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I'm pretty sure it was Emory Hale.

http://www.wwe.com/news/headlines/1276932 It's a damn shame, he's a great worker, wonder how long till he is in TNA?

Mets/Pirates already postponed, heard they are going to try and get in tonight's game at Yankee Stadium.

any update on the state of tonight's Yankees/Red Sox game? Will they be able to get it in?

Bill's out, so Ben gets 'SNL' vote By MARISA GUTHRIE DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Bill Clinton wasn't available to host the premiere of "Saturday Night Live" so the next most ubiquitous Democrat will do - Ben Affleck. Affleck has been tapped to host the 30th season opener of NBC's "SNL" Oct. 2 at 11:30 p.m. Rap star Nelly is the musical guest. Boston-bred Affleck spent a lot of time stumping at the Democratic National Convention in his hometown earlier this summer and has emerged as a political figure. "SNL" producers tried to woo Clinton to kick off the season, but the ex-President and best-selling author turned down the invitation. Now, of course, he's convalescing after heart bypass surgery and so wouldn't have been available anyway. Clinton's refusal provided an opening for Affleck to make his third appearance on the show. Likewise, it will be his second appearance after the breakup of his almost-marriage to Jennifer Lopez, which is likely to limit the show's comedic attacks on his love life. (He was last on "SNL" in March.) It won't dampen, however, an all-out attack on his recent film career, which includes the bombs "Gigli" with Lopez, "Jersey Girl" and "Paycheck." His films, along with his strong political beliefs, should provide enough fodder for "SNL" writers to fill a show. Not surprisingly, Affleck has a new movie to promote, "Surviving Christmas," with James Gandolfini and Christina Applegate. Originally published on September 16, 2004

Was that a Pat Borders sighting I just witnessed on BTN? And a Pat Borders getting an RBI hit? It's like 1992 all over again.

Smackdown! *John Cena pinned Booker T in the fourth match of the best of 5 series for the WWE United States championship. Torrie Wilson introduced the match. *Backstage, Teddy Long had two contracts backstage for The Big Show - one to face Eddie Guerrero, one to face Kurt Angle. *Michael Cole interviewed Billy Kidman about the WWE Tag Team championship loss last week, calling him a quitter. Paul London came out and slapped him, but Kidman just walked off. *Rob Van Dam & Rey Misterio defeated Bubba Ray & D-Von Dudley after RVD pinned D-Von withm the five star frog splash. Spike kicked D-Von low for losing. *They aired a video promoting the contract signing with The Big Show, so that appears to be next up. Backstage, Eddie Guerrero came up to the Big Show and told him to sign for a match against Guerrero at No Mercy. They aired a backstage vignette of The Full Blooded Italians preparing for a WWE Tag Team championship match against champions Kenzo Suzuki and Rene Dupree. *WWE Tag Team champions Kenzo Suzuki & Rene Dupree defeated the FBI. John Heidenreich kidnapped Michael Cole. Tazz tried to make the save but failed. *Backstage, Heidenreich was over Cole grunting, saying he had something for him that he wanted to give him from the first time he saw Cole. *WWE champion John Bradshaw Layfield called out The Undertaker. They brawled with Taker getting the upperhand. Orlando Jordan ran out with the returning Viscera and Gangrel. Undertaker fought back until being laid out with the Clothesline from Hell. *Backstage, Luther Reigns tried to convince the Big Show not to sign for a match with Kurt Angle at No Mercy, but instead face Eddie Guerrero. *Backstage, John Heidenreich read Michael Cole a poem and made Cole thank him for it. *Charlie Haas defeated WWE Cruiserweight champion Spike Dudley, DQ when the Dudleys interfered. Rico returned to make the save. *The final segment saw The Big Show, Kurt Angle, and Eddie Guerrero brought to the ring for the Show's contract signing. He chose to face Guerrero but ended up teasing up the contract and signed to face Angle. Angle and Reigns attacked him but Guerrero made the save. Teddy Long announced a tag match for next week. Credit: PWI

Actually Hogan was a transitional champion for Undertaker, the plan from the beginning was for Taker to get the belt.

great stuff as always Graham

Maybe they have Seth Myers in Jimmy's role? Create a new character alongside Dratch. Like something like Fallon's character moved to Chicago because Nomar was traded to the Cubs, so she has a new boyfriend. Well maybe not, but I want to see more of Seth, especially talking about the Red Sox.

Every year the company used to do a Post Wrestlemania "Spring Cleaning", where they would drop several workers to keep a budget.. Now these releases keep coming at different times and out of nowhere.

Found this post from Meltzer on WC: "Kevin Nash faked a heart attack so he wouldn't have to job. bullied everyone for years. totally unprofessional in laughing about matches he had to job in during the match itself (the time he laid down for Chris Daniels in UPW) and his treatment of Terry Funk pop to mind--double crossing him on an interview and laughing to the rest of the boys at how he made the famous Terry Funk tongue-tied (since he double-crossed the spot) and then not selling a thing for him in the ring. Nash vs. Piper when he also wouldn't sell for him and then tried to pick a fight with him." Was the Heart Attack deal at Starcade 97? Not wanting to job to the Giant? What was the deal with Funk?, I wasn't really watching WCW back then Ditto for Piper

It's funny because after HHH jobbed the belt to Hogan at Backlash 2002, he said something along the lines of "It doesn't matter that I lost the belt, I was in there with one of the biggest legends in this business" "It was an honor to be in the same ring as Hulk Hogan" And now he hates him.

Good God, here is a more detailed recap of Cole/Heidenreich from OO: " Michael Cole Backstage With JH -Cole is Pressed stomach first against the wall with JH's stomach pressed against Cole's back -JH says he's gonna give Cole somethings he's wanted to for a long time, he the grunts and both guys lurch upwards and forwards. I wish I was making this up and no, it wasn't being played for humor although I found MC being raped quite amusing." Wonder if that was Heyman's idea? Also, match 5 of Cena v Booker will be at No Mercy

Bad news for Padres fans, Khalil Greene is out the rest of the season with a broken right index finger

I always thought that as soon as ESPN got into bed with the NFL and the NBA, they could have given a good God damn about baseball. There are some anchors on SportCenter that clearly know nothing about baseball (Steve Levy is the prime example, mispronouncing player's names left and right, Kevin Frazier before he left, Stuart Scott, even Kilborn had trouble doing baseball highlights). If you have ever listened to Mike and Mike In the Morning on ESPN Radio, Mike Greenberg flat out admitted he wasn't a baseball fan. After he said that I tried to stay away from that show as much as possible. Rich Eisen, in an interview after he left ESPN, said he felt like a loner because he was really the only anchor who loved baseball, all the other anchors only cared about the NBA and college basketball. In the early 90's ESPN was really built around MLB, having a game nearly every day of the week, now they seem to cover baseball only because they have to. Their baseball coverage has gotten pathetic. BTN is a shell of it's former self with idiots like Kruk and Reynolds. The only thing going for it is the highlights and up to the minute updates. To me, it's like baseball is the red headed stephchild of the ESPN conglomerate

Vince McMahon always used to say "This crowd is in stunned silence" or "Is in awe of the action going on in the ring" when there was no heat in the match.

At least we can hear Gangrel's awesome theme music again!!

Velocity: *Orlando Jordan pinned Scotty Too Hotty *Paul London pinned Akio *Shannon Moore b Mark Jindrak via DQ *Luther Reigns destroyed an unknown opponent.

I think that is Bruce Prichard you are talking about, Bruce is "on leave", Tom is fired (his columns are gone on wwe.com)

"Dr. Tom Prichard has been released by WWE. I believe it happened today and it came about very suddenly. No reason has been announced at this time. The word making its way around Titan Towers today was that Tommy Dreamer has taken over his responsibilities with WWE, including in the WWE developmental program. Dreamer was sent to OVW earlier this week and announced to the workers that he was there to observe the developmental process. As it turns out, he was actually there to prepare for his new responsibilities, whether he knew it or not. From what OVW workers told us, Dreamer was not under the impression that he was at OVW for any other reason that to observe the process, which would lead me to believe he had no idea the real reason he was there." Credit: PWI I wonder what Bruce thinks? Glad to see Tommy get promoted.

Huge win for the A's, they come back after trailing in extra innings and win 7-6

It's funny that the Marlins and Marlin fans would mock Moises Alou, since he helped them win a World Series in 1997

From 1wrestling: "A WWE source tells 1Wrestling.com that Eric Bischoff is apparently in the doghouse for leaving last night's PPV early because he thought he wasn't on the show. Bischoff wasn't told by agents and writers that he was going to be involved in sending Coach to the ring during the Triple H/Randy Orton match, and by the time someone was able to reach him by cell phone he was two hours away driving to Seattle for RAW." Well, they may do a "GM Election"

Before the game is even over, I can hear Joe Torre saying "It's only one game, they just beat us bad today" Sterling and Steiner have already started the "It's only one game" theme on the radio.