Jesse Ewiak

You're confusing the word "trashy" under your definition with what TV execs mean when they use the word "trashy." When they say "trashy," they basically mean "poor uneducated people." Trashiness on the Bachelor is fine because it's all good looking people with good jobs drinking wine and hooking up.

This is awesome, as somebody whose spent way too much with TEW as well. If you've got time, the folks over on the GDS forum (http://greydogsoftware.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=195) would probably eat it up. As for Superstar's show, how about "The Sweet & The Sour w/ The Superstar?"

When Steven said that Misawa was pushed out of nowhere, that's kind of true. If I remember the timing right, and the usual suspects can correct me, but I think Tenryu left only a little before Misawa unmasked and he was obviously the heir apparent before he went to form the SWS.

Yup.I'm sure Vince probably thinks, "I had a chance to put a guy who was in the biggest movie of the year the title and because of the stupid fans, I had to put the title on a midget who left after two months because he got hurt.":

Well, I'm sure there were WCW Russo-booked shows that was 120 minutes of bad booking decisions in continuous fashion, they just weren't in one match.

Goldberg vs. Nash - Starrcade

Mero has been doing the motivational speaking thing for a while in the Orlando area (he regularly appears on a morning radio show I still listen to despite not living there anymore), so this is just one of those things that are truly viral in the sense that people liked it, and it spread.

I think people are overestimating and underestimate the change that's going to happen at the same time. I think people are highly overrating what will actually happen on-screen because unfortunately, with a 3 hour RAW, you're going to have lots of dead time, because it's filling three hours. It's not suddenly going to be the greatest combo of 2014 NXT, 1985 NWA, and 2000 WWF that some people (not people here) believe it's going to be. OTOH, I actually do believe we're going to see a lot of people retire or move on very quickly after Triple H & Steph take control, and that frankly, I wouldn't be surprised to see people like Cole, JBL, and the like gone as quickly as folks like various Vince Sr. soldiers were gone after Sr. died.

Give me somebody actually excited about a good product, even if that product might not be quite as good as the person saying it is, over somebody being passive aggressive over that same good product, simply because it isn't their style.

On AirBNB, it's a totally legitimate way to save money by not going to a hotel. I've used it in LA, Portland, and other cities, and such, without a problem. A lot of my friends use it for overseas trips since in a lot of ways, it's safer than staying at some dodgy hostel in a crappy part of a foreign country. Also, Parv, don't claim AWA wasn't a big territory when Martel was champ, or I'll sic Dylan on you w/ his Patera record books.

I think ya' guys did fine. Not every interview is going to be Frost/Nixon.

I think it comes down to this - none of us saw Shawn Michaels act like an idiot at 20 years old w/ a bunch of other 20 year olds. Yeah, the whole Miz thing in the Real World probably got him a look from the WWE in the first place, but it also means, in the back of most people's mind, they don't buy him as a 'tough guy.' Even putting aside how he wrestles, there is no believably to Miz being enough of a badass to even be a credible chickenshit heel at the main even level.

Black Friday sales were down overall at brick & mortar shops. http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/11/30/367564827/black-friday-sales-down-at-stores-surge-online "Black Friday shopping at brick-and-mortar stores in the United States was down about 7 percent from a year ago, according to ShopperTrak, but more purchases on Thanksgiving Day nearly made up the difference. Meanwhile, online retailers recorded double-digit year-on-year increases in sales."

I think the cord cutting part is both overrated and underrated at the same time. I think it's overrated in the way it's going to effect things in the next few years, but it's huge and underrated as the current generation of damn Millenials age into the core buying demographic and the demographic of tweens and kids who think of Youtubers as the biggest celebs in the world age up into having any buying power.

Punk's a straight edge guy who likes hardcore and punk. Jericho's a guy who's doing an 80's rockstar gimmick in RL in 2014 whose all but admitted he was getting wasted for large portions of his WWE tenure. I don't find it that shocking those two type of people don't get together all that well.

The problem w/ that idea is Brock costs a lot of money per appearance. Which, if you want to say was a stupid decision or bad negotiating by the WWE, I'll happily agree with you. But yeah, even if Brock can't be on TV often due to his contract, Heyman should be on, shit-talking people and setting up Brock's next program and/or appearance. And when Brock shows up on RAW, even if he's not in matches, he should be destroying people (ie. see his destruction of Miz).

A lot of people online were mad about Benoit, Jericho, and Angle all losing to WWF mainstays at Fully Loaded 2000. That's the biggest one that comes to mind. Yeah, but that's after 5 1/2 months of people mostly not bitching. The problem isn't WWE doesn't get the result at the PPV wrong for the future. They get everything wrong. They don't just mess up the wet dream, to use a Mick Foley line. In the wet dream, the bj has a lot of teeth and she's yanking at your chain like it's a stuck top of a mayo jar, and her boobs feel like concrete before the wet dream finishes.

A counterfactual I want to throw in. What if HHH never tears his squad during the Benoit/Jericho tag? I mean, up to that point, his 2000-01 run was seen as pretty damn good at the time. My question is, if HHH still has his reign of terror, but he's having 2000-01 HHH matches (which most people generally like) instead of 02-04 era Hunter matches, is that time different seen differently by your average smark, even if the booking is largely the same?

As far as modern guys who seem like douchebags who are partying nightly, I'm not sure how much of it is a character, but Fandango/Johnny Curtis on Total Divas certainly does his best to seem like one.

This list feels like 70-80 matches that the WWE.com guys actually like and 20-30 matches that "had" to be on the list.

I realize Tenay's a joke now due to TNA, but I think him as JR's repository of all the info about the Japanese guys while JR tells the story could work pretty well.

Despite the claims he was about to retire, I do think Owen would've hung around for the initial Radicalz run, but I doubt he would've lasted to the SD 6 Era. As for most disappointing, for possible talent being ran over by bad booking leading to somebody giving up, I have to go with Shelton Benjamin. Great look, athletic, was having great matches according to most people, but got banished to midcard hell and lost all motivation. Now, I'm surprised nobody said this, but let's be honest here, the real answer in the past decade is Brock Lesnar. We missed the peak of his career from 2004 on.

Posted a link to this over on Reddit. Wonder if anybody will listen, or it'll be a bunch of people pissed you guys would dare say Cena is an all time great.

There are still good places, but most places are still pretty bad. Look over at Reddit's Squared Circle subreddit. It's mostly rehashing the same arguments people were having on RSPW in 1995 and various message boards in 2005. Cena's still a horrible wrestler and buries people, Ziggler still isn't getting pushed right, midcard flavor of the week should get a megapush, and so on, and so forth. Yeah, there are places like here that are better, but this is still a niche of a niche of a niche of a niche.

I think Orton's been in more matches I can look at say "that's objectively good", but not care about at all.