Art Sandusky

When's the next batch of "this person lost viewers, this person gained them" stats coming out?

I'll have you know I've never watched a single solitary second of that show. I did however watch a little of Comedy Central's spoof.

Every time I expect there to be a misstep in the current Batista push, they keep it going in the most ideal way possible with little deviation (ie. beating the tag champs last night in less than two minutes; something that wasn't preferable but necessary since they're the only heel tandem on Raw that comes to mind). Just keep him cool and it's all good. Make it so whenever he raises his voice it makes his opponent shit themselves, since it's so rare. As someone said earlier, make him the thinking man's hoss. Instead of "BATISTA SMASH" give us "that wasn't cool man, slow your roll." S'long as they can keep up that sort of character, they can have him make a good run for however long WWE feels they have left with him. What truly strikes me as important is that the Rumble happens to come at the most critical point of his current fan acceptance. Different characters I know, but at the moment Batista is at the point where they screwed up with Eugene. Crowd's behind him, pops for backstage appearances, in-ring action, and peripheral things (mentions by others, being shown walking to the ring, etc.), but what was done with Eugene was that it was put into overdrive and he was suddenly the focus of everything seemingly, with merchandise out the ass. The crowd at SummerSlam shows what will happen if they do this with Batista. Keep it simple, and keep him cool. He doesn't strike me as a guy who does stuff for the crowd, but rather because he said he'd do it. Don't give him a little signal to the crowd that he's about to execute his finisher, don't have him look around for approval after hitting big moves, just have him wrestle in his own world and after victories do like last night. Get up on the corners and flex a bit, show that you did what you said you would, but not in a manner that's saying "take pictures of me!" like Orton or someone else. If nothing else, he sold me on his relaxed, yet ass-kicking personality last night when you could hear him say "that's gotta hurt" while backing up the ramp after his match.

If it wasn't impossible to do, I'd merge all the threads in HD since the beginning into one thread and then put them back as seperate ones just to see how massive that one thread would be.

It was originally to get Banky's goat (or whatever goat equivalent there was millions of years ago when he was interesting), but the more I thought about it the better it seemed to actually go through with it.

And you look like a suburban white kid.

You're all missing what's really important here. COACH IN THE RUMBLE Holy shit, this is going to be the best Rumble ever.

But he's a third generation superstar. Or something.

Meatwad, why are you afraid of me.

Hey, DerangedHermit, can I edit your posts in this thread. I'm nice and ask first.

If you don't realize why this was the next logical step for this folder (and more specifically, the styles of the people here), oh man.

Same here. That Alcatraz movie with Clint Eastwood in it.

Point.

But that's a real folder.

Yea, eat shit. If ANYONE gets that gig, its me. Your time has passed. And Paul is terrible. Ugh. Passed? why? Go back to Jurassic Park with all the other dinosaurs. holy shit, i'm gonna shit twice and die. you ARE a moderator. Hey, take it to my folder.

To celebrate my new moderator powers, I think I'll just leave for a few hours. Won't use 'em or anything. You know, 'cause I can choose to not use them unlike those of you who aren't confronted with such a choice in the first place. Everyone play nice.

Sadly, he's probably right. Eww.

Yea, eat shit. If ANYONE gets that gig, its me. Your time has passed. And Paul is terrible. Ugh. Passed? why? Go back to Jurassic Park with all the other dinosaurs.

Kyliejunge (8:43:43 PM): Hey, make me HD moderator. IllustriousOne85 (8:43:45 PM): Ok.

I'm not going to actually USE it or anything. I think a moderator just to have a moderator would fit in well with the new attitude the place has, or had before these people came back and made it feel like 2003 or some shit.

Yea, eat shit. If ANYONE gets that gig, its me. Your time has passed. And Paul is terrible. Ugh.

Make me HD mod. I totally won't use it except to clear out Prince Paul/Brain/Troll of the Month cameo appearances. I just want a neat thing under my name, and "Hardcore Discussion Moderator" makes me sound hard.

1999 Raw/Heat/Smackdowns were extremely volatile shows that dared you to try and make sense of what went on from week to week, and the numbers were huge.

True.

"The coldest winter I ever had was summer in San Francisco."