Mike wanna be

Arkansas is now 8-4, so "unranked" doesn't hold too much water. McFadden would be saying hello Heisman if not for Tebow's 20-20 year. As for BCS, my predictions going into Saturday: 1) Kansas/Missouri winner 2) West Virginia 3) LSU 4) Ohio State 5) Kansas/Missouri loser LSU has two losses Ohio State one, but SEC > Big 10 in a lot of people's eyes, they lost by 2 to a bowl team and by 8 to a bowl team in triple overtime while OSU lost by 7 to a bowl team in regulation. I think LSU edges OSU for #3 but it's by the tiniest of margins (into the third and fourth decimals of the BCS points)

Tony Reali brings the goods. A few days ago he referred to the MLB MVP awards as being "A pathetic attempt to stay relevant after the season is over", and is promptly backed up by ESPN's 3-day long coverage of "Rollins v. Holliday: Who deserved it?". Coincidentally I've no clue who the AL MVP is.

How do the drums feel? Solid? How much of a shot do they need to register; am I going to be lightly tapping pads and bouncing my knee or am I going to be wailing drum sticks and stomping a pedal through the carpeting? And out of curiosity, what's the warranty in the package say about the peripherals?

The Tazmission isn't a true katahajime, it's a half nelson rear naked choke. Both are dangerous. The Crossface Chicken Wing scared the everloving shit out of me as a kid, though. Best move is the crossface chicken wing (that hand on the jaw also prevents the person from twisting out of the hold/alleviating the pressure, by the way). Second...I can't believe I'm choosing this but the Masterlock. There's virtually no slip-out escape that doesn't make it ten times worse and the REGULAR damage is enough to pretty much paralyze you, so slipping out is never ever ever an option for any full nelson. Coupled with the size of Masters' arms and the length of time it was unbroken, that takes #2 because most of the other "good" submissions have reversals that anybody can do.

Is it wrong of me to want to blow money on a R.O.B. from the old NES days only to appease the part of me that's still kicking myself for not buying the one at Game Craze a decade ago when they had one for sale?

You'll miss out on the wrestlers that have been added, but 24/7 "mode" is worth paying money to NOT play, as far as I'm concerned.

"We aren't professional wrestling, we're sports entertainment!" Cue the six month delay to re-do all the paperwork, followed by a cue for "Well, fuck this, I've got an election to win!" around mid-March.

It'd be nice if they could work out the rules for the match. Cole & JBL: "Batista gets the ropes but it doesn't matter, no disqualifications!" Mickie Henson: "Break the hold!" Cole & JBL "Uh...."

That cell really does look more colossal than usual. And Taker's under 300 pounds for the first time in....ever?

Dave-berg, Dave-berg, Dave-berg.... If HIAC really "cuts years off careers", does that mean Taker was going to go another 2 decades if HIAC had never been done?

Dear West Virginia: Please don't blow it. The Big East needs you.

Aye, the picks are done shortly after the conference championship games. Bradford's out and TTU just went 60+ yards in a play for the lead down to the one.

Dude, one delay of game penalty CALLED. Ole Miss had to use their last two timeouts on that drive because he was running the play clock down to 1, closing on zero repeatedly and he wasn't halfway through his count yet. Also, that LSU offsides call on the LSU 8 should've been delay of game as well, the clock had just hit zero when he ran (almost like a video game, you jump as it goes to zero because it's either a great jump or a delay of game, there's no risk). I realize there's some delay between the clock hitting zero and the umpire noticing it and tossing the flag, but they could've been busted for DOG 4 or 5 times on that drive. It wasn't that he was rattled, it was that he couldn't get a fucking snap off in time and they had no more timeouts to save him.

I would have been happier had I been Gobbledy Gookered.

Did Pedro Gomez REALLY have to discuss which of the three entrances of the courthouse Bonds would most likely enter through? Seriously?

I can't back it up, but one of my friends tells me that Cena blatantly blows his line in one of the phone calls ("The champ is at this location" without inserting the location, or something like that), and then promptly asks for a do-over because he botched the line....and the sound was not only left on the game disc, but USED in 24/7 mode.

I LOVE it. I really hope Jericho uses that when he comes back. Both of you, cease your existence in this location.

Brady Leaf, the anti-Rex Grossman. Down by seven, first and ten, gonna checkdown. Second and seven, still down, clock ticking...check down. Third down, can't fail here, time for a check down.

Well if they bring him back, he'll be back out of the league by week 14 or 15. And I can't believe it took the Dolphins this long to go to Beck. Might as well see if he is the quarterback of the future before they snag that top five draft pick. If they don't need to worry about quarterback, running back or a primary receiver then that makes the wish list a little shorter. I still think they should find another wide out though, Ginn still doesn't strike me as a prime option. They had to give Lemon the opportunity...he didn't play THAT badly. 58% completion percentage, 4 rushing touchdowns, 3:4 TD:INT...

Most fun ever: Playing against some douche who has his mic on without realizing it, and as such does play-by-play analysis of exactly what he's going to do as well as what he thinks I'LL be doing. Nothing more fun than "Wow, 4 receivers, must be a bomb, I'll just play everybody back *quiet muffled agreement from the people he's talking to*" ... *draw play* "What? WHAT?". Well, maybe "Pro option time boys, he'll never see thi....wait what what no!". Or "PRO OPTION YEAH CHOKE ON IT EXTRA POINT FOR THE T wait what the fuck why is my kick meGAH NO DAMMIT I SHANKED IT". Disappointing because a) he turned his mic off early in the second quarter and b) he quit after Gamble got his second INT and brought it to their 17 to protect my 4-point lead.

"Miz made me lose" to "I lost to a hat" to "I didn't lose to a hat, I defeated myself." John Morrison has more revisionist history than a Chris Benoit DVD.

So why are Metallica songs suddenly appearing in music games? Did they lower their price, or are the makers just ponying up the money?

Meltzer said (this is factual, guys) that we wouldn't care. Conway=not caring. Piper is a name. It's possible that he means "We wouldn't care" like "It's somebody that's wrestled less than 5 matches for the company in the last decade", though.

Are there really higher demands for graphics in the WWE games, though? I mean, every review you read contains the phrases "compared to previous Smackdown games" and "not as good as/not quite No Mercy". Of course graphics are important, but if you've got something as well-balanced and playable as No Mercy I'd gladly take a supreme sacrifice of graphics in order to play it. I don't need the wrestlers to be ultra-defined in where their pectoral muscle's tendons attach to the third quadrant of the second rib. The only time I get any kind of look at them is during cutscenes, in which case I'm paying too much attention to what's being said because I probably spent two and a half minutes waiting for it to load to really notice much anyway. In the match I'm more worried about not losing rather than "Wow, Randy Orton's tattoo is three scale inches off center! HORROR!". Give me HCTP again...except with the CAW teeth. Good god that was creepy. EDIT: An advantage of reversing the 'progress' of the graphics is that with luck they won't have time to mess with the controls AGAIN.

HL2: Water Hazard. That level took me forever.