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Post by HMARK Center on Apr 21, 2024 19:31:29 GMT -5
Different kind of New Yorker. Okada's more of a Wall Street New Yorker. Eddie's more of a "I will stab you, take your shoes and throw them on the telephone lines because I don't like the way you looked at me" New Yorker. Eddie convincing Okada to get a house in Staten Island as a prank. Careful, that can be considered a hate crime around here.
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Post by HMARK Center on Apr 21, 2024 19:30:55 GMT -5
When you've been watching NJPW for years, were sad Okada was leaving, but you're also happy that a lot of people who either haven't watched him or have only claimed to watch him during that time will have it thrown in their faces why he's the god of wrestling:
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Post by HMARK Center on Apr 21, 2024 19:25:01 GMT -5
RAINMAKER POSE DENIED, SALT LEVELS CRITICAL
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Post by HMARK Center on Apr 21, 2024 19:23:27 GMT -5
I need to see him at a Mets game. It’s heel Okada so he would definitely be a Yankees fan. But deep down he's an utter goof, so I need to see him making a doofy smile and taking a picture with Mr. and Mrs. Met.
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Post by HMARK Center on Apr 21, 2024 19:21:40 GMT -5
Okada living in NYC is so random yet makes total sense. I need to see him at a Mets game.
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Post by HMARK Center on Apr 21, 2024 19:19:04 GMT -5
They just say Okada's living in NYC? That's just weird for me to imagine.
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Post by HMARK Center on Apr 21, 2024 19:06:58 GMT -5
One of the best parts of the NJPW/AEW relationship is that Okada still has his theme music.
I dare not even imagine a world without that opening.
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Post by HMARK Center on Apr 21, 2024 19:05:28 GMT -5
Okada really didn't look comfortable swinging the chair in that video package. That's because Lil' Kazu is a sweet boy who has his mommy make his pants.
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Post by HMARK Center on Apr 21, 2024 18:55:40 GMT -5
You single-handedly sell out MSG and the United Center, you fuse separate sets of titles into new ones, it's just science.
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Post by HMARK Center on Apr 21, 2024 17:36:08 GMT -5
Have to keep perspective: most shows aimed at a super young audience are awful, or at bare minimum obnoxious to sit through. Having a show feel like it's not talking down to the kids while broaching topics the adults who get roped into watching with the kids find themselves relating to is a pretty good accomplishment.
Also, the creators are fans of the streamers at Vinesauce, and have made dog-toon versions of Vinny and Joel.
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Post by HMARK Center on Apr 20, 2024 8:35:38 GMT -5
I'll give it a whirl:
Rangers in 5 over Caps Canes in 6 over Isles
Leafs in 7 over Bruins (has to happen eventually, right?!) Panthers in 6 over Lightning
Stars in 7 over Knights Jets in 7 over Avalanche
Canucks in 6 over Preds...though I'm tempted to say it goes the other way around. Tough one. Oilers in 5 over Kings
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Post by HMARK Center on Apr 20, 2024 8:33:50 GMT -5
So watching the Mets/Dodgers game last night, two things are true about Yamamoto:
His stuff, particularly offspeed/curveball, is absolutely insane. He has the kind of arsenal, movement, and location that could lead to a 20 strikeout game in a previous era.
However, sitting fastball early in the count seems like a pretty easy way to get to him, as of now. Dude's gonna have to make adjustments.
Good news here, the Mets won (not without a couple heart attack moments where LA nearly took the lead), bad news is Francisco Alvarez hurt his thumb running the bases and might be out at least a month, maybe two...hopefully not more. Yeesh, hoping for the best, there, he's crucial to the pitching staff, from what I can tell.
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Post by HMARK Center on Apr 19, 2024 14:09:44 GMT -5
On the topic of how AEW (or any other promotion) should approach this: I'm more inclined to say "screw it, not running a show here". The catch, though, is that it's not directly to harm the fans in that area - not everybody can leave a place with terrible policies, some people stay to try and bring positive change to such places, some people don't have the means/need a local support system, plenty of local areas are great but happen to be in a state with bigoted policies, etc.
It's more just the general concept that money talks - deprive an area of the money you can bring them, and it has the potential to get the ball rolling for something bigger to start happening, which could in turn lead to positive changes because you're holding the local government's feet to the fire. It forces attention on the matter, and could get other groups to join you in boycotting, which in turn could get local people speaking up more and demanding action, as well.
Granted, it may not be the ideal answer; if you're just boycotting on your own and no one else is really joining you or you're not attempting a wider movement, it's not a particularly effective tool. And yes, you do have fans in places like OKC who didn't ask for any of this and who aren't supportive of the idiots making statements like this, and it sucks if they're deprived. But it feels like you have to at least make an attempt sometimes, you know? I'd at least want them to consider it as an option; maybe they do and they find out it's not going to do much good to boycott, in which case that's fair, but I think it at least needs to be considered.
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Post by HMARK Center on Apr 19, 2024 13:54:16 GMT -5
Mets City Connect jerseys have arrived:
I appreciate a lot of what they're trying to do, here (city asphalt, bridges, homages to the NYC subway system - seriously, the inside of the caps are lined with the multi-colored line pattern and the purple is for the 7 line that runs through Queens), but it's too drab for me. Gonna need to see them on the field before passing final judgment, but probably not going to be in the market to buy one, despite my hideous "buy way the hell too many fitted caps" habit.
Still, it's not bad, just doesn't thrill me.
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Post by HMARK Center on Apr 19, 2024 11:33:17 GMT -5
2024 me going back in time to chill and watch ROH DVDs with 2005 me and telling him the more technical Havana Pitbull is gonna end up nearly running half the wrestling world in about twenty years, then watching his reaction.
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Post by HMARK Center on Apr 18, 2024 20:13:17 GMT -5
You know what would have really helped these ratings? A scheduled appearance by Demo Dick Marcinko. He's met the Dick Taters of the world.
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Post by HMARK Center on Apr 18, 2024 9:40:08 GMT -5
The league is going to keep hammering on expansion until they have new clubs in Atlanta, Houston, and back in Phoenix, at minimum (would need a 4th to round the numbers out, obviously). Like it or not, those are big and, importantly, growing markets. More than that, they're banking on the new expansion rules leading to instantly competitive teams; the Coyotes likely didn't fail because "hockey won't work in the desert", but because the Coyotes were run like fresh shit, much like the Thrashers.
Would much, *much* rather see things like the resurrection of the Nordique and Whalers if expansion must occur, but I know that's never happening.
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Post by HMARK Center on Apr 18, 2024 9:33:46 GMT -5
God, the troll accounts are out in force against anything Oakland fans do to protest the moving of the team. Whole situation remains an utter disgrace to the game.
EDIT: The dog, on the other hand, should get a chance to be the savior of the A's in Oakland.
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Post by HMARK Center on Apr 17, 2024 20:33:31 GMT -5
Bunch of bigoted schmucks.
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Post by HMARK Center on Apr 17, 2024 5:58:23 GMT -5
I'll give Khan some credit there - he managed to waffle for quite some time about showing the video and genuinely made it sound like embarrassing Punk wasn't part of his reasoning at all. I could almost believe him. Yeah, this wasn't a kneejerk thing they did; even beyond Punk after the WM week interview, it was also kind of a swipe at WWE's larger media approach during the week where they took multiple potshots at AEW, since it took the attention away from night one of WM and put it on what AEW was doing with the footage. Now, obviously, they weren't going to overshadow all of Mania, especially night two and the ending everyone wanted, but there's clearly a media narrative battle going on, here, and this was one of AEW's main cards to pull on that front, and making it part of an angle and focusing on the response Perry got in Chicago is the way to go...even if, yeah, the other motivations are absolutely there, too.
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