I played that game manically back in the day – you could make so much money going from Arabia (carpets) to Greece (art) that I didn’t get around to doing much else till years when I got the emulated version just to beat it. I never actually bought it, just rented it. Liked when I could rent things, before cards and phones kept disappearing on me, forcing me to question my ability to function like a responible adult.
Anyway.
Prediction? Eight for Nine! Much much better. And kinda cool. I think if I had remembered (or had helpfully been reminded earlier) that
As cool as 8 of 9 is, that final just on ESPN was pretty great. Looked like a close bad game early, but really picked up with about 8 minutes left in the first half and was half basketball half amazing the second half. I don’t know if it was as much Page’s ankle as nerves or pressure or something, because he looked not good often during the game. But then Banks was off quite a bit and Bailey never got rolling, so it was everyone making contributions making it even more fun. I think I might keep watching SportsCenter till the show the highlight reel.
UIC could be scary if Banks and Bailey are coming back for another year, which they talked about briefly on this broadcast and the semis. I don’t know what they’ve scheduled out of confrence, but if they’re there, they ought to try to get a tough enough schedule for an at-large birth again – things didn’t work out this year, but it was worth trying.
You don’t think there’s any chance they’d put UIC in Milwaukee, do you? That’d be unfair for the 3-4-5 seed team they’d be facing, but it’d be fun for me.
Meanwhile, my school’s coach is getting fired. Maybe. Who knows. The thing that video games have taught me – and maybe incorrectly, probably incorrectly because they’re video games – is that if you want to build a program, you’ve got to take advantage of any temporarly bubble of improvement. Either the bubble wasn’t big enough (two years ago…if we had just won…) or we didn’t take advantage of it, but we’re still back to 8 win seasons and you can get a lot of people to do that.
I’ve got done 1! match of CMLL and have no hopes for tommorow – monthly out of nowhere 2.5 trip to do near nothing – so I might just be further behind. I did update LuchaTimes, and I’ve been adding the ratings to the recaps index page. I think I need to explore some database options before I do more, because there really should be some better search capacities – if I’m including all that data, there should be someone way to sort/pick by it. Really, I’d settle for a way to type in someone’s name and get a list of all the shows they’re on
Scott’s WM Preview is really good. Joe was thinking about doing his own round table stuff akin to the old preview, but I’m not sure . In a weird concidence, not only have I seen this format done twice this week on baseball blogs (and not really entertaining, since they’re just recapulations of stuff that’s been talked to death by this point), I’m [SPOILER!] supposed to contribute to a WM preview for OO too. So I’m going be writing plenty of this show anyway.
I had wanted to recap the 10 Best Show, but won’t have time tonight because of the trip tommorow. I did TiVo it to watch get it – for some reason, the preview said Stone Cold was hosting – so here’s the list
10 Angle/Benoit, 17
9 Hogan/Warrior, 6
8 Michaels/Austin, 14
7 Hogan/T vs Piper/Orndoff, 1
6 Austin/Bret, 13 [Ric’s favorite match]
5 Hogan/Rock, 18
4 Savage/Steamboat, 3
3 Michaels/Ramon, 10
2 TLC, 16
1 Michaels/Hart, 11
They showed some clips of other things on the shows, that didn’t make the list. Including Hogan/Andre at 3. They had some interviews with particpants, when the particpant is still with the company to make such comments (though they might have simply been Confidental/DVD bits I forgot). Ric was as effective as he’s been in quite a while.
I was going to make a post at Seadawg’s, to guess what funky thing they’d put on the list. Would’ve been for naught, because there isn’t anything really bad on it. My big problems
– TLC is too high.
– Iron Man is too high.
– No Rock/Austin.
– No Owen/Bret
I was about to give them credit for their guts for leaving the Iron Man match off the show till I realized it was #1. Still, a pretty cool show – they made everything look as great or greater than it was.
I need to burn some CDs.