Jobber of the Week

I'm tired of these shows, but I guess I'll watch when 1993 comes on and check it out.

The PSX is out, it's Japan-only, it's prone to breaking down and making people angry. To make it worse, they named it with the initials most people used to refer to the original PlayStation.

I expect Matt Hardy to know more than I do about the following: * How to dive off the top rope without breaking your wind and being unable to stand * Selling * Taking your injuries like a man * Match psychology (must admit I've never been very keen with that one) * How to do Twist of Fate without fucking up the other guy's head/neck * Working out and other gym-related stuff However, when it comes to issues like: * Who the crowd will accept in the main event * Whether someone is putting on good enough matches to justify their spot on the card * Who's been overexposed and pushed too much * Who's hanging around at the bottom and needs to be pushed more These are completely subjective and arguable beliefs that have no right or wrong answer. One does not need to spend 10 years in the business to say "Wow, the crowd really pops huge when that guy comes out." Or, "say, the buyrate when through the roof when they took the world title off that guy." Again, I expect James Cameron to know more than Roger Ebert on directing. I expect Liam Neeson to know more than Ebert on acting. Doesn't mean that Ebert can't figure out that "White Chicks" is a really bad film.

Oh jesus, that promo wasn't a smear. I was there live and I would have been marking out of my socks if it felt like a smear. It felt much more like a "send the fans home happy" sort of thing.

Let it go on the record that I find that equally as stupid. Playing politics at the town parade is like making political commentary at the Oscars or Super Bowl. Sure, it can be done, but it's such a bad move that it's a shock anyone does it

Jesus, is PLANNING for all possibilities so foreign a concept? -=Mike Don't know about you, but I'm sick and fucking tired of this "after 9/11, everything changed" bullshit. Did we screw with our elections because of the Civil War? Not that we know of. World War II? No. Threat of communism? No sir. This stupid political game of living under a clould of fear due to terrorism is utter crap, and I'm tired of seeing it exist year after goddamned year. Let's stop living like this.

You don't vote for your judges becuase they aren't supposed to be swayed by your opinion. They're supposed to make choices that may not be favored by the herd but are still the right thing nonetheless. The decision to allow interracial marriage was met with very similar complaints to yours. OMG ACTIVIST COURTS were deciding it was unconstitutional to restrict marriage to skin color. In short... I also don't see this really being much of an election year issue. At all. Neither candidate really has a differing view on the issue, although one isn't supporting an amendment that everyone knows won't pass.

http://www.drudgereport.com/kerryk.htm The link has an Edwards/Kerry collage that's almost embarassing. Half the shots look like parody, but guess who decided to make it legitimate news? But, of course, this is still DEVELOPING...

Let's re-read this again: If we're asking the announcers not to be partisan, shouldn't we ask the same of the marchers? I'm not going to say either way. However, being political in the town square during a community event is the same as wearing a Kick Me sign IMHO. Unfortunately for him, the people who saw it kicked him pretty low.

I'm beginning to think that maybe Bush really did rape Jobber's mom. That does it. I'm buying you all Sarcasm Detectors for the holidays.

I was really young, but the only time I remember the press really harassing Bush I was the recession, which was Reagan's "military spending above all else" values coming back to bite everyone in the ass. Aside from his statement on how atheists shouldn't be considered citizens or patriots (which is an opinion he may have embellished because he was running against Pat Robertson in a "who can be a bigger fundie" contest, but he said it nonetheless) I don't really have a lot of Bush I hate for his Presidency. Not quite sure what to make about his connections with the Carlyle Group and other companies, but I'm not going to take Michael Moore's opinion on the issue as valid, either.

I've said this on CE. Once you get into the extreme element, both sides look the same. That just about made me snort Pepsi. Vince is older than my Dad, and nowhere near my age.

Interesting that the guy that just endorsed a baseball bat to the knees said that. Oh yeah, this is shooting the messanger to the worst degree, but I'm just speculating at the chances of this happening if he hadn't tried to make a statement out of it. In other words, it's not his fault this happened, but he helped. Shame on those who did, anyway.

I actually with him there for a bit. He even used the phrase "internet wrestling community" and while I don't really think we as a whole are a community (and if we are, we have a lot of retards that I'd like to publically shun immediately) so it seemed he understood what he was talking about. A change from Bradshaw and the others. But then suddently he channeled JBL with that "you don't know half of this business until you've toured with us" bullshit that seems to become a de-facto standard in all these online columns. This thinking says that Roger Ebert has no right to critique movies until he's tried to direct one himself. Lastly, to me it seemed to really be targeting Scott Keith. Keith has his own little ratings systems and parrots who take what he says as gold and demand he rate this or that so that they can find out if something is good or bad without forming their own opinions. He has so many of those parrots that Keith Haterizing has quickly become the fad of the new millenium. Keith also seems to only care for wrestling match followed by wrestling match, and only really seems to pay minimal attention to the buildup leading to a match. Then again, at the same time, while I'm liable to walk out of the room if a match doesn't interest or thrill me (in my mark years I never used to watch any match other than the main event unless it was PPV), I can't say that stuff like the Raw Diva Search is really doing it for me, either. So while the intent is fine by me because Keith reviews have a lot of problems, not the least of which is that every match is slanted to his pre-conceived notion of every wrestler, I wish he wouldn't spite all of us at the same time because of it.

I don't think Bradshaw's popularity has anything to do with Vince being a Republican. I doubt he'd be that superficial since Vince is trying to start a "rock the vote" style campaign thing with that smackdown your vote stuff. Yeah, Envelope-Pushing Bradshaw has some flaws (first of all, even if he's making statements so extreme that they'd make Pat Buchanan blush , there's some rightie off in some backwater hick town nodding his head and agreeing with it) but the primary one is that it was pushed too soon. That's it. He would have done alright on US champ level. Not world champ, not this early. And for those who continue to say that Vince likes Bradshaw because they're both big Republicans, remember that the JBL character is the first time in a long time that they've had a heel holding a right-wing viewpoint for crowds to boo at. Vince has obviously noticed the unwavering opposition to Bush in polls and the JBL character is meant to exploit that. They've been mocking left-wing ideology and those that hold it for a long time. This is probably the first time they've actually gone looking for it. Still, I don't like these flag-saluting patriotism angles one bit, and hope they go back into the 80s time machine soon.

Now now now, let's be fair here. Hoover didn't go because he was dead.

Actually, Mike, you got it all wrong. This has a bullshit aura to me, too. Doyo is NOT the bald guy in that picture.

My first sentence was that I think he didn't deserve it. It was wrong. But, it's not like he wasn't opening himself up for those kinds of comments from those kinds of people by using the parade to make a political statement. While it wasn't a nice thing to do, I assume he was preparing himself for some of that, since it was kind of predictible something like that would happen. If some guy went through YOUR town parade with a Fahrenheit 9/11 banner, he'd probably get some flak, right? Even if he did serve. That's all.

Dean accused Nader of basically reaching to the bottom of the barrel by taking Republican money for his campaign. Nader said that Dean has gone from being the outsider criticisizing the insider to being a DNC suckup. They then proceeded to turn their heads away from each other while reaching out and trying to hit each other in girlish slapping mannerisms. Okay, not that last part.

I think Kurt Angle needs to be HHH in that he's a SERIOUS~! monster heel who beats people constantly because he's awesomely good or whatever. The stable leader thing doesn't work out for him, though, because they're never going to do what I described above. Instead, he'll always be a dork or an idiot, and it'll look dumb for all these guys to follow this dumbass around and not question why they look up to him.

Rudy doesn't need garbage like Bush. He could have an entire 8 year term of his own without dealing with damage being caused by that overspending, habitually lying, religious zealot.

Truman?

Yeah really. That George W lets his daughter go walking around in bell bottoms ought to take away at least 500 votes right there. But of course, he'll get 200 for letting her show cleavage and call it a rebound like he does the economy. Also, this is even MORE nonnews from Drudge. I'm shocked. Shocked!

Wow, that was pointless and unnecessary. Especially if you're a politician. I hereby coronate him Dumbass Of The Week.