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How are they going to do this no cap then a cap deal. With teams being able to sign anybody for any length of time for any money how are they ever going to put a lid back on this again without running the risk of some team going over the cap three years from now because they signed them in a no cap year. You can't really say "well they shouldn't have signed them to such a contract" without knowing what the cap would be in the future there would be no way of knowing how much is too much.

I'm sure its in their contracts that they can hold out by how exactly can they get away with not playing with the contract they signed. If they agree to a contract for such and such amount for x amount of years why shouldn't they have to honor that contract? I would say that would be the balancing act of overpaying guys like Russell and finding gems at the same time like Johnson. Does he deserve to be paid more base on performance of course but if I'm at a job and I know they give raises once every two or three years and I still agree to work for minimum wage and I sign a contract saying that I will do that why shouldn't you be hold to that contract? Maybe its something along the lines of they'll just sit at home for a year while their contract runs out but how can that be legal. You're being paid to play football you signed a contract saying you would play for this amount of money so how can you get away with NOT playing for that money?

I really don't think Russell has near the talent everyone thinks he has. I was against him going as high as he did I thought he was the third or fourth best QB in that draft which was a weak QB draft anyway. I can't imagine someone picking him up he's shown to be completely unproductive and uncaring.

I really don't think Vince as that bad of a pbp guy. He wasn't Gordon Solie, or Jim Ross but he wasn't too bad. "Uppppppp and dooooown", "the uuuuuuuuuuultimate warrior" I loved Vince's little sayings.

I find it amazing that they have brought in Hogan, Flair, The Outsiders, Sting, Hall, Nash, Randy Savage, Booker T, Micky Foley, Eric Bischoff, The Dudley Boys, the New Age Outlaws, Scott Steiner, RVD, Jeff Hardy, Rick Steiner, Christian, Rhino and ALL of these names that have been a draw and made money all over the place. Out of all of those names not one of them has ever brought them past 1.0 I remember when Sting debuted it was a big deal back in 2006 TNA got to a 1.0 for the first time. FOUR years later and they have stayed put. They have made millions of dollars out to all of these old stars and not one of them has done a single thing to grow this companies brand. Thats millions of dollars I wouldn't bat an eye if you told me there was over ten millions dollars spent in total on those names. Heck Hogan, Flair, and Eric are probablly 2.5 mil just there by themselves. You add in RVD, Hardy, Angle, Sting and your into the 5 mil range then you take into account Nash, Foley and whoever else and you can easily say they have dropped ten million on all of these names. Just think of the marketing campaign you could do with ten million dollars. Whats a Super Bowl commerical go for these days? They have spent a lot of money on these guys and they don't get it. Not ONE of them was drawing anything by themselves when they were brought in. When WCW brought in Hogan he was two years removed from being the biggest wrestling star on the planet and nobody had filled that void over in the WWF. He was still the biggest name in pro wrestling. The Outsiders haven't been draws since about 1998 or so. I'm all for bringing in RVD, Angle, Hardy, I'm all for bringing these guys in. At some point you have to look at what your paying and what concessions you're making to bring these guys in and what you're getting out of it. Is Hulk Hogan really that relevant of a name inside pro wrestling? Not really. Sure to the media he looks "credible" but what does that matter when the media don't have neilson boxes to bump the ratings and don't have a 100,000 people laying around to increase buy rates. In four years they haven't grown a lick, they've moved time slots, they've moved days they've brought in every available mega star of the last twenty years and still not a single blip in the ratings.

He's back in the lead as of today with 30 percent of 7,000 votes. Its even more interesting this time since you can only vote once so in theory even more "people" are voting for Desmond this time in theory. I hope he keeps winning every week until they figure out we want to see this guy.

I didn't see this posted so if its already up somewhere forgive me. The UFC has issued the following statement confirming that UFC Heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar will make his return to the octagon this summer against #1 contender Shane Carwin: Brock is back! Lesnar to defend belt against Carwin at UFC 116 SATURDAY, JULY 3, 2010 - Live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena – Tickets on Sale Thursday, May 13, at 10am PT Las Vegas, NV (USA) – One day before America watches fireworks to celebrate their independence, the biggest heavyweight title fight ever will go off in Las Vegas. Ultimate Fighting championship® heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar returns to defend his heavyweight championship against interim title holder Shane Carwin as Bud Light Presents UFC® 116: LESNAR vs CARWIN, live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Saturday, July 3. “When people wonder why the heavyweights capture the imagination of all fight fans, it’s because of guys like Brock Lesnar and Shane Carwin,” said UFC President Dana White. “Not only are they great athletes and former national wrestling champions, but they both have the ability to end a fight with one punch. This is one of those fights that you won’t be able to turn away from because it can be over in a split second, and when it’s over, only one will walk away as the undisputed UFC heavyweight champion of the world.”

So couple of things Morgan has shot up to 29 percent of the vote which I find strange considering well considering the spoilers. Also I thought we could vote as many times as possible but I voted yesterday came back to vote today and it says "your vote has already been submitted". "vote for your Top Contender often." is exactly what it says on the poll page. I almost feel like maybe it might be not as on the up and up this week considered their obvious unhappyness with the poll results last week. That and with only being able to vote once I think its their way of saying "we're going to stop you internet guys from pounding your choices down our throat" although I think thats ironic since its became obvious the internet fans make up a good majority of that fragile fanbase they have left. Anyway if its rigged then thats fine but really what is the point in a rigged setting like this? They say they want what the fans want but then their going to say "well if we tell them this is what they wanted thats the same thing". Just bothers me when they tell me their doing this for me when everything they do only frees up my Thursday night viewing schedule a little more.

Sure but thats like saying that in the WWF when Foley was commish and signed all those "special contracts" that they would pull out to book matches that otherwise made zero sense its a lot like that. Sure their bringing something back from six months ago thats fine but they bring it back and do something completely stupid with it making it one step forward nine and a half thousand steps back.

Well The Tag Team thing has me questioning everything. They have been building towards Morgan and this mystery parnter and his whole "we" gimmick and they decide to give Nash and Hall the tag titles? Why its not like they need it for the 3D feud. Two legendary tag teams that have never crossed paths. Meanwhile Morgan has been killing it with this gimmick. Now is he going to still face Ink at the pay per view? Why? The titles aren't on the line so whats the point of his character and any match that you know they've been building for weeks now. The Tara stuff makes zero sense so I won't even try and figure that out. No Flair, no Wolfe that I remember hearing about, No Hogan, No Abyss very strange. The main event is fine I guess but at this point its going to take more than a decent sounding main event to make me care. I've watched every week since they went to Monday nights and right around Lockdown the few weeks before and the week after they did a good job. This is the second horrible sounding show in a row. It sounds like their right back to the drawing board at this point so I think I'll tune in when the next "era" in TNA begins. I hear Heyman's not doing much these days.

I'm assuming its different but not better

Next weeks TNA spoilers in white Warning the show looks dreadful so read at your own risk TNA Wrestling taped next Thursday's edition of TNA Impact tonight from Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida. Thanks to Wrestling News World Orlando correspondent Tim Capture for sending us text-message updates: Pre-Show Tryout Match: * Los Ben Dejos w/Simon Diamond vs. Generation Me. Simon was introduced as El Grando Wizard. Winners via combo springboard leg drop and standing shooting star press, Generation Me. Los Ben Dejos are local graduates of the Team 3D Academy and wrestle local indies. TNA Impact (Airing Thursday, May 13, 2010 on Spike TV): * Impact opening * Eric Bischoff out first. He says he really does love each and everyone of us. He introduces the TNA Heavyweight Champion, Rob Van Dam. TNA has a poll to see the top ten rankings to see who he'd face. Jeff Hardy is the next on the list after Desmond Wolfe, so nothing would be better than RVD vs. Hardy tonight. Only problem is no one can find Hardy so they'll give him the night off. RVD says he loves being champ and the best thing is defending the belt so no night off for because he's the whole F'N show. AJ Styles' music hits and he comes out and says watch your mouth, you're a champion for God's sake and a role model. He asks RVD if he wants to wrestle because AJ is in the mood to hurt someone. AJ asks if he thinks the people came to see RVD? No, they came to see AJ because he is TNA. He says even though he has RVD in 3 days, he still wants the match tonight because he will always be champ. Jeff Hardy's music hits and out he comes. He says he's been confused by the new days to show up and doesn't have a secretary but he's here tonight for his match. AJ protests and says it's his match. Hardy says RVD is the champ so how about he makes it a 3 way? Bischoff says that's a great idea and says the match is tonight. * JB backstage with the Beautiful People talking about Tara. Madison Rayne says Tara needs to get over it that she's not the champ anymore and she is now. Velvet Sky says they're going to stay champs after the PPV because she said so. Lacey interrupts because she really has to pee and runs off. Madison asks why she's here and Velvet says it's because she's pretty, that's why. * Taylor Wilde vs. Tara. Taylor went for a springing splash off the second turnbuckle and Tara kicked her in the gut and got the pin. Afterward Tara beat Taylor with her knee brace. Sarita ran out for the save. Afterwards they'd showed footage of Chelsea in the back crying while a major scene was going down with security and officials trying to find out what's going on. Desmond was trying to get some room for her as this was going on. * Brian Kendrick vs ?. Before we find out we go back to Chelsea crying as police are coming to investigate. Brian Kendrick vs. Douglas Williams. He still has the X Division belt with him. Before the match, Douglas calls Kendrick a loser and hasn't seen him a single Match so he isn't worthy of a shot at the title so this is non title. Kazarian comes out to join the commentary table. During the match, Kaz comes to the ring to get the belt and it distracts Williams long enough for Kendrick to get the win via schoolboy. * Christy Hemme in the back tries to get a word with Pat Kenney (Simon Diamond) about a possible assailant. Kenney says he can't believe what he heard and leaves. * Generation Me vs ?. They go to the back and Christy Hemme says if the assailant is true it will be major news. Police aren't allowing the name to be released. Generation Me vs Matt Morgan Morgan gives one the Hellevator and the other the Carbon Footprint. Morgan gets on the mic and says they warned Hogan there'd be carnage if he didn't tell him who their partner would be at Sacrifice. Morgan gets ready to stomp one of the Me's and Samoa Joe comes out for the save and Musclebusters Morgan and takes off. * After Joe is gone and Morgan is out, the Band come out with the briefcase for the tag title shot. Nash and Hall cash it in. Nash just pins Morgan immediately. Winner and new TNA Tag Team Champions, the Band. * Beer Money, Inc. vs. Motor City Machine Guns vs. Team 3D vs. Ink Inc. One of Shannon Moore's earrings was ripped out and he's bleeding profusely Winner via Spear from Neal on Brother Ray, Ink Inc. Team 3D gets in Jesse's face afterwards, mad that they're the ones who trained him and got him here and this the thanks they get. * For the Global Championship, Rob Terry vs. Abyss. Abyss doesn't come out when his music plays. Orlando Jordan sneaks in from the crowd and low blows Terry and holds onto Terry's package for a prolonged time. Jordan gets a pipe and beats Terry with it. He shows Terry a playing card, probably the queen of hearts, and then throws the deck on Terry. Jordan gets on the mic and says it's about time to cut the foreplay. He does what he wants, says what he wants and acts how he wants because he's the TNA wildcard. He asks if the people want him to leave. They say yes. OJ says he'll let them fulfill their every fantasy. He challenges anyone in the back to make him leave. Tomko comes out and we get Orlando Jordan vs. Tomko. Winner via guillotine choke, Orlando Jordan. * Backstage, Bischoff says Tara sure is going to wrestle again. Her attitude has been piss poor and what she did to Taylor was uncalled for. He tells her to get out to the ring right now. * Sarita vs. Tara. Winner via knee brace shot to Sarita while the ref was blinded, Tara. Afterwards she attacked Sarita but the ref broke it up. * TNA Champion Rob Van Dam vs. Jeff Hardy vs. AJ Styles. Mr. Anderson came out during the match and attacked Hardy. At the same time, AJ pulled the referee in the way of an RVD top rope sidekick. AJ dove onto everybody on the outside. RVD got spiked with a DDT on the outside and AJ rolled him in for the win. * Hardy gets on the mic with RVD afterwards. He tells RVD to leave because he's got this. He calls Anderson to the ring right now and let's do this. Anderson makes like he's going to the ring but goes to leave instead. Hogan's music hits and Hogan won't let him leave. Hardy attacks Anderson and they begin to brawl all over the place. Hardy swantons off the announce table onto a prone Mr. Anderson who was on a table below. Xplosion: * Matt Buck vs. Kazarian. Winner via his finisher, Kazarian. It's like if someone goes for a code red and the person taking it holds on and drops down to his knees, I just don't know what to call it. * Homicide & Okada vs Ink Inc. Winner via Spear from Jesse Neal to Homicide, Ink Inc.

Why do they refuse to push the MCMG?

I disagree who in TNA is more of a "main event" heel than Anderson right now? AJ is a joke, they've killed Wolfe off, who has more of an "it" main event feel in TNA right now than Anderson? His A hole promo was classic, he followed that up with a great promo with Pope last week. The guys promos are on fire, he's capable of putting on great matches with guys like Angle who easily had MOTY at the last ppv. Also its a lot easier to stay healthy working a few weeks out of the month rather than all but a few days out of the month. His schedule has been cut back, he's not rushing to rehab an injury to get his spot back like he was in the E. That being said Orton and him have some bad blood and I doubt Anderson is blowing them away enough for them to bring him back and put up with Orton having a spaz attack.

Its almost like their giving up, almost like whatever fire they had is gone. This was BY FAR the worst Impact since they moved to Monday nights. I tuned in to watch Wolfe vs. RVD and Wolfe got in what a handful of moves at best. Anyway I like how they just ran something across the screen so they wouldn't have to say it out loud on the show about the move back to Thursdays. Best part of the night was Anderson.

<p>Yeah his first year was great then he would come back and get destroyed for a few games/innings and then get hurt again. I like Mark and really rooted for him and it just didn't work out. </p><p> </p><p> The A's had Zito, Mulder, Hudson these guys were ALL Cy Young level guys and then right when they seemed to be at their peak they left Oakland and never really maintained that extended level of success. </p><p> </p><p> Thats why I'm weary of signing Pitchers to long term big money deals. MOST pitchers seem to rise up, become dominant and then get hurt or fade away quickly. </p><p> </p><p> Santana and Sabathia seemed to have mostly maintained their dominance but so many others have fallen by the wayside. Even Carp as dominant as he is you always fear that he's one pitch away from an extended stay on the DL.</p>

<p>Jeff Weaver, Joel Pinero, Brad Penny (so far), even guys like Jeff Suppan and Woody Williams performed above and beyond their average career stats for us. </p><p> </p><p> Thats not to say we've not had our failures Mark Mulder was an expensive and huge one.</p>

Well said actually and yeah every pitcher in the big leagues wants to be compared to those two. With Howards contract Pujols is enterting A Rod territory with his next contract.

Carp went seven innings pitched, TWO hits, and 8 K's. He's started out the season 4-0, meanwhile Wainwright is 4-1. Wainwright - 4-1, 38 IP, (7.6 avg per start), 2.13 ERA, average of 5 hits per game. Carp - 4-0, 2.84 ERA, 6 1/2 IP avg, 4 hit average per game, In short with talk of Linceum and Cain, or any other one two rotation punch in baseball Wainwright and Carp deserve some respect. They came in 2 and 3 in Cy Young voting last year and this year they have picked up where they left off. Meanwhile Rasmus is tearing the cover off the ball and Freese has finally found a stroke with 3 homeruns in this last homestand. Ryan's defense is sick, Schu should be finding his swing any time now.

I'm an alpha male and I refused to let any slave er I mean woman out height me. Me man, she slav er woman

Yeah I'm sure the punt was going to put Kofi out for a few weeks while Legacy brag about ending him and he shouldn't have stuck his nose where it didn't belong, Kofi comes back house of fire and maybe gets a win over Orton and who knows what from there. Maybe Kofi vs. Orton was supposed to be WM? If that feud was just getting started in January seems odd they wouldn't want to follow something that had so many big segments with the bashing of Randy's car, a few run ins and then the punt.

So I'm about to be very vague here and the information I give out is nearly all I know about this fight. I tuned into TNA a few weeks back and they were showing an Unleashed fight. This guy was a bloody mess, they stopped the fight to check on the cut which was like right above the eye because Rogan was talking about thats almost an automatic stop. The fight restarts and the other guy just pounds on his face, blood is going everywhere and out of nowhere the bloody guy traps him in a triangle for the win. Does anybody have a clue what fight I might be talking about? I doubt it but its worth a shot.

I'll admit to not knowing much about who the Brits are bullying and maybe into the early 1900's they were still pushing smaller countries around. I more or less meant they weren't doing full on invasions of countries after the early 1800's or mid 1800's. But I'm way outta my league on this one so I might be wrong about that even.

I agree with you that their PPV buys are dismal however I'm not sure TNA is making any money at all off the Spike deal or very little. Flat out TNA's NOT making money they to the best of my knowledge have never made a profit in the 8 years they have been around. Not one month have they made a profit. The problem with cutting out PPV's is if your going to act like a big dog you gotta play like a big dog. You cut out PPV's now when do you reintroduce them? When your bigger? People who get accustomed to not paying for something don't like to pay for it. So two years from now they build up a large fan base thats not used to them having to pay to watch TNA and then they smack them with a 40 dollar a month charge to watch a show they were getting essentially for free on Spike every three months? It won't happen and so it will stunt their growth. When you are not the number one product in your business genre the only way to get there is to spend the money to get there. I'm not saying TNA should go broke trying to become number one. What I'm saying is they will never get there if they don't spend the money and a lot of times take a loss. The key is to be smart with your losses and if you know your going to take a hit in one area try to make up for it in another like oh I don't know trim a bloated roster or any number of other cost cutting measures. Stop over paying for WWE guys that aren't growing your brand the slightest bit. However after six years of pay per views you can't just say "well that didn't work so we're going to give you a "free" pay per view every three months and then in three years when you guys get used to everything we do being free we're going to start charging for it". TNA should move back to Thursday nights. Hell its pro wrestling have Hulk Hogan or Eric Bischoff come out and say that somebody up north paid Spike a lot of money to move them back to Thursday nights. As far as their concerned their done going to war with people that won't stand up and fight. Instead their going to stay on Thursday nights and make Thursday nights the night everybody watches pro wrestling. That way you save SOME face and still are able to move back to Thursday nights.

Its all in good fun its just joking around and there is a difference between eating once a month and going all Jamarcuss Russell on a guy.