Mike wanna be

He just keeps changing bags and masks. Next up, Aldo Montoya's mask in a plastic shopping bag from Target.

Is it just me, or does anybody else think they should have swapped the order of the final two moves of Cena/Batista? Seems to me it would've been wiser to go down to the HurancanDaveBomb and be able to say "You needed to capitalize on my mistake and give me an ultra-powerbomb to beat me" than it does to have him kick out of it only to fall shortly thereafter to a 'regular' Batista Bomb.

Fuck, should've taken him up on the bet. 21-14 W

Speaking of CC Sabathia, the top prospect that went to Cleveland in that trade (Matt Laporta) just got beaned in the head by a Chinese pitcher, and he now has a concussion

Yeah. I only tried it a few times, and I only just started to get it. How many presses did you complete? I think I was closing in on 30 when I got tired of making players for Superstar mode; average was somewhere in the mid-20s, IIRC. I could hardly ever get a 40 time below 5 seconds, though.

Trying to come up with a good example here. Let's say runners first and second. Batter hits a liner to the outfield. The fielder makes a play, the umpire rules it an out, the runners scuttle back to their bases. But the play is challenged, replay shows the ball bounced on the field first. What happens? The runners at this point are in jeopardy. You can't just award them the next base, that's not in the rules. You can't give the ball to the right fielder, restart the play and give him a shot at an out on the bases. Seriously, what happens in that situation? If the baserunners reached base safely, I'd say re-award them the bases. Simple. ...but they didn't reach any base safely, they probably stopped somewhere short of second and third respectively, and then hauled back to first and second respectively upon the "catch" ruling. If he traps that ball "upon further review", does the guy headed to third round third and head home? Does he make it? Does the guy on first head to third if the runner ahead of him heads home? Does the batter head to second if the previous two runners advance? Does the outfielder throw home, does the cutoff man intercept it, does the cutoff man redirect the throw to first, second or third, are any of these throws wild, do any of the fielders making catches make errors instead? This is why you limit MLB instant replay to stuff you can actually undo.

Is the bench press the same "both sticks at once to lift, mash the hell out of triggers to regain stamina" as it was? I was great at that, every player I built was jacked.

I like how moving your hands back and forth convinces Chioda that a forearm across the throat is not a choke hold.

You've gotta be shitting me. Did Michael Cole just bring up video games, soda over beer and alternative music over country during a WORLD TITLE MATCH? Seriously? You can't think of anything else to say during the opening minutes of a world title bout? Jesus. What else you got on that card, Cole? "JBL wears a cowboy hat, while CM Punk prefers a skull cap. JBL rides in a limousine, while CM Punk drives a Toyota Prius, King!"

Way too many matches on this card already, definitely had to cut some of them short, right?

Good booking alert: Michaels dove out of the way and let his own wife get decked, let's see if Jericho mentions it tomorrow night.

I swear to god I get sick of Kofi Kingston only because Michael Cole can't restrain himself from mentioning his CONTROLLED FRENZY in the most monotonous voice he can muster.

Rumors run wild that EA's ponied up for NaturalMotion, the new physics engine used in GTA4 and the main selling point for this year's "Madden killer", BackBreaker. Is this good news, i.e. Madden won't suck, or bad news, i.e. Madden is able to suck because it's bought out a competitor?

The game's slow enough as it is, it doesn't need video replay on every non-swung-at pitch, according to the naysayers.

I agree, but damnit that means Tim Kurkjian was right: once we got instant replay for something, we'll want instant replay for everything.

Mets pick up Ayala from the Nationals, apparently because a) he was available, and b) he threw strikes a couple of times against the Mets, if Jerry Manuel is to be listened to. Rumor is that 2B Anderson Hernandez is going over to Washington as the "player to be named", which is fine as we've got two Reyeses and a Castillo at 2B/SS, along with Easley, Anderson & Tatis who can all play the position if need be. On that note, what the fuck's the holdup on bringing Church back to the majors? It's a concussion, if he can play in the minors he can play in the majors, it isn't like he had to rehab his brain. Taking a look at the box score through three, you-know-who's got a you-know-what going, fuck if I'm getting called a jinx.

I'm not complaining, I'm trying to see if I get what al was saying, for the record. I think it's pretty impressive to close out that many games, but then again the Mets have guys like Schoeneweis, Heilman, Feliciano, Sanches, & Smith closing out games in Wagner's stead so any kind of end-game success is impressive.

It applauds mediocrity. Either your offense is failing to put up out-of-save-range run support, or they ARE putting up those numbers and the rest of the pitching staff is mediocre enough to constantly let the other teams back into games in order to be in that many save situations.

It's against their religion. It's martyrdom, not terrorism. Duh.

I'd imagine it doesn't cost that much to record what's going on in the radio booth, and they can sell ad space for the televised version as well as the radio show; sounds like a win for the station, actually, they get 2x the advertising revenue for the same programming.

Is it just me, or did the interceptor never re-adjust his grip on the ball and end up palming it the entire time he was running?

If China gets its medals stripped, does everybody move up a medal or do we just not have gold medalists in women's team gymnastics?

Eagles punter Sav Rocca is credited with an interception on a fake field goal gone awry; Richard Marshall for Carolina busted through the line, grabbed the "pass" and ran it back for a TD.

I love how a "MMA Style match" ends with a pinfall after a muscle buster, and an "Olympic wrestling rules" match ends with a baseball bat and a guitar.

Is/was Maine on a pitch count? Seems kinda odd that with the bullpen as shoddy as it's been you'd pull Maine after five innings of one-hit shutout ball regardless of the twelve-run lead.