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Please explain. Both announcers were going down the list of criterium and all of them went to Ninja. Effort to finish? Damage? Standing Combinations/Ground Control? Takedowns/Takedown Defense? Agressiveness? Pretty much all the criteria I'd give to Ninja except maybe the takedowns/takedown defense which goes to Jackson.

Well, that was quick. Few Good Man spot is up on the website, along with the others! http://www.wwe.com/shows/wrestlemania21/trailers.jsp

Oh, he won me over with his promos pretty much the night he turned back in May. But he still hasn't and probably never will win me over with his matches as WWE champion enough to pay $35 a month to watch. That said, I don't mind them keeping the belt on him, and at this point they might as well go all the way and have him hold the belt for a year. It's not like Cena's ready yet...

That didn't make much sense though. I would have liked to seen Earl Hebner or another ref as the judge, but a minor complaint...

Even Christy Hemme will get more time than the cruiserweights... Well better find a new hobby. You'll be lucky if any crusiers GET a match on Mania, let alone how long it lasts...

They'll have it up on the website with the others soon enough...

Intense. These commercials have been great. I wonder how many more they've got? Hope they'll be on the DVD...

Piper is SO taking a stunner as his receipt for his comments in 03. And he'll do it too!

That would seem perfect if they wanted to do the celebrity thing every year. They'd have the entire WMI crew...

Did anyone notice that it's HULK Hogan again? Did they work out a deal with Marvel Comics?

See, this is why it's best to try to get everyone together at one time, so it can all get done in one night, but I guess if not everyone is avaliable it's tough...

Not to hijack this, but I can't believe someone didn't keep Beltran as a keeper. Shocked.

Just watched it. Decent show with some fun knockouts and squashes but nothing too important. Skippable but fun if you're an MMA fan. What a sickening example of politics the Rampage/Ninja decision was. The announcers were as speechless as I was. Rampage didn't even want the trophy, and Rua was in tears. They could have put him in the tournament too if they wanted to, but Rampage was just sluggish that fight and was basically controlled by Ninja the whole fight (I mean who else has Slammed Rampage before!?). Just ridiculous. Rogerio/Overheem was kind of boring to me, but Im sure to those who like long technical fights, they'll find it interesting. Cro Cop scored a decisive knockout over Coleman and showed some mad skills with the takedown defense. Just really good sprawl. Bring on Fedor! Otherwise, Vovchanchyn's knockout was sick and he looked in ripped shape, Leko is still Pride's most hilarious jobber just getting pounded to death. The Tamura/Machmud fight was hilarious. The dude gets kicked in the balls, collpases in pain, is out for like minutes, comes back out, keeps going back and forth between quitting and staying in and then finally his corner turns in the towel. Kharitonov has to be next on the list for Fedor/Cro Cop. Great knockout on Choi Mu Bae. He's the real deal. And Shogun was like a video game version of Wanderlei Silva jumping and stomping around like that. I want to see him again (and it looks like it will be vs. Rampage).

Ok, who posted the exploding head after the "it's not real" explanation? I fell out of my chair laughing...

Im trying to get someone to bring up Jeff's drug problems as the reason for his firing.

lol Hardyz4Life wrote: What's going on? They're not breaking up are they? I don't know what I'd do if that were to happen. I think I might kill myself! Shocked I'm sure they don't want anyone doing that. Last thing they need is more grief. Just calm down lol. I said before, No one really knows. It's all really speculation at this point. Don't believe too much of what you read. Unless it comes from Matt or Amy, I'm not believing any of it. _________________ EDIT: Oh, and love me suggesting Matt should be in a 3 way dance with Batista and HHH in the main event at Mania and getting serious responses about how its a great idea and would be awesome!

Ok, Im Hardyz4Life. I love my stupid card sig.

lol, I love your posts, Nocal. I think I might sign up too, but to go a different route, will act like a total Hardy/Lita fanboy who is totally ignorant and buys the BS as true. Let me set up an account and find some stupid pictures for a sig...

Well, let's hope he lives up to the hype. Penn was one of the prospects the O's refused to deal to Oakland for Tim Hudson...

Jesus, we're going to have 30 different topics?! About 2/3 for teams none of us really follow. Well, ok I'll play along and try to contribute to each thread too by posting projected starters with help from CBS sportsline! PROJECTED LINEUP 1. Jose Cruz Jr. CF 2. Craig Counsell 2B 3. Luis Gonzalez LF 4. Troy Glaus 3B 5. Shawn Green RF 6. Chad Tracy 1B 7. Koyie Hill C 8. Royce Clayton SS Rotation 1. R. Ortiz 2. B. Webb 3. J. Vazquez 4. S. Estes 5. M. Gosling Troy Glaus's contract was a big risk, and I look for him to have an injury. Otherwise, it's a decent lineup with Shawn Green and Luis Gonzalez (aging) and a good prospect in Koyie Hill. I don't know about Cruz as a leadoff guy though. Vazquez is good, and I'm surpised they didn't try to trade him (to Baltimore, preferably!) but he isn't Randy Johnson. Russ Ortiz and his inflated ERA aren't going to do them that good either. I don't know, it doesn't look like a bad team and they're not in a paticularly tough division but I don't see that big a turnaround from their disastorous 2004. I'll predict 4th place.

Ehem, my post above... I don't think it's as good as the old one, but I remember getting the link from somewhere, and bookmarked it, so there you go...

http://p200.ezboard.com/fringratz24176frm1

Of course! He was mainly a centerfielder for his whole career. In the mid 90s they shifted him to left field and then he sort of shifted between all 3 outfield positions before being shifted to an awful DH and being released...

It's a real shame that Pittsburgh has such a horrible team and apathetic fans (go hand in hand?) because I visited their stadium last year and it was easily the nicest major league stadium I have ever seen. Just beautiful in every way and a wonderful place to watch a baseball game (and this is from someone who has attended Camden Yards for the past 13 years!). On the Nats uniforms, I thought the home jerseys look too much like Anaheims and the roads like San Fransisco. The cursive W hats are ok, it's a nod to all the old Senators fans. The team logo is just awful though and will have to be changed in a year or 2 with new ownership. It looks like one of those major league baseball all star game logos or something. I agree I like the spring training/warmup uniforms and hats. Hopefully they use them as alternates too. Hey, I still bleed black and orange, but baseball is baseball, the more the better, and I'm excited to have a National League team close by to follow too!

Ok, 12 hours sounds good, although this could go on for weeks! Anyway, please change my team name to Rockbirds, so there's no confusion as that's what it is in the league now. Ok, thanks.