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So, the big rumor in Cincy is that Dusty wants Prior and Wood in Cincy. Wood has talked to Dusty since getting the Reds gig, and Prior and Dusty still have a good relationship. Sweet, start printing those 2008 World Series tickets right now. I wonder if Neifi Perez is available.

I have everyone on ignore except myself, and I'm seriously considering putting myself on ignore for some bad posts I've read by me.

Ya. The Smackdown/ECW taping I went to Sep. 25th, he had a dark match w/ Kahli for the title. After the match, there was a kid (around 8) who had gotten a pair of black trunks to match Batista's and actually took his shit off and just wore the trunks and was standing up on his chair in the 1st row. When batista was posing in the corners of the ring, after he won the match and kahli had gone to the back, he got to the post by where the kid was and started to climb the turnbuckles, but saw the kid and fell back down laughing. He was pointing at the kid and told one of the security guys to get the kid and bring him up. The security helped the kid over the guardrail and got up in the ring w/ Batista. Batista posed with the kid for the crowd in the middle of the ring and shook the ropes with the kid. Then he handed him the belt and the kid posed w/ it in the middle of the ring and climbed the turnbuckles in the corner and posed with it. After all that, which lasted around 10 minutes, Batista walked around the ringside and gave fives to everyone who had their hand out. If he missed someone, he went back and made sure he got everybody. It was crazy. I didn't expect anything like that from him. I have a hard time respecting anyone who writes something like this. I don't give a fuck how many hands he has slapped. "Now, don't get me wrong, my ex-wife is the love of my life and I would never knowingly hurt her. However, while I was busting my BUTT on the road like a dog, she would sit around the house and do nothing. I mean, yeah, she had cancer, but she couldn't vacuum? And since the chemo made her "not in the mood", I had no choice but to have threesomes on the road. I mean, she's talented and I hated to see her waste her life like that when she could be a dancer, or maybe a nurse. But she's not a bad person and I take full responsibility for my actions, even though it was her fault." -From Batista's book

A couple of people on the torch forum were saying Santino should start using the stunner, acting like he invented it in his deadpan way. I think it's a great idea. What do you guys think?

"I brushed my teeth with my finger" - Bret Hart "Then it was time to hit the shower. Dean and I usually ended up crying because Smith and Bruce would pee in our mouths or blast us right in the eyes, which burned." - Bret Hart on his weird family "Before I knew it I was lying naked on an inflated mattress, drinking cold beer, watching as a cute, naked Japenese girl lathered herself in soap and slid all over me, washing me with her pussy. - Bret Hart in Japan Some interesting quotes from Bret's new book

Yeah, Beth grabbing Candice by the fucking hair and pulling her head is bordline fire worthy in my opinion. That just shows a blatant disregard for a fellow performers well being, something which should always be the first priority in the ring. You can even hear the ref say somewhat angerly "easy" and "no" as Beth tries to pull her up by her head. Seriously, what the fuck was she thinking. If it had been a neck injury, Candice would have quite the lawsuit.

WWE.com reports that Candice has been taken to a local hospital with a possible shoulder injury.

She looked blown up going to the top rope, maybe because it was a bit longer than a usual diva's match, at least a one on one match. Perhaps she was tired and therefore didn't hit the planned spot (which I assume was getting crotched on the turnbuckle).

, If Michelle was forced to adhere to this policy she would have a show with only her, and possibly Pat Patterson.

Dixie does the locker room: From Keller At a party after the first two-hour Impact taping, Dixie Carter partied with wrestlers and let her guard down more than she ever has (the partying included, eye-witnesses say, "navel shots" being done with various wrestlers). Although many thought it was unbecoming of her, other thought it showed she wasn't uptight and was willing to really let loose around the performers. Vince McMahon has been known to let loose, too, including partying with wrestlers once in the early-1990s and having each of them give him their finisher in a bar. It's believed the Doomsday Device is what caused McMahon to have neck problems and require neck surgery shortly thereafter... The Oct. 11 TNA Impact drew a 1.1 rating once again...

This from Keller: Kevin Nash and Scott Hall have sent out word they will not be appearing at a fan convention this weekend in San Francisco, Calif. as advertised since they did not receive their deposit ahead of time as promised Also, rumors are running around that a lot of the guys haven't received any upfront money. I love it.

Baseball managers are overrated anyway. I'd argue the Yankees would have close to the same record with any reasonable manager.

#569--My Larry King line was completely no sold. How can anyone not find the thought of Larry King in a Badstreet USA shirt at least slightly amusing.

Who was the actor that was photographed in a Badstreet shirt a few years back? I remember the pic but the name escapes me now. Larry King

Even MLB hates fantasy sports: While the Colorado Rockies were making headlines with their march to the World Series, Major League Baseball was striking out in a St. Louis courtroom. The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has upheld (PDF) a lower court's ruling that player names and stats are not copyrightable in a case that pitted a "renegade" fantasy sports operation against Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association CBC Distribution and Marketing v. MLB dates back to near the beginning of the 2006 baseball season. CBC had licensed stats and player data from MLB for a decade, but MLB and the MLB Players Association decided to attempt to rein in the number of fantasy sports leagues, signing exclusive deals with larger fantasy sites like ESPN and Sportsline. CBC decided to press on with its own online offerings without MLB's blessing and was promptly sued. MLB argued that its player names and stats were copyrightable and that CBC—or any other fantasy league—couldn't operate a fantasy baseball league without the blessing of MLB (and that blessing would come in the form of a multimillion-dollar licensing agreement). CBC countered that the data was in the public domain and as such, it had a First Amendment right to use it. In August 2006, a US District Court sided with CBC, issuing a summary judgment ruling that the First Amendment trumped MLB's right of publicity (which gives celebrities and other public figures some rights over how their likeness is used). "The names and playing records of major league baseball players as used in CBC's fantasy games are not copyrightable," wrote Judge Mary Ann Medler. "Therefore, federal copyright law does not preempt the players' claimed right of publicity." MLB appealed the decision, and in oral arguments a few months ago, attempted to convince the court that a fantasy league using player data without permission was like a renegade company printing and selling posters of players. In its de novo (essentially starting from scratch) review, the Circuit Court rejected MLB's arguments in a 2-1 decision. "First, the information used in CBC's fantasy baseball games is all readily available in the public domain, and it would be strange law that a person would not have a First Amendment right to use information that is available to everyone," wrote the judges in their opinion. There's a lot of money at stake here. Fantasy sports have become a multibillion-dollar business with a wide reach (including into the Orbiting HQ, where this writer sits at the top of the Ars staff fantasy football league), and major sports leagues have lucrative licensing deals with larger fantasy sports sites. Should the decision stand—and it appears that MLB has as good a chance of prevailing at this point as the Tampa Bay Devil Rays do of winning the 2008 AL East pennant—it could lead some fantasy sites to refuse to sign new deals with MLB. Why pay millions of dollars for data when you can get it for free? Major League Baseball did not immediately respond to Ars Technica's request for comment on this story.

I believe Dunn played a few times at first and was abysmal but I do agree that as long as they intend to keep Junior around, they'll have to shift Dunn back to first. I believe Hamilton used to catch, maybe they'll consider giving that a shot since they aren't strong at catcher to begin with anyways. Griffey has a player option for 2009, and if Bruce is solid in right field the Reds have no reason to exercise it. I forgot that the Reds also have Joey Votto at first base, so moving Dunn there is out. Josh Hamilton to my knowledge has never played catcher professionally, moving him there would be a bad joke. That leaves Dunn, Hamilton, Griffey, Bruce and Freel for the outfield. Bruce can get more experience at AAA but let's look at this rationally. You have too many outfielders (one with a team option for this year and one next). You have too few pitchers. The Reds should absolutely trade Griffey. He's down to a reasonable contract and his value is high and he's not the right fielder of the future. The Reds don't have a solid team but with Dunn, Bruce, Votto and Homer Bailey, they may have a hell of a core. They also have Johnny Cueto, whose rated as perhaps one of the 3 best pitching prospects in baseball down at AAA, along with Phillips whose 26 and Encarnacion whose 23. This year I play Hamilton, Dunn and Griffey in the outfield, and use Bruce when Griffey or Hamilton get hurt. Next year I let Griffey walk and have Bruce, Hamiliton and Dunn as the outfield, with Votto, Phillips, Encarnacion and whoever at short. It'd be nice to have a catcher hit over .200 as well.

Rumors are flying in Cincy that Dusty Fucking Baker is the next Reds manager.

It looked like he was sporting some new plugs

If any show deserves to make it, that would be poolside chats with Neil Hamburger. Then again the network censors would rip the heart out of the show.

What the fuck is that? The pitcher walks three to load the bases, you get a 3-1 count and then fucking swing at ball four to hit into a DP. Mark must owe a fucking bookie.

One nice looking mud bath.

And that's it. Damn, I was hoping for a Cubs/Phillies NL Championship series. It looks highly unlikely right now.

The games look and sound fine to me, I don't get all the bitching here. No stupid shit like scooter. Some of you will complain about anything.

There's the Kyle Loshe we loved in Cincy. Gotta love Loshe.

Vickie is not a cougar, maybe if she lost 35 pounds.