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If they can pull it off, that would be a fantastic trade in the long-term for the Sox and great in the short-term for the Mets. It's win-win.

Glad to see Ron Jeremy is still getting work

Reports coming out that Theo Epstein and the BoSox are way far apart on a contract. Please, Boston, give this man whatever he wants.

JasonX, where are you receiving your spoiler info? None of it seems to make any sense.

Somewhere Ron Mexico is on the phone trying to get a trade.

Eh, she's still better than Masters.

Yeah, Flair was booking at this point and the long-term plan was to feud with Austin and eventually drop the belt to him. Hell, Steamboat had zero heat in 1989 and Flair put him over because he liked him. Why wouldn't he do it with Austin?

Not that I want to get involved in this argument, but UsetheSledgeHammerUh should know that Hogan bailed out in 2003 in the middle of the Mr. America storyline over MONEY.

Wow, just wow. The Angels got FUCKED there.

It depends on what part of the country you are in.

Smackdown has sucked since late 02 when Heyman ran the SD6 into the ground. Yeah, I said it.

Ok that sort of helps. But I really hate Buffy and Angel... would you still recommend something like Serenity, or I am just not into his work?

I know someone here is going to come in and flame me, but I honestly have no fucking clue what Serenity is. I haven't seen one preview or heard a single person talking about it. Why should I care? Honest question. Sell me on it. I also don't know who Whedon is, but I've gleaned from this forum that he had something to do with Buffy. Why is he special? Once again, honest question.

Wow, that constitutes as a good promo these days? I am so glad I gave up Raw when Cena came over.

I completely gave up on Smackdown last year to the point where I pretty much didn't even read the spoilers anymore. It bored me that much. Granted, I'd be willing to give it another try, but there is no way I'm staying home on a Friday night. Raw by default.

Umm, I'm sure that he has more or less indicated that he is done with rap music, and will just stick with producing and running his label. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Nobody ever retires. Musicians are like boxers, they can't leave. He'll "retire" for a year or two and then come back with another album. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yeah I don't doubt what you're saying. I was just responding to the poster earlier who thought that Eminem might consider retiring, when this all but confirmed anyways.

Nevermind, I see you said aerial maneuvers as well. Probably Kurt Angle then.

Well I'm not sure if you mean currently or historically, but Steve Austin and Ric Flair certainly come to mind.

Umm, I'm sure that he has more or less indicated that he is done with rap music, and will just stick with producing and running his label.

What high-profile win? He went over him in a *fluke* finish(This is how it was protrayed), beat him again by DQ and then jobbed to him. The victory over Hunter was forgotten the next week. A lengthy title reign that wasn't even pushed or acknowledged until, the day he jobbed the title to Carlito with very little fanfare. Has he really gotten opportunites? Not really. He went over, albeit with a "fluke" reaction, Triple H and was promptly very over but failing to establish something with that, they let Shelton linger about doing nothing. Still over enough they included him in the occasional main event in tag team situations. They tossed him a bone by giving him the "honor" of a long title reign that went un-noticed and was treated like nothing. For instance, his title was less important then a chance to get a World title shot. Never once did Shelton explain why he was going after the title shot, despite already having the IC title. They simply inserted him into the Six Man ladder match because he was a mid-carder who could pop the crowd with his antics. After that spectactular display @ Mania, how did the follow up? Nothing. They gave him 15 minutes with shawn, with no build and no hype and he put Shawn over despite being the IC champion and never asked for a re-match, even though Shawn offered him one in passing during a short promo the next week. It showed Shelton didn't care enough to try again and was lesser then Shawn. Right there it showed "Benjamin can do high flying but he can't beat Shawn" and it quickly devalued the IC title even further, it reached it's lowest point by Carlito taking the title in a cheap finish. Look at past long IC Title reigns... HTM lost the title to the Warrior in a virtual yet famous squash @ MSG Mr. Perfect lost the title to Bret Hart in a classic match @ MSG The Rock lost the title to HHH in a semi-famous ladder match at MSG Benjamin jobbed the title to a debuting Carlito(his first raw) via the cheapest of finishes and...left the face of earth after that, only to appear a handful of times since, only to primarily job. How exactly has Shelton been given "chances" when he's had the rug yanked from under him countless times. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I don't disagree with your assessment. I was merely pointing out that, in the WWE's eyes, he was given opportunities to get over and couldn't. I doubt we see him get a push for a long time.

The problem with Benjamin is they gave him high-profile wins over HHH and a lengthy IC title reign and he din't get over at all. He may be good in the ring but they can only give a guy so many opportunities without getting any results.

I think people are overreacting just a little bit here. Saying they want him a "main event level position" is a lot different from saying he will be main eventing Wrestlemania. I'm pretty sure that they consider Carlito and Masters to be in a main event level position right now, but neither is going to sniff the WM main event.

HA! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes, because it is really important to have a good looking person ANNOUNCING! Seriously, you see them like a combined 1 minute each show.

Man, I'm not sure I have that kind of time to explain all these. So I'll at least start with the nuts and bolts and someone else can come back and fill in the holes. HHH/Angle/Steph - This was the hot program that was carrying the WWF through the summer of 2000 when these characters were all scorching hot. From the moment Angle debuted on the show, they slowly started teasing Steph having an interest in him. This slowly burned throughout the year until it was apparent that something was going on between the two, culminating in a kiss between the two circa Summerslan. It was booked brilliantly, and was an angle that seemed to attract a large female audience to the product. By the fall of 2000, HHH was getting super over as a babyface, to the point that the fans were begging him to beat the shit out of Angle and Steph. The only logical payoff was Steph doing the turn and HHH playing superman. However, his real life relationship with Steph was heating up at this time, not to mention the returning Steve Austin would bump him to #3 babyface. So basically HHH pulled a power play, squashed Angle, remained heel and the whole thing was dropped. This was the first major angle to not have a blowoff and turned away a large number of fans, including the female audience I mentioned earlier in this post.

Hey MikeSC, why exactly do you want these guys to fail so badly? You post here all the time and spew nothing but negativity. Is it just to give an opposing opinion or what?