Mik

No tags needed - that's why I created the thread. This is my card of the year so far. I was thinking that BEFORE Alvarez/Hansen which is EASILY my fight of the year. Amazing fight. Constant banging...Alvarez just kept punishing Hansen but Hansen would not stay down under any circumstance... and then the armbar escape from Alvarez in the 2nd round... ending the fight with the headkick and the displays of affection from both fighters after the fight. FOTYC. Shoji won me over with his banging and swank armbar escape but you can't really compete with the smooth jazz of Yamazaki. Mayhem with the amazing breakdance entrance and constantly playing to the cameras while he dismantled his opponent was highly entertaining. He looked incredible. Manhoef avoiding the early upset bid and finishing with the killer knee was nice. He also had a great entrance with the dog on the leash. Great fight. Kawijiri and Nakamura both looking very impressive in entertaining decisions. Typical Nick Diaz super entertaining stand and bang beatdown and Caol Uno with the surprise rear naked choke to advance... Best card of the year, so far, for me... easily.

Andrew Miller FINALLY throws a gem. 7 IP, 2H, 7K in an 11-0 route for YOUR first place Florida Marlins. 8 games over .500 now.

I added the full card to the original post. Lots of starpower here... probably worth a buy.

Andy Wang is like a samurai. A total warrior. Gameplan? Who the fuck needs a gameplan... time to stand and bang!

Hanley is about to sign a 6 year - $70M deal with the Marlins. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3389809 Mother-fucking-finally.

He assembled Naomi's team.

Along that same vein, Eko stared down the smoke monster and was kept alive to keep the button pressed but after he failed and was no longer needed then it was the end of him. I wonder why the smoke monster dragged Locke off early on in Season 1, though. We're probably supposed to forget that... or maybe not because it pretty much just tosses around and destroys what it wants to kill.

^ not a fan of The Wire. He has such a distinctive voice that it was immediately Abbadon.

I am having a hard time coming up with a choice I can solidly get behind, at this point. I've been thoroughly entertained by MMA this year but I am having a hard time singling out a FOTY - they aren't jumping out at you like last year. I'm thinking others are in the same boat, which is why we haven't had much action.

DREAM 3 is this Sunday... airing both live and on tape delay on HDNet - Nick Diaz is back on the card.

Not the best choice, IMO. All of the ones mentioned in this thread were better.

A mini-bomb of some sort for a suicide mission?

You just want to see more of Daniels. Admit it.

Yeah - it was a co-promoted event.

Tommy Speer is heading to the WEC, which is probably best for everyone involved. I don't personally like him as a fighter but I can see that he has potential to at least get a chance.

So next week basically begins the season finale because although it's 3 hours over two (three with the break in the middle) weeks - it's essentially the same episode. Exciting. Now the shit is really going to go down.

James Thompson is probably not going to beat Kimbo and Cung Le fights for Strikeforce, not EliteXC. Either way, the Shamrock fight was close enough to now that he wouldn't be on this card either way.

Andy Bernard stole this episode, but honestly the best part was Michael's very creepy "Kiss her, kiss her good" at the end. I had no idea next week was the season finale already. Well - it's easy to see where things are going here unless its a swerve. It might be painful to watch when Pam drops the hammer on Jim.

I found tonight's episode very confusing. I hardly think I'll be alone.

Thanks for posting that. It reminded me to see how much iPod Hi-Fi speaker systems are going for on eBay because I no longer need mine. Turns out that Apple discontinued it and they are selling for more then I paid for it - ca-ching!

Not sure what promo DVD you got. I just found out that I'm on the second shipment because I reserved late (a month ago almost!) so that sucks. Another week to wait.

I will also throw my Walk Hard love in. Movie was way funnier then it had a right to be. The Bob Dylan of Dewey Cox is just brilliant.

Despite his sick KO, I was not very impressed by the "killer" Matt Brown. The best part of the episode, easily, was Rampage's post-fight recap after the 2nd fight. He was so EXCITED. It was like a kid running in the house and telling his mom about all the awesome stuff he did that day.

House was pretty good this past week with the kidnapped soap star and Wilson's waterbed, lol. Next week looks like it has the potential to be an all-time great, though.