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Performance of the night was Parv heeling on the females like he was Bobby Heenan.

Apparently Crossfit makes one immune to the damage from a half dozen German suplexes.

I caught this. I don't think it was quite as bad as Will put it. It had a lot of problems that a triple threat inherently has. I think Sasha was going overboard to try to keep some elements of story and I do think she came off as a star, and I'm curious to see what Parv thinks about her character work relative to the rest of the roster. I think the pacing was off, especially during the finishing stretch. They really should have gone home right before the dive train. They had the crowd for bits and lost it for others bits and it was obvious that they were torn. Some of them were diehard geeks who wanted this to succeed, some of them just liked the Flair name, and some were the general female Bella fans that you get post Total Divas. It wasn't a disaster and I think it can be spun positively. At times Brie looked way out of place relative to the over the top complex spots (for good or ill) that the other two were doing. At other times, she almost seemed to ground things in a good way. I don't know. It was a weird match but I don't think it spelled the success or failure of this experiment one way or the other.

What's the shopping list look like? Big bag of cool ranch doritos make in on there? In process now. Only chicken is on sale. This pleases no one. I did catch Bray's awesome red pajama pants though. I miss old WCW PPVs that were on Saturdays.

Haven't seen much but I did catch Steph warning JoJo and JoJo having real fear in her eyes considering what's happened to people in the past.

I'm behind on everything so I'm using the 20-30 minute window that for sure I can watch wrestling without distraction tonight to watch a Volador vs UG singles match for Segunda Caida. Putting the kid to sleep and a long supermarket run both have to happen tonight too.

Is it better that Owens wins tonight or that Cena keeps doing the open challenges?

Matches feel more special if we didn't have them before, even if some of the ones that we did are still new to me.

I love that after trying to get Shoe to do this and goc trying to point at me to do it, goc ended up doing it in the end.

Someone (like Stacey) give me a list of the TV matches since the last PPV I need to try to catch in the next few days.

I really need to catch up on the Cesaro stuff

I hadn't seen Duggan vs Dibiase in a while. It's about as close to perfect as you can get, really. It's funny but in a lot of ways, the match that it reminds me of the most might be Big Show vs Mayweather from Mania, in that it's all fairly minimalist but every moment adds to a greater whole more so than you'd see in 99% of all matches.

It's feasible though. Anything is at this point after following WWE politics for decades. That's the point.

One of my favorite things all year was Austin on his podcast marking over for how Sting still had it and his back hand chops in the corner.

I like big emotional moments and payoff, but I also like the little nuances in the build to those moments. The little moments underpin the big ones. I also value some of the little things that Will values and don't value other ones that he values.

This is a company that apparently just let someone go who'd been around for 20-odd years because she lost out to Bruce Sharpe on negotiating for the Houston Footage. Vince is petty. It's hardly news.

I wouldn't want Kris to call on me and not know the answer. Graham, unsurprisingly, did great here. I'd never heard him on a podcast before but I've used his site for years (obviously). And he was really cool when I was doing the Demolition stuff years ago, down to hosting reviews on the site, which made me very happy at the time. He more than held his own. Parv was also extremely even-handed.

That's awesome. I'm waiting for the Prophecy next

His time as Dusty Rhodes Jr. Is weirder.

I'll be glad to work with wahoo if he'll have me. I'll tell him what I was thinking tomorrow if he wants to hear it.

The Keeping it warm bit was because I did not want to see the territory dispersed, because Dylan worked hard on his draft and because I wanted to see what he would do with it. I have a very strong knowledge of Portland between 79 and 82 but he's a lot stronger than me in 83 so I had hoped he'd think again about it and i wanted him to know that I'd step aside if he wanted it back due to the fact he's a friend. That was my starting point. Wahoo did the legwork. You're ready to go now. I'm not. I'm okay with you guys going forward with this.

Go for the draft. I rescind any claim. Wahoo has put in the work. I couldn't commit more than I did because of the trips with my kids and catching up on work afterwards but didn't want to shift facts around just for my own sake. I'll still post what I came up with just because it was fun coming up with it.

But PORTLAND. No, it's ok, I can tell that you guys are really looking forward to this dispersal. I will still list when I get home what I would've done. At least the first few big angles.

So I'm not taking it over? If that's what people want, im ok with it. I am still a couple of weeks away from managing anything (in the woods now which is why I needed the time in the first place with another family trip in a week.) I'd probably rather just list what I would have done than actually do it anyway.

2:20:00 in and I'm enjoying it a lot. I love how it feels like a quiz show as much as Brainbuster. It actually feels more like Grad School. The professor calls on you and you better know the answer.