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  1. Yeah, you are the only person in the world that feels a certain way, it's a totally unique and inspired opinion and I can hardly wait for more top notch analysis from you.
  2. Del Rio appears to have a black person's hand in the match promo for him and Kofi.
  3. Do any of you guys read The Masked Man on Deadspin/Grantland? He's had a few pieces on Grantland about the Punk story and another today that I enjoyed. On Wrestling & Reality Just wanted to pass his work along in case you aren't aware of him.
  4. Any idea which disc included the Punk matches? As a WWE guy he knows Punk so I'd assume he'd enjoy watching that stuff. I was leaning towards Glory by Honor IX being one of the choices and that seems to be confirmed here. Thanks for the help guys.
  5. I'm going to buy two ROH DVDs for a friend who has never watched before. He's in his mid twenties and has only watched WWE in his life, no TNA. He's also an MMA fan, just to give you background on his watching preferences. Which two DVDs would you suggest? A loaded question that I'm sure will give a lot of different answers, but I'd be appreciative of some help. Thanks in advance.
  6. I think I read the finale got about 750,000 viewers, but have read many episodes averaged around 500,000. If you want to read some good stuff about Terriers post mortem, check out what FX President John Landgraf said about the cancellation here and an interview with the creator Ted Griffin here.
  7. I read there was some effort by Bill Lawrence to try and change the name of Cougar Town to something like C-Town but ABC wasn't buying it. It's a horrible name and it has nothing to do with the show anymore. You could really call this 'Friends' now and it would be perfect...but I think that's taken... And yeah, Hank was horrible. Kelsey Grammer is a guy I'd love to see with a TV show but his taste seems to be stuck in the 90's sitcom which doesn't translate well nowadays.... Stuff I watched last night without spoilers... Chuck: It was good to see the gang back together. Chuck and Sarah being together without any triple agent getting in the way of their relationship is a positive. I don't think I could deal with more reasons why they couldn't date. There were a lot of cool cameos and good pop culture references as usual...but I've never been a Morgan fan and he's very much in the center of the episode. That along with Chuck's mom plot which was hinted at the end of last year...I'm just not very interested in. It looks like it's going to be the major arc of the season and I don't think I care about it. I'm going to watch Chuck til the end of the series, which might be this season, regardless but I hope another story or two pops up and we get more Casey and Captain Awesome. Lone Star: I said before I was more excited for this show than any other and I did love it. Really well acted, it was an interesting story, and it's actually shot in Texas so the scenery doesn't look like Vancouver which adds to the realism. This was far and away the best thing I watched last night and I'm excited to see what they do because unlike most series, I can't even make a good guess of what will happen to Bob. The Event: What is The Event? Do you know? Does anyone know? I'm convinced no one knows and we are just getting our chains jerked around. If Earth blew up on this show they'd cut away to aliens on Mars telling us the destruction of Earth is not The Event, but stay tuned, because maybe later we'll give you a clue about The Event. Hawaii Five-0: Not a lot to say about this, I liked it more than Chuck or The Event last night but it's not a show I'm going to watch often. Hawaii is pretty, Scott Caan is funny, and lots of chicks in bathing suits. Still haven't watched Boardwalk Empire, but it got a huge rating and HBO already renewed it.
  8. Yeah nothing besides Arnett and the Arrested Development gang have made me excited Wilde. It's the one I'm most excited for after Lonestar. Wilde hasn't got great reviews from the couple of guys I read but even if it falls flat it's nice to know there is a place I can see Arnett once a week if I want. You could of said I typed this exact paragraph and I'd believe it...agree with everything here. Outsourced looks either racist or too lazy to be funny and therefore it looks racist. Jokes about turbans and diarrhea from foreign food and mules just aren't going to do it for me. It's a shame because it's adapted from a movie of the same name that was really solid, and this just doesn't seem to have pulled the heart and soul from the movie. Then Parks and Rec turned out to be great last year. I didn't like the first season but that along with Cougar Town are two shows that started as one thing and found their footing after figuring out what worked and what didn't. I even agree on the order you ranked the NBC comedies. I should of just typed 'agreed' and I would of saved myself some time here...haha.
  9. I'm not as excited for the new shows this fall as I was last year this time, but Boardwalk is getting a lot of hype. I'm on board for a few episodes regardless to see how it goes, but I'm more nay than yay. Scorsese isn't directly the whole thing, right? Just the first episode? I'm indifferent on Buscemi as a lead too. HBO seems to be hyping this quite a bit, and should be I guess, I'm not a fan of the stuff they have on now so maybe this will sway it. Since Deadwood/Wire went off the air...it's been three years of me skipping HBO. Other new shows I'm watching out of the gate are... Lonestar (Monday on FOX at 9) Hawaii 5.0 (Monday on CBS at 10) Running Wilde (Tuesday on NBC at 9:30) All that with Chuck, Community, Fringe, Office, Modern Family, 30 Rock, Cougar Town...then It's Always Sunny and Terriers on right now that is good...there is a lot of TV to watch.
  10. Spanish Gamble, Blacklist Royals, and The Nico Blues are a few bands who have newish music out I'm listening to quite a bit.
  11. Penny Hardaway says he'd like to play for the Heat. I'll just go ahead and like to make my intentions clear for everyone as well, I'm announcing I wouldn't mind playing for the Heat either.
  12. I don't wanna sound overly negative about Wade to make this point, but he's also the guy that hasn't been able to get his team out of the first round the past four years. It's been Wade's team, but it's not the same Heat squad. This team is either about LeBron or it's about the threesome, I don't think it's singularly about Wade anymore. That's just how I perceive it though, like PH said, I'm no Nostradamus...I don't know how they will play together...I just think anointing James a sidekick to Wade isn't going to hold true for long once the games start.
  13. I don't see how James isn't the guy in Miami. I know the media has gone the other way with this since it's been Wade's team, but if there is anything Miami fans have been bashed for since getting James is their lack of loyalty and dedication to actually following the team. James had more points, rebounds, assists, better shooting percentage, better free throw percentage...physically he's bigger, stronger, younger...I don't know. It seems like we are all just conceding that James and Wade are about the same player and since Wade has lived in Florida longer, James is now Scottie Pippen.
  14. I don't think anyone is saying LeBron James is one of the top ten greatest players of all time, are they? He's one of the best players in the league right now, and it's fun to compare people to Jordan because he's the best, but we've compared worse players to Jordan (Arenas and Iverson are two outrageous examples off the top of my head.) I'm excited he's coming to Miami because American Airlines Arena is a short ride away from me. I've never had a horse to pull for in the NBA, and my friends know I famously change my favorite team every year based on where my favorite college players get drafted. I'm from West Virginia University and Da'Sean Butler was drafted by the Heat so my bandwagon jumping is with Miami this year. The best part about this for people living in South Florida is it just gives us something else to do. We are a lesser LA, few people actually grow up in South Florida and stay, we are all transplants, like LeBron. We aren't life long Heat fans. And LeBron coming down makes the Heat just another social event we have the option of attending. The media and the ten thousand or so fans that actually went to the games might try to present some other argument to you but really, the majority are just glad we have an air conditioned meeting place to congregate on a Wednesday night.
  15. Here is my favorite thing to come out of this LeBron situation so far, Will Leitch's column. Link
  16. Gatorbait is representing his team correctly here I think. My opinion is that regardless of who else you have, if you can get Lee for Upton you do it. The Price, Niemann, Garza, Shields, and Davis rotation is good, but the latter three all have ERAs in the high 4s if I'm not mistaken. Lee is one of the top five pitchers in the game. The Rays pitchers are supposed to improve, but so was BJ Upton for the past two years. I don't wanna sound like I hate Upton, but he might be a freak athlete that is just a freak athlete, and not a comparable baseball talent to Cliff Lee.
  17. Wow, Upton for Lee? A Lee/Price/Neimann trio would be great for them. I don't know Upton's current contract, but he frustratingly underachieves. Has Crawford played center before? I can't remember if that was him the Rays had in center 4-5 years ago. If so, push him to center and start Zobrist and Sean Rodriguez on the corners...Rodriguez has been outplaying Upton anyways.
  18. Deadwood is a great series. About the curse words, I remember reading director commentary where he said he could of used the curse words they used back then, but then it wouldn't of held as much weight or been taken as seriously. It made it more comical than appropriate for the situation. If anything, that series reaffirmed my love of Ian McShane and makes me watch anything with Timothy Olyphant, which is how I gave Justified a chance and that was definitely worth it.
  19. I've seen Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives a few times and I think the show concept is good, but I'm not a fan of Guy. I don't watch Next Food Network Star though, so I really don't know him besides DD&D...if I watch Star and follow him I'd probably be a bigger fan. He shouts too much...I don't know. It's not for me. He's better than that clown Adam Richman from Man vs. Food. Like Jaysin, my food network guy is Alton Brown. The Bill Nye of this generation. I've cooked less than 1% of the stuff I've watched on cooking shows so I don't get much out of it that way, but if I can learn why things are cooked a certain way or how they react to each other or how two ingredients first meet and became a classic pairing, I can use that info. And even though I don't watch much anymore, I love Iron Chef. First discovering that show with the dubbed voices and subtitles on the screen made it seem like some sort of gladiator competition. The American one is worse, because it took away some of the mystery, but still a good show.
  20. Sorry to burn your show, I thought Pretty Little Liars was a safe one to reference as not my favorite show . It's not really going after my demographic anyways. Did anybody catch Louie? They premiered the first two episodes last week on FX. It's pretty dirty for a cable show, and Louis C.K. is a funny self deprecating guy. As long as you can laugh along at his misfortunes and not feel sorry for him, it's enjoyable. I think the next one is on in about a half hour if you are interested in checking it out.
  21. Someone being 2-2 isn't a good indicator on how good the player is doing anyways. His WHIP is at 1 and he's got 53 Ks and only 10 walks in 36 innings. I say he's exactly as good as everyone is saying. The problem is there is nothing else interesting to talk about in baseball so the few good stories out there get overexposed.
  22. <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="CQI13" data-cite="CQI13" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="27929" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>And I love House. Especially how stuff from previous seasons (even just small bits of information) get brought up again later. Not something you need to know to understand the episode, but serves as a frame of reference.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> House used to be one of my favorite shows, and he's probably still one of my favorite characters. "Broken", the first episode from this past season, was so good. He was the only principle character in it and it was probably the best episode of the series. I think I'd enjoy the show again if they completely removed the hospital aspect from it. The interaction with his team and solving mysteries doesn't do it for me anymore, but I love Laurie. Hope he gets his Emmy before the series ends.</p>
  23. <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="moon_lit_tears" data-cite="moon_lit_tears" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="27929" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>The only show on your list I have ever watched was South Park. I feel so deprived now.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I watch way more television than is normal. During a year I probably stay current with 25 to 30 TV shows. Even shows I'm almost positive I'll hate, I at least watch the pilot. Pretty Little Liars, The Gates, and 100 Questions are recent examples of that. <img alt=":)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />. </p><p> </p><p> </p><blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Self" data-cite="Self" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="27929" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Pretty good list, randomfreeze. I could never get into Caprica after the awful time I had watching Battlestar (it was like an all-heel battle royal. No one to root for) but Archer is AWESOME. I watched the pilot for that and laughed harder than I had in a long, long time. Really shocked me that I could be that happy, quite frankly.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Truth is, I've never seen Battlestar. It was a show I didn't see at the start and I've told myself a hundred times I need to watch it, but I'm waiting for some discount on all the seasons or hope to find them at a second hand shop. I've heard a lot both ways with the show though - a majority of Battlestar fans can't get into the series but someone who has no knowledge of the world can enjoy it pretty well. I really loved the technology, and the holobands and that world really appealed to me. At this point, I'm probably going to let Caprica run it's 3 or 4 seasons and watch Battlestar after that.</p><p> </p><p> Archer is great, and probably should be higher on my list, but I always find it tough to judge the animated shows on the same level as live action stuff. The on going gags they had the first season were great and quick witted back and forth banter all the characters have are great. I'm just waiting for the opportunity to tell a girl she has Johnny Bench hands. I have used "Call Kenny Loggins, cause your in the danger zone"....which probably should never be used.</p><p> </p><p> And Gilmore Girls is a good show. I haven't watch the whole thing, but the occasion episodes I've seen are better than you'd expect. Another one along those lines that's hard to admit is good....Veronica Mars. Really a good show. It's all Kristen Bell but it's really solid.</p>
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