slikmar

I feel kind of bad for his brother, Matt. For so long Jeff was the "star". Matt just kept working and when AEW brought in Jeff, Matt gave up(?) some pretty good story-lines he was involved in to work with him again, though, honestly, I didnt think their in ring chemistry was good, mostly because I thought Jeff looked bad. Hoping this doesn't spill over onto Matt and he basically gets written out.

In answer to silkmar's point about Eddie Kingston, one of the Wrestling shows on Youtube Wrestletalk covered the anticlimatic finish to Blood and Guts and how it was a good move. They believe it sets up Eddie to become a different kind of bitter. And the fact that he and Claudio have history. I'll dig out the link if you want.

Baseball has a huge issue with batters getting hit...or buzzed high.  I've never heard anyone do anything but blast those high, tight fastballs.  For GOOD reason.  BUT...
 
--hitters dive plateward...a lot.  That narrows the gap between the inside edge of the plate, and the nervous zone.  It also means the batter's almost incapable of diving back out of the way.
--pitchers throw max-effort fastballs ALL the time.  Max effort is almost automatically harder to control.
 
Story here is from 2019, but it's still interesting:
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-hit-by-pitch-continues-to-reach-new-heights/

One argument the author rejects is that velocity alone may account for it...but I'm not phrasing it as velo per se, but max effort.  But...perhaps that's not the reason.  The author further reasons that relievers, and the greater number of reliever innings, is a factor.  That makes some sense too;  heck, they passed a rule limiting teams to 13 pitchers this year.  13 per team means that, at any time...last year, over 900 pitchers were used across the majors.  669 pitched 10+ innings;  564 pitched 20+.  That's a WHOLE lot of marginal, at best, pitching.  
 
If we could say with high confidence that a pitcher intentionally tried to bean a hitter...anything shoulder high or above counting as such...personally, I'd applaud a 20 game suspension for the first offense...that's also costing the player 1/8th of his salary, remember...but proving intent?  Good luck.  The player's assoc is also strongly against major suspensions, when there's ANY doubt, so they'd fight hard.  You could try tossing out something like 5 game suspensions for any buzzing...but that'll get fought just as hard, and doesn't address the root of the problem I suspect:  that pitchers are taught and incentivized to throw in such a way that it *will* happen distressingly frequently.
 
Another option is to penalize fighters.  The NBA has a rule:  leave the bench to even get around a fight?  Get suspended a game.  MLB's consequences for fighting are a joke.  Make them bigger.  Maybe short suspensions but fines based on game checks....as if suspended.  Rendon only got 5 games...should've been 20, for coming off the bench and throwing punches.  (OK, slaps, they were open-hand.)  MAKE it bloody damn PUNITIVE.
 
I'm not in favor of, say, automatically ejecting a pitcher who hits a hitter.  Classic case against this, the curve ball that slips out a bit.  Other side issues...the batters already crowd the plate as much as they can get away with...and we sometimes see clear evidence their feet are going outside the box.  Elbows...with big-time, often projecting, elbow guards that darn near appear to be *in* the strike zone when the hitter's crouched.  So...this may just be another consequence of how baseball is taught, to a degree.  
 

As opposed to, say...Philly fans?  

Suspensions from the Angels-Mariners brawl.  Winker got 7 for really kicking it off...but...pitching coach got 5 and manager Nevin got 10 (!).  Why?  The pitcher they were using was a reliever...nothing so new there...but it was his first career start.  Then he drills a fastball square into the backside?  VERY clearly deliberate, and therefore, the clear assumption was...this was planned by the pitching coach and manager.  So this is junior Bountygate...and Nevin gets 10 games.  On some levels, that's minor, given a 162 game schedule, but that's big for baseball, outside violating the drug policies or personal conduct policy.

The thinking is that FTR will defeat the Young Bucks for the AEW tag team championship soon. This will make them tag team champions in four promotions; AEW, ROH, NJPW and Triple A

Wish I could say I was surprised. He has not really looked good since joining AEW.

So, some high-quality stuff, and some of mediocre or even poor quality.  Some that fits my tastes, so I like even an average presentation, and some that is far from my tastes, so even top-quality would not entice me.
 
If the objective was to bring an accurate emulation of the source material to movies and TV, I'd have to say they've exceeded all reasonable expectations

Own Wicket! (Cf own goal)
 
 

Son: I watched a guy do 50 pushups. Can you do that dad?

Dad: Of course! Not to brag but could probably
watch someone do 100 push-ups.

Some of my friends run mini-marathons.
I'm in training for a micro-marathon.
At 1/1000th of a marathon, it's about 40 yards.
So far, I'm up to almost 20 yards before I have to take a break.
 

Good show.  Watched every season and they do a good job of talking about the social issues between the citizenry and police.

As has Dave Hebner.

ex-WWE referee Tim White has died