Matt D

Yeah, I'm leaning back towards performance art. sorry.

There's not a right answer here. Match A can be good in one aspect. Match B can be good in another. Match C can be great in one way but not another. Listmaking and comparisons are great, but if you can go into a match and point out the ways it hits, the ways it misses, your overall feeling of it, the crowd's feeling, if it accomplishes what it's set out to do (which sometimes has nothing to do with traditional metrics of quality), etc. To me that's the most interesting thing in a review. 1. Are you taking a 360 look at the match. 2. How do you feel about it taking all that in. Just admit your biases as best you can.

They had done a really good job with the Itami episode too. It's the sort of feature stuff that you never see on Raw/Smackdown, WWE TV save for maybe those weekly sit down interviews (and even then it's still night and day).

It's a fictional narrative. When good, it's an entertaining, coherent fictional narrative. When bad, it's not so entertaining and not so coherent, but still a fictional narrative. I'm cool with my classification along those lines. It's okay if you disagree.

It's way more of an art than a sport though, which is my point 78% of the time.

In general, I think the communists were heavily undervalued in this draft. 1983 people.

He just drafted Cortez the Cuban?

I think I'm going to start running with "Wrestling is fiction" instead of wrestling is art. That one's fair, if only because it distracts.

That was a brutal 3-5 picks in a row for guys who were left.

The best resource is Kris Z.

There'll just have to be more proxies.

Best I can come up with is a Little Egypt joke. Forget it.

I admit that my lack of star ratings are a bit of a cop out, but I really don't watch matches to compare, most of the time. I'm in it for enjoyment, but mainly for understanding, not ranking. They're not mutually exclusive obviously, but I tend not to switch my mind into that other gear unless I have to.

See, I made the right call. Controversy was averted.

And the challenge of it is half the fun.

He did, but he sent me a message at 2 am last night saying not to pick as his plan rolled over. If we were going to get down to the wire, I'd make it for him regardless of that, but as things are now, I'll respect his wishes and hold off.

The point is that Stevens probably nuked his body with the partying.

Well, Ric Flair doesn't talk about Stevens' in ring skills, really. He talks about how he was the most insane drinker and mayhem-causer in the world.

If you ever want to win a bet with someone, show them this promo and then ask them which member of the Army is Fidel Sierra:

Wrestlers' praise for Michaels and Stevens: "Could do anything in the ring" "Could go all night" At least part of this community tends to care more about a wrestler doing the right thing in the ring at the right time for the right reason. The difference between Michaels and Stevens is that we have the footage to at least understand the argument with Michaels.

Dylan let me know his data plan rolled over so he'll do his own pick when he wakes up and you miss out on all my Portland jokes.

I feel like it was Tito that explained it. He was the latin star. Sal was supposed to be the Italian one but it didn't work out as planned.

I have a few meetings tomorrow but I'll never be far from internet access so I'm glad to do it.

Shelton Benjamin quantum leaped into his body