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If we can't get the admins here to give us a subforum for this, should we maybe look at starting a board of our own? There must be a ton of free ones out there, I know the guys who ran that GME poll did something like that.

Maple Leaf Wrestling selects: Moose Morowski and Salvatore Bellomo

I'm all for other people joining this project, but I think it's only fair to warn you that no matter what anybody says or does, I am not willing to let Iron Mike Sharpe go.

Good stuff. I didn't know they were making this new show free to everybody, I thought it was an Ad Free Shows exclusive for only paid members. I am glad everybody can hear it for free. Good recap too, thanks!

Maple Leaf Wrestling selects Bob and Joe Marcus.

Maple Leaf Wrestling selects Manager Floyd Creatchman and wrestler Tim Gerrard.

Maple Leaf Wrestling selects: Goldie Rogers and Manager: The Grand Wizard (Abdullah Farouk)

Our managers, announcers and referees all have to be included as part of our draft picks, right? I ask because by my count, I have 8 picks left in total, so I guess I'd better start picking those names soon.

Maple Leaf Wrestling selects the Kelly Twins, Pat and Mike.

@GSR and @paul sosnowski are the only mods I ever see around here anymore.

Maple Leaf Wrestling selects: #29: Mike Rotundo #30: Cocoa Samoa

Thanks. I think I will definitely take a crack at that Death of WCW debate. I have to admit I have never listened to it, but I have it saved. I have heard good things about it from a couple of different people, so based on your request I am officially putting it on my list. Honestly, I don't think I have what it takes to transcribe an entire podcast, word for word. However, I found a way to make it work, that is how I was able to do the first half of "Eric Fires Back." I had actually sat down and started my usual routine of playing a few minutes, and then trying to type it out, but that's just too hard when you want to accurately quote somebody, not summarize what they are saying. It stopped being fun and started feeling like work. I was going to give up on the whole idea of doing the "Fires Back" episodes, when I had an idea. I decided to look into transcription software. I found a website where you can upload audio files online, and the site will automatically transcribe the audio into the text. There were only three problems. 1) The site will only accept audio files of about 20 minutes, so I had to cut the podcast up into five segments and upload them individually. 2) The text file you get back is just one giant block of text with no punctuation whatsoever and... 3) The transcription is only about 75% accurate...at best. The program can't transcribe the audio correctly if the person is speaking fast, and unfortunately Eric Bischoff tends to speak very fast. I found the Conrad Thompson portions pretty accurate, and the Bret Hart clip came out practically word for word. The Bischoff stuff, not so much. But getting a big block of text made it infinitely easier for me to edit into a readable transcription, which resulted in the recap I posted. I think if I use that program when I recap anything I want to be direct quotes, it will work out well...and it seems to take the same amount of time that a normal recap takes, all things considered. I don't have a copy of that interview. I can poke around (I have a buddy who has a ton of Shoot Interviews) but an Axl Rotten/Raven interview might be too obscure for him. I will ask him if he has it. I don't have the Cornette/Heenan Shoot Interviews, but I would love to see them and if I get them, I would be more than happy to recap them. I had actually considered getting those in the past. Let me look into that. In the meantime, I will add War Games and the I Quit podcasts to my list, after I finish "Eric Fires Back." Yeah, I pretty much agree with you guys. It seems pretty obvious that Jim Cornette was full of shit regarding what he was saying about Bischoff. Like Bischoff said...Bill Watts got fired from WCW, primarily for saying a bunch of racist shit in an interview that Hank Aaron found out about, and complained to Ted Turner. That has pretty much been proven by this point. I know Watts tried to go around afterwards claiming he wasn't fired, he quit...but I think that has pretty much been proven as bullshit. And Bischoff is also right...even if he did have the power to edit stuff from broadcasts, he hadn't taken over the Executive Producer job yet, while Cornette was still there. I'm sure it's possible that somebody told Cornette it was Bischoff's fault...but aside from that Cornette is clearly full of shit. I think the proof of that fact is that Cornette has heard Bischoff's rebuttal since then, and he hasn't pushed the issue. I think Cornette knows it can be proven that Watts got fired and Bischoff didn't edit the angle, so he is (uncharacteristically) keeping quiet. As far as the Bret Hart clip...I thought Bischoff was actually pretty restrained in his response, all things considered. If somebody called me a loser maggot who killed the entire Pro Wrestling business, I don't know how I'd respond.

This is outstanding.

Maple Leaf Wrestling selects: Doug Vines and Jeff Sword aka: "The Devil's Duo" or "The Family"

Maple Leaf Wrestling selects: #25: Pat Patterson #26: Danny "Bullwhip" Johnson Maple Leaf Wrestling also releases Armand Rougeau and selects Ricky Johnson in his place.

Armand Rougeau

Question: If we drafted somebody that we changed our minds about, is there a way we can release the pick, or are we stuck with them?

I know @SirEdger is up next, and then it is me. Assuming he doesn't want to contest either of these picks, Maple Leaf Wrestling next selects: #23: "Huge" Tom Lintz #24: George Wells

Maple Leaf Wrestling Selects: #21: Armand Rougeau #22: Johnny Weaver

For my next two picks I will select Rocky and Bob Della Serra.

Maple Leaf Wrestling selects: #17: Iron Mike Sharpe #18: Sweet Daddy Siki

I have to go out for a few hours and I won't be around for a while, so I am going to announce my next two picks ahead of @SirEdger. If I pick somebody he wanted to pick, he can appeal my pick and we can negotiate something...but I don't want to hold things up, so I will preemptively announce my next two picks, I hope that is okay and will help keep things moving. Maple Leaf Wrestling selects: #15: Whipper Watson Jr. and #16: Dominic DeNucci

Now that I have finally gotten around to transcribing the first half of the first episode of "Eric Fires Back" I will be curious to see how it is received...if people find it is interesting and lived up to their expectations, or if it wasn't worth the read. If you voted for it (or even if you didn't but you ended up reading it anyway) check it out and let me know what you thought? That's the one major difference between the other recaps I have done so far, and the "Fires Back" episodes. With the other stuff, they were pretty much just discussions, so I could listen to them and type out a summary of what was said. With the "Fires Back" series...the whole point is the exact quotes of what was said about the subject, so paraphrasing isn't really as much of an option if I'm trying to capture the precise nature of the Shoot Interview aspect, and the rebuttal. I can't really just type: "Jim Cornette says Eric Bischoff is a bitch." It works better as a transcription. I'm not sure if people will find that as interesting or as compelling to read. The "Fires Back" episodes are certainly compelling to listen to, and they are very popular with AFS subscribers, but I'm not sure how they'll translate into writing. I will probably finish the first episode of Eric Fires Back and transcribe the Mike Graham portion, since I've already got a start on it, and some of the stuff Graham spouts off is truly epic bullshit...but from there I'll wait and see what the general consensus is and what the interest level ends up being. No point in transcribing the stuff if people don't find it as interesting as the recaps. The other issue is, I have now recapped a good chunk of the stuff on the list I posted on Page 2 of this thread...and I have recapped all the best and most requested stuff (Eric Leaves WWE, Vader Goes Down, The Plane Ride from Hell, The Herd Interview, etc.) Soon I will run out of stuff to recap, unless people come up with requests from other podcasts or sources. It doesn't necessarily have to be from Ad Free Shows...if somebody wants a recap of one of Conrad's other podcasts or even something else, I'm pretty open to taking a crack at that as well. Of course, the new episode of "Conversations with Conrad" featuring Jim Crockett should be coming out soon...I am sure that will be interesting and will keep me busy.

Maple Leaf Wrestling selects: #13: Tony “Cannonball” Parisi and #14: Kelly Kiniski

Thank you very much for the positive feedback, good brothers.