Jobber of the Week

Look at the money figures. Traditionally, nobody spends anything near as much as New York. That's starting to even out a bit more this year because some teams are blowing more cash around, but a spending cap would do more to help. And people are still getting big salary jumps going to the Yankees. How did WCW do damage to professional wrestling? By paying out massive amounts of money (compared to the other feds) for the likes of Rick Steiner and Buff Bagwell, everyone got an inflated sense of self-worth and as such price demands went up everywhere. And now, years after WCW, wrestlers want a heavily inflated price per appearance compared to what they wanted before Bischoff and Russo played with Ted's checkbook. Independent feds cannot afford WCW/WWF castoffs without drawing more people to the building than that level of star and that kind of fed can draw. TNA tried and was a mess until someone richer made an investment in it. What's all this mean? It's the same with baseball. Owners are going to watch their best guys go to New York, Boston, or wherever unless they give into demands for a salary increase, because those owners are willing and able to throw large sacks of money around like they're going out of style. Then, eventually, we'll be left with the five or six teams where the billionaires play baseball and all the other teams will be filled with the sad saps they're stuck with because it's what they can afford. For the love of the game, salary cap, PLEASE.

One of the other articles listed his weight and he actually weighs less than Big Show, even though he's about a foot taller. What an amazing display of fatness by Show.

Yes, it is. Even humorously, by insinuating that those guys would write a book that the US hired people to fly planes into buildings, which is a pretty big stretch even if you don't like them, you give the left more ammunition that people on their right question their patriotism and loyalty to their country because they don't support the candidates and policies you do.

*Ted DiBiase laugh* It's early, everyone will eventually get the feel of things again, and almost everyone all over the league isn't really having a red letter year so far. I still enjoy knowing that spending umpteens of millions more than anyone else in the league won't win you games, though it still does it's damage to the game (i.e. people on other teams will want bigger checks because equal players on NYY are getting paid so much more, and the price of players overall goes up.) Too bad Boston spends like crazy, too.

See, Deon, that's where I draw the line. I can understand that you're a Rico fan, but you should be able to tell crap from quality, regardless if it has Rico onscreen or not. You and I both know that Rico is capable of a lot more than what was on display in that match. I won't care about the gimmick or the makeup or any of that as long as good wrestling is delivered in the ring. And that match was far below decent for what he can do. The "Oh my, how fruity this is!" positions, the kissing, all that stuff lost it's edge after the first time it was done. It's interesting that this stuff gets a good reaction from the crowd now, due to his odd pseudo-turn to face when the writers decided to notice the fact that he has an attractive woman by his side and that we should like them because she's skanky.

He's going to tell bold lies and and stick with them so seriously that one cannot tell whether he truely believes the lie anymore or not?

Franken would write it. Foreword by Garofalo. Grease stains by Michael Moore. -=Mike I don't even take Michael Moore and enjoy it when we talk about how fat he is, but this is low and uncalled for.

Doesn't make sense considering the video game. It ought to be a fast cars and spies thriller, not a kung fu film. But this virtually guarantees someone vital is shot in the end so we can get the obligatory "doves flying in the air" shot.

This is nearly the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

Wow. That's a little unfair. Here it is for you: sdpromo.mpg (9.04MB, 0:54)

Steve Austin's tough but he's not tough enough to be "nailed" to a cross.. So there was no nailing, no cross and no death. Doesn't sound like anything like what Jesus went through. Thank you. It's your choice to be spiritual and religious, and it's your choice to believe what you read in the Bible and to pray to a guy who you believe exists in an alternate plane and chooses whether people have eternal happyness or live forever in flames and death and pain and suffering, etc. If you choose to believe in that, you should have the skin when someone take it as seriously or belive in it as strongly as you do.

I enjoy the Brad$haw gimmick for it's Million Dollar Man style old-school appeal, but I don't think it belongs in the main event. Hardcore Holly was just Hardcore Holly, moved from Velocity to the main event as he was. That's worse, IMO.

I thought it said everything that was needed. Shawn Michaels bleeded all over the place and kept going as though to say that he was that determined to winning the match. Benoit had to virtually fight two guys at once who were more interested in knocking him out of the picture and focusing on each other. And then it ends with HHH, the guy who made his whole career on shouting on and on for years about the love affair he has with the title, realize that he had nowhere left to go and submit, giving up his favorite object. Business wise it didn't make immediate sense, but each guy went as far as he possibly could to show that regardless of how they got put into the match, they were damn sure going to take full advantage of it. Some people here talk about the title being viewed as unimportant after watching this match. I still don't get it.

To me you've seemed fiscally conservative yet socially liberal (though not into the oversensative PC liberal zone where someone gets offended because someone else said a word that hurts feelings.) Bush is a 180 in the other direction. The same can be said for a few other people on this forum, and they too also plan to vote for Bush. It blows my mind.

Anyone want to show me a picture of what I missed? I keep hearing about Scooter, but can't see it. Is it a mascot?

****Proceeds to take orgasmic pleasure in Yankees doing badly and Anglesault whining about it**** Ohhh... OH! Who cares? You're New York. Just throw money at the problem.

These czar titles need to go. Everytime I hear "White House Drug Czar", I picture someone dressed like a pimp dealing out the basement of the White House to various government and media employees.

You SIGHTIST~!

Wow. I have family over there, and if they're any indication of the norm (and they seem like regular decent people), you're really, really wrong.

As the Pearl Jam song goes, "this is not for you. Never was for you." If you're conservative, you'll like Rush, Fox, and NRO. If you're liberal, you'll like something like Air America. I certainly don't like everything on Hot Air Amer, though. I listened to Garafolo's show once and never returned.

Basically, being an independant meant both parties' propaganda machines were working against him. The first smark I met was a guy in MN who voted for him as a joke, was regretful after he actually won.

Actually, this is kind of clever and subtle compared to their usual stunt. I can not complain.,

I just figured the guy in the coat didn't necessarily have to be the wrestler being advertised.

She never saw the Brood or the Ministry of Darkness, did she?

It's too cynical. I couldn't believe there were people who were unhappy with how Benoit won the title at WM.