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TLC to hold FOX reality show contest to replace Lisa Lopez (Boston.com)
I can kinda see it because what else are T & C going to do but this seems like such a bad idea. Replacing a dead person is always iffy, replacing a dead person with someone who’s got no more cred than winning a reality show seems horrible. But they’re gonna get enough press out of it to sell some albums for the first CD, I’d guess.
Amazingly, this competition with another planned show that’s going to do the same for INXS.
Scott watched it. CMLL crossover! Actually, it’s only Nosawa. I kinda would’ve be interested if Mini Pierroth showed up, because CMLL midgets make TV no more than once a year. They have Fairplay showing up next week. They have Rodman showing up next week. I smell blatant grab for SportsCenter’s attention.
Scott watched it. CMLL crossover! Actually, it’s only Nosawa. I kinda would’ve be interested if Mini Pierroth showed up, because CMLL midgets make TV no more than once a year.
They have Fairplay showing up next week. They have Rodman showing up next week. I smell blatant grab for SportsCenter’s attention.
The only good thing about the White Sox announcer is when someone hits a home run off the Sox and they shut up and you can laugh and laugh at them. Thank you Mark.
The only good thing about the White Sox announcer is when someone hits a home run off the Sox and they shut up and you can laugh and laugh at them. Thank you Mark.
I never did talk about the press confrence? Blame it on the baseball mood I’m in. Mostly, they threw out a lot of ideas – As one of the bigger Tough Enough supporters, I’m really dislike this idea of Tough Enough on SmackDown! The problem with the normal episodes of Tough Enough is you couldn’t … Continue reading “wwe press confrence”
I never did talk about the press confrence? Blame it on the baseball mood I’m in.
Mostly, they threw out a lot of ideas
– As one of the bigger Tough Enough supporters, I’m really dislike this idea of Tough Enough on SmackDown! The problem with the normal episodes of Tough Enough is you couldn’t get a read on anyone but the two or three people who got (edited) storylines that episode. Even if they cut down the particpants, there’s no way 5-7 minutes per week is going to give you any idea who’s worthwhile and the whole contest turns into whoever the editors think looks best in video packages. It’s less a competition and more a multi week long form vignette build up for whoever they choose, and that doesn’t seem to make for intersting TV.
Scaia has floated idea for the Diva Search turning into angles, but since there’s a stated big money contract already, I think they’d get in too much trouble if it was or turned in to one. Since nothing’s been announced here, there’s not that problem, and I think they should use it. If we’re only going to end up picking who they people deciding things want us to pick, why not use it as a vehicle to introduce a new character from OVW? Fill out the “trainees” with indy guys to make the OVW guy look good and build towards a debuting angle, and cover yourself by promising a contract to those indy guys if they impress, but don’t make the mistake of pretending it’s not fixed when talking about it off-TV.
One of the drawbacks to the normal structure of Tough Enough is the characters with the most intersting/wacky traits are often kicked off because those traits. If Tough Enough was worked, instead of a Scott or Wendell or Hawk having a couple weeks invested into them only to get cut, they can actually win, since they’re only characters (and hopefully the real people wouldn’t be as annoying.)
That’s a lemonade out lemon situation, but I still think it’s a bad idea.
– No offense to people not in North America, but when’s the last time a TV show taped not in NA actually was worthwhile? The WCW foregin shows were always filler (but then, so was everyting), the WWF UK PPVs were usually filler, and last RAWs they taped elsewhere are only notable for the contiunally shrinking ratings number Vince Russo claims they got. (How it will be told somewhere around 2010: “They had RAW on three contintents and it got a .00004! That next Tuesday, Vinny Mac came into my office, got down on his hands and knees, and begged ‘Mr. Russo, please save my company! Your multi-million dollar magazines are the only shining light in this barren franchise! Please share your incredible singular genius with this entire company!’ I consented, and the next week, we got a 12.4”)
There’s some curosity interest here – RAW in Japan would be interesting for the reactions, but I don’t see this improving the quality of the shows benefiting from this. I hope I’m wrong. I do suspect they’ll be hot crowds when they try this.
– DVD sales doing huge numbers is a great sign for those of us who like DVDs and old matches being brought back to life. They’re definetly believing there’s a market for these things, and when the WWE finds a market for something, it floods the market. I expect “the Best Of A-Train (a 3 DVD set)” sometime in 2006. Presuming he’s still A-Train then.
Actually, unless the UPN deal is preventing it, they need to get to doing some Best Of SmackDown! DVDs already. While TLC3 is finally making it on a recorded device in the near future, there’s a lot of great stuff that gets left off because it’s not a PPV release and doesn’t fit a narrower biograph.
– I’m sure I love the idea of voting for President of RAW and SmackDown! more than most. But as long as we’re coming up with new ideas for existing talent, I’m usually for it. There’s a lot of potential for goofy campagin speeches and I hope they take advantage of it.
– WWE saying “we don’t expect SpikeTV to pay less for our shows” is a complete positioning statement and I doubt they even believe it, but why give up that position until they have to.
– How many quarters in a row have they talked about the movies they’re doing without having done anything about the moves?
– Somehow, I’m thinking they’ll bring up 4 PPVs in one quarter a lot more next quarter (and next year) than they did here.
Only one day game, but I’ve got nothing for it. I was sure I was going to squeeze in it somehow. Best Game NYM (35-36) vs NYY (45-25) Al Leiter (2-2, 2.14) vs Brad Halsey (1-0, 3.18) Page 2’s Daily Quicke rated this as the best interleague rivalarly (repeating the same thing in two different … Continue reading “Tgoadmaeys’s”
Only one day game, but I’ve got nothing for it. I was sure I was going to squeeze in it somehow.
Best Game
NYM (35-36) vs NYY (45-25)
Al Leiter (2-2, 2.14) vs Brad Halsey (1-0, 3.18)
Page 2’s Daily Quicke rated this as the best interleague rivalarly (repeating the same thing in two different sections, so we know I’m not the only one proofreading here). Not that I have an anti-East Cost bias bias or anything, but this is a series between a first place team and a third place/below .500 team. The Chicago series (two seconds) and the LA series (a second and a third, but the third is much better) are much more meaningful then the Subway Series.
Someone must’ve gotten around to fixing the Questec system in Shea this season, because Leiter’s got some outstanding home numbers.
Home: 2W, 0L, 5GS, 32 IP, .221 SLG, .287 OBA, 1.13 ERA
Away: 0W, 2L, 6GS, 31 IP, .382 SLG, .341 OBA, 3.19 ERA
Unfortunatly, this is the AL home weekend.
Mets As A Staff
Home: 3.27 ERA (1st), .358 SLG (1st), .318 OBA (8th)
Away: 3.87 ERA (3rd), .391 SLG (3th), .323 OBA (3rd)
Worst Game
MON (24-46) vs TOR (31-41)
Zach Day (5-7, 3.30) vs Josh Towers (1-2, 5.33)
It’s the disappionting versus the disappionting! What a thrilling series. Obviously, there’s a work slow down in effect to protest labor unrest in hockey. Could spell tragedy for this game.
How far below expectiations has the hitting been for both teams?
excellent (> 90 percentile PECOTA forecast)
TOR F Menechino
TOR G Zaun
above average (60-90 percentile PECOTA forecast)
TOR O Hudson
MON E Chavez
average (40-60 percentile PECOTA forecast)
TOR V Wells (but a massive power drop)
TOR C Gomez
TOR F Catalanotto
TOR C Gomez
MON J Rivera
MON T Sledge
MON B Schneider
MON B Wilkerson
below average (10-40 percentile PECOTA forecast)
TOR T Batista
MON N Johnson
MON J Vidro
horrible (> 10 percentile PECOTA forecast)
TOR E Hinske
TOR J Phelps
TOR C Delgado (although this is putting it mildly)
MON O Cabrera
(Top 9 per team. BP didn’t forecast Reed Johnson, so I added in Greg Zaun)
You know, I love saying Franky Menechino as much as the next guy, but something’s gotten seriously screwed up when he’s the best slugging Blue Jay this season. Everyone’s going to have people who break out and those who fall back, but the Blue Jays unfortunatly have those people swapped around.
Expos, on the other hand, have no one breaking out. Endy Chavez is only considered above average because he’s just barely replacement level, and the predicitons for him weren’t nearly that kind. Vidro and Cabrera not hitting up to expectations, but no one else is picking up the load. Which is the difference between a bad team (Blue Jays) and a vulgarly bad team (Expos.)
Closest Game
SFG (41-32) vs OAK (40-31)
Jason Schmidt (9-2, 2.26) vs Barry Zito (4-4, 4.81)
Ooooooooh. And this series is better than Yankees/Mets too.
What was the Beane stratgy from Moneyball? Something like “you spend the first two months evaluating your team, you spend the second two months trying to make it later, and you spend the last two months letting it play out”? We’re solidly in the middle two months now.
Is Dotel the reliable missing piece for the bullpen? My recent memories of him are all biased because of the Cubs 4 game sweep in Houston, where Dotel a save. BP’s metrics rate him as average; similar runs protected to Amaury Telemaco, similair value over replacement player as Julian Tavarez, neither of which will be fetching Carlos Beltran in a deal this year or any other.
This does somewhat seem an experment to test a theory on the A’s part. There’s been talk about the A’s lacking a high speed fastball pitcher on the staff to balance out the guys who get by more on a location and break. Dotel obviously fits that description.
I think they’re going to end up doing okay on this deal, but I don’t know if it’ll be enough.
Lopsided Game
STL (43-29) vs KCR (28-41)
Woody Williams (5-6, 4.66) vs Zach Greinke (1-3, 3.00)
This should be an intersting test for young Mr. Greinke, who really only owes the bad record to the 2.7 runs per game of support he’s getting. If he can get thru the Cardinals lineup, he may be as good as advertised.
Not to be pointlessly overdramatic here, but these six interleague games may end up playing a huge impact in the final NL Central standings and the future of our universe as we know it; the Cardinals are getting a huge break to play the Royals, while the Cubs and Brewers play the top two in the AL Central and Houston plays the top in AL West. There’s a slight different in quality of play, even before considering who just got shipped out of Kauffman Stadium.
Numbers on the prospects KC picked up
AAA: John Buck C .300/.368/.507 (11 E in 61 G)
AAA: Mark Teahen 3B .275/.381/.391 (0 HR in 69 AB)
AA: Mark Teahen 3B .335/.419/.543 (6 HR in 197 AB)
AAA: Mike Wood SP 2.80 ERA (4.20 ERA), .241 AVG, .298 OBA, 6.6K/9IP.
I don’t know. A catcher, a third basemen without power, and a pitcher with an inflated win total and not a lot of strikeouts. This could turn out to be yet another Royals/A’s trade yet. In Wood’s defense, there’s a lot of unearned runs on that stuff. Someone can’t field on the Rivercats.
There’s a good chance I’ll sleep thru doing this tommorow. We shall see.