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By the way... When Kazarian was brining in the ladder...I (as always happens) assumed that we'd see Shane baseball slide into it. his dive over the top instead was a nice spot because of that. Also...I loved the final spots in the Lynn/Skipper match...but what's with Lynn and short matches? At least it was clean...and I kind of like that a move that devastating can end a match out of nowhere...but Dammit...PUSH SKIPPER!!!

HAIL SABIN!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have n oproblem with that finish. He's a heel and that's what a heel does. The finishes I don't like are the one's where someone not even involved in the match runs in and hits moves on people. Those are ridiculous. Shane and Kazarian had a ladder match...and the BEST MAN WON!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOO!!!! HAIL SABIN!!!

I order every week...but my last cable bill only has 4 of the first 5 weeks on it...so I have to wait.

Well...I'm not going to debate this since my points are meant to encompass a wide range of people (all of whom are important to baseball's well being) And your points are all just about you.

Marvin and I seem to be in 100% agreement that a 10 mil opening is accurate.

1. People want to see it. Therefore covering it is logical. 2. When's the last time you saw someone hit 650 home runs? I don't recall that being a common occurance and as Baseball is a game that lives in it's statistics...someone putting up these kinds of numbers should be covered like this as it's great publicity for the sport. 3. Major League Baseball will NEVER EVER be sold on "look how good that game was" and outside of the Yankees it will never be sold on "Look how much that team wins". It is, has been, and will always be sold on it's stars. Look at that Dontrelle Willis, or Albert Pujols or Ichiro or the best of them all...Barry Bonds. Baseball fans are going to watch a baseball game either way. In order to bring in the fringe people you need to play up your stars and their achievements. It's all very logical.

Kid Kash's segment has now become Kid Kash vs. Bobby Eaton. I used to like Bobby Eaton.

OFFICIAL PREVIEW - AUGUST 3 RAVEN VS SHANE DOUGLAS These two former ECW champions have been on a collision course from the day Shane Douglas set foot in TNA. Raven has been on the short end of most of their encounters but has been looking forward to a one on one confrontation. This week Raven gets his wish as he and Shane Douglas square off to try to settle things once and for all. AMW & DUSTY RHODES VS SIMON DIAMOND, JOHNNY SWINGER, & GLENN GILBERTI This is another grudge match that has been building for the past several weeks. America's Most Wanted have managed to hang on to their tag titles, but they still want to get revenge for the brutal beatings they have suffered at the hands of Diamond & Swinger and their manager Glenn Gilberti. Gilberti seems to always get involved, so AMW has decided to bring a partner of their own to the show this week. The American Dream Dusty Rhodes makes no secret of his admiration for AMW and proudly refers to them as "my boys". Dusty Rhodes and AMW team up this week to get revenge on Diamond, Swinger, and Gilberti. MICHAEL SHANE VS FRANKIE KAZARIAN LADDER MATCH TO DETERMINE #1 CONTENDER FOR THE X TITLE Director of Authority Erik Watts has ruled that after last week's controversial ending to the Chris Sabin vs Frankie Kazarian match, the X Title will remain with Sabin. To avoid any further controversial referee decisions, Watts has decided that a ladder match will be held to determine the #1 contender for the X Title with the winner of the match getting a shot at Chris Sabin. Michael Shane and Frankie Kazarian will try to become the #1 contender and get that shot against Sabin, but they'll have to earn the shot in the ladder match. JERRY LYNN VS ELIX SKIPPER Jerry Lynn beat Elix Skipper in two straight falls two weeks ago, and last week was banned from the building by Don Callis for excessive violence. Lynn will be making his return this week and will be looking to beat Skipper again. Skipper claims last time was just a fluke and that he is still "pound for pound the best wrestler in the world". Don Callis will be watching closely to make sure Jerry Lynn is on his best behavior. 3 LIVE KREW VS DEVON STORM, VAMPIRE WARRIOR, & SINN We've seen them in Mexican Restaurants, hanging out in "the hood", and last week at a trailer park being stalked by a shirtless psycho...but this week 3 Live Krew return to pay-per-view with a match against Devon Storm & Vampire Warrior who are both making their return to TNA, and their partner Sinn who will be making his TNA debut. ALSO ON THE SHOW Kid Kash will be on hand, and plans to disrespect another legend. Who will it be this week? We'll see footage that was taped after we went off the air last week. Tune in this week to see the chaotic aftermath of the AJ Styles vs D-LO Brown cage match. AJ Styles will be in the Asylum. Will he defend the title again this week? If so, who will be getting the title shot? Jeff Jarrett still has a score to settle with Christopher Daniels. Will this be the week he's able to teach Daniels a lesson? Where does Legend fit in to this situation? All this and much more, this Wednesday night...only on pay-per-view. Find out what Total Nonstop Action is all about!

I have about 3 different angles that I want to attack this first post from...all of them employing a simple thing called logic...but they are all jumbled together right now.

Jarrett did far more than win clean... He won with interference...AGAINST HIM. He beat Raven and Styles when multiple people ran in to attack HIM. Then pinned them clean.

I like that I can (instead of setting 5 minute quarters or whatever) now choose to just speed up the clock so no matter how fast I play it runs the clock down to 20 seconds left to snap the ball. Much cooler.

Here's my From the Outside for this week.

There is no way to tell when a show is going to be good or not. It's freaking odd, is what it is. They can line up the best card ever and it doesn't work out...and they can line up crap and somehow it's better. I think this week looks good...but that mainly because AMW and Diamond and Swinger have been on fire (and the other 2 people in the match won't work hardly at all) and the Raven/Douglas feud has been real well booked IMO...even though this match can't be good.

I picked Freddy vs. Jason cause I'm seeing that first... but I might actually go see 2 movies this weekend with Open Range being the other.

He hasn't. They even ran interference for his Kazarian title defense... strangely I understand that one more than the others since Kazarian was contending for the X title.

I'll tell ya. If ANYONE can see ANY reason that Styles shouldn't win clean here...I'd LOVE to know the reasoning. I'm still dying to know the motivation behind the non-clean finish last week. I don't know who that was meant to benefit. D-Lo? He was already kept strong in the 2/3 falls finish.

I would have bet Finding Nemo would be.

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Are they going to start having Edge use his real name when he comes back? I assume he'll get a push towards the top...and I don't want to see the day that a guy named Kurt Angle or Brock Lesnar loses the title to a guy named "Edge". It's so 80's like Taker

The LAst Jason movie only made 12 something million and the last Freddy movie (which was years ago) only made like 14 something...and I that's TOTAL I think. There really isn't that huge an audience to draw from. It'll open at 10 million. What that beats, I don't know.

Because he wouldn't let him fight Kane. That's the best they could do.

This storyline sounds familiar. I live in the UK and havent been able to see any NWA:TNA so can somebody tell me who started this storyline first. They held a legends ceremony to announce the new commicioner (Erik Watts) and Kid Kash came out and ripped on HArley Race and Ricky Morton (Who I think trained him). The next week they had a pretty good Morton/Kash match and the next week the did a Zbysko/Kash match that wasn't so good. The only person this is really getting over is Abyss (Kash's monster...um...partner I guess) since he's coming in and laying these guys out with one move so KAsh can win.

No...it's just lazy. They completely abandoned the whole "it was RVD's idea you lose the mask thing" and somehow the monster Kane is more overused than the guy he's supposed to squash.

The one that really matters is the RVD thing. I know they don't like his mic skills...but not giving him any time to talk his side of the main storyline on RAW is ridiculous. It doesn't have to be anything huge...they could even pre-tape it.