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QUOTE(The Critic @ Jul 5, 2006 -> 12:56 AM) I'm a huge mark for Chuck Liddell, but I'd feel like such a douche wearing UFC stuff at my age. I almost never even wear my rock shirts anymore, about all I wear is Sox stuff or my softball jerseys. Getting old sucks, kids, I don't recommend it. Just wear a rotation of Sandman shirts, Critic.

My favorite of all time would probably be Jake Roberts or Sabu -- The first for the dramatics, ability to cut fantastic promos, in-ring psychology, gimmick and original finisher. The second for the in-ring tactics and in-ring abilities. It is so difficult to narrow down and all time fave though that I'm not sure I can really... Young kid... Jake Roberts Randy Savage Bret Hart Undertaker Blue Blazer/Owen Hart Hogan Ultimate "Now on the crazy ass ultra-conservative weirdo talk circuit" Warrior Doink the Clown (before he got Dink, turned face and was bad) Mick Foley (still remember the WCW WorldWide where he got powerbombed on the concrete by Vader) Adolescent... Damn near anybody on the ECW roster. Goddamn did I love me some Hardcore TV Hall and Nash (the nWo angle made me mark out of my shoes when they first showed up on Nitro) Great Muta -- hadn't seen many matches at the time but his in-ring ability and gimmick were always really cool to me Now... Samoa Joe Christopher Daniels TNA's X Division RVD Sabu CM Punk Then you have the classics like the Steamboats, Flairs, Funks etc. that all hold a highly respected spot in the pantheon of wrestling fandom.

QUOTE(T R U @ Jul 5, 2006 -> 01:28 AM) I agree with you on a lot of what you have said, however TNA, ROH, and CZW have no chance in hell of taking the market away from WWE.. Despite it not being as good as it was back in the day, it still heavily rules all forms of wrestling and will most likely continue to do so as long as they have the money to draw and keep the real talents.. Hell they usually signing away the better talented wrestlers from those other organizations anyway Some of the talent in ROH, TNA etc. were talent that were underused/not used by WWE. TNA still has Daniels, Styles, Samoa Joe (marks out like a little kid!), the entire X division, Petey Williams (marks out again!) Hell, just watch TNA and they have more bad blood for Vince on that show than they do promotion of TNA on there. It's going to take time but I think when TNA can get itself out of Orlando for some PPVs, start making some money, GET THE STRAP OFF OF JARRETT and get a competitive time slot with WWE -- we're going to see Vince in WCW's position and the tables will get turned. As long as Vince keeps up his hoss-fest, smaller guys are going to be swept under in WWE and end up proving that indy style wrestling can really pay off. TNA's already got a bunch of the major indy guys locked up already with contracts which could prove beneficial if they can get out of Orlando. //watching Kobashi vs Joe ROH 2005 (arguably match of the year) /// http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3...q=Kenta+Kobashi

QUOTE(MHizzle85 @ Jul 5, 2006 -> 01:19 AM) i'd agree...but as long as he's winning over the women and children, it won't really matter. Like Cena having the title for so long when obviously he was a horrible champion. If you saw One Night Stand 2, I basically have the opinion of Cena that the crowd in the Hammerstein Ballroom had. Even though I was sad that RVD had to job the belt, I marked for Edge taking the strap. Best.Transitional.Champ.Ever. Just a pity that SuperCena is going to get another extended run after Sat. Night's Main Event in which he'll overcome every odd to beat the heel yet again. The kids and women who have no idea about the business are the cash cow. I remember marking out for the Bushwhackers, Bret Hart, etc. when I was a kid. It's just annoying now that I know more about the business, quality wrestling, quality gimmicks, etc. that something like SuperCena gets extended runs with the strap. And really -- if doing things backstage causes RVD to job like Al Snow on consecutive nights before being suspended, then why is Johnny Nitro getting an IC strap run and Orton getting a ticket straight to the upper card with a feud with Hogan? /CM Punk for WWE Champ! //Wants to see a Cena vs Orton vs Hogan triple threat match. How many moves (not counting restholds -- take that Randy!) would be performed? I say 10 different ones between the three of them.

QUOTE(WCSox @ Jul 4, 2006 -> 05:24 PM) Anybody who knows the least bit about Mexican politics could've guessed that. Well there's counting votes improperly corrupt and killing off people in the other party corrupt. When they had the one party state, option 2 corrupt was happening in conjunction with option 1.

QUOTE(The Critic @ Jul 5, 2006 -> 01:06 AM) I have a theory that Vince created WWECW just to kill the ECW signs and chants at WWE shows. What better way to squash the chants and signs than to make ECW weak and lame, therefore making it embarrassing and impossible to chant for it? Vince has made his money from the DVDs and One Night Stands, and all the "classic" ECW wrestlers are getting older and more injured, so ECW as we'd like to remember it has a VERY short shelf life. The kiss of death came when Vince admitted treating ECW as a "third WWE brand" rather than its own entity. ECW being a third brand guarantees McMahon family meddling, and that is certain to send ECW to its grave. Exactly. He buried the f*** out of WCW after he had the opportunity to do so. (see Billionaire Ted skits etc. for his original intent) He put a lot of money into WWECW and wants to make a profit yet Vince only knows the 'sports entertainment' method with the "5 Moves of Doom" and "SuperCena" overcoming the same old crap PPV after PPV method. If I invested a ton of cash into wrestlers etc., I'd be hesitant to hand the book over to somebody else too. Add in that Heyman's got a lot of political enemies backstage (glares at Steph, Nipple H, etc.) and it is a recipe for destruction for what ECW was truly about. When Dreamer and Heyman had the book, they did a great job. Hell, Heyman's year of SmackDown booking made the show watchable. As Dreamer said, they can't let the "McMan" bring them down. They went wrong at every turn with ECW and it makes me wonder if they didn't want it to fail from the beginning. Most casual fans don't remember the classic Anarchy Rulz, Guilty As Charged, etc. matches with Dreamer, Funk, Credible, Raven, Sandman, Sabu etc. I mean, come the f*** on -- taping with SmackDown?! The crowds are part of what makes ECW awesome and they neutered it. Vince is going to run into a wall soon and not know a way out. He's gotten lucky a few times with gimmicks and its made him cash (i.e. the original DX run, post-Ringmaster (not Chilly McFreeze) Austin etc.) but something is going to give and the market may go elsewhere (TNA, ROH, CZW, etc.) /Damn Vince and his damned ego //Joey Styles isn't good enough to call Backlash? BACKLASH!?

QUOTE(The Critic @ Jul 5, 2006 -> 12:58 AM) He must've known that he was gonna drive around with drug works and pills in the car.... It's just kinda stupid of him to f*** up the first chance at making decent money from wrestling. The guy seems like a giant head case, just from following his career. Totally shoots himself in the foot at every turn. From what I've heard, management is pretty high on him (hence is pushes into the upper-midcard and quasi-main events) -- and there's no pun intended at all. They had a Sabu promo on the show tonight so I don't think he'll get a pink slip. A suspension most likely and have to do some jobs but I doubt Vince lets them go unless he really wants WWECW to crash and burn. Yet he did have Heyman screwjob RVD and put the strap on Big Show...in Philadelphia. /still marking like a 14 year old female Jeff Hardy fan that CM Punk was on WWECW TV and cut a promo

RVD jobbed the WWE title and the ECW title on successive nights. They had to re-write Raw and ECW to take the straps off of him. Van Dam and Sabu are lucky to keep their jobs with the new wellness policy that WWE has in place. Everybody knew Van Dam lit up. Hell, last year at the One Night Stand PPV, Heyman cracked a joke that he wasn't crying in the ring but that his eyes were watering because Van Dam and he were smoking a joint. If anybody watched the ECW TV tonight, the Philly crowd was letting Van Dam have it with chants (granted, they were pissed all night with chants of "Shut the f*** up", "Boring!", "You suck dick", "You take steroids" etc. to other WWE performers that were squashing ECW performers) of "Marijuana!" and chants about the wellness policy infractions. Yet they're still supportive of him -- despite him f***ing up. I'm sure the SciFi censors had to be happy with those chants going over the air unedited for the most part. And after you've seen half the matches Sabu's been in -- Vicodin seems like it is something he would have regularly. Vince really needs to give up the booking of ECW and give it to Heyman. This generic hoss-fest, lame ass amateur night stripping and terrible gimmicks galore is really grating to classic fans of old ECW and new fans trying to get a feel for what the cult following was all about. ECW isn't "sports entertainment". It was gritty, counterculture, indy, wrestling with great angles. RIP WWECW 2006-2006

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A's threatening in the 9th Runners on 1st and 2nd. 2 dead.

Happy birthday!

But the experts on ESPN said that Contreras was due to lose many games and that Jenks does not know how to close out important games that are high pressure situations. Should I be concerned?

QUOTE(nitetrain8601 @ Jul 4, 2006 -> 04:19 PM) TRADE JERMAINE! Trade him yesterday! He's gotta get a hit there!

QUOTE(Greg The Bull Luzinski @ Jul 4, 2006 -> 04:08 PM) I like this game better than yesterday's. Yeah, we're on the right side of the 8 run rout today.

QUOTE(WCSox @ Jul 4, 2006 -> 02:44 PM) Nobody believes that music or video games caused events like Columbine. But most people agree that it's not in an 8-year-old's best interest to be listening to gangsta rap. And most people (not just the religious right) also believe in public decency standards. Lieberman is conservative for a Democrat, but he's not exactly Rick Santorum. BTW, the comparison to Zell Miller is ridiculous. Those two have nothing in common. It should be up to parents to monitor what their kids have/use/read/listen to, especially at age 8. I don't think most 7 year olds have the $50 to get GTA or the $18 to an album (aside from even having the ability to get to the store by themselves) Lieberman is quite for censorship -- his proposed legislation while Clinton was in power of the uniform code where music/movies/video games etc. would have a code for 'objectionable' things. Of course those found 'objectionable' would essentially be blacklisted from stores. IIRC, he even tried passing a law where bands would have to get permits (not for venues, but for screening out the "we won't say/do anything that Mr. Lieberman may not like" groups) before they could legally play a show. Take this statement: When speaking about Grand Theft Auto, he said, "The player is rewarded for attacking a woman, pushing her to the ground, kicking her repeatedly and then ultimately killing her, shooting her over and over again. I call on the entertainment companies--they've got a right to do that, but they have a responsibility not to do it if we want to raise the next generation of our sons to treat women with respect." Yeah -- I'm of the mind that a parent should be raising the kid and know when the kid is developmentally ready to distinguish reality from the fantasy land of a video game. There's no need for government to butt into this situation and create a chilling effect that because Mr. Lieberman doesn't like it, it means the game should not be made. I stand by the idea of if you don't like it then don't watch it, play it or buy it. His pro-censorship stance was a joke when it was the PMRC, when they tried to nail Judas Priest for subliminal lyrics and it remains a joke today. Decency standards should be left to parents -- not crusading moralists in government. And regarding Miller and Lieberman -- both are cultural conservatives, both opposed gay marriage (although Lieberman said states have the right to decide individually) and both are incredibly supportive and unquestioning of the Iraq war. They're quite similar.

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Jul 4, 2006 -> 02:32 PM) lol Do you like Al Gore? You probably do. He's just as bad, if not worse, than Lieberman on censorship. Him and Tipper went all out on this stuff. Actually I'm well aware of Tipper, Al, PMRC, Raising PG Kids in an X Rated Society, et al. It's one of the reasons that I'm not an avid fan of Mr. Gore (damn glad I missed having to vote in 2000 by it being a few weeks before my 18th birthday) because I couldn't have voted for Gore/Lieberman or Bush/Cheney.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Jul 4, 2006 -> 01:29 PM) Maybe the Dems can lend them some of their ballot counters to help with all the hanging chads and such. I am sure they can come up with a few hundred thousand votes if they try hard enough. You really don't know much about Mexican elections. They have been notoriously corrupt in the past -- to a point that is sometimes becomes laughably so (especially when there was the one party state) In 1988, the candidate for Obrador’s Party of the Democratic Revolution (PDR), who opinion polls showed as a certain winner, somehow came up short against the incumbent party of the ruling elite. Some of the electoral tricks were far from subtle. In the state of Guerrero, the PDR was leading on official tally sheets by 359,369. Oddly, the official final count was 309,202 for the ruling party, only 182,874 for the PDR. Challenging the vote would have been dangerous. Two top officials of Obrador’s party were assassinated during the campaign. Seems like there's problems even now... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...6062500790.html And from BBC journalist Greg Palast It begins with an FBI document marked, “Counterterrorism” and “Foreign Intelligence Collection” and “Secret.” Date: “9/17/2001,” six days after the attack on the World Trade towers. It’s nice to know the feds got right on the ball, if a little late. What does this have to do with jiggering Mexico’s election? Hold that thought. Hunting for Terrorists in Latin America -- This document is what’s called a “guidance” memo for using a private contractor to provide databases on dangerous foreigners. Good idea. We know the 19 hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the Persian Gulf Emirates. So you’d think the “Intelligence Collection” would be aimed at getting info on the guys in the Gulf. Not so. When we received the document, we obtained as well its classified appendix. The target nations for “foreign counterterrorism investigation” were nowhere near the Persian Gulf. Every one was in Latin America -- Argentina, Venezuela, Mexico and a handful of others. Latin America?! Was there a terror cell about to cross into San Diego with exploding enchiladas? All the target nations had one thing in common besides a lack of terrorists: each had a left-leaning presidential candidate or a left-leaning president in office. In Venezuela, President Hugo Chavez, bete noir of the Bush Administration, was facing a recall vote. In Mexico, the anti-Bush Mayor of Mexico City, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was (and is) leading the race for the Presidency. Most provocative is the contractor to whom this no-bid contract was handed: ChoicePoint Inc. of Alpharetta, Georgia. ChoicePoint is the database company that created a list for Governor Jeb Bush of Florida of voters to scrub from voter rolls before the 2000 election. ChoicePoint’s list (94,000 names in all) contained few felons. Most of those on the list were guilty of no crime. The FBI's contractor states that, following the arrest of ChoicePoint agents by the Mexican government, the company returned or destroyed its files. The firm claims not to have known collecting this information violated Mexican law. Such files can be useful in challenging a voter's right to cast a ballot or in preventing that vote from counting. It is, of course, impossible to know if the FBI destroyed its own copy of the files of Mexico's voter rolls obtained by Choicepoint or if these were then used to illegally assist the Calderon candidacy. Opinion polls are showing that the leftist candidate was winning (cites Richard Lugar saying in the Ukraine during their last election that such a divergence from exit polls to the actual vote count is proof of "blatant fraud" in the vote count)

There are a few reasons I could never vote for Lieberman and consider it probably good that he goes the way of Zell Miller (i.e. out of the damn Congress) 1. His insane belief that music caused the violent events like Columbine and his hardon for musical/television/cinematic/video game censorship of things that he does not like...and going about trying to legislate his morality for the entire country. 2. His whoring for the war. No matter how much information comes out that the intelligence was poor and that it is possible we got railroaded into a war, he keeps talking about how great his vote was. Can we get him a little cheerleader outfit? That said, he can run in the election and he is going to get his ass whipped by Ned Lamont.

Gotta love "It's still real to me dammit!" guy. Although I think it pales in comparison to LUGERMANIA! Can you even afford to watch this? I DON'T KNOW! He's one of the biggest stars in this-GOD! And for those 80s wrestling fans, the Iron Sheik discusses Brian Blair and how he "humbles" people "old country" style (NSFW)

The Aristocrats is better than the 93rd best comedy of all time. No Network? Napoleon Dynamite shouldn't even be sniffing that list. Dr. Strangelove should be higher on the list. This list can kiss my lily white, White Sox loving, comedy fan ass for three reasons: NO CHAPLIN NO BUSTER KEATON NO MARX BROTHERS They did give some respect to the great Mel Brooks which is good. Animal House is good, but I don't think it was the #1 comedy of all time.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060630/ap_on_...rs_investigated The U.S. Army will investigate charges that five American soldiers were involved in the killings of four Iraqi relatives, including a woman who had been raped, military officials said Friday. It's the sixth current inquiry into the alleged slayings of Iraqi civilians by American troops. Some of the five soldiers also allegedly burned the body of the woman they are accused of assaulting in the March incident, a U.S. military official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case. -- Now, they are innocent until proven guilty. But if it is true, this is yet another big black eye for the military, especially in Iraq. This doesn't say anything about the military as a whole but rather leads to questions regarding the stress levels going on for soldiers over there (PTSD, etc.) The VA already admitted that they really underestimated the amount of stress disorder cases they were going to see from returning soldiers. And before anybody asks (and/or happens to miss it in the article) -- According to a senior Army official, the alleged incident was first revealed by a soldier during a routine counseling-type session.

Legitimate criticism is worthwhile, entertaining and thought provoking. However, I do believe there is a contingent on the board that just wants to b**** for the sake of b****ing, no matter what happens in any given game (i.e. the "Thome, can you please adjust to the inside pitch" thread or the "We have to sweep Pittsburgh" thread or the "Well, we're going to be 4.5 out after the Cubs series" comments et al.) I swear for some (read again, some) of the people here -- if the White Sox walked on water, there'd be some ST'ers decrying how they didn't swim. That said, let the legitimate discussion continue to devolve and make Soxtalk into a personal diaper for everybody in a mindset that things like evidence, facts and logic will do little to no damage.

QUOTE(PJBMD @ Jul 3, 2006 -> 02:01 PM) You fail to meet my expectations! What kind of BS poll is this? You pre-selected who has and hasn't lived up to expectations. Do you work for the Tribune too? Did you mean for this to be sarcastic? If so use green for the text.

"They informed me that I should not jump on the back of alligators," Carey said. "I agree with that. The take home message is not to jump on the back of a gator." /what a PSA //I thought I already knew that? ///Imagine if he disagreed.

QUOTE(Flash Tizzle @ Jul 2, 2006 -> 08:15 PM) Where were these articles when Joe Torre selected the entire Yankees squad several years ago? Suddenly Guillen selects his pitchers and all hell has broken lose? Well duh...It's only bad when somebody not in the limelight of the Eastern Seaboard Promotional Network does it.