Mike wanna be

I used to drum back in elementary school, but gave it up because we couldn't afford the drum set needed to "advance". I don't think I'll buy it, but I'm going to seek out people who do so I can give it a try.

Man, who is running the Big Ten network? They go to break at the end of the third quarter, and come back 42 seconds into the fourth in the middle of a touchdown run by OSU. How do you over-shoot the start of the quarter so horribly?

After more viewings (albeit in animated .gif form) when Beth hit the ropes Candice was in the act of jumping. She was either supposed to go backwards and get crotched, or go forward and face-plant. She went straight up, got her feet behind the ropes and that just started her tumbling headfirst towards the mat. She's lucky she tumbled as little as she did, a bit more and she could've easily broken her neck.

What spot was she trying for, anyway? From the setup I was figuring the old "Other wrestler hits the ropes and the one on the turnbuckle crotches themselves", but if that's the case why the hell was she so far forward?

And we have a winner. That's why Masters still has a job. He's an unpushed lump with no appreciable ring talent. However, he was ridiculed on camera for getting off the roids and losing mass. If they fired him, they'd get their asses handed to them PR wise as soon as he gave an interview. Not a God damn thing would happen. The main stream press could give a shit at this point and they wouldn't be able to use the footage with out WWE's permission. So post-Benoit they were handing out the Benoit match footage? Early on the mainstream media wouldn't give a shit, I agree, but once he got out and said something to the investigators (like Giambi did) THAT would start a whole new story of "ROIDS IN TEH RASSLIN!?!?!@$" that the media would inevitably latch on. Hell, if they can show Princess Di shit a decade later they can re-latch on to pro wrestling less than 6 months later.

They haven't wrestled long enough to need prescription painkillers, have they? I always figured you'd go on the normal stuff until it got to the point where you needed the prescription, and then you just went to a doctor that would prescribe you whatever you wanted.

It'll be a ruse, a ploy, a plot, a plan, a charade, a conspiracy, a sham! We'll be conned, hoodwinked, bamboozled, flim-flammed, have the wool pulled over our eyes, even!

Only if you don't know what's going on. Nobody wants to hear "TOPE DEL SUICIDO!" People eat up "What's this AWWWWHATTAMANOOVA!", "Where's he going, he's going up FROM THE TOPAWWWFUGEDDABOUTIT", and anything else that can be shouted by someone completely clueless to what a wrestling move is.

I heard they just released a patch for that, but seeing as my 360's in a box headed to the UPS store tomorrow I can't confirm it myself. There's definitely one for the PC version that's being ported over, so if it's not out yet it won't be long.

Varitek learns from Mientkiewicz and promptly pockets the game-winning ball. I'm not sure which is more loserly, that Varitek putting the ball in his back pocket was the first thing I noticed after the game was over, or that I can spell Mientkiewicz correctly off the top of my head.

This is a surprise? The fanbase chose the guy who hasn't had any shots over the one who JUST had one three weeks ago, blew it and has been completely uninteresting, as well as over the guy who has wrestled the champ about a half-dozen times since June? Good for Miz, I like his character.

How does then-#3 Oregon move DOWN two slots after beating then-#12 USC? Furthermore, how does #4 BC not move up after taking down then-#15 Virginia Tech? Arizona State's win was impressive but there's no way you can non-opinionatedly justify them jumping BC. I'd have gone Ohio State, BC, Arizona State, Oregon/LSU tied at #4 and if you don't lose #5 due to the tie West Virginia.

When Barbaro breaks his leg it's a year-long story. When George Washington breaks his leg it's a 3-second mention while they're cutting to the clip of Curlin winning the race. That just seems wrong.

They lateraled the hell out of it. Wait for the end when you see the capacity crowd of about 20 people in a set of aluminum bleachers.

Ugh. Stop being wusses, Colorado. They appear to have figured out your "Throw shit until the count's in their favor and then throw the exact same thing to every batter" pitching strategy. Make them swing and stop forcing yourself into must-throw-strike situations. And for god's sake would you get out the guys that hit in front of Ortiz and Ramirez so you don't continually end up with the bases loaded with nobody out? No wonder you keep giving up assloads of runs, you morons.

Is it too much to ask for one competitive game?

With the condition WWE is in right now, different and good aren't....well, different. How can you not laugh at "The Rock, The Undertaker, The Bret Hart"? "Mantaur. Seriously, Mantaur, go to page 24!"? and my personal favorite; "Maria, let's go, actually, (Italian for "excuse me a moment")........DAM-A!"? He's hilarious and he's not a horrible worker. He's a classic, smarmy, coward-but-still-better-than-everyone heel in the day and age of cocky run-in-happy heels. Him and Matt Striker could step up and be the top two heels on their brands for the sole reason of them being totally different than any heel currently receiving any sort of push on the roster.

Source tsn.ca Didn't the Leafs try some shit like this a few years ago with Crosby? I would be utterly shocked if this goes through. I don't remember, but if those rules only say "play" then couldn't they sign him to the team and make him a perpetual healthy scratch; in essence, you pay him a salary for doing nothing for at least a year in exchange for the rights to him later on?

Jiri freaking Tlusty. Jiri "They drafted who?" Tlusty.

Nashville still doesn't know where they'll be, and I seriously hope the answer isn't "Still in Nashville". It really bothers me when a team plays in a town for a while, does well and still gets lukewarm fan attendance. Then as soon as the team threatens to move everybody & their grandmother's buying tickets. Having a team should be a perpetual support thing, not something where you only give a shit when they threaten to leave. You had your decade, Nashville, tough shit for you if you can't be bothered to show up when it's not a "Show up or stop having a team to show up for" year.

Just what TNA needed, more of the same.

Yeah, I kinda figured that the cold weather wouldn't be popular, but the Super Bowl is a massive tourist attraction and that makes it a huge revenue source; outside of Minnesota they won't play one north of the Mason-Dixon line, and anywhere south of that is warm enough in the winter to get tourists on its own without SB help. The Bills could use the money to renovate Rich Stadium in an attempt to convince the new buyers to keep the team in Buffalo rather than shipping them to LA or Toronto, Giants Stadium could seriously use the renovation money, Lambeau & Soldier are just classic stadiums regardless of weather...but no, Louisiana, California and Florida need to add more to their combined 34 Super Bowls (going forward to the ones that have already been located but not yet played)

Don't be so sure; I sent mine back in August of 06 (given, this was right when they announced the one-year warranty on three red lights...literally, the day they announced it I sent in my request) and it just conked on me Monday, so it's not perfect once it's shipped back.

I already posted back when this was new, but tough shit. NFL: 1) Allow celebrations; you don't want them to celebrate, don't give them anything to celebrate about. 2) Figure out some new overtime rules. Go with the college system, give everybody one possession, hell, steal from EA and have a tug-of-war system if you have to. 3) A limit of 3 non-overturned challenges per game; if the call on the field is overturned the team who challenged should not be "penalized" the loss of the use of challenges. It doesn't happen much, but too often a team runs out of challenges and can't challenge a questionable call at the end of the game. 4) Install rivalry games. Houston/Tennessee, Giants/Jets, etc. It shouldn't be that hard to set up, and it's better than the current scheduling system. 5) Super Bowl Stadium lottery! Worst team gets 32 balls, 2nd worst gets 30, 3rd worst 28, etc. until you hit the playoff teams; all playoff teams of the previous season get 8. It'd be a lot more interesting than the constant cycling between domes and southern/western stadiums. Buffalo, Green Bay, Chicago, Seattle, Washington, Giants/Jets, New England....Carolina, even, needs a shot at a Super Bowl. Maybe the halftime show won't be such a piss break if it's 10 below and snowing. (Would've solved that whole "Nipple or pastie?" debate in a fucking hurry, that's for sure) 6) Learn the laws of momentum; stop expecting 300+lb. D-linemen to stop on a dime to avoid hitting a QB when their head was being shoved towards the sky and they couldn't even see the QB, let alone tell whether he'd released the ball. 7) Eliminate incidental face mask penalties. I fully understand the personal foul varieties, but with people moving as fast as they are and doing as much as they do to avoid tackles it's just too easy to graze a face mask when going for a high tackle and getting 5-yarded for it. 8) Use some technology! Why are we still checking if a ball crossed a line with three old guys, two sticks and a chain? Would a computer chip that talks to sensors on the field that tell it how far it went on a certain play be too much to ask? It'd fix the shoddy "spotting" of the ball, save a bunch of time on the measurements as well as the video review for end-zone plunges.

Banging a road rat in the back is different than a half-naked she-man coming out juggling salamis and you sporting a "Suck the cook" apron while your buddy bounces around thrusting his cotton-packed crotch at anything that moves.