Cheech Tremendous

WM buyrate news from the Meltz: --Wrestlemania's first released number was 925,000 buys. Keep in mind that is a world wide number. However, it would be just below the all-time record first buy level of Wrestlemania X-7, and at a higher price, it should be the highest grossing pro wrestling event in history. In other words, a success.

I can't believe that Shawn Marion and Allen Iverson received votes for the first team. Those voters shouldn't be allowed to submit a ballot next year. They obviously aren't paying attention or taking their voting seriously.

And that's already all been explained. I'm not going to go into it again. I've explained myself a million times. The point is that I fucking hate celebrities and America's obssession with them and I hate the fact that if I try to watch a basketball, football, whatever game with a team from LA in it then they have to show me all the celebrities in the crowd and go on about what big fans they are. Well they/re not! The Clippers being in the second round has proven it. They're bandwagon jumpers. I knew they weren't real fans in the first place! And it's irritating as hell that we have to be shown them in the stands repeatedly and told what huge fans they are when they aren't! Yeah, because God knows they don't spend time focusing on Matthew McConaughey during Texas football, or Eva Longoria at Spurs games, or Tyra Banks at Kings games. It's just something networks do when the action has ceased. Why do you even care? Most sports fans don't even pay attention (I know I don't) and at least it gives uninterested women (wives and mothers) something to focus on. It's utterly harmless. Second, there is nothing wrong with supporting a team making a good run that you normally wouldn't as long as your team is out of it and they aren't natural rivals. For instance, I grew up in northern California and am a diehard Kings fan. However, if they had a down year and the ever futile Warriors made a deep run, I'd root for them. Doesn't make me a bandwagon jumper. It just adds a little excitement to a game or series that is otherwise fairly meaningless.

The general concensus of the reviews I've seen have the movie as "good", but not "great", which, to tell you the truth, is exactly what I expected. It should be a fun summer movie, but nothing close to award winning.

Isn't she supposed to be a die-hard Lakers fan? And she was at this game? Oh fuck these bandwagon celebrities. If the Clippers ever rise championship levels and the Lakers ever drop to Clipper levels then I guarantee you ever smuck in Hollywood will be supporting the Clippers and going "Lakers who?" You are really bitter towards celebrities aren't you? I mean, really, who gives a shit?

Bill Simmons has a great article on the playoffs and the new style of the NBA up on the ESPN website. Whether you like him or not, his "humor", or his blind Sox love, he is phenomenal at analyzing the NBA. His preseason preview ended up being far more accurate than 90% of the ESPN's so-called experts. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story...=simmons/060517

It wouldn't be a bad idea to trade Gordon while his value is high, but only if they get a quality big man in return. The Bulls have a logjam in the backcourt, and Gordon is likely the odd man out. Trading for any of the Knicks garbage seems unlikely. Paxson is just too smart for that. Besides it would break the tradition of the Bulls fleecing the Knicks in their trades.

The key game will be Game 6. San Antonio will probably win tomorrow night to even the series. Dallas would then have to seal it at home or they'd be dead in the water heading back to SA for Game 7. It is really starting to feel like Dallas' year though.

I've been pumping Kinney for a long time. Not only is easily one of the most knowedgeable anchors, he's a great interviewer. He'll really ask hard-hitting questions, but not in a way that belittles or undermines the guest. His baseball and boxing commentaries are great as well. He introduced me to sabermetrics and I've never looked back. ESPN could use him much better.

Dama, why are you so down on Lebron and the Cavs? It's awesome to see his development into the best player in the league.

The regular season means nothing.

And Dallas, Miami and Detroit. I like Phoenix but the current incarnation of the team can't beat any of the top 4.

Dallas-Detroit in the NBA Finals. Book it.

I say put him in for the dropkick extra point.

What happened to him? Stiff neck. Stuck the needle in the wrong place?

Don't the Bulls already have the rights to the Knicks first round pick in 2007? They have the option to switch picks with NY if they want.

The Yankees don't have the prospects to make an Abreu deal and whatever they have left in the farm system is going to have to be used to get pitching. It doesn't seem like they have the arms this year to make a deep run.

I'm sorry WP, I just don't agree with you on this matter and there is no way we can prove what would have turned out better. Your ideas are great in theory, but you're not thinking like a booker or as a promotion trying to make money. People don't remember the Benoit loss or running from Heyman. They remember the Rumble win and the main event of Mania. Benoit is not the guy that can be the focus of the promotion. The company rewarded him with a victory at the biggest PPV of all time against the company's biggest star. You may not have liked Shawn's inclusion, but you can't sell Benoit-HHH as the main event of Mania. You just can't, and so they created a compelling story with what they had. You can't do Benoit-Lesnar at Mania because of the Lesnar-Goldberg factor. And if you do it at No Way Out, what are your title matches for Mania 20? There are many other pieces to put together in booking a promotion, you don't just chuck it all aside because of Benoit. Sorry.

Being well-respected amongst some fringe music genre does not make one legendary either.

Given what they have offensively at their other positions, they should just go in-house with their replacements. Between Bernie, Cabrera, Cairo, Giambi, Pena and Crosby, they should be able to work out a 1B, DH, OF solution. It's not going to set the world on fire, but could get them by for a month or two.

Chandler does have a pretty big contract...but if Bynum put up those type numbers in his contract year,...best believe hed command similar....add in Deng and the NY 1st rounder..thats decent building blocks...Odom is a pretty good player but Mihm isnt any better than what Minnesota has today at center and Bynum is looking like DeSagana Diop I'm glad that someone comes in and backs me up, even if it's a day late. I'm all for keeping young guys and building for the future, but it's not like Bynum is Kareen Abdul-Jabbar. His absolute upside is basically Eddy Curry, and we saw how much interest he got last year as a free agent. If I'm Mitch Kupchak and McHale is willing make THAT deal, I'm running to the phone as fast as possible before he sobers up.

Buster Olney, resident Yankee dick sucker, mentioned the same thing in his blog today. Do the Yankees have even have the pieces to make a deal for Abreu? I doubt the Phillies would unload one of the best corner outfielders in the majors this early in the year without getting something really good in return. I think it's just the Yankee fan mentality of thinking they can get whoever they want, whenever they want. Apparently the Phillies are down on Abreu and were said to be willing to ship him off for two marginal prospects, no mention of Wang, Cano or that Hughes kid. It's a fucking joke that the Yankees can just absorb everyone else's bad contracts and ship 'em a bag of balls and some bats in return. That seems fishy to me. During the offseason, Abreu was being mentioned in deals for Prior and Manny Ramirez. Two marginal prospects should not net a talent like Abreu no matter how much money he makes. I don't understand Philly being down on the guy.

Buster Olney, resident Yankee dick sucker, mentioned the same thing in his blog today. Do the Yankees have even have the pieces to make a deal for Abreu? I doubt the Phillies would unload one of the best corner outfielders in the majors this early in the year without getting something really good in return. I think it's just the Yankee fan mentality of thinking they can get whoever they want, whenever they want.

Credit: LA Times Yeah, but on the other hand, who'd Damon f'n Jones to talk? If you're Paul Pierce and Jones is trash talking, you are going to respond with something. It's not Pierce's fault he's played for crap teams his whole career.

I'd consider Biohazard more legendary than Skid Row. Skid Row was more famous, but they were really a one-album wonder that had a shelf-life of just a few years. Biohazard was pretty big in the NYHC scene for YEARS. Plus, he's seemingly being billed as the 5th, and thus least famous, member. And, yeah, the music'll suck. 4 out of 5 people could tell you who Skid Row is. Most people know Sebastian Bach and "18 and A Life" despite their short run at the end of the hair metal era. I'm not knocking Biohazard (I don't even know the music) but I doubt they have that sort of recognition amongst non-hardcore fans.