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I'd rather them just lose this 3rd place game. If you're on this team would you really want that lousy bronze medal the rest of your life? With no medal at all at least you could forget about the whole wretched experience. I hope this does away with the idea of using pros. It was started essentially to prove a point after 1988 (namely that if we sent our best guys, we kill everyone). But now? Just send the college champions or whoever wins the NBA title. It's been done before...in 1948 Kentucky won the national title and then also was the US Olympic team and won the gold.

I can't help but think the Cubs will try to resign Nomar. I dunno, maybe it's not financially viable, but it seems like a waste to bring the guy in from Boston and have him for half a season, then let him go. What does Beltran's contract with the Astros look like? The Yankees might be the better idea for the Stros if they want to trade him somewhere, since they wouldn't trade him to a division rival.

This seems to me like Smith is going back to the well after his big attempt at mainstream crossing over (Jersey Girl) essentially tanked. It's not surprising considering he had the hilarious Good Will Hunting 2 scene in J and SB, where Affleck said "Sometimes you go back to the well" (and sometimes you do Reindeer Games). Anyway, it'll be good to see these characters again. Even though Smith seemed to write all these guys off after Strike Back, I kinda hoped some day they'd be back.

I'd think Beltran would love to sign with the Cubs. The guy smokes the ball at Wrigley. Given the Cubs's luck they'd sign the guy and he'd start sucking. It's time for the Cubs to get someone else in that bullpen though. Farnsworth has gotten to the point where I don't even get mad when he enters the game, I just sit back and laugh at the ineptitude about to unfold.

Anglesault, the one thing they absolutely cannot do is keep running with this Bradshaw bullshit. The next time there is a PPV they need to just job him out. Yeah, it'll be to the Taker, but at least UT is a credible champion. Bradshaw is NEVER going to get over as a main event guy, so how can jobbing the entire roster out to him to make him a dominant heel a good idea? At that point you're left with an entire roster that is considered a joke and a champ who is still not going to get over. Thus, at some point you just cut your losses. As far as heel champs go, I actually think that people are pretty much heel championed out at this point. Think about it. For years it's just been this shit with HHH constantly holding a title, or a cowardly Angle, or a lame duck Jericho. Thus, the dominant heel isn't really working all that well, and the cowardly heel isn't either. It's time for a dominant face champion. As far as Eddie/Angle goes, I'm not even sure I consider this a different feud. To me it's simply a continuation of the feud that was interrupted by Kurt's injury.

Oh God, I just got done watching that Cubs game. They managed to limp to within 9-6, and then they put in your hero and mine: Farnsworth. SIX RUNS? Six fucking runs?? This guy is becoming a running joke with my brother and me. He's just pathetic. Incidentally, the Cubs need to sign Carlos Beltran like yesterday. The guy is batting .500 career at Wrigley!

Doing Matrix stuff without Keanu Reeves would be like doing Star Wars movies without Mark Hamill. Oh wait... Speaking of Mark Hamill, the other day my dad said he was lined up to replace Don Johnson on Miami Vice back in the 80s when Johnson had a contract dispute. Is there ANY truth to this? Anyway, I have no idea how a Matrix/Terminator crossover would work. I tend to think it would kinda....suck.

Well, I'll attempt to answer both of these. 1. I think once Bradshaw won the title WWE took a look and said "Holy shit, we've got BRADSHAW with the title?" Basically, they know the guys sucks, we know the guy sucks, so why even really attempt to push him or job out valuable talent to him? They've already seriously hurt Eddie Guerrero's career by jobbing Eddie continually to a guy who has zero chance of ever getting over....why do it to anyone else? Thus, Bradshaw comes out, picks up cheap DQ wins, cuts his silly ads, while everyone tries to forget he even has the title and focuses on the rest of the show. I don't think Bradshaw will have the same fate as Bob Holly, who disappeared soon after his one title shot. But man, oh man, he'll have a few jobs to return on the way down. Eddie and Rey Mysterio both are already lining up for the post Bradshaw title run return jobs. 2. I don't think WWE has run a bona fide "These guys want to kill each other" feud with Austin/HHH. Angle doesn't really work in these feuds because his character can't really be taken totally seriously. Eddie can do a serious feud, as his Bradshaw feud shows, but Angle's character has never been harsh enough to carry a bitter blood feud.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here. In the AFC I'll say the Colts will not do all that great this year. I took a look at their schedule and they open at NE, then at TN, then get Green Bay. Those are all quite losable and if they get off to a bad start they might go about 10-6, which would be pretty disappointing. They're my favorite team too, but their schedule looks pretty brutal. In the NFC I'll also go along with Carolina. These guys repeating would be like the San Diego Chargers repeating in 1995 in the AFC, after their fluke Super Bowl. Last year they beat a bunch of lame teams by just 3 or 4 points it seemed like, often times rallying in the 4th quarter. No way are they doing all that again.

I like the quote the Spanish coach made: "I used to have a lot of respect for Larry Brown. Dean Smith would have never done something like that (meaning the time out)." Lemme get this straight....Dean Smith not using all of his time outs? Ha!

Williams was on ESPN earlier and he really wasn't all that broken up over it. He was just like "Well, I'll keep training and USC and then next year I'll get PAID."

Well, the Creature sequels weren't really all that interesting or even notable. Probably the worst box set of the lot really. The Mummy sequels get fairly formulaic, but are for the most part short and fun. Mummy's Hand actually might be my favorite Mummy movie, even moreso than the Karloff original.

I am SO there for this stuff, well maybe not the Creature set but the other two. I haven't even seen some of those Invisible Man movies, like the Agent one and Revenge. My brother is a major Kharis mark so the Mummy set is a must. The Creature set? Blah, who cares? It's not really a classic monster in my view, the original was only fair and the sequels are ugh.

I haven't heard anyone mention them, but I'll take the Vikings out of the NFC. They just have way too much talent to go 6-10 and 9-7 forever. I always like to look at teams that go about 7-9 to 9-7 and miss the playoffs. Ravens were 8-8 and next year won the SB. Pats missed the playoff and went 9-7, then won the SB. Panthers were 7-9 and then made it there. Based on this, I'll go with the Vikings in the NFC and I can't believe I'm saying this, but the Bengals in the AFC.

I think most of the criticism of the Zion defense scene is due to them spending an exorbinant amount of time on people that absolutely NO ONE gives a flying fuck about. Mifune was kinda cool, but who was he besides some general dude? The Kid sucks ass, why spend time on him? Who honestly gives a shit about Link's wife and the buzz cut blond chick? It's like they suddenly decided "Hey, fuck Neo, Morpheus, and Trinity...let's spend half the 3rd film on meaningless characters in Zion." It would be like spending 20 mins in the first film on those other jobbers in the group (whose names I can't honestly recall). Side characters are fine if they are just that...side characters.

Okay, no one else actually wanted to tackle this, but I'll do my best. I might be wrong about some of this, but what the hell. -So the Frenchman didn't want Neo to have the Keymaker, but if Neo never got the Keymaker, then he wouldn't have gone to the Arkitek. And if he didn't go to the Arkitek, then he wouldn't have learned about his past and that he should have gone to the source to re-start the Matrix. Wouldn't the Frenchman needed him to go? So why did he want to stop him? I too have wondered about this and I don't think there is really a good answer to it. I mean, The Keymaker is kinda necessary, so why would the Architect let him fall into the Merovingian's hands, and further, why would he do nothing about it? I got the feeling it was all a bullshit facade that the ONE had to go through, as in he had to go through the motions of finding the Keymaker, fight the Merovingian (who was basically throwing the fight because he eventually HAD to lose it for the Matrix to be reloaded). I have no idea why the agents tried to kill The Keymaker though, considering he WAS in fact needed. Basically, it's a plot hole. -How did Neo reach into Trinity and take the bullet out? And how did he start her heart again? I always thought that was, I don't know, impossible, even in the Matrix. It's the Matrix dude, that's about all I can say. Maybe she was just MOSTLY dead, and not all dead. Fuck if I know otherwise. -How does Neo have the powers to stop the machines outside of the Matrix? Is it because he is apart of the machines? And how does he see when he didn't have eyes? My friend Ian said the Oracle explained this bullshit, that the ONE is plugged into the main machine power source in the real world...I think I was taking a piss break at the theater during this scene however, so maybe someone else can confirm or deny this. -Did Neo die? If he didn't I don't know what the hell else to call it. -How is it that Agent Smith blow up like that? Is it because Smith is the opposite of Neo, so when he turned Neo into himself, it equaled the equation? You're basically right on this...I think. Basically I think they just had to have the heel get his at the end and came up with some lame way to do it. -How did Neo end up in the train station? At one point, he was walking around in the real world, then he stopped the machines with his magical powers, then he was in the train station. What made him get there? The train station was a place that existed between the real world and the Matrix. When Neo stopped machines in the real world it fucked him all up and he was neither here nor there, and was in this weird never never land known as the train station. Don't ask. -Why did the Frenchman's wife have his bodyguards go get him after she killed one? Why didn't she kill them both, have Neo and Company get the Keymaker then get out of there? It would have been A LOOOOOT easier. Basically Persephone and Mero liked to play these goofy games...he cheats on her, she kills his men, rinse, repeat. I'd be willing to bet they did this same shit when the other 5 Ones. -How did Agent Smith get into the real world? I thought when the person dies in the Matrix, they die in the real world. So, once that guy died, his body would have died. Smith essentially took over that one dude Bane as he was getting back into the Matrix, but didn't actually KILL him then. I'm not really sure why Bane didn't look like Smith in real life, but don't worry about that.

Kane is sort of a bulletproof guy. You can't kill the man's heat no matter what bad angle he's in, no matter if he jobs to his brother or Tajiri. It's odd, they seem to fall back on Kane when they need a decent rating, but they never seem to really try and push the guy.

"Forget the Expos. I say all A's topics, all the time! Let me go create a topic on the career of Mike Gallego." Can we also discuss the all encompassing awesomeness of Carney Landsford? Let's see, if the A's had kept everybody they would probably...win the AL West and job out in the 1st round?

Thing is, the Cardinals have about 3 guys who will split votes (Pujols, Edmonds, Rolen). That is like having two guys from the same movie both nominated for Best Actor. I think Adrian Beltre might be an interesting pick, but for whatever reason the Dodgers aren't getting any sort of love this year despite having the 3rd best record in baseball. I don't think they'll FINISH with the 3rd best record (Atlanta, Boston, Oakland all could), but Beltre is still practically carrying that team right now. Ah, who am I kidding? Bonds. Take one of those 3 away from the Cards and they're still a contending team. Take Beltre away from the Dodgers and they could still be a mediocre, bleh team. Take Bonds away from the Giants and that is a BAD team.

Interesting that Heidenreich didn't actually wrestle. Anyone think that he is going to be the next 911, as in a big dude with Heyman that never actually wrestles but just squashes random people? Why would it shock anyone that they jobbed Kenzo Suzuki to RVD? Van Dam shouldn't even be feuding with jobbers like this anyway.

Nevermind the Rock for a minute. What I don't understand is this Diva search crap in general. What is this thing trying to accomplish? It takes up nearly 1/4 of Raw every week and I'm still at a loss as to what it even MEANS. None of these chicks has shown any real personality, or any semblance of talent in or out of the ring. When they get down to the winner, what is she actually going to DO in the company? None seem to have any wrestling training, so what is the winner going to do, just take Terri's place as backstage announcer? Think of that....wasting 30 mins a show for a chick to be the backstage announcer.

Most of you guys forget that in ECW RVD was quite good on the mic. WWE has never had any concept of his character (namely an ultra cocky stoner who is confident in his abilities and belittles his opponents). Since early 2002 RVD has played a cookie cutter face character for the most part, which isn't really him. Why is this such a debate anyway? I mean, RVD or Bradshaw...yeah that's a tough pick.

This was one of those car wreck Vince Russo type of shows. It really was. Reminded me of one of his early Nitros during the Powers That Be era. Kane is seriously my favorite guy on Raw and has been for some time now. Given that they have spent so much time on Kane don't you think they need to put him over Michaels and give him a real push this time? Not just a lame "win the battle royal and job to the champ" push.

Hey, the wedding was the best thing on this show tonight. I've been saying for weeks now that Kane is the main reason to watch Raw (not sure if that's good or bad, heh). Sure, this show sucked ass tonight, but the wedding wasn't the reason. The Diva crap was much, much worse and the predictable HHH/Orton thing was more boring. What do you bet this Raw gets the best rating in months? Kane = money.

Suzuki being manipulated would require too much effort for what should be a simple RVD squash match. I mean it's fucking Kenzo Suzuki...guy uses a CLAW HOLD for a finisher in 2004.