Mike wanna be

And the scary thing is, it's only going to get worse. Much, much, much worse. It seems like they really don't care as long as the company turns a profit...and since they've got SO many other investments that draw income it'll be years before the "wrestling" portion loses enough money on its own to merit a change. (This all becomes moot if somebody steps up and competes, because they'd beat the snot out of WWE between the start of the war and the time Vince makes a change)

Were they intending to have RVD dive at Lashley last week the way he did? Or did they intend the pirouette legdrop he did this week to put Lashley through the table and have that lead to the no contest? It seemed like RVD was set up for it...and then Lashley got up and it looked horrible.

What a guy. I do enjoy Koslov's moronic promos for some reason. I liked the original "I can beat bof of zem" + sly idiot grin over the new "I could beat Ze great Kyle E. I could beat John See Nah." rambly form. I may also mark for I love double double E.

Why am I more bothered by the dog with an arrow going through its skull than I am any of the humans suffering in those yougotowned links? If Florida wants to fully impress me (and stick it to the BCS!), they need to schedule Boise State next year. Different team, new year, not really for the title, yeah yeah yeah. I just want to see them play.

There was 04 which is damn near impossible to find. 05 is at a "cut price" of $25 and the new one 07 just came out a week or so ago. It needs more customizability (I know what I want to find, I just wish it was 5x easier and 3x faster to actually FIND it rather than having to fish through menus and tables for 10 minutes. Filters are your friend, for the budding game makers out there)

Firstly I'd recommend any of the 3 TEW games over EWR. That said, this is the most recently updated database for EWR: http://www.angelfire.com/indie/independent.../totheedge.html

It's either fake or very, very recent. I'm leaning towards fake, as it looks like a color-changed Dallas Cowboys logo and it doesn't look recent in that picture.

You know business is down when you get heat by saying that the town you're in sucks more than the product you're putting out.

Like the Headshrinkers...except the Headshrunkens?

I'd find it even funnier if they showed a behind-the-back shot and JR's monitor had the game on.

Don't they do like, 5 second interview clips of the players? "*heavy breathing because Madden play is strenuous* It's...4th and 1....I'm gonna go for it, and I'm gon run the ball with Jamal Lewis." They really are sucking wind, they sweat...mainly because every fucking play usually ends with one of the two going "OHHHHHHH OH OH OHHHHH YEA THASSRAIGHT WUT U GON DO HUH U CAN'T STOP IT NUH UH U CAN'T! WOOOOOOOOOO!" and jumping around in their face while the other guy calmly looks at the screen, holding the controller, waiting to make a jumping-and-screaming-worthy play of his own.

Indeed. They showed Kurt's pose with the belt as he entered, then they showed him getting tossed out, and that was the extent of the Kurt Angle coverage.

Our rules say if they don't touch the apron, then it doesn't count. It doesn't have to be a solid landing on the apron; if any body part touches, it's a close call. If you're taping it, you should go to the post-Rumble "instant" replay a couple times every Rumble just to be sure.

A couple of things my friends and I always do: -Pick how many "close calls" there will be. "Close call" is defined as going over the top, touching the apron and returning to the ring without being eliminated (just so there's no "OMG he's on the top rope in the corner, that's a close call" for the idiot that always picks way too many) -Determine the number of times the announcers will point out how long the Rumble has been going. -Also calculate how many times the announcers will note how long a particular Superstar has been in the ring. "We've reached the one hour mark" is a Rumble length, but "HHH has been in the ring for an hour" is a Superstar length. This one's tricky as they usually like to jam them all into one sentence. -If there are any "surprise" entrants (meaning not all 30 superstars are known going in), determine what their entry number will be. Bonus points for guessing a surprise entrant, as well as guessing who eliminates said entrant.

A big plus for TNA is that workers only have to work a few times a month and they only have to be in one spot (Orlando). Traveling all around the country costs them the opportunity to get guys like Sting and Angle who would prefer not to work a full-country full-time schedule but are happy in their twice monthly TV tapings, one PPV and one house show per month schedule.

Next week: "Remember King, the Masterlock cannot be broken without a boot to Masters' backside! Can Carlito swing his leg around and kick Masters in the ass to break the hold? CAN HE DO IT KEENG?????"

"Ace, how the hell could you hire such an ignorant moron who doesn't even know the McMahon family! I can't believe you'd do something so stupid! Now go hire 20 more, Shelton needs some lovin."

Taker's never been decisively put over at the Rumble. He's lost every time he was in the actual Rumble match, and his only two "wins" were a DQ over the champ thanks to interference, and a clean pin on IRS only to get laid out by Bundy. Methinks it's his year, just as a precaution in case he hangs it up, as I'm sure they don't want him going out with such a poor Rumble record (even if they let him keep his WM streak)

Kennedy had an undefeated streak for a while there. And yeah, it's been in the business for years because what's the point of bringing in talent to job them out if you don't intend them to be jobbers?

So with Christmas coming up, it looks like I'll be asking for Madden 07, Gears of War and Saint's Row. Any reason I shouldn't ask for any of those three, and any suggestions for replacements? My 360 library is woefully thin (Oblivion, SvR07 and NBA2k6).

Oleg Prudius is now known as Vladimir Koslov.

Does Horowitz still count as a jobber, considering he did get those what, 2 wins over Candido? What's the win-loss record requirement for "jobber"?

Also, while unrelated to Heyman, at Starrcade '86 Cornette took a fall off a scaffold and seriously fucked up his knees; a precursor to his hatred for ultraviolence in wrestling (and therefore Heyman's "Do whatever" booking style), perhaps?

I assume there's a clause stating that, should you hold a championship at any time during the length of the contract, you agree to do the job on the way out; after Montreal it'd be stupid not to have put it in.

At the 18:00 mark of the Armageddon press conference, Josh Matthews gets laid out by Finlay.