Chazz

Oh that's right. My bad. Thanks.

Where are The Smackdown Spoilers for this week? I haven't seen them anywhere on any site.

Him not even realizing it was an answer tone showed how hip and with the times Vince is making it even 100 times better. The chick thing was coldly nice. But a giveaway after EVERY match? God, that is overkill. Well, this week they have eight separate giveaways to fill TV time. Yay! http://wwe.eprize.net/sweeps/pages/rules.html I bet Stephanie and her band of hack writers love this money giveaway shit the most. They get to put in even less of an effort into the program than usual.

Is Relick still working for TNA? Haven't seen him on there in a while. Good blog entry. Thanks for sharing.

And judging from the ratings, nobody cares about those 2 either. At least The Russoriffic Attitude Era was entertaining and fun to watch.(mostly)

Instead of using his money to try and bribe people into watching Raw, Vince should instead invest it in a new writing team.

That groundhog must've been scared shitless. I've never heard of any climbing trees before.

Why did they have Santino vs Cousin Sal on Smackdown when the whole program has been built up on Raw, not to mention that it involves a Raw wrestler? Way to build up that brand continuity before the draft!

My current company did something similar to what your former company just did a couple of years ago; I.E.-Making us pay for part of our benefits. That too was THE big selling point of the organization. Then they honestly wonder why turnover has been so high the last several years. Idiots.

I wonder what will be their excuse if they draw the same number or lower after next week's show?

Another dud draft pick by The Pirates? The hell you say!

PWInsider.com Shit hitting the fan in 5...4...3... They have the built in excuse of "it was a holiday"

You're right. Coachman was named "Executive Assistant", and was supposed to be a temp. acting G.M. That temporary acting role lasted a year and a half until Regal won that battle royal for the vacant G.M. spot.

The last time Raw had a vacancy in The G.M. Spot 2 years ago after Bishoff was fired, it took them 6 months to name a replacement in Coachman. Much like then, something tells me we'll be stuck with Vince all over t.v. running the show for the immediate future.

Is Raw's contract with USA set to expire soon? If so, I'm betting that's the reason for this million dollar giveaway ploy.

If that was their "Big" announcement, then I'm glad I decided to skip this show. Didn't they do something of this ilk back in the dying days of WCW, where they basically had to bribe their fans to keep watching their shitty product? Oh how history does repeat itself...

Well, you were pretty close; They lost that game 12-3. Amazingly, that was the only game The Bucs lost to The Cubs in the 3 game set.

I wonder if this development means The Heat Crew, (Haas, Duggan, Venis, Super Crazy, Snitsky, etc.), will get their pink slips soon, or if they'll keep some around as jobbers to the stars?

If HHH and Orton do face each other again for The Title, I wonder how they will explain Orton getting another title shot seeing as he already used his rematch clause? Then again, if they managed to do Batista/HHH for The World Title 3 years ago in 3 straight PPV matches, I'm sure they'll come up with something.(However lame it may be.)

I just noticed that Maya Rudolph is no longer on the show. Did she get fired, or did she quit?

Didn't The Radicalz end up jumping to The WWF/E because Russo was being replaced after 3 months on the job by Sullivan? I mean I'm sure there were other factors involved in their decision to leave, but I still think that was a big endorsement of sorts by those 4 for Russo. Either that, or they just hated Sullivan with a passion.

While that may be true, the point is that a good writer/booker can still at least produce good television. Something Russo failed miserably to do. Well, then I guess we agree to disagree. Not to get too far off the topic, but who is someone that you consider a good writer/booker? Under the same circumstances, do you think that person could've helped to turn WCW around, or was it a lost cause?

It doesn't matter how good the writer/booker is, if the top guys weren't willing to put over/help out the younger, mid card guys to create new stars for the future, then the company was doomed to fail. And fail it did.

Another thing that doomed Russo's reign was the fact that he got little to no cooperation from some of the top tier guys in regards to helping to put over younger, mid card wrestlers. This is something that Russo was used to happening when he worked for WWF/E. Speaking of something he was used to while in The WWE/F, it didn't help Russo's cause when some lazy, spoiled workers would take months off to heal minor injuries because they had gauranteed contracts thanks to Eric Bischoff.(Who, in my opinion, doesn't get nearly enough blame for the death of WCW.) These were 2 major factors that Russo apparently didn't anticipate ahead of time,(or if he did, he overestimated his abilities to deal with them), and it ended up burning him in the end.

Agreed. Even his bad stuff still managed to entertain me, while Sullivan's just made me turn the channel.