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Oh yeah, absolutely no reason not to work within the system.

Isn't this more due to the shift towards 4+ hours of primetime TV a week against actual competition instead of wrestling companies buying time in syndication? You have to do big stuff every week and it's harder to plan ahead.

Kevin Sullivan.

A lot of the time I freeze if people are watching on demand while I try to watch the network but this wasn't that. I was just checking it out on the laptop and it'd freeze after less than a minute of watching the livestream. i still need to follow up with them about my tablet since the fact it crashes the tablet completely within 5 minutes no matter what I'm watching is kind of ridiculous.

I don't know about you guys but Main Event is freezing up pretty consistently for me tonight. I can't say that bodes well.

Dave thinks that Hall's still on the table.

Toby Keith Promotions.

So if he shows up to TNA, he will or won't have to be called MC Phil?

Can we have Flair manage Batista for 3 weeks? It'd be even better if he turned on Miz to get there.

All I'm going to say is that he better damn well invite Jake to the bachelor party before the HOF.

The only way I can possibly see them swerving is if Punk comes back to spoil it all for Bryan setting up a multi month feud between the two of them.

It's weird to me that they sort of end up appealing to the hardcores every ten years. Bret at X. Eddy/Benoit at XX. Bryan at XXX.

Saturday Morning Slam was pretty great.

I'm sure we'll get Cena vs Harper before Mania. We've still got a few weeks.

Do you think some of this is because a kid watching wrestling might see it as real while a kid watching The Walking Dead would know it was a show? Or at least the likely false notion of that?

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I actually think it's even more complex than that. Bobby Heenan was hired by Andre the Giant and Paul Orndorff. Bobby Heenan hired Brooklyn Brawler. Bobby Heenan bought Hercules' contract from Blassie (I think it was Blassie) and then sold it to Million Dollar Man. What's the deal with Red Rooster? Did he fire heenan or did heenan fire him. I feel like with Heenan you got the "You can't fire me, I quit" speeches a lot blurring the lines.

Are we sure that it's not sometimes more like a temp agency, where the manager hires you, places you into matches, and then takes a share of your winning?

Because 1) the few public ones have mostly (though not completely) been new posters and 2) we've been over this once or twice in the last few months. I think I was leaning more towards #1 though.

This is usually where Kris chimes in about the people he knows, and since it's Kris, I believe him but in general, I don't see it in my life. I'm not sure if it's a class thing or what. Almost everyone I deal with is middle class or higher and even then not many are super lower middle class. Everyone I know who followed in college were tuned into things and that was back in 99-00 or so. All the people I know from high school still into it have podcasts or whatever. .

What the hell do they show then? I think last thing I watched on TNT was Leverage and I couldn't tell you the last thing I watched on TBS.

Would it be preempted by Braves games again?

I think really we, as viewers with our specific (insane) level of trying to follow and understand this stuff, have more of a need to classify things than people inside the business do. Most of the terms used in literary criticism probably aren't frequently used by authors.

Do you think the figures discussed (NASCAR money) was realistically what they were looking for or just put out there as a smokescreen?

Tim mostly hit on what I was going for though I was also thinking that the bad thing would have been that either the offers weren't coming in or that they were universally low.