TitanTron, and promises that Austin will ride in an ambulance.
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Vader's back, and there's some footage of him grabbing the interviewer in Kuwait, during Good Morning Kuwait. Let me say that I'm awfully surprised to see Taker out of character on that show, dressed like he usually did as BikerTaker. More so that it was shown on RAW. A stupid Ken Shamrock video follows that, unfortunately, featuring video from his in-ring interactions. Never liked Shamrock. He's annoying.
Obviously, the previous things shown mean that it's time. It's VADER TIME. He's facing Jesse Jammes. The singing gets worse every week. Vader smashes Jammes, then gives him a big splash off the 2nd rope. He picks Jammes up at two, and gives him the VADER BOMB, to finish the match at 1:35. Thank you. *1/4. JR goes into the ring to ask Vader a few questions, and Vader's first answer is that he went to Kuwait to do a job.
I'll take that literally. He starts to bully JR by taking his hat and glasses, so Ken Shamrock runs to the ring to save JR, by giving Vader a belly-to-belly suplex. Vader bails, and goes into his WHO'S DA MAN routine while walking backstage. Good build for their match at the PPV, which
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It's Hunter Hearst Helmsley w/Chyna vs. Goldust next. Before the match, Goldust says that ringside is no place for a woman, so Marlena's not allowed out there.
Slug it out, until Goldust gives Hunter two clotheslines. He whips Hunter to the corner, where he goes upside down. 10 punch time, and after #9, Goldie bites him. He gives Hunter a BUTT bump, and a slap to the face, before more 10 punch. But before he can get started, Hunter gives him an inverted atomic drop. Hunter follows that with a high knee, and he tosses Goldust out of the ring, where Chyna kicks him a whole bunch. Marlena comes down to the ring, and we have a...
commercial break.
We're back, and Hunter's giving Goldust a knee to the face. Chyna looks like a man, and Vince pretty much compares her to Ellen, calling her a lesbian. I'd say she's a transsexual. Goldust grabs his own nuts, and clotheslines Hunter. Well. Goldust gives him a bulldog, and Chyna moves towards Marlena. Marlena throws powder at Chyna, and Chyna starts choking Hunter, who came out of the ring to get Goldust. That leads to Hunter being counted out at 4:50 (commercial time not included, obviously). Cute little finish, but the match was no good. *.
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The Undertaker comes on the TitanTron as Hunter and Chyna take the quick road backstage (taking a right in the aisleway and walking around the TitanTron), and says a bit about Austin. He's not too worried about him, and he can do worse to Austin than put him in a wheelchair.
After that, Sable models an Undertaker shirt. When I was a kid, well, you figure it out. Pillman prays for Bulldog to hurt the Undertaker, and we get another funny WWF commercial, where this time, the kid thinks he's Stone Cold Steve Austin.
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The main event is the British Bulldog w/Bret and Owen Hart vs. The Undertaker, in a non-title bout. So, this match did happen more than once.
Unfortunately, we go to a
commercial as soon as the match starts, after a Taker choke toss.
We're back, and Bulldog has Taker up in a delayed vertical suplex, which gets 2. Bulldog misses a clothesline, and gets chokeslammed by Taker. That forces Owen to run-in, at 1:18 (commercial not included). No rating, the entire match happened during the commercial.
Austin comes through the crowd to save Taker(?), and after chasing Owen and Davey away, grabs the WWF Title and celebrates with it. Heh. Austin gives Taker a STUNNER, but while flippin' the bird at him, Taker sits up and gives Austin a chokeslam. Don't particularly care for the Taker/Austin booking. They were trying to pop a buyrate, but it's gonna make Austin seem like a bitch, in the end. Remember, I watched WCW in 1997, not much WWF. Austin sees Bret at the stage, and Bret can't get away. When he tries to, JIM FUCKING NEIDHART comes out, and attacks Austin. Bret hits Austin with a crutch, and that knocks Austin off the stage. That looked like a hard fall, with no added protection. We cut backstage as Austin's being stretchered out, and Pillman has this insane look on his face, to end the show. Loose Cannon, indeed.
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Rating: Good. Three things, though.
1. Too much Austin. Just a bit too much. But having Neidhart come back offsets that.
2. No Mankind. Boo.
3. Title change is good. Very, very good.
Plus, any show that Jesse Jammes gets squashed on is fun. The show had a good crowd, for once.
Best Segment: I got the most enjoyment out of Pillman's look at the end, and Neidhart's return. So that.
Worst Segment: The Shamrock video. Ugh.
Loudest Sound: Austin, Taker, and the Hart Foundation. Figures.
No Sound: Furnas and LaFon, Rocky Maivia and Jesse Jammes. They pushed Rocky too hard, too fast. That's not the right way to analyze why the fans hated him, though. They hated him because he was vanilla. No personality, or natural charisma. Now how that changed, I couldn't say. When he went heel, it was like someone flipped a switch.
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Shorties section is next. I've seen everything there is to offer, so far. I'd like for them to add something obscure today. It only took me 2 hours to type 5 pages. That's a new record.
In reverse order. This was the one that aired second, but since I was watching the Kings game, didn't get around to finishing until about 11:30, my time. So, the shorter one will have to do, won't it. 1 hour, unfortunately.
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Flashback to Starrcade '93, since Flair's coming back as a wrestler soon, and all. My feelings on that match are known. Tony, Larry and Bobby are the announcers this time. No Mike Tenay. Roddy Piper and Ric Flair come to the announce table, and tear into the NWO. They're both sick of the NWO, and want to fight them tonight. Flair goes into his dancing routine, and we cut away, to the show's opening video.
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In typical WCW fashion, we get a US Title defense to open the show, it's Prince Iaukea vs. Dean Malenko, the guy that probably would open the show even if he didn't have the title. Jeff Jarrett joins us in the split screen, and mentions how he's proved himself to Benoit, Flair and Arn Anderson. And at Slamboree, he'll be bringing back the US Title to those guys, after beating Dean. So he says.
Dean gives Iaukea an armwinger, then pulls him by the hair down to the canvas. Iaukea kips up, but Dean applies an armbar. Dean gives him a droptoehold, and Iaukea decides to give him an armdrag, and droptoehold of his own when he gets up. Dean misses a charge to the corner, and then misses another, and Iaukea gives him a superkick for 2. That was kinda strange. Iaukea gives him an ugly backdrop for 2, and we go to the finish. Dean comes back with a powerbomb and rolls on top of Iaukea for a count, but he reverses it, and Dean does the same, before winding up in the ropes. Dean rams him into the buckle and gives him a powerslam, before the TEXAS CLOVERLEAF finishes at 3:01. *3/4. Typical "Dean on Nitro" fare, but Iaukea sucks, and nearly dragged down the match with his presence alone. Damn, they moved him down the card awful quick, too.
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We're jumping quickly from segment to segment, and this one is Juventud Guerrera vs. Syxx for the Cruiserweight Title. Syxx is NWO 4 LIFE BRAH, but none of his buddies showed up. Where's the love?
Juvi gives Syxx a flying headscissors, so Syxx bails to the outside. When he comes back in, he's given a taste of his own medicine, via a Juvi spin kick. Juvi chops Syxx, but he's given a hard spinning heel kick by Syxx. Right in the fucking mush. It was one of those, "bitch, don't steal my fucking moves" things. Syxx gives him a double chop, and some kicks in the corner, which leads to....THE BRONCO BUSTAHHHHHHH. He gives Juvi a headbutt, and then, a delayed vertical suplex which gets 2. Moveset variation! Syxx gives Juvi a legdrop, and then an elbow to the head off the top rop. For some reason, I don't think that's what was supposed to happen. As evidenced when Syxx goes up top again, and gets crotched by Juvi. See. You can't just yell for a guy to come over to you, unless you're Rico. Juvi tries to spring up to give Syxx a hurricanrana, but botches it. Thankfully, he saves himself from embarassment, by landing on his feet. He climbs up instead, and delivers a rana to Syxx, but he leans back, as if it was going to end up in a rollup for Syxx. I'm just typing what I saw. Juvi springboards in from the apron with a somersault dropkick for 2, but he misses a springboard moonsault block. BUZZKILLER time, and Syxx puts him away at 4:37. Juvi tried his best to fuck shit up here, but it's unnoticeable unless you're really looking for it. Still **, and worthwhile.
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On the Road with Lee Marshall in Lakeland, Florida. Ugh, get off my TV.
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Scott Hall, Syxx, and Big Kevin Nash make their way to the announce table now. I love, LOVE how the announcers bail like they're legitimately afraid of the NWO. Little things like that really help a segment. Hey yo, Flair and Piper are dinosaurs. As far as the challenge goes, hey, whatever. Hall don't care. He says the crowd is here to see the NWO, and that's it. Nash wants 75% of the gate if he agrees to fight Piper and Flair. Geez, guy, you're not Ted DiBiase. Gimmick infringement. Syxx says that he wants all the LOOT, BRO. Haha.
Following that, we have a paid announcement brought to you by the NWO. YES!!!!! It's Macho and Liz. The MADNESS IS OUT OF CONTROOOLLLLLLL. He's DDP's master, too. The rapid cut promos featured in these videos probably benefit Macho the most. Makes him sound extra cool. Loved it.
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It's the French Canadians w/Colonel Robert Parker vs. Lex Luger and THE GIANT.
Luger and Carl Oulette start the match. This'll be simple, short and to the point. Luger gives him a hiptoss, and slams Jacques, but both are dastardly foreign cheaters, so they give Luger a double hotshot onto the top rope. Robert Parker starts kicking Luger, and Luger gets rammed into the guardrail. Move forward about a minute, cause the French Canadians are tagging in back and forth and doing a whole lot of nothing. Oulette misses an elbowdrop from the 2nd rope after a kneedrop from the 2nd by Jacques, and now, the GIANT tags in. GIANT clotheslines both, gives both big boots, and the end is near. CHOKESLAM Jacques, TORTURE RACK Carl, and that's it for the French Canadians at 3:02. Crowd went nuts for the finish. *1/2.
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A bit of Reggie White vs. Mongo at Slamboree hype, before Mongo w/Debra vs. the Barbarian. Sounds bad.
Barbarian chokes Mongo, before Mongo gives him a clothesline. Barbarian goes for his finisher early, the piledriver, but he doesn't get it, as Mongo gives him a backdrop. Barb gives Mongo a big boot, and dumps Mongo to the outside. He rams Mongo into the guardrail, and charges into him. The poor family they were fighting next to was sitting down, and the wife looked scared. Legitimately. Barbarian slams Mongo into the post, and throws him back in. Barbarian gives Mongo a piledriver, but it only gets two. I can see where this is going, but I didn't see the way it took to get there. Barbarian gives Mongo some of the 80's OFFENSE(!1!11!1!), which consists of a headbutt, poke in the eye, and a push of the ref. Now, Debra distracts the referee, and Mongo grabs the Haliburton, and in turn, nails Barbarian in the head with it. Yeah, I saw that coming. Mongo picks up the pinfall at 3:04. As bad as it sounds, but short enough to not be a DUD. Just 1/4*.
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Flair and Piper come to the ring, with a microphone. All Flair has to say, is that he wants the NWO out here now. He says he knows he can whip Syxx's ass, and that he's been World Champ more times than Syxx has had pieces of ass. Them's fightin' words. The NWO's music begins to blare throughout the arena, but it cuts off. And now, papers come from out of the ceiling. It's propaganda(!), communist style. COOL. The papers say, Tradition Bites! NWO 4 LIFE. NOW, we go to school. Hall, Nash and Syxx make their way out, and Flair attacks Syxx in the aisleway, giving him the figure-four leglock. Piper is seemingly mesmerized by these papers, so he's just standing in the ring. Not watching the fight, or participating at all. Just reading. Flair's getting his ass beaten by Hall and Syxx, as Nash holds him there for his buddies to hit. The crowd is starting to heel on Piper a bit, until he pulls off his belt, and starts beating Nash with it, to end the show.
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Rating: Good. Didn't drag like some of the 2 hour shows do, thankfully. And when this show goes to three hours, I'm not going to be able to watch both Nitro and RAW in one sitting. Hopefully they're separated, because I won't be able to handle it. The three hour shows are SO LONG. If you've never seen them before, prepare. You think WrestleMania IV was boring? I'm extremely interested in the ending, and seeing where it goes. Remember, I haven't seen this stuff in forever.
Best Segment: The ending. Yeah, I'm a sucker for the NWO, and Piper's indecisiveness. I have to see what happens.
Worst Segment: Mongo vs. The Barbarian. Save me.
Loudest Sound: Luger and the Giant, and the NWO.
No Sound: Prince Iaukea, and Barbarian. Sorry to name a jobber, but I had to.
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I'm typing the RAW review up, starting...now.
10:30 p.m.
• Big ups to Al k, who directed me to this.
Don't you know that having Pork Chop mascots is one of the worst things you can do to a Musl... err, Puerto Rican male. Wait a second. What? When the hell did that become offensive? I have a lot of rap records and don't recall that term being used. Although there was a Short Chop on Ice Cube's one album. Wait a second, I stand corrected. It's
My bad yo.
• Big ups to me, who found this.
Don't you also know that advertising ham for Hanukkah consumption is one of the worst things you can do... oh who am I kidding? All a Jew will do is sue you. I guess they could also hire a hit man to get you, but this mercenary will be the lowest bidder so I'll take my chances.
• You two wanted each other. Enjoy.
Also, if two lesbians get a divorce, does the butch of the couple have to give everything over to the other one and live out of her car?
8 a.m.
• So I had on the Thursday night football game between the Bears and Redskins. Now I’m not one of those people going OMG NFL NETWORK ISN’T ON BASIC CABLE. Look, if you want this channel, then pay a few extra dollars and get it. I don’t watch Lifetime, but there are plenty of people out there who do. Plenty of battered women whose husbands left them and their five kids to be with the office secretary. Not everyone watches sports, which is why if you want more of a certain kind of programming then spend the extra money and knock yourself out. But that’s neither here nor there. I guess I’m getting ready for all the bitching that will take place if/when the Patriots finish their (possible) undefeated regular season on the NFL Network, much like with the Cowboys/Packers game earlier this year.
The reason I brought up the Thursday night game is that maybe it’s best for the NFL Network to be seen by a limited amount of people right now. Holy fuck is Bryant Gumbel awful. I get that not everybody likes Chris Collinsworth; he’s an acquired taste. He’s not my favorite announcer, but I can live with him. Gumbel is just horrible. When I watch something that is supposed to be apolitical, I try to give otherwise political people a chance. Hey, I think Keith Olberman should be strung up for that MSNBC show, but he’s still an excellent sports guy (in my opinion). Gumbel just pisses me off. What did it for me last night was when the Redskins quarterback Jason Campbell got hurt and was taken off the field. Later in the game it was reported he suffered a dislocated kneecap. It was also said that Redskins running back Clinton Portis had told Campbell’s father that he son was going to be OK. Gumbel then snidely makes a remark about Portis and his “medical license.” Fuck you, Bryant. Maybe he was just trying to make Campbell’s dad feel better. Ever think of that you piece of shit? I guess he should have said, "Boy, Mr. Campbell, your son sure is fucked."
What the-? The one line I’m looking for isn’t there.
Bring that beat back.
Bring the beat back.
Bring the beat back.
*wickywickywicky or whatever that DJ record-scratching sound is*
Much better. But the moment has pretty much passed. I tried looking on YouTube for a video to this musical masterpiece, but I had to settle for this other classic. It's sorta relevant to this topic. Yeah, I edited out the opening. Just another case of the white man's oppression.
And W…T…F….?
From the comments section:
True dat, omarkhalid, true dat.
11:45 p.m.
• If Smues can have his shitty entries, then so can I.
8:45 p.m.
• I heard a day or so ago on local radio that the Pirates were talking with the Cleveland Indians about trading Jason Bay. The talks have since died down. Why oh why does anyone buy a ticket to PNC Park?
• Got a second interview at another place tomorrow. Not sure if I feel like writing about this shit yet. After all, if I don’t get either job, what’s the point of talking about it. I think what sucks the most when job-hunting is that you research the company, you customize a resume/cover letter, if you’re lucky, you schedule the first interview, you prepare for the first interview, if you’re luckier you schedule and prepare the second interview. After all that and you don’t get hired, then it’s back to Square One. !@#%&*
• And now it’s time for the Dr. Laura Call of the Day (or whenever I feel like doing this). Dodie calls in and starts talking. Sorry, I was doing work and wasn’t paying much attention. Something about getting a house with her fiancée. Now Dr. Laura wasn’t yelling at this person, so I’m assuming she wasn’t living in sin. Well, when they went to the bank for a mortgage it was revealed that the fiancée had a considerable amount of debt. When asked about this – the lesser half said that he “forgot all about it.”
There's bad movies, and then there's WWE Films.
Ok, I take that back: "The Rundown" was pretty fun. This one is no Rundown though. It's mearly a poor man's "Battle Royale" with a tacked on moral message.
The plot: A new reality show exclusive to the internet has been created by a bigshot Hollywood producer (Robert Mammone). The show puts 10 people on death row on an island, and gives them 30 hours to live. Among the contestants: Jack Conrad (Steve Austin, who does an good job), whose like, got a family you know; and McStarley (Vinnie Jones, who steals the show), who's the sick villain you love to hate. Oh, and there's some message about how violence is wrong. That's right, WWE is telling you that violence is wrong.
What could have been a decent action movie is ruined by some poor performances, stereotypes, overly realistic violence (World Wrestling Entertainment is making a STATEMENT!), a generic soundtrack (come on, Nickleback? Though Grame Revell's score is competant), preachiness, and more. While Austin, Jones, and Masa Yamaguchi do commendable jobs, the rest of the cast is a poorly written blend of dumb kids weened on violent video games (World Wrestling Entertainment is making a STATEMENT!), a sterotypical greedy Hollywood bigshot, the concerned female, the worried wife, and thugs and rapists. Character actor Rick Hoffman (he of "Hostel" and "Cellular" fame) has a performance that could have been better if the screenplay by Rob & Andrew Hedden, who are writers for WWE, knew how to write interesting characters.
Speaking of WWE, the movie is yet another example of how WWE Films essentially fails to deliver on the dumb but fun kind of spectacle you would want. A movie like "See No Evil" could have been a decent throwback to the Slasher flicks of old, but instead was just "Saw" lite. "The Marine" could have been a decent afternoon action flick, but failed even at a rudimentary level. Here, "The Condemned" also could have been a fun action flick, but is bogged down by a preachy message, which reaches MST3K movie levels of ineptitude when the reporter asks the audience "Are we the condemned?" In short, while they are laughably bad, WWE Films so far has yet to create an enjoyable B-Movie.
But hey, who needs that when World Wrestling Entertainment is making a STATEMENT! Too bad for them that Paul Verhoven, George Romero, and even Eli Roth have too, and to much better success.
Rating: 3 out of 10.
Well, not exactly. The strippers aren't $5, but it might cost you that to see some boobies:
Link
Huzzah, I guess. I don't remember hearing of this latest sneaky attempt by our state Legislature to increase sin taxes (again), but, much like per pack cigarette taxes, I don't care too much since I don't go to strip clubs and thus am not affected by it. And, frankly, anything that might help prevent taxes I actually do pay from rising is fine with me.
The problem is that, of course, the government will win the suit, collect this tax, completely waste the money, and then find a new way to tax everyone anyway. So, uh, go strip clubs! Stick it to the man!
My favorite part of the article is this:
One of my favorites (behind "seperation of church and state" and "RAYCISM~!"): the "FREE SPEECH VIOLATION" card.
I know some commie judge will agree with this and overturn the law, but how much of a restriction of free speech is this? The government is not banning strip clubs or imposing more "5 feet away" rules--it's just requiring a $5 cover charge to get in the club. Debate all you want on whether it's fair to levy the fee or not, but I don't get how it's a free speech infringement.
Jose Rijo - Starting Pitcher
New York Yankees 1984
Oakland Athletics 1985-1987
Cincinnati Reds 1988-1995, 2001-2002
Awards
1990 World Series MVP
All-Star Selections: 1 (1994)
League Leader
1991: W/L Pct., WHIP
1993: Strikeouts, K/9
Career Ranks
K/9: 34th
K/BB: 90th
Best Performance
September 25, 1993 - Cincinnati at Colorado
Pitched a complete game, one hitter in Mile High Stadium with a Charlie Hayes single in the 2nd being the only hit.
Hall of Fame Stats
Black Ink: Pitching - 9 (250) (Average HOFer ≈ 40)
Gray Ink: Pitching - 93 (228) (Average HOFer ≈ 185)
HOF Standards: Pitching - 20.0 (289) (Average HOFer ≈ 50)
HOF Monitor: Pitching - 28.0 (446) (Likely HOFer > 100)
Similar Pitchers in HOF: None
Top 10 Similar Pitchers: Sid Fernandez, Bruce Kison, Gary Peters, Ray Culp, Bob Veale, Bob Ojeda, Mike Scott, Don Wilson, Sonny Siebert, Joe Horlen
Year-by-Year Win Shares & Wins Above Replacement Level (WARP3)
1984: 1/0.8
1985: 4/2.3
1986: 5/2.2
1987: 0/0.0
1988: 15/6.3
1989: 9/3.8
1990: 17/6.4
1991: 17/6.9
1992: 19/7.6
1993: 26/11.5
1994: 11/6.1
1995: 4/1.8
2001: 2/0.3
2002: 2/1.1
Career Win Shares: 132
Career WARP3: 57.1
My Stupid Opinion
This is Rijo's second different appearance on the HOF ballot as he was also on the 2001 ballot (received just one vote) but he made a comeback with the Reds later that year. Very good pitcher in the early 90's including a Cy Young caliber year in 1993 but the 257 innings he pitched that season probably did in him as his elbow was never the same. Ended up having four different Tommy John surgeries so he belongs in the infirmary wing of the HOF.
