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Good God. Everytime I allow myself to forget how much older I am than most of you, one of you bastards has a sweet sixteen and reminds me... - Dub Cee... is older than dirt (but not older than Mark) PS - Happy B-day to Show, and a belated one to IL.

Okay, cool; just wanted to make sure I'd have enough time to write. In that case: You're dead meat, fella!

Would it be too much to ask that someone confirm that the deadline is in fact Nov 1, and I'm not just reading that wrong?

Bah. Me thinks ye doth protest too much. If you ask me, we need more jobber matches on the weekly shows. I know I wouldn't mind padding my win total with a few squashes.

I'd like to see Lana Starr get over using her WOW gimmick, but I doubt the WWE would make any effort to push her. Riot vs. Victoria would be interersting.

Hey, I just realized there's a PPV right around the corner! Shill, you lazy bastards! Shill!

Now serving number 6!

Is anyone else interested in me doing this again? If five people raise their hands (counting Strangler), I'll try it again for Storm.

For a show in which CC reports that every match was won by no-show, I was personally quite entertained. Congrats to Johnny on a well-written title defense. Va'aiga continues to steamroll the competition. I mark everytime he comes up with a different way to describe the LAAAARIIIIOOOOOTOOOOH~! J&R continue to kick ass, but then, everyone already knew that. We'll get 'em next time, X!

Figured it was the least I could do, considering...

SWF Smarkdown HOLT report October 27, 2003 San Antonio, TX at SBC Center Report by Terrence York of Houston, TX, Smartmarks.com reader Dark Matches: - Viktor Tarakanov beat J.T. Playa in a 45-second squash with the Bolshevik Revolution. - Todd Royal beat Tommy Nguyen in 4:39 by holding the tights. - Nathaniel Kibagami beat SJL developmental talent Daemon in 6:58 with the Fall From Grace, after no-selling a burning hammer. As he was about to leave the ring, David Blazenwing ran in from the crowd (I guess he bought a ticket, or something), and attacked Kibs. But the Silent One soon turned the tables, and gave Blazenwing the Riot of the Blood in the center of the ring, to a HUGE pop! Smarkdown: - Cyclone Comet sang the National Anthem; there wasn’t a dry eye in the house. - Erek Taylor got up after the show went to commercial and took the mike from Funyon. He demanded that Strangler come back out to meet him in the ring, and then called him everything but a child of God, demanding to stay in the ring until Strangler came back out. He spent the whole break ripping both Strangler and the crowd, which got him a TON of heat! But, about a minute before the show, Mark Stevens came down to the ring with about 10 off-duty SAPD police officers, and escorted Taylor out of the ring. - The crowd was really digging Craven after he came through in the “Don’t pull the Commissioner’s Punk Card” match, but afterwards, he got on the mike and ran down the state of Texas and the Alamo, until he got the crowd to boo him again. - After Smarkdown went off the air, Justice and Rule went back up the ramp, and Wildchild and Johnny Dangerous stood in the center of the ring staring at each other for what seemed like over three minutes. Wildchild eventually left the ring and started to walk up the ramp, but Johnny grabbed the mike from Funyon, and asked him to hold on. He asked the crowd if they’d like to see Wild and Dangerous get back together tonight, which everyone popped loud for. They even started playing “In Da Club” over the loudspeakers, which got a HUGE pop. Wildchild even walked back down the ramp, and it looked like he was going to join Johnny in the ring, but he just walked around to retrieve his chest protector and walked back up the ramp. Johnny followed a few minutes later, and Funyon got into the ring to thank everyone who came out to see the show. Best Pops. 1) Xstasy 2) Wildchild and Johnny hitting the double-dropkick to Ejiro 3) Kibs hitting the Riot of the Blood on Blazenwing. 4) Strangler 5) Craven (before he grabbed the mike) Loudest Boos 1) Erek Taylor 2) Justice & Rule 3) Va’aiga 4) Craven (after he grabbed the mike) 5) Xero (This came off as mostly X-Pac heat, though)

... Well, at least now I know what happened...

The Kings' depth doesn't really factor in the playoffs, anyway; they go to an eight man rotation, which is not only intact, but improved. Barring a season-ending injury to either Webber or Stojakovic, there's a zero-percent chance that the Kings get eliminated in the first round.

2003 Detroit Shock. Went from league-worst to league champions in one season. ... What do you mean you don't watch the WNBA?

So, basically what you're saying is that there's only one standard for success?

You make it sound like the Yankees walked off the field in the middle of the game, and never came back.

I don't understand how society has come to the point where people are raised to believe that if you aren't the undisputed king of the hill, and Lord and Master of all you survey, then you're a failure in life. Everybody can't be on top; there's not enough room.

But, does quitter = failure, though? And Pippen may have indeed rode Jordan's coattails, but as true as it is that Pippen never won without Jordan, it is equally true that Jordan never won without Pippen.

I know, right? The Yankees have only won three championships in my six-year son's lifetime. Yankee fans are sooo deprived... [/sarcasm]

What about Scottie Pippen, then?

That's very... sad. I don't even know how else to respond to that.

He's not going to be remembered as a loser though, will he? Winning kinda does change your perception in people's minds. And if he was a good loser, he wouldn't have had the fire and drive to come back and succeed. Losing gracefully on the outside doesn't make you a good loser on the inside. Well, by that standard, the Yankees shouldn't be considered losers, either.

You have a very narrow definition of "drought."

I dunno; David Robinson always struck me as a good loser. At the very least, he was a gracious loser. EDIT - I meant 'gracious,' not 'graceful.'

You're very young, aren't you? If you feel like a failure if you don't win at everything, or aren't perfect, you're going to have a very miserable life.