SB Nation User Blog: variablesdont

i think ricky hatton is developmentally disabled.

variablesdont — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:22:12 -0000

anyone have any thoughts for raw?

show is awesome as always. jericho still is over the hill, but good on the stick, even though he lays it on just a bit too thick.

the diva's suck, as always. i mean, really, if they're not valet's and they're not in stables, and they suck in the ring and on the stick, i just don't at all get why anyone bothers featuring them on the teevee. is that good enough?

smackdown tonight

variablesdont — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:40:15 -0000

did anyone else notice the XX'es on drew mcintyre's chest? it's probably nothing, but at some point, they're gonna have to give punk some muscle for his fights against taker, batista, and the unfrozen caveman champion. also, i don't know how many times i've said it, but punk is easily the best thing going today.

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moments like this...

variablesdont — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:15:51 -0000

moments like this...

i miss tony hunt

variablesdont — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:59:12 -0000

this game was one he could have stolen for us.

i never really got why tony hunt was given such a short shaft. it can't be because he couldn't catch a pass out of the backfield or because he couldn't block; those are the two things that separated him at PSU and got him the starting job there. i guess there's the thing about him not at all fitting the system, but has andy reid ever really had a problem recognizing and utilizing an offensive player's strengths, instead of focusing on and denigrating his weaknesses?

considering the point we're at in westbrook's career, hunt should have been the golden child. he was a strong, bruising back, who could have taken a hell of a lot of pressure off of westy, and even mcnabb, by picking up 3-5 yards on every first down or second down. maybe that would sap the eagles of their big play ability, but i think it'd do more good than harm, since it would force an opposing safety to come into the box to provide an extra body to stuff the run.

also, i don't want to hear anything about lesean mccoy being better than hunt. firstly, they do different things, but secondly, shady isn't another westbrook; he hasn't shown anywhere near the explosiveness that westbrook showed in his first season, and while he's a pretty solid every down back, that explosiveness is either there or it's not, and i haven't seen it.

that's about all i have to say about that.

this new ECW ring announcer sounds about 12 years old.

variablesdont — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:19:07 -0000

other thoughts:

ezekial jackson needs to be pushed to the moon.

i am still creeped out by young kids cheering for golddust.

zack ryder's tan is awful.

sheamus needs to say 'fella' more often.

it's about time burchill got the pin. this helms guy needs to get got. the finisher sucked, though. where's that curb stomp? where's the C4?

this bragging rights thing is absolutely awful.

captain charisma is worthy of the nickname.

on a side note, where the hell is carlito? shouldn't he be in orton's stable by now?

content request: ross ohlendorf

variablesdont — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:36:53 -0000

admittedly, this has a fantasy connection. he's a free agent in my league, i've got only a small amount of cash to spend on a SP, and i'm looking to make about a 4 year commitment to a young guy who has room to grow. i've looked into ohlendorf a little bit, and honestly, except for him being intellectually brilliant, he seems completely average. FB is good, not great, as are each of his breaking pitches and his changeup. his mechanics look, well, boring, to be honest.

from a statistical standpoint, i'm pretty sure that he's a sound investment. i've already got some guys that have flashed the potential to be great (shaun marcum, wandy rodriguez, edwin jackson, justin masterson, and clayton richard), so a very solid back end guy is all i'm looking for, but i'd like there to be potential for this guy to grow into more.

i think ohlendorf is that, but i want to get some other opinions.

orton, HHH, john cena

variablesdont — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:14:35 -0000

From PWtorch

For WWE fans who feel that no matter how good an effort Randy Orton and John Cena when wrestling each other, it feels stale and too familiar to be as exciting as it should be, here are the stats to back that up. Cena and Orton have wrestled each other in a PPV match 11 times in the past few years, according to PWTorch columnist (and resident statistician Pat McNeill). That's about one-third of all WWE PPVs.

- Backlash 2007
- Vengeance 2007
- SummerSlam 2007
- Unforgiven 2007
- No Way Out 2008
- WrestleMania 24
- Backlash 2008
- Night of Champions 2009
- SummerSlam 2009
- Breaking Point 2009
- Hell in A Cell 2009

WWE's way of "freshening" up Orton vs. Cena is to move HHH into the mix against one or the other or both. PWTorch VIP member Luke Fleeman posted these stats in the PWTorch VIP Forum today.

In the last four years, whenever two of these three were on the same brand, at least two of the three have wrestled more than 50 percent of the time. In the time frame referenced, there were 51 PPV events with at least two of them on the PPV, and some combination of the three wrestled 28 times on those 51 PPVs. Even worse, during that time , the three of the have missed a combined three years of ring time (I count at least 13 months for Orton, 14 for Triple H, and 7 for Cena), and only two of the three have been on the same brand for three of those five years, and the alternating brand PPVs. So you can imagine what would have happened if they had all been available more, we would have seen more matches between the three.

It's stunning that Orton, Cena, and Triple H have been healthy, they've been matched against one another in some format well over 50 percent of the time considering how often they've been injured.

only jack swagger can save us.

somebody had to do it

variablesdont — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:28:45 -0000

but it still pisses me off that shawn michaels (and now hhh) have taken the crippler cross face as their own. i first noticed michaels started using it about a year after benoit got made famous, and at the time it really rubbed me the wrong way. as someone who marked out for benoit all throughout the '90s, it just really seemed wrong to me that the move would be brought out.

but seeing it used tonight, i think i might actually be able to say that it's not so much that they're using the move that pisses me off. what's pissing me off now is who is using the move. noone benefits in any way by these two jackasses taking the move as their own. it doesn't advance a storyline, it doesn't give anyone heat, it just kinda has become a nameless, faceless, pointless move.

now, if tyson kidd, on the other hand, was using the crippler crossface as his finisher, that'd be more cringe inducing than anything seen in the WWE in the last 18 months. randy orton, as much as i love him, couldn't do anything near as creepy, near as disturbing as a canadian, draping himself in the flag of canadia, straddling the line between real, true life horror and storyline kayfabe by bringing up that awful moment each and every week.

federation draft, rounds 2 through 6

variablesdont — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:49:45 -0000

mick foley productions (teh immortal batman):

brock lesnar
jeff hardy
edge
mean mark callous
jay pugh
mark pugh
matt sydal
teddy hart
Jack Evans
Karl Malone
Petey Williams
Shad Gaspar
Elijah Burke
Rikishi
RVD
Harry Smith
Sabu
Billy Kidman
Homicide
Kenny Dykstra
Ron Killings
Shane Mcmahon
Terry Funk
HHH

frank mir productions (ty lannister):

son of sid
kevin nash
hornswoggle? (heavyweight champion, i presume)
frank gotch
AJ Styles
Dennis Rodman
Hulk Hogan
Bryan Danielson
Nobuhiko Takada
Toshiaki Kawada (managed by a Weekend at Bernie’s Misawa)
Stevie Ray
Eric Bischoff
Robert Evans
Chad Ochocinco
Volk Han
Lou Ferrigno
Frank Shamrock
Tazz
Randy Couture
Jushin Lyger
Scott Steiner
Dustin Runnels
Kurt Angle
Dusty Rhodes

dana white productions (mike garza):

kimbo slice
floyd mayweather
allen coage
royce gracie
charlie
mac
frank
that other idiot.
Nick Diaz,
Nate Diaz,
Kenneth Parcel
Dog The Bounty Hunter.
Kanye West
Chuck Liddell(drunk)
Jack Bauer
Dr. Gregory House
Reid Flair
David Sammartino
Eric Angle
Erik Watts
Shawn Michaels
Bret Hart
Lou Thesz
Zach Gowan

christopher titus promotions (VD11)

the big show
CM PUNK
randy orton
shaq
christian
chris jericho
john morrison
tyson kidd
ted dibiase jr.
samoa joe
dolph ziggler
drew mcintyre
jack swagger
zack ryder
carlito colon
mark henry
frankie kazarian
raven
vladimir kozlov
ezekial jackson
colin delaney
stevie richards
chris sabin
alex shelley

current selection : WRESTLER DRAFT OVER, BROADCASTER DRAFT IN COMMENTS

a few things to remember: in these rounds, selections are made 4 at a time. if someone fails to make all 4 selections, those picks will be put off until that person gets his head out of his ass. whoever's next can just make their picks, and the draft will go on.

i think that's about it.

federation draft - round 1

variablesdont — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:05:18 -0000

order is as follows:

mick foley - teh immortal batman (BROCK LESNAR)
frank mir - ty lannister (SON OF SID)
dana white - mike garza (KIMBO SLICE)
christopher titus - VD11 (THE BIG SHOW)
christopher titus - VD11 (CM PUNK)
dana white - mike garza (PRETTY BOY FLOYD)
frank mir - ty lannister (DIESEL)
mick foley - teh immortal batman (JEFF HARDY)
mick foley - teh immortal batman (EDGE)
frank mir - ty lannister (MILWAUKEE'S MIDGET)
dana white - mike garza (ALLEN COAGE)
christopher titus - VD11 (RANDY ORTON)
christopher titus - VD11 (THE REAL SHAQ)
dana white - mike garza
frank mir - ty lannister
mick foley - teh immortal batman

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