Dangerous A

For a newb, I commend you for bringing the common sense. Good news: Joey Styles calling the ppv is better than Coach. Bad news: It's a Raw ppv. Raw sucks.

With the number holding steady, I am not sure the Prime Time special will do all that much better. I think I predicted about 1.2-1.3, if they are lucky. Here is Meltz's take on this week's rating...

Goes both ways. Austin shouldn't leave everyone to hang, at the same time though, they needed to let Austin know from day one where this was all going. It's bad on Austin's part for agreeing and not following through, no matter how moronic. It's even worse on WWE for not telling Austin the plan or, worse, changing the plan on him in the middle of the storyline. Oh well, I wasn't buying the show whether Austin was on or not.

Effective immediately, there won't be any more episodes of the "Danger Zone" for the forseeable future. Between work, dental procedures, and my wife, I cannot make the committment to doing a weekly show. Admin has let me know that if any of you are interested in doing your own show, that you can email him at [email protected]. If you really are interested in doing it, drop him a line. He was basically 80% of the show, I just provided the commentary and such. If you want to know how I got started with podcasting, PM me and I'll let you know what's up. Thanks to everyone who gave me their support. I really enjoyed doing it and still crave to learn more about doing radio in the future from a technical/school standpoint, although I may lean towards doing traditional sports talk radio as opposed to wrestling since that has so many peaks and valleys. DA

I don't see why anyone wouldn't want to sign this guy. He's great. Well, he WAS great.

I read 5 years/$50 Million. I'm still scratching my head over the Warriors giving Dunleavy 5 years/$44 million. They must see something I don't. While he's improved his scoring average, I'm not sure it warranted that kind of extention.

He'll be a spark plug off the bench, no doubt. However, I think Villaneuva dropping to Toronto or Granger dropping to Indiana turns out to be the real steal. Watch out of Francisco Garcia in Sac as well.

Effective immediately, there won't be any more episodes of the "Danger Zone" for the forseeable future. Between work, dental procedures, and my wife, I cannot make the committment to doing a weekly show. Admin has let me know that if any of you are interested in doing your own show, that you can email him at [email protected]. If you really are interested in doing it, drop him a line. He was basically 80% of the show, I just provided the commentary and such. If you want to know how I got started with podcasting, PM me and I'll let you know what's up. Thanks to everyone who gave me their support. I really enjoyed doing it and still crave to learn more about doing radio in the future from a technical/school standpoint, although I may lean towards doing traditional sports talk radio as opposed to wrestling since that has so many peaks and valleys. DA PS: this was also posted at the end of the Dames thread. Can we get a mod to pin this so it doesn't get in the way of real news?

Interesting that you ask, Coffey. Effective immediately, there won't be any more episodes of the "Danger Zone" for the forseeable future. Between work, dental procedures, and my wife, I cannot make the committment to doing a weekly show. Admin has let me know that if any of you are interested in doing your own show, that you can email him at [email protected]. If you really are interested in doing it, drop him a line. He was basically 80% of the show, I just provided the commentary and such. If you want to know how I got started with podcasting, PM me and I'll let you know what's up. Thanks to everyone who gave me their support. I really enjoyed doing it and still crave to learn more about doing radio in the future from a technical/school standpoint, although I may lean towards doing traditional sports talk radio as opposed to wrestling since that has so many peaks and valleys. DA

Seconded

I second Dogg on that one. It's an offseason issue. I'm interested to see how Chris Paul does against the Kings on opening night. Denver vs SA and Dallas vs Phoenix looks like it could kick a lot of ass opening night as well, plus they're TNT games. Thank God the NBA is back.

I couldn't agree more. Fuck The Source.

I'd love for them to play up Rod Strong and AJ more. As you elevate Strong (if that's ever in the books) Since AJ pretty much killed him in the first match, you could have Strong keep doing better and better against AJ and eventually when it's time, play up that they were the first match on Spike and have Strong eventually go over. I'm not gonna lie, I'm a Strong mark and want him to eventually become a player here in TNA. I just want the best storyline for him.

One question: Hey Jerry, can you take Jeff with you?

Depends on how big the tear is. If it's small and doesn't need surgery, time off will help. If he does need surgery to repair it, he could be out months instead of weeks.

While it's heartwarming to see these 2 put their beef aside, let's face it, there isn't any real money in a dual album together. (if that ends up being the case) Just like in wrestling, big money is made on feuds, hatred, and competition. Not mutual admiration and respect.

This was also brought up by Meltzer in the latest Observer. Petey was slated to win anyways, but he should've been happy to get the win, even if it was cheap being that Petey IS a heel.

And right after Palmer Canon already called them the Tolands last week. Excellent work there, 'E'. Way to come with the quality control. Morons.

Hoops for me as well. However that's easy because I'm a basketbal fanatic. What is up with the name? Taboo Tuesday? Lame.

Since I'm not ordering, I won't be voting. I find it hilarious that of all the voters, less than 10% of them will actually order the show. It's interactive, baby!

Actually, even though the seedings may not make sense, if a team that finishes as a lower seed has a better record than a higher seed that got there because of a division title, if they meet in the playoffs, the team with the better regular season record gets homecourt, not the higher seeded team. I see where you are coming from in terms of a lower seeded team getting a tougher team to play, but too bad. If you're the better team, it shouldn't matter to you who you face.

Unless Carlito starts pissing people off in the back, he'll keep getting chances because even though he sucks in ring, "they" believe he can talk his way out of things, and thus that negates actual in ring ability. Lashley is and will probrably be protected since he is seen as a homegrown product. Now if they put him in with a guy like Taker, who won't sell for him, or a chump who can't work like Heidenreich or Boogeyman, it'll expose Lashley as just another green machine. For Lashley to make it, they're going to have to go Goldberg with him and have him kill no name guys and mechanics who can make him look good. As he builds that reputation up, it won't hurt so much for a bigger name like JBL to job to him because, well, everyone would be. Again, this is all theory in how to handle Lashley. Also, Lashley must not speak more than 3 sentences or he'll also lose a ton because his voice does not match his appearance. Kennedy is in the same boat as Lashley in that he is homegrown and will get oppurtunities, except he can talk and has more experience in the ring and doesn't look as green. He's passable as a worker and should get better on the SD roster. They should avoid hot shotting him to ME status. If you ask me, I'd build him to Main Event after WM at the earliest and Summerslam at the latest.

That sounds about right. I wouldn't look any further into this beyond the tapes.

If Spike doesn't advertise the hell out of this, the rating could end up slightly disappointing since most of the audience seems to be creatures of habit with the numbers staying about the same slightly trending upwards.

I'll stay conservative and say the Prime Time Special will do about 1.2-1.3. Anything over a 1.6 should be considered a major success. Anything below what they normally do on Saturday should be seen as very disappointing. A lot of it is going to be on Spike. You figure since TUF is ending very soon, that they would want to get behind TNA even more, so this "should" be getting some advertising. Spike should push it since it's prime time and they get all the ad rev from the show.