EVIL~! alkeiper

Please don't take this as me trying to pick fights, I just want to argue the point a little. Let's not even start with the difference in calling someone "properly trained" and the aforementioned "barely trained". What, in your eyes, makes someone properly trained? They've thrown this girl in the ring for what 4 years now? What does she have to do, work her way up through indy feds, pay her dues and graduate OVW to be "properly trained"? Shouldn't her healthy amount of actual ring experience coupled with former training be enough to at least not lap her in with women who just outright shouldn't be in the ring? Do you really agree that she's just eye-candy? It's more in the types of training. In basic wrestling training the emphasis is on learning fundamentals, learning how to work a basic match, getting your timing down and all that fun stuff. It's a bit different from learning how to do spots in a match. The big problem is that WWE's women increasingly attempt more dangerous moves in the ring without that proper foundation, and it bites them.

Jim Caple interviews R.A. Dickey. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story...mp;sportCat=mlb Check out the video. Great stuff.

Candice improved and can pull off some moves. That does NOT make her a properly trained wrestler.

Under the Preview section.

That Yankees/VT game will air on the YES Network, locally in Virginia, and on www.baseballchannel.tv.

Mania Freeview is actually some of the classic Wrestlemania matches in full. Andre/Studd, Hogan/Andre, Austin/Michaels, Taker/Kane, etc.

ESPN has Washington/Detroit at 1pm ET today. The Yankees are playing an exhibition at Virginia Tech. It's bad enough to have your school shot up without getting subjected to Derek Jeter and company. Maybe Shelley Duncan will spike their second baseman.

Interesting article here. Thoughts? http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/sto...&id=3299217

2-1 record so far. Great hitting but man my starting pitching sucked.

Watching the match, I really despise this shit. No wrestler regardless of their position on the card should be dispatched in 30 seconds. It's ridiculous.

No Hall of Fame inductee this week?

Edison Volquez is having an impressive spring as well for the Reds.

I'm also looking forward to the Ernie Ladd stuff.

Unless this is obvious, it's the Nitro match that wandered into the horse stable.

Beware of Dog is the power outage PPV, so that one will be very interesting to watch again.

The Cardinals sent Colby Rasmus to minor league camp, it looks like he will start in AAA rather than with the big club.

I always find it amusing when the "experts" have all #1 seeds going to the Final Four...way to be original, guys! Honestly, they're the favorites for a reason. You want them to start running down that the probabilities make the whole process random and picking winners is impossible?

How important is a specialist in the grand scheme of things? To put it in a perspective you might better understand, what's the value of a relief pitcher in baseball or a good bench in basketball? Extremely important, or as Agent put it, ask Scott Norwood. Punting can win or lose a game. For reference, see the Green Bay Packers/Chicago Bears second game from this past season in Chicago. The punting turned what otherwise might have been just a close loss or whatever into an absolute blowout. Several other games, particularly defensively minded ones, are won entirely on special teams, and having a punter that can kill the ball when you have an ineffective offense (or are up against an amazing defense) is very helpful, and can be the difference in a game. I'll grant you it is important, and I would relate it to a relief pitcher or bench player in baseball. The problem is, are we really going to rush to put those guys in the Hall of Fame? Jesse Orosco is probably the greatest non-closer reliever of all time, watch how many votes he gets next year. Maybe 1-2%. CanadianChris mentioned Rabbit Maranville. Maranville was a borderline choice, he is difficult to categorize because he was seen much as a team leader. He was the top glove man of his era, the starting shortstop on two different championship teams. For what it's worth, his range factor is the highest all time among shortstops. The worst player in Baseball's Hall of Fame is almost certainly George Kelly. The only reason Kelly was in was because he played next to Frankie Frisch, who as Veterans Committee chairman decided practically all of his old teammates were Hall worthy. Of the sixteen Frisch teammates elected as players, five are legit (using BTF's Hall of Merit as a point of reference). Boxing has some poor choices in their Hall. Jess Willard is in, he has one good win to his credit over his entire career, and many people think Jack Johnson threw that one.

Marquis has beaten the league average ERA three of the last four years, and he's made 32+ starts a year every year in that span. There are much worse problems to be saddled with (like Adam Eaton).

Santino is getting over with a retooled gimmick after his first one bombed. I wouldn't run to start retooling him again right away.

For as fun as the offseason was with trades, this Spring Training has been equally boring. It's sad when the highlights include Jim Bowden on a Segway and the Orioles on heelys. Someone really needs to do something interesting.

Without Gene, there's no one representing the first eight shows. What they do of course is film 3-4 shows at a time with the same panel, so there are limitations to what they can do. I doubt bringing guys into the studio for the "perfect" roundtable group is high on their list of priorities.

Fuck. The service at the place has gotten bad enough without the associates slowed even further by making f'n wraps.

This thread has officially become stupid.

By posting this, milliondollarchamp is only facilitating their behavior.