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Angle and RVD are now listed as "ECW", which I find odd since their current plan is to not include ECW in Fantasy. I wonder if they will be including the Sci-Fi shows... or if they are just pointing out that those two are no longer part of Raw and SmackDown. They've also dropped the rule about not allowing Maria, Kristal, and Coach to be picked for rosters.

The Battle Royal on the WM22 DVD is pretty surreal when Cole and Tazz just start mocking it. I did enjoy how it reunited Eugene and Regal briefly though. The part in the "Chicago Buzz" extra where Eugene is wearing a big sombrero at an autograph session, stating he wants to join the Mexicools, is pretty good. Also, check out the "Cena addresses Chicago" extra when the camera zooms in on someone holding a pro Cena sign (I think, I forgot what exactly it is they take a shot of and zoom in on). In doing a close-up and zooming in on that guy, they end up zooming in on a Samoa Joe t-shirt. Good stuff.

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As of today, NewsRadio will be airing in Canada on the channel formerly known as Prime. I think it's one sometime this afternoon, then on Saturday and Sunday.

I generally only pick the $5M guys if I suspect a title defense or win is forthcoming, be in a specialty match, or generally make it worthwhile. I suspected HHH would be using a weapon, showing up one or more times before his match, have the last match, win, and maybe even have it changed to a handicap match. Well, it wasn't a handicap match but it was scored as specialty, so he came through. Last summer I used to pick Cena a lot and would be pissed when his only appearance would be a promo, so I've learned to not depend on the $5M guys for every week picks. I do suspect Ortonsault will jump back but felt the need to strike while the iron was hot with my gloating (and I think I'm about to fall hard after the SD scoring comes in).

Bret's 30 minute speech from the Hall of Fame is great. The Owen/Duggan story caused much laughter. I was surprised that they left in Bret saying "shit" since WWE normally bleeps language on their DVDs these days (the ECW one being the exception). I read in the other WM22 DVD thread (which I think could be merged with this one) that the FU Cena chants are edited (or perhaps just lower volume, like some of the chants during Goldberg/Lesnar). Does anyone know, before I try it myself later, if switching to spanish audio restores them (similar to WMXX).

Scrob - I'm sure it's a mistake that will be fixed, but you now have 0 points on Fantasy. Too bad the tag champs aren't on TV this week, and Finlay vs jobber sounds like a sure Finlay victory so yep, you may overtake me.

I'm still in first in our league but they may change after SD (I only have 3 guys - Lashley, Booker, and Kendrick - hoping for two title defenses there). Unless Finlay does some huge numbers compared to Kendrick, I'm at least guaranteed to still be ahead of my current rival Scroby. The mighty seem to have fallen, Ortonsault. It's early though.

The cartoon from 6 years ago was in colour and was awesome, so who cares (the B&W thing was even referenced).

Probably not... they just show every PPV at Scott's bar though. Apparently they didn't show Judgment Day, though.

His bar did.

Totally the Totally Spies.

Ortonsault and Leena: I demand praise for my Week 1 victory in the TSM Fantasy league. I have a 3 day weekend, which is nice since I live in Canada and don't have a holiday this weekend. I just asked for an extra day off and got it, despite the fact took a week off to go on vacation last week. Good stuff.

Thanks Bobby Lashley, JBL, Rey, and Brian Kendrick! They shot me right up to 1st in the league for the week #1 (and 227th overall, which isn't bad). Answer to above: Uh, just don't pick RVD.

At a Royal Rumble party at his bar, Scott D'amore quipped "Hey look it's Monty Brown without the charimsa" when Lashley came out.

It's a teaser for the upcoming "Grand Theft Auto: Mushroom Kingdom" Mario Kart Wii: Grand Theft Mushroom. I can't wait to see this Bowser death. Well I think people may have oversold it now so don't get too excited.

Agent Confidential - In-ring injuries By Steve Keirn May 25, 2006 In the short time that I’ve been back with WWE, I’ve noticed that some of the injuries the guys are sustaining now are more life threatening than they were back in my era. As an example, I’ve noticed more broken necks of young wrestlers in the last 10 years than I had seen in my first 20 years in the wrestling business. The only one that I recall from my era was Bruno Sammartino when he was dropped on his head by Stan Hanson in Madison Square Garden. Of course there were broken arms, legs, ribs, fingers, noses, teeth knocked out, and injuries like that, but people weren’t breaking their necks. When I came back from a broken arm or broken leg, it didn’t really seem to have a bearing in my mind outside of being aware that I had broken my leg or arm. But now, these young wrestlers are recovering from broken necks, not knowing their future and having doctors telling them they may be crippled for life if they do more damage to their spine. To me what has happened to the young talent is just like what happened to action movies. When I was a young guy, I would go to action movies and watch Clint Eastwood or Charles Bronson chase one bad guy, beat up a couple along the way and kill the bad guy in the end. Then as time went on, the action movies had to out-do each other. Pretty soon you had the younger stars like Jean-Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagal coming along. They would kill about 300 people in the beginning of the movie and progress through and by the end, they had sunk submarines and shot helicopters out of the air. I think that's what happened in our form of entertainment too. The guys and girls of today are trying to out-do themselves constantly and looking for high-risk maneuvers to do. At some point they are taking the risk of being crippled for life. As an agent, I tell them to stay away from the high-risk maneuvers. I tell them that their career is going to go from a long career to a short career with a bad ending if they keep it up. But the simple fact is that the talent is trying to step up to impress the audiences with things they've never seen. And when they do things people have never seen – moonsaults from the top rope to the floor, dives over the top rope, hitting the floor or the rails – there is a higher risk of injury, in my opinion. Everything in our business is an opinion. And it is my opinion that you don’t really have to do those things. In 35 years in this business I’ve witnessed some of the greatest wrestlers in the world and half of the ones that I witnessed were never really high-risk maneuver guys. They were more character, and maybe had more charisma. They utilized their facial expressions more, and entertained the audience just as well. So what I think has happened is that the young starts of today think they have to entertain the audience far better than those in the past. They watched stuff the guys and the girls did in the past and say to themselves “I could do better than those guys” and “high-risk moves would make the audience appreciate my efforts more.” But their not taking into consideration what the downside is of crippling themselves.

Makes sense.

Side question: What exactly is supposed to be kept in that slot above the game slot in the game cases?

Jake or Jesse is injured.

I have no problems with the size of the DS I just bought so I don't need or care for a smaller version (that's what it is, right?).

I hadn't seen the release dates mentioned previously, but the most recent check I did at Amazon says the Dusty Rhodes and Managers DVDs are both coming out on June 6th.

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