Your Paragon of Virtue

What about Frank? Is that Ken delivering the suplex?

The Paris Hilton one also taught little girls to not be whores. Seeing as how little girls don't watch South Park, I'd say it was more directed at their parents. This one was good, but not that good. The episodes where Cartman is the main attraction seems to be getting stale, I mean I loved Awesome-O, but other than that, the last few have been kinda weak.

I watched Bas/Frank today, and Frank lost due to cut. How can I be sure of which of the older Pancrase matches were worked? I ask because I really liked this match, but there was a little too much character in it, if you know what I mean.

Vitamin X has an emoticon that would fit this response perfectly. Something involving a violin. What a pussy. Waiting for FM to leave before you rip on him. That's really low dude.

Edited for accuracy.

Or insulting.

shouldn't you be taking pictures of the ground outside your front door and then making threads about it in which nobody cares? That's not funny.

It's actually two weeks, and the main reason it dropped the first time is that they showed the biggest episode of the season, sort of like the peak. After that blowoff, I think people knew that it would be the highest rated episode of the season. The blowoff match itself wasn't really interesting or exciting so that didn't help either. Regardless, they didn't expect to go much past a 1, so the fact that it has hit a 2 is a huge success for everyone involved. The next dropoff in ratings it was only by 0.1, so it's not like that is significant. I am curious to see how they did this week, since it had one of the more intriguing fights shown to date.

The only thing I don't get is that it says getting three million viewers would be the highest number Spike has ever garnered. But doesn't Raw get more than that every week?

After seeing a bunch of Vince Lombardi stuff, I'd say he was a player's coach. Mariucci too, who isn't a great coach, but I'm sure will be when all is said and done. Don Shula was also a player's coach. I'm sure I could go on.

Black sox, had to clarify. Everybody on this whole friggin board was probably cheerin' for the Red Sox last fall. Or at least seemed like it.

This guy's cool man, he's into METAL! and PORN! and ASS FUCKIN' YOUR MOM~! That's hardcore.

No Fedor v. Noguiera for 03? I'd also say that Cro Cop/Noguiera is better than Nog/Ricco. I've never seen their first bout, but I've heard that Baroni/Lindland I is boring and isn't comparable to their second fight. I guess I'll have to track it down and judge it myself.

This episode has pretty much been built for like eight years or however long the show has been on. This blowoff has high expectations. Has he ever said WHY he hates hippies?

So I figure that we could get some discussion going, and recommending some stuff to each other. Just talk about matches you like, and why you like them. If you disagree with someone else, point out how wrong they are. I'll start with a couple: Lindland/Baroni II - UFC 41:Onslaught This one was a war, and is the probably the last match that Baroni had where his performance was something to be proud of really. He just went ballistic in the first round, going crazy at Lindland's face a few times with some good flurries. Of course, he gassed later and Lindland went to work, especially in the second round, just elbowing his face to the mat while locking up his arms. Just lots of intensity and there was never a point when the action was stalled, Baroni showed some pretty good ground moves that I didn't think that he had, namely using a kimura to sweep Lindland. Just a great, great fight that even the crowd, which normally hates groundwork, enjoyed, probably because of the grudge factor in there. That's right, these guys hate each other, a lot. If you haven't seen this one, you should. It's one of my favourite matches from 2003. SPOILER ALERT: I personally thought that, by the UFC's rules, that it could easily be said that Baroni won rounds 1 and 3, just barely, while Lindland took 2. Not to mention that Baroni finished better and might have won under PRIDE criteria. Regardless, it was a lot closer than the Unanimous decision would tell you. Frank Shamrock/Jeremy Horn - UFC 17:Redemption His fight with Tito is probably talked about more, but I prefer this fight since Horn fights back, as opposed to just stalling with Shamrock. Great ground action, although it might seem a little slow to those not used to Horn. Very back and forth with the positioning and submission attempts, and there are points when Shammy catches a foot submission of some kind, and Horn smiles as if to say "You ain't got shit". Long and deep battle, when Rogan talks about MMA being kinetic chess, this is what he speaks of. Ending is as good as it is sudden, and I would definitely recommend this one to anyone. The fact that it took place in 1997 on a card where Dirty Harry Moskowitz had a fight speaks volumes about how past its time this bout was. In fact, this whole card would probably be a good show by todays standards. But yeah, great fight.

I see what you're saying, I didn't really put effort into this one. I initially used it because shooting is one aspect of basketball, while free throw shooting is a very limited form of shooting, what with you being there by yourself on a set line with nothing around you, etc. It's like boxing and all out striking. But baseball is a better analogy due to the fact that there are pretty much THREE very different facets to the game. The hitting, the fielding, and the running. How convenient.

I used to say as "Free throw shooting" is to basketball.

I'll leave it to resident WWE Folder poster RRR to take care of this one. If he feels like it anyway, he's quite lazy.

Does anyone know of reputable sports betting sites? How does it work anyway, paypal, limit on amount of money I bet on one game or anything?

I realize I kinda asked that question already, so if Mike answers a simple yes, or a simple no, I will just leave it at that.

I could mention the lower crime rate, illegitimacy rate, etc from 50 years ago. Some things were always done in recorded history for a reason. -=Mike How about the REAL segregation? Segregation has gone from a requirement to a desire by the minority group. I don't see how THAT has improved deep down. Yes, it's good that there is no longer required segregation --- but the deep problems are still there, and arguably might actually be worse on the part of minority groups. But, I think minorities have been horribly served by the civil rights groups that once fought for such noble goals. -=Mike Are you honestly comparing the segregation that happened in the fifties to the "segregation" that happens now?

I could mention the lower crime rate, illegitimacy rate, etc from 50 years ago. Some things were always done in recorded history for a reason. -=Mike How about the REAL segregation?

Was it a comedy? Sounds pretty funny.

Does anyone know a good source that would have these stats for all the PPVs? Recently I was interested in how much guys were getting paid in UFC 50, but it would be nice to have a site that lists a whole bunch of the different shows.

The only real segregation I *might* buy is black only groups, like on campus or whatever. But I disagree about groups segregating themselves. Can't it just as easily be argued that white people don't go and say hi to a black kid?