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I can't remember a worse round-up of promos as the ones featured on the 3/10 RAW. I expect Sid to mess up on the mic, but when Stone Cold is openly flubbing lines, something's up.

I do find it suspect that this information "happens" to surface in the middle of a tremendous comeback for Ankiel.

It's an absolute travesty someone from the NL Central is going to the playoffs.

Because people bitch about Bonds and Sheffield juicing in the past when they're arguably not doing so anymore. It would be hypocritical to let this blow over if people are going to make issue of what those guys did.

Well, damn. It's going to seem so tainted when he wins the World Series MVP.

Thank god I keep forgetting the Cubs seem to play Thursday games exclusively during the day.

Having Craig Monroe start his first career game in centerfield in the heat of a pennant race may rank up there with Lou's idea to have the bullpen start the game.

His gestures were simply pointing to his hears to indicate he heard them. He called a press conference today to apologize. At any rate, it was probably one of the most bone-headed outings Z's ever had. Probably worse than the infamous dugout fight. That's only remembered because of the fight, but Z was just awful on all fronts yesterday after running through the stop sign. Speaking of Cub pitchers, I've seen all of Kerry Wood I care to see. These guys crumble anytime they have to face a team that's got a winning record. It's a shame that their placement in such a lousy division is going to obstruct the fact that for $200 million, they've fielded a team that's probably three over .500 after tonight.

I'm amused that not only were there no takers, but not even a response.

In case anyone was curious about the BB set, I took some pictures a few minutes ago:

Contract the NL Central.

Hey, Carlos Zambrano kind of sucks again. I wonder if his horrible inning has anything to do with trying to go first-to-home in the previous frame.

I was wondering if he could make it to THIRD on the play and then I see his fat ass trucking around third through the stop sign. Not smart, Big Z.

He's just so eager to be clutch, that's all.

Rotoworld is reporting that Juan Encarnacion's career is in serious jeopardy. He may have suffered a permanent loss of vision as a result of the foul ball that struck him in the eye Friday night. He certainly doesn't have a great rep and he's far from what most would consider a good player, but this is pretty tragic news.

Top three teams in the NL Central won today. Cubs erased a four-run deficit with a Derrek Lee homer in the 8th. Jacque Jones, Soriano, and Ryan Theriot came within inches of having an ugly crash in the outfield, too, but thankfully, everyone dodged each other.

Anyone see the Beefcake promo from PTW? Dude is messed up! And Mean Gene is wearing sunglasses for some reason.

All WO notes from March 1986 will be housed in this thread. I’ll periodically update with notes from later newsletters. 3.3.86 Top Stories - Rick Rood is the new world champion in WCCW. The title had been the American title, but the promotion decided to upgrade it to a World title to further distance themselves from the NWA. Fritz had complained about Crockett being difficult to deal with when it came to booking dates with Flair, in addition that he allegedly wouldn’t wrestle a Von Erich. An added excuse for the change is that the promotion promotes all over the world, even though Meltz points out that two days in Boston and one week in Israel doesn’t exactly constitute all over the world. Meltz says to expect Rood to drop the strap to Kerry Von Erich at the Texas Stadium show in May. - Hype for Wrestlemania II is going into overdrive. The show’s theme will be “Wrestlemania II: What the world is coming to see.” Hogan vs. Bundy will main event in LA, while a $100,000 battle royal will be the main attraction in Chicago. Refrigerator Perry won’t be one of the participants. The show will be on PPV and Meltz adds that if anyone wants to tape it for him, he’d be willing to trade some real pro wrestling for a copy. - MTV will be airing a special on 3.1 (The Slammies) which will go head-to-head with the end of Crockett’s TBS show. The MTV show will include musical performances by JYD, Hillbilly Jim, and Roddy Piper. Because of the bizarre nature of its hype, Meltz wants to avoid making predictions on the state of wrestling in 1986 or how well this will go over until the next issue. - Titan contacted Mr. Ueda (president of the World’s Women Wrestling Association) asking for the Crush Girls at Wrestlemania. Meltz hopes they get them because with them plus the Dream Team/Bulldogs and Santana/ Savage bouts, the card is much better on paper than the original Wrestlemania. He wonders what, after fans get a glimpse of the Japanese girls, will happen to Moolah, who he believes will be put out to pasture. - Talks about the second Battle of the Belts show, which is better than any SNME or Crockett’s recent special. Calls the Flair/Windham main event “one of the best matches anyone will ever see.” It went 42 minutes with virtually nothing but all-out action. Meltz gives it a rare five-star rating. WWF Ventura got the Schwarzeneggar flick (Predator) without any help from the office. Vince was so mad about that he wanted Jesse to pull out and Ventura was almost fired over it when he refused. Meltz knows of one other wrestler in a similar situation, who got a gig without any help from the office and he may also wind up in hot water. Mid-South - Meltz didn’t like the 2.8 and 2.15 TV shows, the first shows he’s thought were below average for the promotion in more than six months. - Highlights of the show that aired 2.22 included Dibiase and Steve Williams beating Murdoch and Superstar via DQ when Bill Eadie interfered and a time limit draw between Stan Lane/Steve Keirn against the RNR Express. - New acts, Korchenko, Tarus Bulba, Sheepherders, and Koko Ware, are all looking bad according to people who’ve seen the tapes. Meltz has seen all but Korchenko and they all bored him. He doesn’t think you can get over geek acts in a circuit where fans are so used to genuine athletes. He likes Koko, but outside of his ending dropkick, he’s dull. He takes a jab at him coming out to music and dancing while the crowd just sits there and eats popcorn. Sheepherders come across as sane in comparison to Buzz Sawyer, not to mention they don’t know any moves, unlike Sawyer. - Meltz didn’t like the six-man tag that saw Duggan teaming with Dibiase and Williams. Duggan wasn’t around when they became babyfaces and without them making some saves for each other, their teaming doesn’t make sense. - Oliver Humperdink was done away with when Eddie Gilbert instructed Bulba, who’d been managed by Humperdink, to attack him. Metlz thinks Gilbert will be a first-rate manager. - Terry Taylor challenged Jake Roberts and Dick Slater for their respective belts. Jake’s leaving for Titan in the next 10 days, so it’s suspected that Taylor will win the medal from him before then. Crockett - Even though two instances of Ron Garvin KO’ing Flair, Meltz doesn’t think more than 20 percent of the fans think he’s got a legit shot of beating Flair. Probably even less now that they’ve seen the new belt with Flair’s name on it. Meltz points out that the belt says “Rick Flair.” - Tully Blanchard was to appear in court for shoving a 17-year-old girl in the stands in 1981, but the case was settled out of court.

I started a new job two weeks ago and haven't had much free time, but I don't work again until Tuesday, so I should have at least one more up before tomorrow night.

Which is worse: pot or booze? And don't you think if the government would profit from it, they would legalize the former?

How is Eardrum? Kweli's dropped off in my books. He's gone from being an exciting MC to a guy who has me thinking maybe he isn't as good as I gave him credit for.

The day of eating from hell. Started out great, but my last food intake included a chicken burrito from Qdoba, cheddar Sunchips, and two chalupas from Taco Bell. The last two items were an offshoot of some, uh, recreational substances, but I can't blame anything on the immense burrito earlier.

The Red Sox PBP guy sounds like comedian Brian Regan's "dumbfounded" voice whenever he gets real excited.

He also has a no-hitter. He hasn't given up any hits through eight innings. Not one hit. Outings where you give up no hits are considered pretty good. And I see Rocky Cherry is fitting in nicely with the Baltimore bullpen. He gave up many hits tonight. Unlike Buchholz, who has given up no hits.

A game in April is equal in worth to a game in September. It's just that in many cases, there's little room for error in September.