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Ok, did you consider the types of opponents he had during that era? He isn't Flair, Choken. You've got Giant Gonzalez, Kamala, an unmotivated Hogan, Mabel, Damien Demento, Yokozuna, and the entire Million Dollar Coporation. I'd love to see a return to the Deadman character we saw from late 1996 to late 1998. He was still the Deadman, albeit a more "realistic" one. I don't get all the love for Taker all of a sudden. I give him props for trying to create a moveset, but people are suddenly acting like he's the mold for what every wrestler should be just because he's breaking out a couple new moves.

I would tend to agree but who am I to talk? My (extended) family starts of death pool of celebrities and people they know every Christmas. Yes, we're not that traditional.

Funny you should mention that, as I was talking about that over at SNKT just yesterday afternoon. The "damn thing" I'm referring to is his arm, which may seem harsh, but I just don't dig his attitude. Yeah, you need confidence and believe in yourself for anyone else to do so, but he seems like he's taking it to another level. I remember Barry Bonds talking about how Carlos Zambrano needed a reality check and would get one (this was stemming from the emotion that Zambrano showed after he got Bonds out during a game where the bases were either loaded or fairly packed). I wonder how he feels about Beckett in that case, who is less animated than Zambrano, seems to think much higher of himself than Carlos does.

Because, in reality, he loves this promotion. He is a fat, (probably) smelly, lonely loser who needs this promotion to be around so he has something to do with his pathetic life. Yes. Yeah, he should follow your example and start spouting off cliche insults that haven't been funny in two years about people they claim to care nothing about yet can't stop talking about. Then he won't be so pathetic.

Probably for the same reasons most of you continue to watch it every week, despite "hating" it. I haven't really been entertained by the product since the first half of 2001, but when I do watch (which is becoming more of a rarity these days), I watch because like others, I have this faint hope in the back of my mind that maybe, just maybe, things will start to turn around and get better.

Heh, Redman gone before three. He didn't have anything tonight and it looked for a while that Pettite was in the same boat, but he's turning it on now. Soriano continues to bring things down, taking them out of another run with bad baserunning.

But that series is in the works for being put out in box set form. I'll refrain from the obvious Seinfeld statement, since materials are being prepped for a DVD set sometime in the near future.

Phoenix, correct me if I'm wrong, but you're quoting that ep because it was just on last night, am I right? I was watching that at 5 in the morning and needless to say, my priorities in life were questioned sometime during the third "joke" of Joey's routine. Full House is just a bad show looking back on it, but it's sort of like Saved By the Bell, in that if you grew up watching it, you know it's crap now, but a part of you still embraces it for sentimental reasons. Besides, there were a couple of ok seasons where there were actually some decent episodes. But the early episodes were all about whiney DJ and I won't even touch the show's last couple of seasons that were terrible even by its standards. And Urkel was actually funny until his character was just beat into the ground. That was around season three or so out of the show's approximate 32-season run, so needless to say, his character wore out its welcome quite quickly. As for Diane Chambers, I don't really think she was ever meant to be a character that you really liked a whole lot. She was your typical, condenscending character that served as the wet blanket of the cast. Of course, the fact that she really was like that ensured that the character played the role to a T. I haven't seen anywhere near all of the episodes, but I think that there are plenty of good shows after she left. Although she was more crucial to the show because she was more or less the second main character, I missed Coach more than I missed her.

The Yankees had every chance to win this one tonight and it just didn't happen. Florida's got the advantage of finally being able to work in a ninth bat into the lineup when in NY and already being used to having the pitcher bat while in Florida. I will say though, that you can't expect the Yankees to do this every game. They won't keep blowing opportunities and I'd wish Mik would quit acting like no one thinks the Marlins can win anything and that's what makes them so great. People have noticed that they've been able to win and they're not underestimating them, so to think that the reason they came out on top tonight is because of how people percieve them, is ridiculous. And Willis was on, but this was the first time they saw him. We all remember what happened the NL saw Dontrelle the second time around. He became a little less "perfect" and lot more hittable. I caught most of the game, but from what I've seen, Soriano is a lousy leadoff man. No team should have a leadoff man who strikes out as often as he does. He's got the speed, but that's not gonna mean a damn thing when he's striking out two or three times a game. I was also disapointed to see Boone unable to move the runner along in the ninth. Failing to do so may have cost them, but it was probably all for naught seeing as how Soriano would go on to be called out looking. Figures, since it was right over the plate and not in the dirt, a foot outside of the batter's box. Otherwise he would've prolly gone down swinging. From what I saw, the Yanks' inability to play small ball is what killed them tonight, as they had several situations in which they were prime to score a run or two and came out with nothing. Hopefully they can take note on what the Marlins did correctly tonight, because in games like this, small ball does pay off.

Not to mention a pretty lousy baserunner. Yankees should at least be up 2-1, if not 3-1. Inability to move along runners and poor baserunning has seen to it that we have a tied game, though. And AS, I'm not challenging the great legacy that comes with the Yanks franchise. I'm more referring to the last decade or so, which has produced winning, but fairly bland or uninteresting teams, IMO.

15 minutes from now would be a perfect time to have another New York Blackout.

Yeah, winning would be soooo terrible for Boston and Chicago just because they've become known as the hardluck teams of MLB. Please. If anything, it'd be a perfect addition to the legacy. Whereas the Yanks winning a WS is really not that big of a deal anymore, Chicago or Boston taking it would be something truly special. Say what you want about those two teams being known for nothing other than being losers, but when I look at those two teams, I see a pair of ball clubs that have a storied past, some of the most loyal fans you'll ever come across, and are infinitively more interesting than a team like the Yankees or the Braves.

Although Angle is in that strata of guys who are considered to be the steady main event players in the company, he's still never really been treated like a main event guy. On the surface, he's a main event wrestler, but when you look to how he's used/treated in comparison to guys like HHH, Shawn Michaels, or Steve Austin, you begin to see the point Curry was trying to make.

Austin put over Angle clean at Unforgiven 01 Yeah, but what I meant by putting over in this case was actually putting over someone in a way that allowed them to be elevated to the next level (which in this situation would be the main event scene). Austin was a fringe main eventer in early 1998, but by winning the WWF title in the main event of the biggest wrestling show of the year, by perhaps the best wrestler of the 1990s, his place in the main event scene was solidified. Angle was more or less a main event guy by time he finally got to go over Austin cleanly.

I must ask, Anglesault, what is so terrible about a different team winning it all? The Yanks have won enough times and even though I want them slightly over the Marlins (I'd rather have the earth implode, though), I don't see why something as interesting and different as the Cubs and Sox in the WS is such a horrible idea.

They've shown time and time again that they won't give up the spotlight and put someone new over. Of those five guys, I'd have to say that the last one to put someone new over was Shawn (ironically enough) putting Austin over clean at Wretlemania XIV, FIVE years ago. And you have to figure that was only because his back was so messed up at that point that his career looked to be over, giving him no other choice other than to job to Austin.

So the Marlins are going to run a three-man rotation in this series? Honestly, outside of Beckett, I don't see what's so great about their starting pitching. Willis has proven that he'll need a couple of more seasons to become a great pitcher, Redman got knocked around pretty well aside from Game 3 in the NLCS, and Penny has yet to have a decent start in the postseason. They'll need their hitting if they're gonna take this series, because their pitching just doesn't "do it" for me. I don't care if some people think Beckett is some sort of god.

I've used it for two years now for buying and selling and have yet to have a problem. I've had thousands of dollars come my way over the years through paypal and still haven't had an incident yet. People seem to be a little hard on it, although I've heard some stories, but as far as personal experiences go, it's been nothing but a great way to send money and recieve money fast, without worry of the other party not getting it.

What I don't like about the news is that it seems that HHH will come back and take out Goldberg, declaring that since no one else could do it, he had to come back and take care of it himself. And then, you can't ignore that HHH isn't exactly known for jobbing to the same guy two times in a row, which would seem to indicate that he'll win the title and disappear with it, since he's going back on hiatus.

Since the 8th inning situations were so similar for both "cursed" teams, there've been a lot of talk about the fault being on Baker and Little. While I agree that both left their aces in too long, there is one key difference in the situation. Dusty stuck with Prior and Wood too long, yes, but in such a big game, who would you rather put your faith in? Your number one guy or your god-awful bullpen? Perhaps they would've been a little better had they gotten more work, but I don't think all the innings in the world were going to make that pen anything more than decent on occassion. Little, on the other hand, also found himself in a similar situation, but the only difference was that his usually lousy bullpen had been terrific in the postseason so far, even better than his starting rotation. To not have confidence in them at that point was ridiculous, because they had shown him for two weeks that they were up to the task of doing their jobs. And note that once they did come in, they did their job. Who gave up the homer to Boone? Wakefield, a starter. When Baker finally went to his pen, what happened? Five more runs scored one night and three more scored the next night, further evidence that putting faith into that pen is foolish. Still not an excuse for Gonzalez bobbling the easy groundball, but that's something to consider when making the comparison between Baker and Little.

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They actually mentioned this is Entertainment Weekly this past week. And my head hurts just from what looks to be a thread arguing the errors of the movie and time travel.

The Series gets ratings resembling those of the sitcoms featuring any Seinfeld star after the show folded.

Nice little piece of the Sox curse on ESPN a few minutes back. I liked Reese Davis' analogy about the Sox being like Drew Barrymore.

The players love Baker, too so. My god, it's so ironic that both cursed teams were five outs from the World Series, and now, neither one is going to the Series. The question is--which was worse? The Cubs went on to lose that game and the next game, but the Sox were five outs away from the Series in the THE deciding game of the series. At least I can move on with my life now, the Sox being involved would've prolly got my interest.