Day: July 13, 2004

Draft results! So I have an extra copy someplace.

J: twins, token minority couple
M: Big Brother, dating/models
K: Internet dating, Texas dating
Me: pizza brothers, father/daughter

No one: team midget, bowling moms, once engaged (though they were gone before we did the draft)

I’m so glad the annoying bickering team is gone early – they usually last far far too long for anyone’s benefit.

Can you tell I’m stuck on something and trying to avoid it for a while?

Why is Albert not on his timeslot? Can I not trust this college radio temporary schedules anymore?

I found that Matt lost some credability when he first told us to form our own opinions, then started telling us that our opinions were wrong. Perhaps The Sensei is demonstrating the delicate balance of Yin-Yang.

I can’t believe I missed that, because that’s a pretty obvious flaw in the whole column. Would’ve worked out much better if he took a “Make your own opinions. You’re free to think what you think, but here’s what I think about it” tact. People rarely take that tact.

FREE SUGGESTION FOR THE WWE: When someone wins in an incredible upset like Matt Hardy did on Sunday, maybe you should’ve done more than air clips of the finish – like have him on the TV show.

FREE SUGGESTION FOR THE WWE 2: Matt kneeds knee surgery, and it’s probably really tempting for them to have Kane kill him; that’s probably why he wasn’t on TV in the first place, because they’ll only have him on TV to get killed, since he can’t do much more than that. But Kane killing Matt really doesn’t accomplish anything – he’s still Kane, either way, and he’s already killed one person in the last few months, so don’t over do the killing. Plus, it diminishes Matt’s win if he still ends up on the losing end, and you might as well keep him strong for the rematch.

Matt’s gotta disappear, to get his knee fix. Let him do it on his own – instead of Kane making him go, he goes because he thinks it’s time right now. Say he busted up his knee beating Kane, but would do again. Have him tell Lita that she made a choice without actually consulting him, so he needs time alone to make his own decision about what’s next – assuming that’s possible to say without him coming off as a jerk. And let him walk out on his own two feet, to come back when he’s healthy and when Kane finally gets annoyed with Lita that he’s willing to risk the baby.

Kane just taking on Matt would be the easy way, but it’s not the only way and unlikely the best for those involved.

I would’ve thought they would’ve kept Ingrid around JS2 longer after they turned her, because it makes for a much more dramatic situation and she won $100,000 pretty easily. The Joe Schmo Blog seems to hint she’s not done, though. And it explains the ending as Ingrid messing up an explaination on the grandparents and the storyline originally being planned for Ambrosia, which explains the ill-fitting randomness of it.

No buyrate info up on GAB. But I think they know. I’ve had a guess since I read the SmackDown! spoilers last week that they’ll use the El Gran Luchador costume one more time, with an unknown masked guy slipping into the cage. (That’s the point of the cage, right? Someone to slip in who shouldn’t be there.) Seeing as Eddie got the best of it last week, maybe you have Angle under the mask, surprising people by not being hurt anymore.

Do you have eight guys who are legit enough for a US Title Tournament? Assuming Cena’s prohibited, you’ve got Booker, RVD, Dupree as guys who’ve been around that level. But then you’ve got some level of reach to fill out the rest (uh, Rey, Haas – I’m looking at Feely’s recaps to think of the best names now – Kenzo, Luther, pick your fav of Gunn/Holly), and wouldn’t the title drop in importance if they actually won? (Maybe not Rey.) That’s not what you want out of your field. If they do a tournament (and I’m thinking not), they ought to book the winner strong in the preliminaries to try and make up for it, or it’s just another piece of gold.

Okay, back to doing stuff I’m supposed to be doing.

Do you pay attention to the OO Honor Roll box on OnlineOnslaught? I do, looking at that Best Brand thing and hoping it never comes out of sabbatical. And often to wonder at some of the choices. Usually I just chart it up to a differing of opinions and looking for different things out of the same product and so of course we’re not going to agree.

Then, there are somethings like this.

BEST INTERVIEW/ANGLE
Paul Heyman is a Chickenshit, Blames the Dudleys, Begs Taker for “A Pass”
(SD!, 7/08)

This is the week that included last week’s RAW. I know this, because the honor roll includes Jericho/Orton as best match*. So we know this includes RAW, and yet, we have no Musical Chairs. SegmentOTY candidate, and it beat out by a bit you won’t even remember by SummerSlam. Assuming you remember now. I suspect Scaia has finally gotten that case of alcohol poisoning we’ve all been fearing. Or the foam went straight to his brain, I dunno.

I actually wrote in to protest, but no response as of yet. I just want you to know I had nothing to do with that.

* – Naaaaah.

There’s no more tired “shocking” baseball speculation than “Ichiro could hit a lot of home runs if he wanted to.” It doesn’t matter if it’s true (and if it was true, wouldn’t Ichiro be some sort of moron not to hit at least a few more out of the park?) but that it comes up after All Star batting practice each and every year since he’s come over, and clueless people treat it like it’s an amazing new fact.

Hey, Mr. DJ Paul Kent – was there a reason WGMU was playing an hour straight of covers this morning? I found it both amusing and strange.