Art Sandusky

You didn't pick that up during RAW when he was struggling to survive against Tyson Tomko and Christian? To be fair, the story there was that Jericho and Benoit were supposed to be still beat up from the match last night.

So they're going to make the Batista/HHH program non-title? With how JR kept saying it was fate for Orton to challenge for the belt, you'd think he'll end up taking it.

That came right as I said to myself "give them the tag titles and let 'em do a little for that morose division."

I thought it was "Self Love" by Jaguar Wright.

No, you're thinking of "Abracadabra" by the Steve Miller Band.

Okay, I took another listen to Orton's music as he came out at the start of Raw tonight, and it's actually "Happy When It Rains" by The Jesus and Mary Chain.

Maybe I just have the misfortune of running into the worst of each crowd, but for every example of a nice guy that's a fan of that stuff, I've met ten that aren't.

They tried a very interesting twist I never thought of with an Edge/Michaels confrontation, with Michaels trying to motivate Edge to go and win the Rumble and focus on the future rather than dwelling on the past. It'd be a nice change of pace to see someone go through a legitimate drawn-out positive change of heart instead of these neck-snapping face/heel turns that have been going on ('cept with Batista). So of course they have Edge do the opposite and get into a pull-apart with Michaels. They have nothing for Simon Dean, it would seem. Kane annhilated him, and then he kinda vanished as Snitsky came out of the crowd and beat down Kane. Looks like they're going to drag this out even more, even after what should have been the blowoff last night. Guess there's nothing for Snitsky or Kane to do either. Such is the problem when you give someone a big heel push based on their hatred of one guy, you can't get him away from that person without wondering why you care about him anymore. I personally stopped caring before Kane was "injured" in the first place.

Looks like they took the "HHH didn't help you" route. That Edge accidentally speared Shawn Michaels was glossed over on commentary. Very frustrating. Decent show so far, but I can't think of a winner of the Orton/Batista #1 Contender match that I'd like to win. Orton winning would mean HHH's promise to have Batista's back failed again and hurry his split from Evolution, but it would also give us Orton/HHH at the Rumble instead of Wrestlemania. Batista winning makes the split quicker also, and pretty much sets Orton/HHH for Wrestlemania. Okay, guess I'd rather have Orton win just so him and HHH can finish their program already. It's also frustrating that Orton has to be the guy that gets Batista to "see the light" or some shit like that. I think he was doing well enough on his own.

Well, people devoted to both are pricks. Same with people who are really into the import tuning scene. And Japanese music. People who are really devoted to some facet of Japanese culture are just really big assholes and I can't figure out why.

Suprised you could type so many letters with your fingers covered in mashed potatoes. As terrible as it was, the mental image was too funny.

That song is so hot right now. Exactly, which is why it's a part of Mixaroonie XLI (get online for it, sucka) and Randy Orton's theme music. Whoever said "Bohemian Rhapsody" is just lying. And unoriginal.

Okay okay, it's really called "Cherish the Day" by Plummet.

I don't think they should play it like that. Part of the beauty of this "almost feud" is that Batista has been in 100% control. Every time Batista does something, for once HHH looks completely shocked and helpless. Instead, they should have Batista join the praise-HHH bandwagon, but after every compliment say "Of course, if it weren't for me you wouldn't be wearing that belt. Ha ha ha, just kidding." That puts Batista in the driver's seat again. And when the split finally comes (and it goddamn well better), it should be BATISTA that makes the break. Have HHH spew some of his shit, and then Batista says very calmly "You know, I think I've had just about enough of you," and then powerbomb HHH through a table, knocking him cold. He should then say to a stunned Ric Flair "When he wakes up, tell him I'll be back for my belt." That would make the crowd jizz itself. Okay, you win the prize.

That's not as bad as I expected to hear.

"Superman" by The Kinks.

Bustin' out all OOOOOOOOOOOOVER~!

The sports bar totally died when Batista was eliminated. Some people even left before the match ended, heard saying "I don't give a shit what happens now" and other variants. I suppose they could further this by HHH taking all the credit for his win or have Batista ask why he didn't help him out when he was RKOed, since HHH was just kinda sitting back and watching Batista get pinned. I picked Edge to win, so much for that.

I'm not going to do it myself, but I'd be curious to see the statistics on how many teams have won playoff games while committing three turnovers or more.

You're aware that really only applies with college sports, right. Well, that and the NFL only has two conferences, with eight divisions.

Looks like the defense only had about three good series in it. Anything is still theoretically possible, but this is looking like a worst case scenario for Green Bay fans. HHH had better not win that Elimination Chamber tonight, or this is going to be a pretty sour day. And now we're out of timeouts. Oh geez, don't talk about Sherman's future being uncertain in Green Bay. I can't think of a replacement that would do any better.

Use it as motivation all day if you want, but don't make it sound like one team is blessed.

Please don't bring that into this. I didn't like it last year when they made the Packers playoff run look like it was being driven by Favre's father, and I sure as hell don't want it being done with Reggie. Makes the other team look like they're evil or something. ... even if they are the Vikings.

I swear, this game is going to kill me. Only the Vikings would be this pesky to where we're forced to try and bring the fatal dagger twice in three weeks.