The Tino Standard

FYI: Despite being completely unmotivated about ordering this show until about 10:55, I ended up buying it. I'm glad I did. Entertaining show that kept my interest from start to finish.

What the deuce?

That picture with Grisham standing next to DiBiase as he holds a fist full o' bills made me laugh.

yeah, the chicks on that show were the worst...Frankie with her pathetic whiney emo crap...blondie, can't think of her name, that was way too immature for the show...psycho ass Robin, though her huge tits made her tolerable...wasn't there a nice little Asian chick on there as well? Brad, Randy and Jaquis were funny as shit together and made that season watchable. Wow, how disposable are the people on these shows? I watched every episode of that season and I can't even picture that blonde, let alone remember her name. Did she do anything of note? EDIT: OK, I'm bored enough here that I looked it up. Her name was Cameran.

San Diego was pretty good, but the Frankie stuff just got so repetitive that I often found myself saying "You are not hot enough to justify this much screen time with your emo bullshit." Fitz is a pain in the ass this year, but at least she's nice to look at.

I want to know when teams are going to realize that when it comes to making an advertisement, either in print or television, the ad that requires less reading always wins. As soon as Tarek shot down the voice-over idea and said all the printed words on the screen was fine, I immediately told my roommate, "They're fucked."

They should use that JR-Tazz-Lawler combo for cross-brand PPVs. And regardless of whether you like Joey Styles or not, he's getting hosed here. It would be one thing if JR was coming in to call all the matches, but he's just doing Raw matches? That's an F-U to Styles, and not much more.

I'm glad to see Wayne back in the fold. As somebody who's watched this since season 1, I was a little pissed that the Palmer assassination storyline was so arbitrarily abandoned. Maybe now that's going to end up being the big story down the stretch, tying everything together.

Tarek might as well pack his bags now. There is no way he can get thrashed by Trump THAT badly, THAT many times and still win. It's over for him. Thanks for playing.

You know, I think that "Wrestlemania: Big Time!" moment was already used. Like when Edge won the belt in January, the next night on Raw, that was the first one.

Just out of curiosity, what did you like about the finale of 3 more than 4? I thought 4 was the best finale of them all, although I would agree that when you look at every season as a whole, 1 stands out over all of them.

Test needs to bring back the flying elbow he briefly used as a finisher. Too many guys have boring-ass, basic finishers. I always thought the flying elbow was an old-school, yet still cool move, especially for a big guy. It's better than the Big Boot o' Doom and pumphandle slam, anyway.

http://www.nj.com/sopranos/ledger/index.ss...easonsix_3.html Really good analysis piece from a TV critic at the Star-Ledger in New Jersey.

See, I think they were foreshadowing Tony having a heart attack. He kept eating the Chinese food and that "something doesn't feel right" look on his face after he got done eating there by himself... He weighed himself repeatedly... His new insurance card arrived... He got REALLY bent out of shape and worked up when he went to see Bobby and Janice... Vito's health-conscious comments... And then BOOM, Junior comes walking in and blasts him. That's great writing when a show leads you in one direction, only to shock you by going in another direction, but still end up making perfect sense.

Unless they have Survivor Series at MSG, that's going to break a streak dating back to '92 (possibly longer) of having a PPV at the Garden every other year. 1994 - WM X 96 - Survivor Series 98 - SummerSlam 2000 - Royal Rumble 02 - Survivor Series 04 - WM XX I know there's the issue with rent going up at MSG, thus making it much less lucrative to go there, but that's a damn shame they aren't running ANY shows there. I'm not a NY guy, but seeing a WWE event on TV from that arena just looks cooler. And you know the wrestlers put on their working boots there. That's one building you just do NOT half-ass it in.

I don't know. I liked it, but I think where it might fall flat for some was that there was a pretty elaborate set up to get Ted and Victoria together, then three or four episodes where they were basically background characters getting no development and then BOOM, they're split up. Hard to really care too much about that when you aren't given time or reason to get attached to that story.

With Chavo running in on Orton's match last week and Orton costing Chavo a MITB match spot, I'm getting the feeling that Chavo is going to get the final F-U in this by costing Orton the match at WM, opening the door for a Mysterio win. It will help Orton save face if there is a plan to have him face Mysterio at Judgment Day, and it will allow Rey and Chavo to celebrate in the ring with the belt to bring closure to the whole Eddie story in a pretty contrived and forced "Wrestlemania moment" that they can replay in clips for years.

As it was already stated, going this route would probably not work because it was just done at NYR. However, if the Cena-HHH match goes on last at WM, that might be a tip-off that something screwy is going to happen to close out the show. Think about the match order at the Royal Rumble, where the Rumble was put in the midcard for the sole purpose allowing the Undertaker to blow up the ring with lightning.

I don't think that's entirely fair.... 1. He brought stability to the Raw brand while Smackdown went through a parade of GMs. 2. When he first came in, he was a pretty dynamic character instead of the generic heel boss. Eventually, he devolved into that, and I think that is more the writers' fault than Bischoff's. After the first Taboo Tuesday, it seemed like he was getting back into that tweener role, but they pulled the plug on it before people even bought into it, which was a shame. I guess what I'm most disappointed about was how after multiple times of Bischoff dodging the bullet of Vince threatening to replace him throughout his tenure, it finally happened. Then after weeks of vignettes with Vince interviewing new candidates for the job, the whole angle was just scrapped without explanation. I'm guessing once the Vince/Shawn thing plays out at WM, Vince will come out in the next night and resume the search for the next GM, but unless Bischoff shows up to screw over Vince at WM, the whole thing is blown at this point.

There's that faux CNN that is shown every now and then too, but yeah, it's most Fox News.

In 2000-1, when business was a lot hotter than it is now, at least one undercard guy had to take a second job to make ends meet. Undercard guys make shit. I remember Crash Holly having to be a bouncer on the side to make enough money. Did he have the scale with him at the door and then use it to bash drunks over the head when fights broke out?

Did you not read what I just posted? WWE.com is already advertising that the show is going to be broadcast live at 8 p.m. on NBC.

Not sure if this was posted elsewhere, but for those who were saying that the new Saturday Night's Main Event would be "plausibly live," airing at 11:30 in the SNL timeslot, WWE.com has a story on its home page saying SNME will air live at 8 p.m. (7 central) on NBC.

For clarity's sake, all that was supposedly going down around WM XIX, not XX.

Does anybody know where I can find last week's episode (2/6/06) online? My DVR screwed me over royally. If there's a web site where you can get 24 episodes that you know of, I'd be eternally grateful. Send me a PM.