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QUOTE(Brian @ Jun 17, 2007 -> 01:54 PM) Agreed. Holly has actually been watchable on ECW. Sandman will be buried and than wished best in future endeavors soon. I'd like to see Johnny Nitro go to Smackdown and laugh at me, but Jillian to Raw. Jillian does go to Raw.

Supplemental draft has started... Raw gets (1) London/Kendrick, (2) The Sandman, (3) Daivari, (4) William Regal (5) Jillian Hall SD gets (1) Kenny, (2) Hardcore Holly, (3) Major Brothers , (4) Victoria (5) Eugene ECW gets (1) Viscera, (2) The Miz (oh what the f***?!), (3) Johnny Nitro And this draft is over! LOLZ -- http://exitsandman.ytmnd.com

QUOTE(MHizzle85 @ Jun 16, 2007 -> 05:39 PM) MVP v. Flair for the US Strap (I think I just threw up in my mouth a little) and Chavo v. Yang for the Cruiserweight Strap added to Vengeance. Is this the first time the Cruiserweight title was defended on a PPV? Flair is going to put over a good, young talent. MVP had a great program with Benoit. And Jimmy Wayne Yang rules. Although I still think that he should be put with a stable of Cade, Murdoch and JBL where they have the redneck cowboy team with Yang as a leader of the rednecks -- but nobody tells Yang he is Asian because it'll be too detrimental to the movement.

QUOTE(SoxFanForever @ Jun 16, 2007 -> 02:33 PM) So much for his shutout too.

I'll take the obvious.... Brokeback Baseball "I just can't quit you!"

Peavy, Young and DLee got thrown out. Anybody else?

QUOTE(Big Hurtin @ Jun 16, 2007 -> 01:05 PM) Bench clearing melee ensues. That was awesome. I was laughing so hard. Wow. They are talking about DLee getting the HBP for Soriano showing up Peavy with that HR. They showed the video of it and Peavy's comment in the paper that the next guy should get hit in the ribs to show players that they should just put their head down and run the bases like they've done it before.

Lee got hit by a pitch in the wrist that was high in and tight. Derrek goes to first and is jawjacking with the pitcher. All of a sudden, he throws a haymaker and begins to throw punches. The Padres pitcher throws a few back and then everything devolved into a total clusterf***. Both benches and bullpens cleared.

Harsher teeth in the laws (and enforcement) for the companies that hire them and pay them below minimum wages > punishing the individual illegals. Take out a demand and the supply goes down. See a lefty understands economics! And oh yes, to the mention of leafblowers -- Is there anything more futile?

QUOTE(The Critic @ Jun 15, 2007 -> 03:02 PM) I know I'm going to hell, but I gotta..... Was she in the limo with Vince???? ....I know.....I suck.....I'm sorry. Now I wonder how the fans are going to react to this angle given a real 10 bell salute needs to happen for the hall of famer...they are going to crap all over this Vince gimmick now given this tragic death.

Sad news, Sensational Sherri Martel passed away. No details other than that are available though. http://www.wwe.com/inside/news/sherripasses

I dated a girl from a sorority during my first senior year (the education program was 2 years which meant I had to pull a mandatory 5th year) She came from a very respectable North Shore family and me...well, not so much. After a couple dates and being very cordial and gentlemanly, she decided to invite me to her home for dinner. She knew that I was a big film fan and she said she was a big comedy fan, so I grabbed some Bill Hicks and one of my favorite films that she explicitly said she wanted to see and I was out the door. So, it was the wintertime and I drove over to her home. I walked in and got the introductions and was immediately handed a huge glass of wine. Her mother was making pasta for dinner and I saw her adding vodka to the sauce -- and when she was done, taking a swig out of the bottle that would making a binging frat boy blush and then projectile vomit all over the place like spattering pop art. So, trying to get that image out of my head, I sat down with my girlfriend and her dad. We had the small talk for a while about my major, what my career plans were, etc. Then, he started asking me about all these historical biographies I never read and don't care to read which was his attempt to really try to grill me. He then asked who my favorite President was. I told him "William Henry Harrison because he never did anything to ruin the country during his administration." Needless to say, this just pissed him off. Luckily dinner arrives and we sit down to yet another glass of wine and a heaping load of pasta and sauce. I take a big bite of the pasta and realize that the mother did not give enough time for the vodka to burn off in the sauce. Every bite I took just got me more and more hammered as the night went on with the wine and the vodkapasta. Then, the mother and the father started asking me more questions about my personal philosophies, what I planned to do after college, how I planned being around their daughter. It was so surreal. It was like an interrogation where you're getting fed liquor the whole time and still have to be on yor toes at at the best of your game. More wine and more pasta kept being given to me without me asking for it. We finish dinner and we decide to go watch our films. She liked Night of the Living Dead and then we decided to go for the comedy. I popped in this Bill Hicks DVD. She didn't laugh or even smile the entire 45 minute set. She asked me how I could laugh at something like that or even like something like that. We decided that it'd be best if I left. So, I went to leave but the snow was outrageous. I spent the night sleeping in an empty extra room on a really small bed with no blanket. Damn, it sucked. The next morning, I was hungover as s***, declined their breakfast and then got the Hell out. After that, we didn't speak for a few days so I gave her a call. She said she did not want to see me anymore because when people hang out after dark (and then she got in this hushed tone on the phone), it implies that those two people are...and then she hesitated. After a little prodding, she said "It implies that we're having sex!" The gut laugh I had as a result was one of the deepest, heartiest and most healthy that I have ever experienced in my entire life. I feel better not being around boozehound parents and people that thought such things. Who knew that by her standard we're all whores?

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jun 14, 2007 -> 02:34 PM) 2 cars driving off a cliff. Al Gore: "Hmm, at one point, I thought it was a good idea to continue driving in this direction. Based on the approaching cliff, I now think it would be an appropriate move to stop and turn around this vehicle." George W. Bush: "WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" The Serbia bombing was another unnecessary move by a belligerent state who has been flexing its international authority around for decades destabilizing governments that they didn't like and installing dictators that are just as bloodthirsty and authoritarian as the leftist regimes they used as boogeymen and their excuse to topple other regimes (see: Central and South America) I just find it in the same hypocritical vein that the GOP whores against the war then for humanitarian reasons are now blatantly whoring for the war in Iraq now that there is a Republican to take the glory for being tough internationally. The same is said for the Dems who were for the humanitarian effort in Kosovo (and those wanting intervention in Darfur) but now choosing to be against this war. The fact is that Kosovo, Darfur (assuming that we'd be part of a UN invasion/peacekeeping force) and Iraq never were and never have been threats to our national security and therefore we should not have used our military forces to invade any of those nations because it is not in the national interest of the United States to be the policeman of the world.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jun 14, 2007 -> 02:34 PM) 2 cars driving off a cliff. Al Gore: "Hmm, at one point, I thought it was a good idea to continue driving in this direction. Based on the approaching cliff, I now think it would be an appropriate move to stop and turn around this vehicle." George W. Bush: "WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" The Serbia bombing was another unnecessary move by a belligerent state who has been flexing its international authority around for decades destabilizing governments that they didn't like and installing dictators that are just as bloodthirsty and authoritarian as the leftist regimes they used as boogeymen and their excuse to topple other regimes (see: Central and South America) I just find it in the same hypocritical vein that the GOP whores against the war then for humanitarian reasons are now blatantly whoring for the war in Iraq now that there is a Republican to take the glory for being tough internationally. The same is said for the Dems who were for the humanitarian effort in Kosovo (and those wanting intervention in Darfur) but now choosing to be against this war. The fact is that Kosovo, Darfur (assuming that we'd be part of a UN invasion/peacekeeping force) and Iraq never were and never have been threats to our national security and therefore we should not have used our military forces to invade any of those nations because it is not in the national interest of the United States to be the policeman of the world.

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Jun 14, 2007 -> 08:51 AM) Your post sounds more like the "They did it too" argument. War: good if Dems start it, bad if not. No, it is just showing that there are a whole lot of hypocritical douchebags and if we're going to pick one old statement from 15 years ago, then the least we can do is pick the other side and show their hypocrisy too. But I guess it's different.

QUOTE(KipWellsFan @ Jun 13, 2007 -> 11:38 PM) Well didn't Clinton and him bomb the s*** out of Iraq? Cruise missile attacks and bombings/patrols of the No Fly Zones. And if we're going to go in the way back machine in this thread to make people look hypocritical, let's go back to the Republican majority's take on the US involvement in Serbia and how quickly many of them are changing their tune about warfare now that there is a politician with an R in front of his name to take the credit for being tough internationally. Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA): "President Clinton is once again releasing American military might on a foreign country with an ill defined objective and no exit strategy. He has yet to tell the Congress how much this operation will cost. And he has not informed our nation's armed forces about how long they will be away from home. These strikes do not make for a sound foreign policy." Sean Hannity: "No goal, no objective, not until we have those things and a compelling case is made, then I say, back out of it, because innocent people are going to die for nothing. That's why I'm against it." Rep. Tom Delay (R-TX): "American foreign policy is now one huge big mystery. Simply put, the administration is trying to lead the world with a feel good foreign policy." Karen Hughes (speaking on behalf of George W. Bush): "If we are going to commit American troops, we must be certain they have a clear mission, an achievable goal and an exit strategy." Why did they demoralize our fighting forces in uniform? Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS): "I had doubts about the bombing campaign from the beginning...I didn't think we had done enough in the diplomatic area." Tony Snow: "You think Vietnam was bad? Vietnam is nothing next to Kosovo." Joe Scarborough (R-FL): "Well, I just think it's a bad idea. What's going to happen is they're going to be over there for 10, 15, maybe 20 years." Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK): "I'm on the Senate Intelligence Committee, so you can trust me and believe men when I say we're running out of cruise missiles. I can't tell you exactly how many we have left for security reasons but we're almost out of cruise missiles." Rep. Tom Delay (R-TX): "I cannot support a failed foreign policy. History teaches us that it is often easier to make war than peace. This administration is just learning that lesson right now. The President began this mission with very vague objectives and lots of unanswered questions. A month later, these questions are still unanswered. There are no clarified rules of engagement. There is no timetable. There is no legitimate definition of victory. There is no contingency plan for mission creep. There is no clear funding program. There is no agenda to bolster our overextended military. There is no explanation defining what vital national interests are at stake. There was no strategic plan for war when the President started this thing, and there still is no plan today." Sen. Don Nickles (R-OK): "I don't know that Milosevic will ever raise a white flag." Sean Hannity: "Explain to the mothers and fathers of American servicemen that may come home in body bags why their son or daughter have to give up their life?" Why didn't they support the President in a time of war? Gov. George W. Bush: "Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is." Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN): "This is President Clinton's war, and when he falls flat on his face, that's his problem." Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK): "The two powers that have ICBMs that can reach the United States are Russia and China. Here we go in. We're taking on not just Milosevic. We can't just say, 'that little guy, we can whip him.' We have these two other powers that have missiles that can reach us, and we have zero defense thanks to this president." Rep. Tom Delay (R-TX): "You can support the troops but not the President." Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS): "My job as majority leader is be supportive of our troops, try to have input as decisions are made and to look at those decisions after they're made ... not to march in lock step with everything the president decides to do." Rep. Tom Delay (R-TX): "For us to call this a victory and to commend the President of the United States as the Commander in Chief showing great leadership in Operation Allied Force is a farce." Why did they blame America first? Rep. Tom Delay (R-TX): "Bombing a sovereign nation for ill-defined reasons with vague objectives undermines the American stature in the world. The international respect and trust for America has diminished every time we casually let the bombs fly." Rep. Tom Delay (R-TX): "Clinton's bombing campaign has caused all of these problems to explode." Michael Savage: "These international war criminals were led by Gen. Wesley Clark ... who clicked his shiny heels for the commander-in-grief, Bill Clinton." Rep. Joe Scarborough (R-FL): "This has been an unmitigated disaster ... Ask the Chinese embassy. Ask all the people in Belgrade that we've killed. Ask the refugees that we've killed. Ask the people in nursing homes. Ask the people in hospitals." Rep. Helen Chenoweth (R-IN): "It is a remarkable spectacle to see the Clinton Administration and NATO taking over from the Soviet Union the role of sponsoring "wars of national liberation." Bob Djurdjevic: "By the order to launch air strikes against Serbia, NATO and President Clinton have entered uncharted territory in mankind's history. Not even Hitler's grab of the Sudetenland in the 1930s, which eventually led to WW II, ranks as a comparable travesty. For, there are no American interests whatsoever that the NATO bombing will either help, or protect; only needless risks to which it exposes the American soldiers and assets, not to mention the victims on the ground in Serbia."

I know I shouldn't giggle at this but what the Hell... The current promotional background movie ad tie in on wwe.com is "Ghost Rider". How appropriate during this time... And the McMahon family is going to release a statement at 4 pm CST regarding Mr. McMahon's asplosion.

QUOTE(MHizzle85 @ Jun 12, 2007 -> 05:41 PM) I didnt even think about that. I'll say Paul London and Spanky. London had a real big s*** eating grin on his face during that last segment. That'll teach Vince and Co to not push the cruiserweights!

QUOTE(The Critic @ Jun 12, 2007 -> 10:57 AM) Is Foley's "Hardcore Diaries" due to come out in paperback yet? That, and the "cheap pops" he gets, are the only two reasons I can think of for him to be around. For Orton to kill the legend of Foley and set something up that way? And this VKM angle could be potentially good. If booked slowly and correctly, it could be a decent gimmick. The catatonic Vince was cool and interesting and it'll likely come out that it was Vince who planned it all along as a cry for help/end his suffering.

That was one of the best endings to Raw...and best Raws in general in a long time (at least since the Michaels/Cena 63 minute match).

Umm....WTF?

QUOTE(Buehrle>Wood @ Jun 11, 2007 -> 09:53 PM) ECW got absolutly shafted tonight. Dude, no more "Bathturd" Lashley. Now we can have an actual wrestler on the show actually wrestling for the belt. I am pretty happy with the state of ECW. They got Boogeyman, Benoit and no more Lashley which is addition via subtraction.

C'mon Hardy! Raw gets two picks due to Blandy Boreton. Raw gets itself Snitsky and Mr. Kennedy. SD! was pretty much just raped of all its talent. Holy crap.

Candice Michelle caused Lashley to lose the ECW title. And from WC: Don't be surprised if the screen goes to black at 10:59 tonight, as Vince is entering the ring to Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'".

QUOTE(Gregory Pratt @ Jun 11, 2007 -> 09:35 PM) The Dream's promo sucked. So did that one obnoxious guy that kept yelling You Suck! I have a lot of criticisms of Vince McMahon but destroying people's lives isn't generally one I'd give him, especially since he got a ton of money. He's always been good to old wrestlers signing them to deals just so that they would have some money for their family (see: Foley's books, forgot in which he says this) and he does some good charity work. Dude, the point of this is to bury McMahon in kayfabe-land. It's to make the Heel go more cuckoo.