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Heh; Atlanta winning two against Boston has got to be about the worst-case scenario for Ripper; they might fuck around and re-sign Woodson now...

It's funny how two people can look at the same thing and see something completely different. To me, the 2003 (Spurs/Nets), 2004 (Pistons/Lakers) and 2005 (Spurs/Pistons) Finals were the three Finals series I've enjoyed the most since I first started to really get into basketball in the early nineties. I didn't enjoy the Bulls dynasty at all, despite the fact that I actually lived north of Chicago for the first three. I liked the Rockets run alright; I mostly enjoyed their second run for the way they swept Orlando (even when he was a rookie, I didn't like Shaq, and since I was stationed in Orlando in '95, all I heard was Magic this, Magic that, for four months, and I couldn't stand it)... Come to think of it, I generally considered all of Shaq's championships as unwatchable. I enjoy watching Tim Duncan play, and I appear to be the only person outside of San Antonio who likes Bruce Bowen. Plus, the Admiral was always one of my favorite players, even before I decided that I wanted to join the Navy. In fact, it may well be my military background that explains why I like the Spurs so much: they just seem like a "lead from the top down" organization, and it appeals to me.

I'm taking a momentary break from the seventies to select: Musiq Soulchild - Aijuswanaseing Easily one of my favorite albums to come out this decade; Musiq is a soulful singer with great range, and I really enjoyed the beats on his songs as well, particularly L' Is Gone, which features a sample from an album I hope to take later in this draft, possibly even with my next pick. Besides, you had to know that an artist whose voice and style has been compared to Stevie F. Wonder was going to be on my draft board...

Here's a question that I think bears some thought: is Tim Duncan still the best player on the Spurs?

BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHA! [Carlin] Fuck the Suns. Fuck 'em up the ass with a big rubber dick! [/Carlin]

Man, they're fucking killing Phoenix on that switch; Shaq is getting ate the fuck up.

This is relative; the Kings were awful, but they sold the place out. Four hundred ninety-seven consecutive sellouts from 25 October 1985 until 2 November 1997, which is 4th-longest of all time, IIRC. And then they started another streak after they signed Webber, which had been the longest active streak until this season... Now whether or not you consider that a success as an NBA market depends on your point of view, I guess.

Did Jalen Rose just compare Tim Duncan's game tonight to child abuse?

:: raises hand :: Even if I'm wrong, I'd love to find out...

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WC's not good enough on the stick to pull that off... In fact, he's not good on the stick at all. Johnny and I had considered doing a crossover with OAOAST a while back, where I'd have tried WC as a heel, but with Johnny doing all the talking.

Yeah, but Nelson having mind control over Avery Johnson also had a little to do with it. I think that Eddie Jordan and Doc Rivers are washes as coaches, and Jordan certainly doesn't have the history with the Celtics to give him that psychological advantage the way that Nelson did with Dallas.

Did Steamboat ever work as a heel in any major promotion/top-tier territory? How about Tito Santana? Whenever somebody asks me about turning WC heel, those are the two that I use as my measuring stick.

If you say so... I wouldn't put money on Washington to beat Boston.

Damn that: I demand Cleveland/Boston. Plus, I can't stand the Wizards.

Damn, no love for Bruner/Va'aiga?

"Threeish" is one thing; I still had a ton of ideas at the three-year mark... I'm going on six now...

This question is more geared towards the oldheads, but the newbs can answer if they like, too. I still have the urge to write, but if I keep going, I don't see myself writing Wildchild for much longer. As much as I love the Cruiserweight Division, it's only a matter of time before I want to go back to tag writing, which I guess you could call my first "love," and I made peace a long time ago with the fact that I don't want WC tagging with anybody other than Johnny... Recent storyline developments have opened up the opportunity for me to write as Bruner, and I'm looking forward to the challenge of writing a monster heel after doing a cruiser babyface for my entire "career. " But Bruner wasn't a character that I created with any intentions of writing him full-time, and I'm a little unsure of where to go with him once the present storyline has run its course. I mean, I've got one idea on the table right now, but beyond that, I've got bupkiss. And, even if Va'aiga ends up sticking around for a while this time, there's only so far a guy like Bruner can go as a full-time wrestler, when there's only one other guy on the roster that's even half his size. I mean, even if I can't think of anything to do with him once what I'm doing now has run it's course, I plan to write him often enough for him to remain a credible threat, but he's really more of a "Tonight, you'll be facing.... KAAAANE!"-type guy than somebody that should be mucking up the WHC scene for any length of time. So, to the question: what do you do when you still have the itch to write, but you feel like you've either taken the character as far as it can go or, in WC's case, as far as you intend for the character to go? For those of you that switched characters, did you find it hard to get used to writing as the new character? Aside from two or three matches I've written as Bruner, I think I may only be second to Spike (and maybe MANSON?) for longest span writing the same character without any significant period of writing as someone else, and I have occasionally found it difficult to adjust my writing style to writing a character that's not physically capable of doing a lot of the stuff that WC can do. How do you feel your new character(s) are received? Speaking for myself, for example, I've enjoyed some people's secondary characters better than others (I never did get into Tim Dillon, for example, but IL/Andrew Rickman is aces; I didn't care for Coy West, either, but Ejiro was one of the best that ever did it). If you try something and it doesn't get over, do you go back to your OC, try something else, or just say fuck it?

For my next trick: http://i23.tinypic.com/10sgajs.gif http://visualdensity.com/virb/toppled.gif http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v194/max.../childabuse.gif

Man, it seems sometimes like most of the best music ever produced, in pretty much every genre, was made in the seventies... James Brown - The Payback Honestly? I would have picked this album just for the title track, but since I've had a chance to listen to the whole album, I was very impressed with the songs here. Interestingly enough, the wiki page on this album said that it was originally intended to be used as the sound track for the Blaxploitation film Hell Up in Harlem, but the director rejected it for not being "James Brown enough."

Bah! Turkoglu is putting up career numbers across the board, and is almost the singular reason why the Magic are going to the playoffs... It's already bad enough that he got snubbed for the All-Star game.

I was. And now I'm curious to know what possessed you to go looking for that?

How in the fuck did you do that? Or, more to the point, how did you know that tag was there?

Taker gets no props for winning the Royal Rumble? And didn't you forget THAT SUBMISSION HOLD~! as a signature move? I'd rate Taker over Michaels, but I'm also admittedly biased against Michaels.