The Czech Republic

I think it would be even better if as a rib, someone on Raw justifies his on-air tardiness to being drugged and kidnapped.

New music? Dare I say old. Get a rock band that doesn't eat shit (come on WWE, I have faith in you, you can do it if you try!) to do a cover of the old Monday Night Raw theme. Just an updated rendition of the classic would be better than "RAW IS WAR'S A PHONE! IN BRETT HULL!" or "Mooooove to the muZAAAAK play that ---'kin' muZAAAAAK"

Bradley Center in Milwaukee, WI seats 19,000 people. Gund Arena in Cleveland, OH seats 20,000 people Philips Arena in Atlanta, GA seats 15,000 people. Save Mart Center in Fresno, CA seats 15,000 people. Mellon Arena in Pittsburgh, PA seats 17,000 people. Staples Center in Los Angeles, CA seats 19,000 people. Those don't look like 'smaller' arenas to me. They're not domes, but it's not like WWE is holding PPVs in Saginaw, MI or Florence, SC again, either. Bear in mind that these look like figures for basketball seating configurations, not wrestling. 15,000 for the Philips Arena sounds way too small to be worth replacing the Omni, and an ESPN almanac check confirms my theory, as they list 19,445 as capacity for an Atlanta Hawks game. If you want wrestling seating numbers for your average arena, remember that there are more floor seats but one end of the building has to be blocked off for the stage. This usually gets you somewhere in the high range of 12-15K for a 17-20K arena. Thus, the Rumble in Fresno, which is not held at a major commercial arena but rather the university's arena, could very well not break 10,000, depending on how they play around with the set. They'd be well-advised to go small-but-cool on this one.

I don't have a good art program on the laptop yet so just get a mental image. What if you had an elliptical platform with hooks going out and back flanking the central entrance area. Have the ovals on those side hooks just be screens like the Raw Scribbles. Have the ovaltron on ground level with entrances from either side of it? Add some glass for good measure, that seems to be a design element too. I don't know. No fist though.

How about something with the same hooks-and-ovals theme the graphics have?

Some guy named "Chris Cohan."

But it's not Larry Bowa himself who is hitting into a triple play.

Bwahahaha. Sportscenter just made a humorous montage of Phillies blunders.

You'd really think with Oakland having so many mad ballers, the Bay Area would field a decent team. I'm surprised the team isn't better than they are.

Robert DeNiro better watch his back

You know what would be cutting-edge? To assign the number "9A." Yeah. That's right. Go hexadecimal on the NFL's asses.

Citizens Bank Park: Another example of how a new ballpark makes a team better.

I believe team chemistry has the least bearing on baseball out of all the Big Four. Football, basketball, hockey, you've gotta be able to work together and support each other out there. But in baseball, since the primary dynamic is the pitcher-batter matchup, you're really just doing your own thing out there, save for double plays and the like. Your relationship with the rest of your teammates isn't going to affect how you hit the ball, how you run the bases. At least it shouldn't.You wouldn't have somebody in baseball trying to get the spotlight on himself like you see in the NBA.

Chip or Steve will drop the f-bomb before season's end.

Flat screens have the stamina of a 12-year-old boy in bed. We established this in the Television Obituary thread.

Vince McMahon as himself, just with facial hair

Cubs and Brewers 5-5 after 5

No I just thought it would be humorous to cite a known youngster as TSM's elder statesman. I miss CWM the oldest early-20s guy TSM ever knew

Either the girls here aren't attractive, I haven't been trying, or mentally I'm too locked in to one person.

Minor injury? You mean season-ending injury. We're talking about the Cubs, their press releases are about on par with Pravda in terms of credibility when it comes to guys being hurt.

Michael Ian Black wouldn't be so bad except the whole "I talk with no emotion in my voice whatsoever...and oh by the way I'm Jewish" gets really old. The only time I really found him laugh-out-loud hilarious was when he snapped about being the "I Love The 80s Guy" and was like "Oh no I don't even have a career anymore. I just sit here and talk to you fuckers."

He's still in high school. That was the joke.

Also, in my personal experiences, it's unnaturally hard to find at video stores, even those with great wrestling sections. See also: Survivor Series '93

Corey Patterson is picking up the slack for the Cubs here. COREY PATTERSON

Warriors may have done just enough to do well, being in a weakened division. They can get #8 if they try. But they still look like shit.