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First of all, I respect Meltzer as the best provider of news in the wrestling world. My main problem with Dave is that he claims to be objective, or an "observer" of the wrestling world so to speak, but he clearly has biases and agendas. Every week at TSM I read the observer news and each week Meltzer's attitude starts to annoy me. His little snide remarks on Gene Snitsky this week prompted me to start this topic. I mean he outright makes fun of wrestlers he doesn't like. Plus, he praises wrestlers he likes and makes outlandish statements about them, such as "Ric Flair is still the best worker in the company"Is this an attitude a man with a degree in journalism should have? I mean do regular journalists make jokes about people they don't like in their columns. Maybe they do, but I don't think it's professional in the slightest. I also think Dave extrapolates and feels as he is speaking for the majority of wrestling fans, and I really doubt that he has the same tastes as the rest of the audience. I had the chance of reading Observers from the 80s and his ripping of Hogan and the WWF product at the time reaches absurd levels. I mean he clearly had it in for them and couldn't look at the company objectively. So my question, is Meltzer in the wrong for claiming to be objective and then doing the exact opposite or is it "it's his newsletter, his opinions, and you don't have to buy it if you don't want to"?

Bob did you catch Amy and Maya crying during the Goodbyes with U2? Maya was practically bawling, and Amy had to wipe tears away. I assume Amy is a big U2 fan? That ending made the hair on the back of my head stick up. Were any other cast members crying?

Maybe this is idealistic, but I would like to read a newsletter that was professional and objective, and where the author doesn't call someone he is reporting on "Gene Shitsky". Maybe Meltzer never claimed to be objective, but maybe I assumed he was since he calls himself a journalist.

Yep, it's official

Did Bret Hart no-sell, pose, and constantly pander to the crowd? Steve Austin? No, but Austin 99 came very close to. However Hogan did, Warrior did, Shawn did, Nash did,Undertaker did, Rock did to an extent (doing promos mid match, facial expressions to the crowd) Shawn started acting differently in the ring when his singles push started, he started taunting and posing and overtly playing to the crowd, stuff he never did as a Rocker

I think what hurt Shawn as a worker was that he had to conform to what Vince McMahon saw in a top face wrestler, which was no-selling, posing, and constantly pandering to the crowd. If you watch Shawn as a Rocker in the early 90s he really doesn't show the overt charisma that he would show later on during his singles push. From a pure work standpoint, he was probably a little better as a Rocker. His singles matches were definitely more dramatic and feautured more pure athleticism, but his tag matches were probably better from a technical standpoint. On the From the Vault DVD, his selling in the September 1986 Summers/Rose v Rockers match is tremendous (as was Jannety's)

Chris Benson resigns with the Mets, 3 years, 22.5 million.

Jose Guillen has been traded to the Washington franchise, Bowden is wasting no time. http://msn.foxsports.com/story/3177746

This is a good point, but one of my (few) problems with ECW was that they would have 15-20 minute squash matches, or basically extended squashes, which in my mind, were totally unrealistic. I mean there is only so many times you can watch Tommy Dreamer get his ass kicked for 20 minutes and then be "Shocked" when he lost. Joey Styles would totally oversell when Tommy was pinned, because he was basically getting squashed in guise of an actual competive, back and forth match. These types of "back and forth"matches were supposed to climax in an emotional outcome, but Tommy getting pinned was inevitable, thus killing the emotional impact of the finish. I think Heyman wanted EVERY match to be good. While that is a good idea in theory, sometimes you need one guy to look a lot better than another. There was no need for RVD to need 25 minutes to beat Spike Dudley when no one in the arena or at home knew Spike had a chance in hell of winning. Plus, some guys just shouldn't be in the ring for over 20 minutes and Heyman did that a lot with Shane Douglas, Pitbulls, Dudleys, etc.

I think the show was called "Brothers" It was about brothers and one of them was gay, maybe 2 of them? They always hung out at this bar. That was on very early in the history of Fox. When I was kid I was pretty shocked to see the actor who played the gay brother without his "gay" voice in real life interviews. Can someone fill in the details?

In a move to certainly propel them to an NL Central division title, the Brewers sign Pat Borders.

well, since Jerry Jarrett fired Heyman in Memphis after about 2 days on the job, I doubt he is their biggest fan

Meltz doesn't seem to be a big Shane Douglas fan, to put it mildly

Stephanie and RVD also did several sexual innuendo laced backstage vignettes in the fall of 2001

IMO, can't compare the two now, Ben has MUCH more talent around him than Eli. The Steelers have a good line with 3 great receivers and Eli has 2 receivers who are on a downward slope (Toomer used to be a very good, not great, but very good receiver and he has done nothing this year, and Hilliard has dropped off immensely from past years) and the worst offensive line in the league

It was JYD's old "juke" dance

JYD's Juke!!!

new champions!!

When did NWA/WCW become infatuated with the WWF? I know Jim Ross in the late 80s and early 90s would make vague references like "These aren't musclebound slugs in the ring here folks, with long hair who play rock and roll music, this is the NWA, this is where we WRESTLE" Then in 94 and 95 on Wordwide, Bischoff made references to "being the #1 wrestling company in the world" and "no stupid gimmicks here in WCW" (This was before Nitro went on the air) Did it go back to the mid 80s during the first WWF boom?

Patriots throwing the ball down the field! I can't believe I'm watching a Pats game, 13-0 Patriots

JBL v Booker is next, due to the placement on the card, JBL is defintely going over

Maven does a run in and turns on the face team, and we have a new member of Evolution

I just don't see how the Packers can be considered a Superbowl team with that defense, not that everyone is saying they are going to the Superbowll, but I have heard some say it.

Packers win 34-31

There's your game right there, Packers with the ball at Minn.'s 20 with 35 seconds to go