bob_barron

This is really good news for TNA, since Christian would work well in the heavyweight division and with the X-guys. Christian in ROH would be really cool.

Because if it wasn't legit, they probably wouldn't have had a guy with badly injured knee in the world title match. All the news sites said it was legit voting, and I'll take their word for it. I remember they expected Batista to win the I-C vote.

"War" by U2- Sunday Bloody Sunday, Seconds, New Years Day

JB Smoove is horrible. His stand-up is like something out of a bad 1980s special

Yea, the Discovery Team stuff was hilarious, maybe my favourite part of the show. And it's Heatley, I always make fun of him.

He got banned

The movie will play well internationally, so it doesn't really matter.

SNL Review- Lance Armstrong/Sheryl Crow Sports Report- Maple Leafs- I think I finally got my karma for all the Team Bankruptcy jokes I made. I still hate the Senators with a passion, but I have to tip my hat to them for that 8-0 drubbing. That was pretty ugly. Dany Heatley scored 4 goals, which is 3 more then the amount of people he’s killed. Canucks- Tough loss tonight to Colorado, but at least they got the point. Auld did fine in backup, I hope Cloots isn’t out for too long. They’ve been playing amazingly well recently, so I’m not going to harp on the losses too much. Saints- You would think with that whole Katrina thing would cause the refs to be biased towards the Saints but alas. Another BS call screws us over, even though not holding a lead against the Rams is pretty bad. Anyway, Miami is a winnable game, so hopefully the Saints can improve to 3-5. Mailbag!!!!- Chad Ruffner writes- Aside from the horrid never ending Vince operating on J.R. skit, I thought Raw was once again a solid show that provided decent hype for "Taboo Tuesday". All the segments and matches (yes, even the operation sketch, as bad as that was), either forwarded storylines and/or helped build up the already announced matches for The PPV. Once "Taboo Tuesday" Is over and done with, however, I do hope the appearances by The McMahon's become few and far between, but somehow I don't think that's going to happen. Whatever. Favorite part of the show for me Monday was The Edge/Chris Masters/Lita/JBL/Rey Mysterio confrontation, as Edge was at his heel best on the mic. Here's hoping that they can keep the momentum going after T.T. and Into The Survivor's Series. What Did You Think? Chad I thought RAW was pretty bad. They’re doing a good job of building to Taboo Tuesday, but that JR skit was an abortion, and the three-way wasn’t that good either. Plus, the main event with Angle and Cena was the usual lame Bischoff screwjob finish. This Cena-Bischoff stuff wasn’t cool in August, and really sucks now. [email protected] writes- Hey Bob- This is Ken Hayashi from Voy again. I was hoping if you could do a small favor for me in the near future. Back in mid-2003, I started this side project in my spare time. On my computer, I began developing a kind of storyline for a teen movie that I’d like to see as an SNL-based project. Of course, a year after I had come up with this movie idea, SNL gave us Mean Girls. Here’s my idea for this movie. It’s called Beggars & Choosers, and stars Hilary Duff. It would be produced by Lorne Michaels, and its screenplay would be written by former SNL writer Conan O’Brien. The movie is a flat-out teen comedy that takes a satirical look at the contemporary high-school dating world between guys and girls. The story is pretty much based on my own experiences with girls and relationships when I was in high school. I’ve dubbed the movie “Clueless meets American Pie” of sorts. I guess you already see the parallels between Mean Girls and my movie idea- Lindsay Lohan = Hilary Duff Tina Fey = Conan O’Brien So I was hoping if I could send you an MS Word copy of the plot, cast and character listings, and content breakdown of my movie idea during Christmas break, which is when I should be done putting together all of the background and details. Since you go see teen movies a lot, and since you’re obsessed with Hilary Duff, I really would like to get your honest opinions on my entire movie idea. It should be fun. I just wanted to get your approval first. How does this whole thing sound to you? Later, Ken The movie could be interesting, although I guess it’s kind of odd to come up with a movie idea to be written by someone else. Send it along, and I’ll give it a look. Hilary has played the bitch before (she was pretty good on JOA) so I think she could handle a role like LL had in Mean Girls. To make another Mean Girls type comedy work, you need to have the excellent supporting players. Without Amanda Seyfried, Lacey Chabert and Tim Meadows, Mean Girls would’ve been a pretty basic teen comedy. Wanna be in the mailbag???? Email at [email protected] And now the review…. Cold Opening Cast- Darrell Hammond, Fred Armisen Thoughts- I still think he can be funny and all but Darrell is just so stale, and so are everyone one of his impressions it seems. I understand his career prospects are nil when he leaves SNL, and I guess Lorne would feel bad firing him but seriously, it’s so time for Darrell to go. This was alright. Some of the lines worked, but this mostly was too flight. I understand they didn’t want to overkill Bush by doing it another week, but I don’t know, anyone but Darrell would be nice. **1/4 Monologue Cast- Sheryl Crow, Lance Armstrong, Armisen, Will Forte, Bill Hader, Jason Sudeikis Andy Samberg, JB Smoove Thoughts- Hey, JB Smoove is back on SNL!! Beats having to see him do the warmup. I thought the whole thing with Armstrong’s team was hilarious. I don’t know why SNL didn’t get Miguel Indurain to host back in the 90s, I mean that guy won 5 Tour de Frances in a row…and he has two testicles. Or Greg LeMond. I mean dude got shot, and went on to win the Tour. Jan Ulrich would’ve been a good host too. Armisen as the oily French guy was funny as well. JB Smoove was okay. Could’ve done without the Sheryl Crow ending, but the bike team was awesome and made this monologue. *** Celebrity Ironman Cast- Armstrong, Meyers, Chris Parnell, Finesse Mitchell, Horatio Sanz, Hader, Samberg, Thoughts- Welcome back Parnell. I assume they should be done taping all 6 episodes of Thick and Thin. Well I guess he only taped 5 episodes, but I digress. NBC has so many midseason offerings this year that I think it’s bordering on overkill. I’ll give Book of Daniel a shot, even though it sounds kind of like a Joan of Arcadia ripoff. Anyway, this was way too predictable and quite stupid at that. I thought the interview with Armstrong at the end was quite funny, but the rest of this was pretty lame stuff. A skit like Celebrity Ironman has potential, but not if you make it a lame skit to hide Lance Armstrong’s lack of talent. ** Smoke Alarm Cast- Parnell, Armisen, Forte, Rachel Dratch, Sanz, Thompson, Mitchell, Sudeikis Thoughts- This was actually pretty funny. I liked Fred as the ultra serious fireman and this was a good concept. I have to say that I think I’d be more likely to get out of the house if I had some annoying 80s synthesizer music playing. The stuff with Fred telling people to get out of the house ASAP and Parnell talking about enjoying the music was good stuff. I also enjoyed the little bit with Finesse and Kenan at the end. ***1/4 Indigo Girls Cast- Crow, Armstrong, Dratch, Amy Poehler Thoughts- With the intro, I thought this was going to be Appalachian Emergency Room, but thankfully we got this instead. Well not really, since this sucked. The SNL animal curse continues, as I have a feeling the dogs were not acting the way they were supposed to. This skit had an odd feel, it felt like everything was a bit off and it was weird. Amy and Rachel as the Indigo Girls really isn’t that funny. I laughed more at the dogs then I did at the actual skit, which is pretty sad. At least the crowd seemed to be into it. *1/4 O’Reilly Factor Cast- Armstrong, Hammond, Armisen, Parnell Thoughts- Poor Jeff Richards. This had to be a kick in the teeth for him. I mean, ouch. I do feel bad for the guy, because his O’Reilly Factor from the Elijah Wood dress rehearsal was some seriously funny stuff. I thought this was really good, but a bit flat in spots to prevent this from being truly awesome. Darrell got the voice down and I thought there were a lot of good lines here. Fred looked really funny as Charles Schumer. Like I said, a lot of good-great lines here and I love seeing them spoof O’Reilly but this just needed a bit more to push it over the top as a great skit. The mailbag letter about Bird Flu-Larry Bird was hilarious though. Fine-tune this skit a bit, cut out some dead spots, and this could definitely go ****+. Also, haven’t been able to watch O’Reilly Factor in a while, is his set and graphics really that ugly now? Jeff Richards was fired. Too funny. ***1/2 Sheryl Crow “Good is Good” Thoughts- Sheryl Crow needs to learn how to not mumble since I had trouble understanding a word she said. The music was nice but boring and I probably would’ve liked this more but like I said, too much mumbling. **1/4 Weekend Update Cast- Scott Posednik, Fey, Poehler, Dratch, Mitchell, Thompson Thoughts- Well this Update was….long. Scott Posednik was quite the random cameo. Everyone’s timing was badly off during then, and it sounded like you had to be from Chicago to really appreciate it and well, I’m not from Chicago. But still, congratulations to the White Sox for winning the World Series that nobody cared about. Finesse’s bit was pretty funny and Kenan dressed up as Mrs. Butterworth made me laugh. Amy had her usual horrible jokes but the Update was so long that there were enough funny jokes to make this one not too bad. Rachel drunk-dialling President Bush was funny as well. The usual crappy Fey/Poehler thing, but I was able to flip to the Canucks-Avs game during the dead spots, so this wasn’t too awful. **1/4 Lance sings for Sheryl Cast- Crow, Armstrong, Armisen, Hader Thoughts- This is why athletes shouldn’t host because they have to make special considerations to try to make the episode watchable, like having his girlfriend/musical guest all over the show. I admittedly didn’t pay too much attention to this because of hockey, but I what I saw was a lame skit with an unfunny joke. Hader and Armisen were okay as Armstrong’s mariachi band but the rest was pretty unfunny. *1/2 Days of our Lives Cast- Hammond, Meyers, Poehler Thoughts- It’s weird, this Trump skit still has yet to get that old. It’s formula, and while it’s not perfect, the formula works. I laughed at Trump mixing up donation and money and him forgetting the girl’s name. The skit as usual went on a bit too long, like the other Trump skits, but for late in the show, nothing wrong with it. *** Carol Cast- Armstrong, Poehler, Sanz, Sudeikis Thoughts- Yea, you know I wasn’t going to like this one. This skit was poorly written, as it seemed like Carol was flirting with Sudeikis’ character rather then Armstrong’s, and that doesn’t make much sense. I laughed a little at the Carol intro but the rest of this skit was filled with horrible one-liners and well it was kinda gross too. Please SNL, don’t make Carol a recurring character. ½* Sheryl Crow “Strong Enough” Thoughts- Kudos to Sheryl Crow for pulling a Franz Ferdinand and playing a song from her first album, and a great song at that. What I Like About You Fans (all 3 of you) will recall that they used this song in the episode No More Mr. Nice Guy where Henry and Holly were enjoying their romantic night on the terrace grilling steaks. Probably one of my favourite WILAYs, and this is one of my favourite Sheryl Crow songs. So we’re all winners! ***1/2 Gangsters at the Dock Cast- Armstrong, Sanz, Forte Thoughts- The crazy Forte skits work sometimes, and sometimes it doesn’t. This was one of those times. Forte was funny at the beginning but this soon became annoying and really unfunny. The bit with Sanz shooting him a bunch of times pretty much sucked. Plus, they didn’t even wrap up the skit! What became of Armstrong’s character? If you’re going to do a crappy skit, at least give us answers! *1/2 The Bottom Line- Avg. skit was **.13 making this a thumbs down show. I can’t really I’m surprised since an athlete seems to always equal a bad show, and this was no exception. Armstrong didn’t do anything and showed no discernible talents, and thus writing the show I’m sure was a challenge and resulted in a lot of lame flat skits. Sheryl Crow was okay, but seeing her pop up in every other skit got annoying. Hopefully, we got our athlete host out of the way for the season. I also noticed a lot of skits seemed to have that Tina influence (Indigo Girls in particular), which can’t be good. There’s no excuse for the Jason Lee show not to be good though. I have high expectations for that show, and I hope SNL can deliver and not have another Jason Bateman like debacle. Thumbs Down

That, and St. Gabriel is really horrible. I'll be damned if he can start a thriving SNL thread! :-)

I don't think Hilary looks that great now either. She's getting better and the pictures of her in Europe look good, but she needs to get her tits back.

They did that last week as well. And no, my review is going to be a seperate thread.

I'm willing to do so as long as you stop being a whiny bitch who whines about being a sociopath and who deletes message boards because a girl ignores you on IM

Scarlett Johansen is hideous looking

You're not really ruining my e-day, I just think it's funny and/or sad to see you back here.

Yes sadly it is.

Wow, an insult about SNL. Go you!

ATLANTA -- Roger McDowell has no trepidations about replacing Leo Mazzone. He's simply thrilled that his first opportunity to be a pitching coach at the Major League level will come with the Atlanta Braves. The Braves announced Saturday night that McDowell is their new pitching coach. He'll fill the role vacated by Mazzone, who last week accepted an offer to become the Orioles' pitching coach. "This is a tremendous opportunity," McDowell said. "It's a great honor to be given this chance with the Braves. Everybody knows about the success they've had with their pitching in the past 15 or 16 years." McDowell, 44, spent the past two seasons as the pitching coach for the Las Vegas 51's, the Triple-A affiliate for the Dodgers. He ended a 12-year Major League career after the 1996 season and got back into the coaching ranks as the pitching coach for the Class A South Georgia Waves in 2002. "We are absolutely thrilled to add Roger to our staff," Braves manager Bobby Cox said. "He is one of the true up-and-coming teachers of the game." McDowell came to Atlanta to interview for the job earlier this week. While he was also reportedly a candidate for the same position in Seattle, he said that his true preference was to land this job with the Braves. Excluding two appearances, McDowell spent his entire Major League career as a reliever. He recorded a career-best 14 wins and 22 saves for the 1986 World Series champion Mets. He earned the win in Game 7 of that year's World Series against the Red Sox. "He has a great knowledge of pitching and the reviews and evaluations we had on him were tremendous," Cox said. "Roger was a great competitor as a player -- he started, he relieved and he even fought through arm problems, so he comes in a with great level of experience that our pitchers will learn from." McDowell's experience out of the bullpen could prove great dividends for young relievers like Joey Devine, Blaine Boyer and Macay McBride. During his four years as a Minor League pitching coach, he was given the task of developing young arms, and at the same time, helping struggling veterans at the Triple-A level. "There are always going to be different personalities and different ways to deal with different pitchers," McDowell said. "I'm looking forward to getting to know the pitchers and start to work with them." During Mazzone's tenure, which spanned from midway through the 1990 season through the end of this past season, the Braves developed a bit of a pitching dynasty. Just three times from 1992-2005 did they not produce the best or second-best ERA in the Majors. With McDowell, the Braves may be able to provide more guidance with their inexperienced pitchers. Still somewhat young, he'll likely have more patience and the ability to relate with their personalities. During McDowell's playing career, which included stints with the Mets, Dodgers, Orioles and Phillies, he developed a reputation for being somewhat of a clubhouse clown. Once during a game in 1991 with the Dodgers, he made himself part of a mariachi band. He also once wore his pants over his head and his shoes on his hands during a nationally-televised game. When former Reds owner Marge Schott banned her players from wearing earrings in 1994, McDowell responded. He bought earrings for each of his Dodgers teammates for them to wear during a trip to Cincinnati. Manager Tommy Lasorda didn't allow his players to wear them on the field that day. Mark Bowman is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

You deleted a board because of a girl.

Arizona Chicago Houston Cincinnati Jacksonville Carolina Oakland N.Y. Giants Kansas City New Orleans Philadelphia Tampa Bay Buffalo Pittsburgh NO- 20 Buffalo- 13

Jarhead is a great way for him to follow up an Oscar. Mann's a great director, so bad buzz or not, I have a feeling he can put together a fun action movie. Plus Farrell should help the movie play well overseas.

I think this game was karma for all my bankruptcy jokes

John McMullen

I don't want to read anything in this thread, since I'm terrified of spoilers of any kind, but the two full length trailers I've seen look amazing. And I'm digging the PG-13 rating. I usually don't look forward to November 18th (day after my birthday) but I can't wait to see this movie. I've been waiting for Goblet since Azkaban ended.

I laughed