Mike wanna be

I don't know how much more apparent it can be that we like having a mound of stuff. Every attempt to dispel it ends up exactly like this, where there's an obvious need for a catch-all topic for one-off posts about random shit and said catch-all becomes a mound of stuff. Just as an example: If I say "Lashley looks like he got off steroids" that's a random thought, that much is obvious. The distinction between "Random thoughts" and "news" is apparent. However, how am I supposed to know if it's something that gets a facepalm picture in response and then is summarily ignored (thereby justifying a "Random thought" post) or if it spawns a page and a half of Wellness policy debate (thus being more fitting of a comment warranting a thread)? The only accurate way to do it is something moderators shouldn't be bothering with, and that's reading through the big-ass topics and pulling out everything that spawns enough discussion to warrant a thread. With that there's still a big catch-all thread going for the random shit, but when something spawns debate it's separated into its own spot; the debate isn't lost in the random shit shuffle and vice versa, and isn't that exactly what you're hoping for?

So a world champion in WWE debuting in a different country in a different company using several WWE clips that could get said company sued isn't news?

And the Marlins (remember them?) are a half-game back. What a division.

Absurd. There's a 50/50 chance the "knot on her head" that facilitated the entire assault was caused by Mickie stiffing Levy on a headbutt as opposed to Levy stiffing Mickie on one. Complete fucking morons in IWA:MS. Their forums have a decent-sized topic about it and it basically centers around IWA ass-kissing, "Don't post what 'the haters' say" and "Let's just pretend Levy doesn't exist, stop giving him publicity". News flash, if you don't want to give somebody publicity for being a shitty worker, the smart thing to do is be professional, bring him to the back and fire him for it, not "send out two other jackasses and Ian Rotten's son to wail on him for a while and make a spectacle out of it." On top of that, apparently IWA:MS wanted the Mike Levy video pulled off wrestlinggonewrong. If it was a work, why would they deliberately try to pretend it didn't happen and cover up the evidence that it did?

Why women's golf sucks: They disqualify the one female golfer anybody gives a shit about (who was in second place, one shot back) because she walked out of a tent, walked back in and signed her scorecard instead of signing it before she left the tent. Stupid archaic rules. I wasn't going to watch anyway, but good lord when your viewer margin is that slim how big of a moron do you have to be to keep rules like that on the books?

Central Michigan was really good last year, though. Not top of the NCAA good, but they were MAC champions.

Did NoC draw a monster buyrate? What's with all the titles being defended again? It must suck to be guys like Hardcore Holly & MVP who hold titles for months at a time without sniffing a PPV and then as soon as they lose them the company starts giving every title on PPV.

He was barely breaking 90 against the Giants in the five-inning rainout. Let's hope you're lying. It's like somebody was honest with the team. "Minaya's ass is out the door if we miss the playoffs, and you all are Minaya's boys. He leaves, you don't get the preferential treatment you'd get if he stays. Might want to start winning ballgames."

Kong doesn't even have to go over, she just has to look like she could. Hell, book the entire angle around Abyss' decision making. Kong wants a match with Abyss, he's unwilling to fight a girl. Kong threatens to flatline some broads unless he agrees, and Abyss caves because he can't let Kong hurt innocent people for his own selfish desire to not fight her. Get to the PPV, and Abyss lays down for her, indicating she's to pin him. She instead picks him up and kicks his ass for 5 minutes. After that, you go into a string of moves leading to near falls with Abyss routinely kicking out at the last possible second, emphasizing a conflict between his sense of pride not wanting to intentionally lose and his sense of morality not letting him beat up a girl. Finally Kong lands 3-4 massive right hands to the head and Abyss is woozy; Kong goes off the ropes and Abyss instinctively Black Hole Slams & pins her. Abyss gets up and maintains his conflicted stance; he's glad he won because she was beating the shit out of him, but he still feels bad for completely decimating a woman. If that's not enough, maybe Kong pretends to be hurt by the Black Hole Slam & is stretchered out, only to jump off the stretcher and attack Abyss from behind when he turns his back to put over that she wasn't injured, that she's as tough as any man on the roster, and that she's not afraid of Abyss.

*applies armbar* Regarding house shows. Expensive floor seats: worth $60 a pop?

Sure you were, Arn.

So what the fuck was it? And man, I hadn't thought to put rants in as the stadium sounds. That sounds hilarious, I'll have to try it when I eventually cave and get the game...and re-up my Gold subscription, it seems. Damn it, I'm not made of money.

According to wiki (source of all internet rumors) he can't talk at all anymore and is having reconstructive surgery on his jaw Hope they don't go over the top LoW style presentation, Beefcake Bret Hart didn't do much for me. I heard he was getting the reconstructive jaw surgery to get his voice back, so who knows.

It's a Raw/SD/ECW supershow (i.e. house show), from their ticket listings & the fact that it's on a Friday. Either way, first time WWE's been here since last December. I'll be there if I can scrounge up the cash to go/win something off a radio contest/snag some cheap ones off eBay for the third time running.

My understanding is that he wasn't a bad worker, he was decent. The problem was that he was so much bigger & stronger than everybody else that they were afraid to work with him and he needed to take extra precautions that made him look sloppier than he actually was. It depended on who he was working with, too; a guy with a solid workrate and who wasn't terrified of him would work a pretty good match, but if you've got a semi-acceptable worker who won't take half of Andre's moves because he thinks he'll crush him, then his moveset's going to be extremely limited and the match will bomb.

Ravens QB situation: I'd like to see Troy Smith get a shot. If he stinks he stinks, but the Kyle Boller experiment has dragged on long enough. Give Troy a shot, if he bombs put Flacco in. Jones to DaaaaBears: Nice move, Detroit. Now they've got Jones & Forte to run all over you with, and they don't need a passing game again.

Man, if I was the manager on one of these teams I'd figure out a way to get my pitchers on the field on defense, so I would have 8 potential pitchers on the field at any time to swap around whenever we needed to.

Good news everyone, Favre's considering showing up at Packers training camp for no reason other than to bring the media circus with him.

Be faster/more agile. That's about it. Strength might help, but nobody's bothered to try a power receiver.

It's absolutely hysterical that guys like DT & Fairdale Kings have been doing NCAA rosters for like, a decade, and the year EA gets in on the action is the year editing rosters leads to deleted teams, 0 overall/offense/defense ratings and general freezes/crashes during the game. Their incompetence knows no bounds. I'm this close to digging out my PS2 and firing up NCAA 04.

My argument centers around the team's future: I think they go down the shitter if Favre comes back, as they'll be obligated to keep him and obligated to start him, so Aaron Rodgers doesn't stay, which means that in 2009 when he retires again Green Bay's quarterbacking options will consist of a lame-duck first round pick who will most likely still have less than 75 NFL pass attempts to his name, a third-stringer from Louisville who threw away a #1 overall pick in the 2007 draft to go back to college and have his coach bail for Atlanta so he could bail to Arkansas (leading to a 6-6 record on Louisville's season) and a practice squad seventh-round LSU quarterback. Saying "Favre gives them the best chance to win" is equally bullshit, because since 1992 he's the only one who's remotely had a chance to. Did he deserve it all those years, of course he did, is he a Hall of Famer, of course he is. But how do you know Rodgers wouldn't have had as good a year, Green Bay was a damn good team last year and had a lot of success in all aspects of the game, it wasn't like Brett took a bunch of scrubs and gunslinged them to 13-3. Does Rodgers compare to Favre, of course he doesn't, but the Packers do not NEED Brett Favre to make the playoffs or win the Super Bowl, they NEED a good to great quarterback and there is no indication one way or the other as to whether or not Rodgers is good/great/HoF caliber because he never sees the field. How many years can Green Bay keep spending high draft picks on "The next Green Bay quarterback"? How can they lure a veteran free agent for, say, the 2009 season, when they know the team already has first & second round picks who've spent (in Rodgers' case several) years on the bench because of Brett's comebacks? The team is arguably just one or two pieces away from a Super Bowl run, and if Brett had been completely honest about his retirement status then they probably draft one of those missing pieces with #24 in 2005 or #56/#209 in the 2008 draft, instead of taking three quarterbacks. Instead, he pulled these "I'm done, wait no maybe not, ok yeah I'm not coming back sorry to call you out here hey wait come back I have big news I'm not retired, starting job still open yeah thought so" shenanigans and leaves the team up shit creek for the future.

No I don't. Where is Favre's history of abandoning ship midseason? All of his hand-wringing is conducted during the offseason. Once he's on board, he's on board. I don't believe for a moment that the Bears would ever procure Brett Favre, but if they were to do so, I would be confident that he would make sixteen starts and give 100% in all sixteen starts--something no Chicago quarterback has come close to doing in my memory--because that's what he has done for more years than anybody to play the game, and he would not come back if he knew he couldn't do that. I think my assessment is closer to reality than yours, inasmuch as he has not retired twice (are we even certain he officially retired once?) and has not quit in the middle of a season or training camp. It looks like Favre is going to play somewhere in 2008, which I knew he would all along, and whichever team for which he plays is going to experience a considerable improvement over its incumbent quarterback, whether that's Rex Grossman (fingers crossed!), Tarvaris Jackson, Jon Kitna, Kyle Boller, Chad Pennington, Alex Smith, The Jon Gruden Carousel of Mediocrity, or most certainly Aaron Rodgers. It's real easy to say "I'll be on board for the whole season" when you know the only teams you'll play for are either a) your personal choosing upon being released, b) a town where you're so famous they're apparently willing to throw their entire future down the tubes to give you yet another "one more chance" to throw a season-ending INT, and still be willing to take you back at any point for the next season because "Hey he's better than that unproven Rodgers/Brohm/Flynn kid!", or c) an inter-division rival with a history of god-awful quarterback play who would be so thrilled to "steal Brett Favre from Green Bay" that they'd sign and start Brett Favre if he had Alzheimer's and deliberately threw passes to people in Packer jerseys (including people in the stands!) because he thought he was still on Green Bay's roster. Legends get old and they retire. If you're smart like San Francisco, you find a Steve Young and you keep right on trucking. If you aren't, you find a Jay Fiedler and have your entire franchise's respectability go down the shitter. Which way do you think Green Bay is heading? Are they prepared for life after Favre or are they stuck coasting along faux-preparing for life after Favre because they know there's no way they could live with themselves if they jump the gun on giving up on him & let Brett pull a Montana-to-KC.

Jackpot. I'm an MSG4 port away from the 100% correct choice in consoles

You're probably better off finding a cheap Xbox somewhere than you are trusting the emulator. I've tried three Xbox games and only one (Fable) worked perfectly. The second one doesn't show any loading bars, freezes on me about once a day at random, and the sound is intermittent (so when there's nobody around you'll hear the sounds of the action that happened 5-10 seconds ago, for example); the third one is MVP 04 and every team's jersey looks like they put on blank white jerseys & played paintball before heading to the ballpark. Any word on if the 60GB HDD will be sold separately and for what price? I've been debating upgrading from 20GB for a while, but since I don't download movies or anything like that I couldn't justify the big price for an extra 100GB.

I shudder to think how much money EA must save on bug testers when they only have to hire them out from July-November each year.