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    Christian is OVER

    Who really cares who they cheer for as long as they're into the feud. Say Cena feuds with Christian, and they're both presented as having a decent shot at winning. If 60% of the crowd likes Cena and wants him to win, and 40% likes Christian and wants him to win, won't both groups be equally likely to buy the PPV? It's really when faces are getting a muted reaction against unover heels that you have to worry. When you've got a divisive face on top that's going against a heel with somewhat of a cult following, I think it's more of a win-win situtation.
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    Roddy Piper the worker

    Actually, I really liked Austin's work in 2001. He had the 2/3 falls match with HHH, the match with Rock at WM X-7, the series on Raw and Smackdown with Benoit, the SS match with Angle, a great Smackdown match with RVD, and several other very good matches during that time period. If anything, that seemed to be his peak as a worker, as he was trying to ignore the neck problems, and focus on putting on good matches. It obviously cost him, as he was pretty much forced to retire shortly afterward, but I have no complaints whatsoever about his ring work from that period.
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    Your worst ever sporting moment

    Oh, back on heartbreaking I-AA games, in the first round of the 1993 playoffs, the #2 Grizzlies got a touchdown to take a 48-42 lead late in the game, but missed the extra point. Delaware scored a touchdown on the ensuing drive to take the 49-48 lead, but we still had about 40 seconds to come back. However, rather than use their three timeouts, the coaches inexplicably just ran a no-huddle and let the clock run out. That game bothered me for about a whole year afterwards, and to this day, I don't know why they wouldn't use their timeouts in that situation.
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    Your worst ever sporting moment

    This one's a little different, but for me it would be the 1996 I-AA Championship game. Going in, my hometown Montana Grizzlies were 14-0 and were defending national champions, and we were absolutely sure we were going to win another title. The problem was that the Marshall team we were playing had a couple guys named Chad Pennington and Randy Moss. Needless to say, our corners got lit up like pinball machines the entire game, and we got destroyed. I think the final was something like 49-23, but in reality, it was nowhere near that close.
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    The Pat yourself on the back thread

    If we're on quarterbacks, I called that the Giants were going to be in playoff position until they benched Warner for Manning at which point they would completely blow the season. I also said before the season that the Patriots would win the Super Bowl, and that the Falcons would face the Eagles in the NFC Championship. I thought the Falcons would win though, so I guess that's wrong.
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    Wrestlers who were the biggest marks...

    He also said something along the lines of "When the next great wrestler comes along, I want the fans to look at him and say 'He's great - but he's no Bret Hart.'" See, that's fine as far I'm concerned though. Wanting to be remembered as a great performer is perfectly normal and natural. However, when he goes on for years about how he was screwed out of a victory in a worked match... and actually believes it, that just screams that somebody's out of touch with reality. As for Goldberg, I forgot about him, he probably should be in there around #4. Also, I think this is something that affects people that are on top in the business, more than good performers per se. Just getting that much recognition for one thing can start to play tricks with your head after a while.
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    Wrestlers who were the biggest marks...

    1. Ultimate Warrior The guy changed his freaking name.... to Warrior! Talk about taking your gimmick too seriously. I mean, it was a pretty goofy idea to begin with; he's such a tough warrior in the ring that he has to wear goofy bright face paint and run around like an idiot. But to listen to him talk about how he's adapted the gimmick into his real life, and found how important it is to become a "real warrior", it's just ridiculous. This guy needs some help. 2. Bret Hart Another case of someone who forgot that he was playing a character. This is a guy who spent years going on numerous mainstream talk shows... to complain about how he had to turn heel, and how he got "screwed out of the win" in a worked wrestling match. Give me a break. He didn't become WWF Champion because he earned the title through physical strength. The writers selected him to win the belt, just like they were selecting Shawn in the fall of 1997. And his explanation for why he needed to win? Because he was a Canadian hero, and he couldn't let his country down. Like the whole country's going to crumple over and die if a referee announces a submission while he's pretending to fight somebody. Riiiight. 3. Bruno Sammartino Sammartino can talk all he likes about how Vince has made wrestling "immoral", but what he's really pissed off about is that he broke kayfabe. For years, Sammartino ws presented as a legitimate athletic champion, and the fact that everyone knows he was just a performer just eats him up inside. I think Sammartino played the character so long that deep down, he felt like he was an athletic champion, and when Vince made the WWF all about entertainment and show, the change just made him want to snap. These are the most grevious offenders. I thought about doing a Top 5, but really the others are mostly reformed and aren't really blatant enough to deserve listing in their own topic. Honorable mentions go to: Hulk Hogan, Vince McMahon, Dusty Rhodes, Chyna, and Shawn Michaels.
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    WWE SmackDown Match Listings

    Does anyone else think that it would be a great idea for Rey Mysterio to go undefeated for the next 5 or 6 months and get pushed to the main event? He's the only face on Smackdown that I'm really into at all.
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    15 year old attempted rape

    C'mon he was just a kid. He was probably too horny to think straight. And the dark alley thing doesn't work as well when you're 15 years old and 150 pounds. They'd probably just laugh and keep walking. Of course that would still be better than what actually happened, but I digress. The point is.....ok, there's really no point either. I'll just quit while I'm ahead.
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    Head 2 Head Fantasy Baseball 2005

    Yeah, but you also mentioned Jason Marquis who was only drafted one round lower and is only the 13th best pitcher. Brian Roberts has the best stats in all of baseball right now according to Yahoo. Just trying to make sure the AL-East leading Orioles (god, it feels good to say that) get their due.
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    Cousins Marry

    Yeah, I remember reading that story in LSD as well. As for the marriage between cousins debate, as a libertarian, I can't really oppose it. If they want to marry, it should be their choice. It's just the fact that it's so disgusting and abhorrent should keep them from wanting to in the first place. And good lord, that was the woman that made him want to cross the familial line? There wasn't one piece of trailer trash in the county he could find that was better looking than that piece of shit? Good god. I've seen punching bags that were less beat up.
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    Wrestling Moves you busted out In Real Fights

    I definitely agree. Someone here said they used the Lion Tamer on someone in a real fight? Bullshit. I used to try wrestling moves on my 12 year old cousin when I got bored, and that move is impossible to lock in unless the other person either cooperates, or is unconscious. It's just way to easy to roll around and stay on your back. Dude was on his gut, I dropped my knee in his back, grab his legs and BAM, Liontamer. Not hard. And, like I said, it was a bunch of us fucking around, it wasnt a shoot or anything. Well, I guess it might be possible if the other person's already on their stomach. Turning it over like Jericho does though, when they start on their back? Not humanly possible.
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    The OaO NFL Draft 2005 Thread

    I guess he did get taken in the seventh round, but he never actually spent any time on a roster, as he was immediately allocated to NFL Europe. Anyway, White only looked special when he had a talent advantage. If he had one big game against a good defense, I'd cede to you that he got screwed, but he never did. In the three biggest challenges of his college career, he played shitty every single time. When the habit is that he plays shitty whenever he plays a team with equivalent talent, that's a sign that he's not that good of a quarterback. I know it seems like a Heisman Trophy should mean automatically that the guy can get it done, but a lot of times in college football, the system can allow a mediocre player to excel. Remember Josh Heupel nearly won a Heisman under Stoops as well, and I don't see him lighting up the professional football world right now either.
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    NBA Playoffs

    I wouldn't count out Dallas just yet. They did come back from that 2-0 deficit in a 5 game series a few years ago, and they have way more playoff experience than Houston. I could totally see the Rockets letting up "now that they have the series in control", and letting the Mavs win Game 3 and possibly even Game 4 in Houston. The thing is, no matter how bad the Mavs match up on Yao, they'd still be up 2-0 right now if Nowitzki and Finley had even average shooting nights. The Mavs are more than capable of running off a string of games, and could still take the series. If you held a gun to my head, I'd still say Rockets in 6, but Mavs in 7 is a distinct possibility.
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    The OaO NFL Draft 2005 Thread

    Plug in BJ Symons for Jason White, and he gets similar statistics, and the team does just as well. In fact, I'd do you one better, and say that if Jason White had played for Texas Tech that year, he probably wouldn't have been able to set the NCAA single-season passing record. Symons not getting drafted was more of an oversight than White.
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    Is anyone else getting damn sick

    I swear if I see another frigging softball game on national television, I'm going to blow a gasket. I don't mind if they show this crap on ESPNU, and I don't mind when they show an occasional college baseball game on ESPN or ESPN2, but when they have softball teams that are last in their conference playing on ESPN2 when they could just as easily be showing an MLB game, it just pisses me off. Some things just aren't newsworthy, and if they don't have enough interesting programming to fill up their channel from March to July, they shouldn't punish us by taking good programming off the channels we want to watch.
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    WM 21 Buyrate

    Bullshit. It's completely angle-driven. The main events of WM XIX and WM XX featured no memorable angles whatsoever. Brock kinda wanted to challenge Angle, and Benoit won the RR so he got to interject himself into HHH and HBK's never-ending feud. Meanwhile, WM XXI featured the climax of one of the hottest face turns in memory, as Batista turned on his patronizing former mentor, HHH. That hot angle was the primary impetus for the increase in buys. And while you may not have personally liked the Orton/Taker and Angle/HBK feuds, they were much better than anything that was on the undercard over the last few years. Randy Orton stepping up to the undefeatable Undertaker and trying to break his streak was a lot better than Taker lighting fireworks whenever Kane wrestled, and the depth and backstory for the Angle/HBK feud was much better than Brock and Goldberg showing up on each other's shows and staring at each other.
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    Head 2 Head Fantasy Baseball 2005

    What about Brian Roberts (taken in Round 7)? He's the best damn player in baseball right now.
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    Wrestling Moves you busted out In Real Fights

    I definitely agree. Someone here said they used the Lion Tamer on someone in a real fight? Bullshit. I used to try wrestling moves on my 12 year old cousin when I got bored, and that move is impossible to lock in unless the other person either cooperates, or is unconscious. It's just way to easy to roll around and stay on your back.
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    My interesting angle/character idea

    Oh, the heat would be impotent all right. And if the initial angle is forgotten after a year, than you really have an even worse idea, because besides that, all you mentioned is that he lost to the guy a few times, and then beat him after ten years. For comparison, Austin had beaten Rock twice in the main event of Wrestlemania, and also in about four other notable matches, but by the time they faced each other at WM XIX, no one really cared at all.
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    The OaO NFL Draft 2005 Thread

    You know. I was kind of disappointed that Dama was being so rational on the whole thing instead of giving us a chance to rip into him in such a funny situation. Well, he sure shattered that. A vendetta? A vendetta? Are you kidding me? Most NFL GMs would draft Osama Bin Laden if they thought that he could help them win another game next year. Of all the sports in the world, the NFL spends the most time analyzing every prospect in-depth to see who has the most potential value. The fact of the matter is that Jason White is a gimmicky QB who can't handle pressure, can't handle a good defense, doesn't have an NFL arm, and wouldn't be able to contribute to an NFL franchise in the near future. The New England Patriots know a little bit about recognizing talent, and if they picked Matt Cassel over Jason White, it's because they saw that he was a better QB who had a more potential as a pro.
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    This Week In Baseball

    Wow, I would have thought the chances of winning the division were something like 60%/25%/15% before the season with the Dodgers, Giants, and Padres. After Barry got hurt, I would have revised that to about 75%/15%/10%, with the Giants moving down to third. I'm honestly quite surprised that a large number of people would pick the Padres. The Dodgers looked at least as good as the team that won the division last year, and I thought that anyone outside of a healthy SF squad would be a huge reach.
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    Batista's REAL age?

    Not with all the roids... Year TM G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB 2001 SF 153 476 129 156 32 2 73 137 177 2002 SF 143 403 117 149 31 2 46 110 198 2003 SF 130 390 111 133 22 1 45 90 148 2004 SF 147 373 129 135 27 3 45 101 232 Here are the stats for one Barry Bonds. Assuming the roids started before the 70 HR season, then he still had four solid years before his body started breaking down. If Batista can get four comparable years, I suppose the WWE will feel pretty good about their investment.
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    This Week In Baseball

    The stupid question of the day is at ESPN.com: The Dodgers?! Are you kidding me? Did anyone out there actually pick someone other than the Dodgers to win the West? I swear that 90% of the world picked them to win the division, and while I don't remember the odds, I guarantee you that you wouldn't have gotten better than 1:1 on them at a casino.
  25. How did this get no-sold? For a running gag that's been used so much lately, I haven't seen a much more appropriate time to use this joke in a while.
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