EVIL~! alkeiper

Well so much for extending my career as a WWE Draft Analyst.

6. ECW drafts the Miz. He's still better than Justin Credible. 7. Raw drafts Daivari. Raw must now decide whether to develop Daivari as a wrestler or as a manager. His wrestling skills are solid enough presently but scouts worry that his clothesline is too long and big-league wrestlers can make him swing and miss with it too often. As a manager, Daivari could not handle the Great Khali and one of my correspondents says, "how can he manager when he can't even manage him?" Yeah, I've since fired that guy.

5. Smackdown selects Ryan Leaf Awful. Awful pick. What the hell are they thinking?

You know when I wrote that, I had no idea the Vikings actually selected an Oklahoma product.

I bet there's a hidden url or file somewhere on the site that has the entire draft.

Keep the beer, but give him a glass.

Takes me some time to catch up. And now your TSM EXCLUSIVE draft analysis! 1. Raw drafts Brian Kendrick and Paul London This draft harkens back to the memorable NFL draft of 1976 when the Minnesota Vikings drafted the entire offensive line of the University of Oklahoma with their first pick. It was a brilliant move then and a brilliant move now. 2. Smackdown drafts Kenny Dykstra Good move drafted a pick here with a lot of upside. Kenny's name has a 2:0 K/BB ratio, a great sign for an up and coming young prospect. However, Dykstra leaves trails of tobacco juice in the outfield and some of his ideas come well out of left field. Injuries are a concern. 3. ECW drafts Viscera Poor pick here from the ECW brand. Just like Big Val E. Puccio and Sal E. Graziano, Viscera will show ECW why big fat f*cks in wrestling don't age well, if at all. 4. Raw drafts The Sandman The Sandman's 4-9 record looks unimpressive but his caliber of competition has been strong and he did win at Wrestlemania. If the Sandman can kick his smoking and drinking habits, he might finally realize the potential we all saw back in Joel Goodhart's Tri-State promotion years ago.

WWE Draft expert Al Keiper? I could do it, I can't guarantee I'll be here four hours though.

Viscera. The bitching here should be amusing.

And others can tell you when Major League parks were full of them.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! No seriously, what makes Jersey drivers better? Is it assuming that every bit of open space on the road constitutes a turning lane?

There's another angle to it HTQ. Beyond the angle itself, this allows them to change the on-screen power structure of the company, at least temporarily. I think that's the immediate direction they'll take this.

Brandon Watson has just tied an International League record with a hit in his 41st consecutive game.

Regarding Gary Michael Capetta, I wonder if there's a problem with his audio mixing with the entrance music. They probably need to take out his voice in order to do the music edits.

Watched Cena/JBL from Judgment Day. Holy crap what a great brawl.

Bad humor from the folks at Baseball Think Factory. http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/...for_all_to_see/

C'mon now, they put it on their front page of the website. Their not blowing it off.

It's not degradation of the game, but it goes back to what Czech said. The current NBA environment favors defense. There's nothing wrong with the quality of today's players. Teams simply play tighter defense than they did in the past. (Yeah, a lot of people are going to debate that. I think improved videotape and scouting have much to do with it. Those who think the players simply lack fundamentals are never going to be convinced otherwise.) You have lower field goal percentages but not lower 3 point percentages, and greater numbers of three pointers attempted. Why is that? Because players are unable to penetrate the defenses and generally take shots further from the basket. What the NBA needs is something to open up the game. I would suggest making the court wider.

I'd agree with this, but there's no way to collect completely reliable totals from that era. Negro league players have been given consideration for the Hall of Fame, which is a suitable honor. The statistics are just a manner in determining the best of that area anyway.

I made the same remark somewhere on this board a couple of days ago. It's beyond me why the chose to mostly ignore sabermetrics for the past 5-10 years because of the "complexity" of the numbers and how it distances the game from the fans before they adopt one of the most convoluted, worthless metrics I've ever seen. Just cut a deal with BP or Bill James and use Win Shares or VORP or some other metric that is easy and makes sense. ESPN.com has a ton of metrics including DIPS, Game Scores, etc. They just choose to keep them off their television network. What amazes me is how random their metrics are. Ok, hits are 5%, runs are 5%, batting average is 10%, etc. Ok, why? Linear weights are based and refined on years of play-by-play data. And unlike win shares, they really don't require a multitude of effort to compile.

College World Series today. The announcers broke out win probability!

As I stated in the other thread, use this thread to discuss the angle's impact on WWE programming, the other to discuss her life/career. If HTQ sees otherwise, so be it.

This thread was started earlier but the other thread has the momentum of the Vince angle. I would suggest that instead of closing a thread, use this thread to discuss Sherri's life and career. If you wish to discuss it's impact on WWE and the Vince angle, use the other thread.

Obviously she died of grief.

As far as the ten bell salute, I think that's traditionally given to wrestlers who die while an active part of the company. Sherri's more of a Bam Bam/Ernie Ladd case where you place their picture on the screen at the beginning of the broadcast and continue on. As for Smackdown, it's reasonably late in the process where they might not even be able to edit the show if they wanted to. Regarding Vince, I'd like to think the viewers can make a determination between a death that's part of the show and one that's outside of its parameters. It's awkward in a way but not a huge problem.