EVIL~! alkeiper

Too many heels won, six of nine matches as I recall. Those wins even then were Tatanka by countout, Undertaker by DQ and Steiners by pin (not counting the Hogan/Yoko stuff). At some point you need to give your fans something more to cheer for.

Tampa Bay Rays. I'm dead serious, no team has more raw talent across the board.

-ESPN.com reports the Tigers are set to sign Miguel Cabrera to an eight year extension. The deal would buy out six years of free agency. -Jorge Cantu has apparently won the third base job in Florida. They placed Jose Castillo on waivers, and the Giants claimed Castillo. Castillo may have a shot now at the Giants' third base job. -Sidney Ponson failed to make the Rangers' rotation.

Nope. It means you're gay.

I only came in here to post mine, but I changed my mind.

You know, you really have to admire a porn actor who can stay hard through all that.

I hoard DVDs and pray for double murders to up their value all the time. If John Cleese ever kills someone, I'm set for life.

Here's the details. September 23, Cubs and Giants are fighting for the pennant. With the score tied 1-1 with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, the Giants have first and third. Hitter Al Bridwell smashes a single, apparently scoring a run. Runner Fred Merkle on first turns towards the clubhouse after the hit, failing to touch second base. The Cubs find the ball in the postgame mob, and second baseman Johnny Evers touches second base to record the out. The game ends in a tie. With the Giants and Cubs deadlocked at 98-55 at the end of the season, the game is replayed. The Cubs win the game, and the pennant, 4-2. Let me add a small detail here. If you knew the Polo Grounds at all, the clubhouse was actually beyond center field. It was not through the dugout like we associate with modern ballpark. So Merkle would have made a slight turn towards the clubhouse, not a full turnaround. A minor detail, but it helps to visualize the play. The crowd mobbed the field after the apparent win, so it took the Cubs some effort to find the ball and some assert that it was not the actual game ball that Evers retrieved.

Absolutely. Give me a moment to check the details.

Here's one. It was the lowest scoring "major" league in baseball history. 3.33 runs per game.

Kramer just fouled out. Too bad his dad is not a referee, eh?

The five year rule was never concrete, just a guideline. Considering the relative paucity of discussion topics, it is perfectly fine in this folder.

Honestly, buying dvds of recent shows isn't bad at all when they are offered at a $15 price point.

Been meaning to do this for some time. Since most people here know me only for my sports posting, I'm opening up the field a bit. Everything you ever wanted to know about me, modding at TSM, or whatever.

I probably have to go with Belladonna. Yes, there are many more attractive women in porn. But Bella has this instinctive knowledge of human sexuality that is just incredible. Where the hell do you come up with this shit? To answer the question, my dad served in Vietnam, he'd probably come up with something before I did.

What the heck is with every college marching band learning "Here Comes the Hotstepper?"

On the news itself, not too much to say. John Cena's high sales should serve as a lesson in salesmanship itself, that fans prefer bigs names and personalities and not necessarily what obscure matches make the dvds.

Thanks for these. I would make the suggestion (just a suggestion mind you), that editorializing is put in parenthesis, just so we can tell what is your's. Meltzer can tend to editorialize on his own from time to time, so it helps.

You'll be disappointed, there's not much bad I can honestly say about the place itself. Lushus dislikes me a bit but he's a good poster. Dr. Tom got me writing for the main site when we had one.

It probably should be John Cena. It's a nice thought to give a wrestler a rub, but if that wrestler tanks or flakes, you've lost what could have been a great moment. What if they had used Andre to put over, say, Billy Jack Haynes at Wrestlemania III? I think the best thing to do is use the streak to build a legitimate big main event.

The Pit is a fairly good messageboard overall. They have some good posters there who I wish still posted here but do not for various reasons. Unfortunately they have some posters who are awful, and a few of those who insist on taking cracks at me at every possible turn. Some of the criticism and mocking is tiresome. Baseball stats? Yeah, if you are going to be derivative, that's probably a good way to start. But that I hate women? Where the hell does THAT come from? Comments about my moderating, well 90% of the posters here think I do a good job, so obviously that's not going to bother me. I hesitate to get involved in any of it, because her ilk really thrives on any type of perceived controversy and arguing. I'm not going to convince her or Paul of anything, and no one else really cares.

TNA may produce bad wrestling, but is there any universe where it's a good thing for them to go under?

It's continuous, that's the problem. One instance, no biggie. But it happens all the time. Edit: To elaborate, there are two problems. One is not citing a source. The other one is passing off an item word-for-word with no indication you picked it up elsewhere.

Nothing on that level, though I'm sure there are a couple good morsels I might dig up. Honus Wagner had an absolutely historic season.

I really don't have anything exciting to print, but I can't let this one slip by. Cheers man!