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What's the deal with those channels anyway? Are they not actually affiliated with specific markets, but are offered as cable/satellite channels?

throws hands in the air I give up. cries

Thought this would be relevant for those like myself in the DC/Baltimore area stuck with Comcast Sportnet playing IMPACT! at 4 am (and not showing it about every other week for baseball replays), but Comcast starting June 16 is offering for an additional $5 a month for digital cable subscribers a sports package including FSN Atlantic, FSN Central and FSN Pacific along with FSN World, NBA TV and GOS TV (whatever that is). So, with this package, Impact! can be watched at the normal 3 pm time, and not face almost bi-weekly pre-emptions. I for one will likely be getting it (I figure 5 bucks a month for 4 Impact! shows and whatever else the channels offer is worth it considering I spend 10 bucks almost every week anyway). Just thought others having to deal with Comcast Sportsnet's shit would be interested in this. EDIT: Thanks to BPS bringing about the following depressing interview, you can feel free to disregard the preceding...

I hate starting a thread like this to clutter my beloved TNA board, but I'm kind of desperate. Since I'm in the DC/Balt area, Comcast Sportsnet usually plays Impact at 4am, but because of an Orioles game REPLAY, it was not scheduled to air this week. To make me more pissed the ORIOLES GAME WAS RAINED OUT AND NOT PLAYED!!!!! so they played random FSN crap instead of Impact! even though they could have. Idiots. So, I really want to catch the show and I know you guys have your ways of finding things, so if anyone can link, pm whatever to someplace where I can view this week's show online, I'd be grateful and you'd be my friend and stuff.

...exactly. Tis a dump of monstrous proportions. Right but they're reliable when it comes to clips from recent shows and since shitty Comcast Sports Net pre-empted the 4 am showing of IMPACT! this week for an Orioles replay THAT DIDN'T AIR BECAUSE THE FUCKING GAME WAS RAINED OUT ANYWAY!!!! I'm a little pissed. So could anyone kindly give me the link, or better yet, direct me to a source where I can dl this week's Impact? Thanks again.

Ok, bumping this because Im behind the curve again it looks like. Anyone care to fill me in on what the new URL is? Thanks.

Heh, the old Major League Baseball umpire plan....

Again, Reagan should get the 20 or the 50, neither Jackson or Grant deserve to be on such important currency...

Shit, it looks like my contact with Direct TV won't be avaliable tommorow, and since I'm in the DC area, Impact won't air this week...pre-empted at 4 am, I'm just speechless. Damnit, Im sure someone out there knows some place that will have the show avaliable for download shortly after and if someone could point me in that direction, I'd appreciate it.

The Pentagon idea is way overboard but I would have no problem with dropping Jackson and putting Reagan on the 20. Just a much better person to honor. If changing the 20 is too radical, how about the 50? Why is Grant on a fairly commonly used bill anyway? Maybe to honor him as a military leader but as a president he was awful. So, putting Reagan on the 50, or even the 20 has my support. Leave FDR and the dime alone though.

Took them long enough...

OUCH. This really sucks. While home for the summer I just go with friends to Hooters and watch the show for about 10 bucks worth of food, but most of the year at school with no PPV access, I had ordered the webcasts pretty regularly to see the shows and at 17.95 didn't feel too bad about it. I can't even do a pool where everyone splits it now because of their new system. This sucks and is just totally unnecesarry. I guess in September, the card will really have to blow me away to get 34.95 from me (even if the quality it better-not that I found the old quality to be bad at all-the fact that I could record and keep a tape of the broadcast from the cable makes that 34.95 more worth it than 34.95 for the computer feed). Shit...

I haven't read the book but Flair has been interviewed before and admitted that he was the happiest person that WCW was closing, and didn't mean of what he said and was only sad for the people who would lose their jobs as a result...

Next... And yes, I've included all the footnote sources this time since that was requested....

Does the man not have FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION!?!

Well, this thread has certainly taken an interesting turn...

I figured it out on the first roll after thinking about it for about 2 minutes. Really easy...

Apparently so is he, which is quite ironic considering the subject Anyway, doesn't Bravo already serve this niche? And I'm serious too...

Now with some snazzy graphics! (more to come I assume!)

Wrestling naked would be different too, it doesn't make it a good idea. Someday this is going to be one huge, hilarious chapter in a wrestlecrap book. Right next to the Rob Feinstein chapter right?

Germany declared war on US, and had taken over nearly the entire European continent, and were allies with the Japanese. Moral arguments aside, I think it would have been a little tough to just ignore them...

Doesn't have the "shining city on the hill" line, which was the one I always liked. Goes to find more! • The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take a civil-service exam. • Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. • Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process. • How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin. • If I could paraphrase a well-known statement by Will Rogers that he never met a man he didn't like - I'm afraid we have some people around here who never met a tax they didn't like. • We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them -- this morning, as they prepared for their journey, and waved good-bye, and "slipped the surly bonds of earth" to "touch the face of God. (Speech about the Challenger disaster). • Republicans believe every day is 4th of July, but Democrats believe every day is April 15. • The years ahead will be great ones for our country, for the cause of freedom and the spread of civilization. The West will not contain Communism, it will transcend Communism. We will not bother to denounce it, we'll dismiss it as a sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written. • The best social program is a productive job for anyone who's willing to work. • The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, "I'm from the government and I'm here to help." • With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today. ... we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see. • Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that I stopped worrying. • These young Americans sent a message to terrorists everywhere ... "You can run but you can't hide. (On US pilots who captured four terrorists) • The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated. • The Soviet Union would remain a one-party nation even if an opposition party were permitted-because everyone would join that party. • No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. • I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary. • The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug did not forsake the doctrine of Lenin when he returned to the West and appeared in a two-piece suit. • The distance between the present system and our proposal is like comparing the distance between a Model T and the space shuttle. And I should know; I've seen both. • I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers. Go ahead-make my day. • Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking [and] now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage. • The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away. • While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

They could always repackage Sgt. Slaughter and debut him as a long lost relative of Stalin, and then.... ...well then he would team reluctantly with a returning Mr. America, brother, and after defeating Susuzki and Wright in tag matches, would turn heel on Mr. America and the 2 would have a year long feud where the 2 didn't touch until the PPV where Seargent Stalin forfeits to Mr. America...or something.

Alex Wright hired to be Kenzo Susuki's partner and introduced as "Adolph Hitler", before WWE get's the message... Or did someone make that joke already?

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH "THE MASTER OF THE SPINEBUSTER" DAVID YOUNG So many great things are happening for everyone at TNA right now as we celebrate our two-year anniversary in June. One of the TNA superstars who has been with the promotion since the beginning is David Young. Always upbeat and a true class-act in the TNA locker room, David Young recently sat down with new TNAwrestling.com correspondent referee Andrew Thomas for an exclusive interview about his career, TNA and advice to newcomers in the wrestling business. AT: First off, how did you get started in the wrestling business? DY: I've watched wrestling all my life. I can remember when I was five years old, sitting in front of my television, when I told my mom and dad I wanted to be a wrestler when I grew up. My first match was August 17, 1989, and I was 17 years old. I kind of got in by accident. I went to a wrestling show and a friend of mine was doing security and he had me help - and I never left the business. I started training the very next day. AT: Who were some of the wrestlers you watched when you were growing up? DY: Dusty Rhodes was one of my heroes. Arn Anderson was a big influence on me. Ricky Morton was like a god to me. I thought the Rock N' Roll Express were the greatest thing since sliced bread, and to this day I love tag team wrestling. I just think, as a wrestler, those are my favorite kind of matches. AT: I know at one point you were the Tag Team Champion for the NWA Wildside promotion in Georgia, and you got to face the Rock N' Roll Express in the ring. What was it like to wrestle one of your heroes? DY: I had actually tagged with Ricky Morton a few times before that, but I never had wrestled them. I remember that match against the Rock N' Roll Express like it was yesterday. It was two out of three falls, and I pinned Ricky Morton on the third fall. It was probably one of the biggest nights of my career. AT: I know you live in Georgia now. Are you originally from there? DY: No, I'm actually from a little town outside Knoxville, Tennessee. AT: Is that where you started wrestling? DY: No, it was actually in a little town in Georgia called Dalton for a little independent group, the MWF (Mountain Wrestling Federation). That's where I got my start, from a guy named Larry Santo who took me under his wing. He taught me the in's and out's of the business and how to survive on the road which is probably one of the most important things in this business. AT: So you started in 1989, and that makes you a 15 year veteran. A lot of guys in TNA haven't been around that long, but I'm sure they've learned a lot traveling with you. DY: I worked with AJ Styles a lot when he first started. I think there was a year straight we wrestled each other constantly on the road. Elix Skipper is another guy I've traveled a lot with, although I haven't wrestled him that much. I remember one time in Alabama, Elix was coming out of a bathroom and I had pulled my truck right up to the door of the bathroom. As he was coming out I hit my horn and scared him half to death. AT: From personal experience, I know you're definitely a prankster in the locker room. DY: Well I've always felt you need to have fun no matter what you do. If you can't have fun then what's the point? That's what I love about this business. Being in the locker room is just as fun to me as being out in the ring. Especially in the wrestling business, every locker room is a tight-knit group. Even when something bad happens to somebody you don't necessarily like, it still bothers you. That's a good thing about being in the wrestling business...if something happens there's always someone there to help you. We keep each other sane on the road because we spend so many hours on it. I've probably been home three days in the last three weeks. It's really hard to keep that schedule and not go stir-crazy while you're driving around. AT: So TNA is going into a new era with Impact. What have been your thoughts on everything that's happened in the weeks building up to it? DY: I'm really happy to be on Impact, because I was one of the wrestlers on the first TNA Pay-Per-View in 2002. There's not a lot of the original guys left that were here that early on. To see this company grow and the way they took baby steps and did things the right way and to see things come together for Impact - it's an honor to be involved with this company and where it's going. I hope it goes all the way to the top and I hope I'm right there with it. AT: Last thing - do you have any advice for someone who might want to become a professional wrestler like you? DY: Stay in good shape, and don't stay in one spot. A lot of wrestlers stay in one little independent group and they think they owe a lot to that promoter - and I can see that to a certain extent - but there's nothing wrong with bettering yourself and breaking out and going to new places. Because I can promise you that a TNA talent scout is not sitting in the front row of that indy group. You have to get your name out there - that's a big key to succeeding in this business. It took me a while to figure that out, too. I think that's the most important thing I could tell anyone trying to get into this business. AT: Thanks David!