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Seems inevitable we'd get at least one of these stories:

And, unless Gary Player wants to make another statement for a reason only he can understand, a top 5 absolutely earns a captain's pick in September as far as I'm concerned.

Just in 2004, when he lost to Todd "Alright!" Hamilton, who, incidentally, pumped my gas this afternoon. I'm really interested to see how well Garcia holds up. His major record is pretty solid, a handful of top 5's, and that's not necessarily indicative of an inability to close things. He should have charged a little more last year, and maybe at the 2002 Masters, but he's shown some knack at the 99 PGA, and at the 04 Masters.

Scott Steiner at Souled Out 97 I remember this being a pretty entertaining thread a few years ago. Thought I'd start another one up.

I'd say Bret comes back earlier if Shawn leaves town mid-96. If Faarooq doesn't hurt Ahmed (or even moreso, Ahmed stays healthy), he almost certainly gets a program for the title, probably against Vader. Bret Austin is likely pushed ahead a bit, say....Mind Games instead of SurSer, maybe even Summerslam. Let's say this: Let's say Shawn leaves at the end of May. The already scheduled Ahmed-Goldust match for KotR becomes a title match, due to some Beat the Clock challeneges and injuries on Raws leading up to KoTR. Ahmed wins, Pearl River Plunge, 1-2-3, new champ. Goldust retains his IC Title, however. Bret defeats Austin at KotR in his return match. Bret takes Shawn's place in the tag match at International Incident against Camp Cornette, with Austin as special ref. Summerslam features Vader defend successfully against Ahmed, maybe with a little cheating from Camp Cornette. Bret and Undertaker defeat Mankind and Austin as well at the same show. Faarooq also gets a win on the show over a now-pissing-Vince-off Ultimate Warrior. The following night on Raw, Faarooq plays the race card to Ahmed, planting the seeds for a #1 contenders match at IYH: It's Time at the end of September. We'll also see Bret vs Bulldog, Taker vs Austin at IT (just because). Vader's opponent isn't to be named for another two weeks. Mankind's vignettes begin playing the night following Summerslam, and he mentions the loss of his ear from Vader. He turns into a face/tweener, and defeats the Warrior the following week, earning a title shot at IT. At It's Time, Bret and Austin both win, along with Vader and Ahmed. Vader and Ahmed is set for In Your House: Redemption in October. Bret and Mankind face Owen and the Bulldog, and Taker and Faarooq round out the upper midcard at that show. Bret and Mankind get the win, along with the Taker. A rapidly-gaining steam Austin defeats the Warrior in what becomes his last match in the WWF. After Vader wins cleanly over Ahmed, he's beaten down by Faarooq and Vader, but is saved by a returning Sid. Bret and Austin fight to a double DQ on Raw the next night. You know what? Fuck it. I can't do it, at least not this late at night. I hate HBK, but it's tough to imagine how badly things might have been otherwise. We miss out on an excellent Bret-Austin from SS96, a fantastic HBK-Mankind at IYH, and the revolutionary Austin-Bret at WM13. As much as Vader should have had a run, and as much as I would have loved Bret getting the title back at WM13, everything else was much better.

Re: Sid/Sting as the NWO member instead of Hogan. The angle is still a success, but not to nearly the degree it was with Hogan. For a while, it was a great idea, well-executed, and entertaining. Hogan gave it the name recognition to draw a casual fan into it. With someone other than Hogan, it makes WCW lots of money. It does not revolutionize wrestling or Monday nights.

CNet gave it a decent review, 6.6 editors, 8.1 users. The price can't be beat. Go for it.

He's home in 71, which, from what I'm seeing thus far, is going to be a very good score today.

Just because I still talk like him whilst drunk

It's not an ipso-facto rip off, but it certainly is by comparison (it's typically 3 for 595 in Canada). Oh well. As VX said in CWDWAT, our beer makes up for it.

We had a special buy on an RCA LCD a few months ago at my Wal*Mart. We wanted to display it, but had no free component cables on our tv wall, so we ran it off an upconverting DVD. I honestly couldn't tell the difference between an upconverting and a legitimate 1080 broadcast, but, yeah. It's all a personal thing. HDMI cables can realistically be had for 30 or 40 bucks, if that. Another option would be to try a Gamespot and pick up a MadCatz, what with the PS3 and 360 Elite available.

That's awesome.

I posted my picks the day the Crocodile Hunter died last year...So let's say early September. There's too many medium-big names unsigned before we can really get a thread going.

Not really....the greater detail wouldn't be as noticable on a television that size, but not only that, HD set-top boxes, from the selection I've seen, are fairly bulky compared to SD ones, which seems contradictory to what you're getting at. (Not neccessarily an issue, it all depends on your preference). A variable to that would be how many channels are available in HD over-the-air in your area, but again, not a noticable difference. Ask the guys at the store you're planning on purchasing it from if you can see what an NTSC broadcast looks like (or even a DVD) and then ask to see a HD show. How feasible it is is dependable on the store's setup, but just something to consider. The Wal*Mart I work at, as well as a prior job in the field, it wouldn't be that hard to switch some cables around, especially on a 19 or 24 inch tv. The good news is nearly all LCD's have VGA inputs, and as I learned from this site a few months ago, S-Video as well will do the trick.

How about amateur Rory McIlroy? No bogeys, three under for his first round. And he's eighteen years old! Although Rose was 17 and took the 36-hole lead a few years ago, McIlroy is still pretty impressive.....When did Rose do it? Here in 99, or Birkdale in 98?

A buddy of mine used to always brag about how good his 'pulled pork sandwiches' were. I always laughed.

I still can't underline enough how much more sense to me an upconverting player makes.

This. Ditto for Buffalo and Philly.

I like that theory, but I'm not sure it'll hold up altogether. It might help out HD DVD at the beginning, but there was a time when no one knew what a DVD was either and people refused to buy them.

Welcome back, Nskie.

If it's of any comfort, Leena had her in the death pool.

Hey, my grandfather said during beers on Monday that he thinks this is the Leafs year. The only year I've ever not heard him say this since 1989 (!) was last season. Hell, I was on board for a while, I did a column in college about how I thought it was Toronto's year....and this was before Nolan, Wesley, Gilmour came back.

Just thought I'd share this, since Leaf fans seem excited again

I had heard a different version -- that he was kicked out of the locker room by the Triple Threat (version 2.1) when he was trying to get backstage to visit Justin Credible in '97 or '98. Storm, Candido, Bigelow? I'd buy that....My memory of the Triple Threat is a little hazy, but inserting Shane Douglas into that equation only makes your story more believable.

But you're not Oakland... Fuck. Baron MSN'd me of my mistake, I was hoping no one would notice. I'll have to edit the fuck out of that statement. Raiders in the playoffs? Yeah.