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The entrances and stuff have been great for the Taker match.

Yeah, I pretty much hate this at this point.

Kane? WHAT?

So begins the slide of Daniel Bryan back down the card.

He was Sexson's agent, as well, IIRC.

I don't think he should ever be counting his eggs before they hatch as far as getting a big buyrate on any show without the Mania brand on it. No one buys the shows and no one watches the TV, except Mania. Buyrates for every other PPV over the past year were down quite dramatically, aside from Summerslam (which was up slightly) and MITB (which popped a nice number thanks to Punk being hot). Survivor Series flopped big time with Rock on it, which should be a good indicator for this show. They just had their lowest rated Raw since February 13th. I'm thinking Dewayne isn't as big of a draw as they thought he was and that they burned out all the novelty there was to having him back by having him work in November (teamed with Cena, no less) and have him do his tired, played out cliches and chants on several Raws in a row to diminishing returns. He popped a number at Mania last year because he hadn't been on in seven years but it's gone now. Then, underneath you have the Taker/HHH match which they did last year. This time it has a fence around it. Great. Punk/Jericho will be OK (hopefully it opens the show so it doesn't get time cut). Sheamus/Danielson has zero heat to it as a result of them doing nothing with Sheamus post-Rumble, unfortunately. I was very high on his potential coming off of that show. I loved his win. Then he proceeds to come out and cut the same promo every week and not work at all at the Chamber, where he should have squashed someone. Bryan should keep the belt at this point, I believe, but what a waste of the Rumble that would be. Rhodes and Big Show hopefully serves the purpose of getting the IC belt off of Cody and allow him to move up the card, and has been a good source of laughs thanks to the video packages. It's going to be probably a five minute match, though. The Divas match with the woman from Extra (Access Hollywood?)... who cares? The 12 man match is going to do nothing but allow guys like Ziggler to at least get a payday. And Orton vs Kane... again, who cares? Plus the show is $65. That is ridiculous. It just shows how brazen Vince is when it comes to robbing the marks blind. The product is cold, the buyrates are dropping, etc. - you would think they would change the business model and drop the price. Instead, it's like "we have 150 K marks that will buy any garbage we throw out there, so screw it". This show is not worth that money. Personally, I hope this show bombs and they actually feel scared enough to make some changes to the product.

The favorite one I have ever used was You're My Vander Wal. I like it so much that I used it again this year in my big league.

I'd rather see him just call out Taker on Monday if that is who he works with. Or when Taker is celebrating his win, Lesnar slides under the ropes and hits him with an F-5 and stands in the middle of the ring looking like a crazy dude. I guess the moral of the story for me is that I don't want interference at all, especially in the two big matches.

If Lesnar re-signing is mainly to screw the finish of the main event tomorrow, that sucks. Meltzer says he will work "more than Taker and less than Goldberg", so I assume that means Summerslam, Survivor Series, Rumble, and Mania 29. Would seem that he would be involved in the match for next Mania that has been rumored to get announced on Raw this Monday. Not that I don't find Rock/Lesnar to be a good match, but I'd hate for Rock's loss tomorrow to not just be a clean job in the middle of the ring.

The match of the year just happened in the main event of the ROH show this afternoon with Elgin and Richards. Wow.

It is free, though not exactly legal. Similar to watching a live stream but in better quality.

Yahoo's auction draft has all of that stuff included in it's draft site. Makes an auction draft a piece of cake.

I am catching up on the last three weeks of ROH TV. What a great show. They have me sold on buying their two events this weekend. I'm doing a 14 team fantasy draft during Mania and I'm not regretting it at this point. I can just download it and fast forward through all the crap on Monday before Raw.

Don't forget all the backstage "comedy" segments.

I think A-Rod has a better chance. It's a pretty huge deal to be that much closer to it than Pujols is.

I'm personally looking forward to it being over with. I'm not really excited about anything on the card. Punk and Jericho will have a decent match, but I didn't care for the build at all aside from the one week they had the face to face promo battle. They do so much garbage on the show that nothing will get the time it should, though Trips and Taker will get more than they should because that's the way Trips operates. I can't see Rock and Cena being anything more than 3 stars and I am not looking forward to them getting 30 minutes or more.

Ratings were way down again. Awesome. The only way they quit bringing old guys back is if they quit making money on them.

They seem to have forgotten how to sell PPV's, and it shows in the buyrates.

The Brewers probably didn't really have 96 win talent last year so the drop of 10 games is partly Fielder but mostly just playing back towards their talent level. That is exactly what I think. They were more like a 90 win team last year and were very fortunate with injuries.

The guy can barely walk at this point, so I would hope he's ready to retire soon. I would think there will be a lot of ugliness in the HHH match that may make him say that he's done.

I don't think it's that much to do with Latos, and more to do with young guys who are ready to take a step forward with their offense. Guys like Bruce, Stubbs, Heisey, etc. as well as already having an MVP guy like Votto. I'm also a big fan of Mesoraco. They are two years removed from winning 91 games (and not in Diamondbacks fashion - they had a +105 run differential) and they haven't gotten old since then or anything, aside from Rolen (who was the major injury they had last year).

I think he will win and retire, or at least that's what I hope. He's done such a good job of protecting his character, so hopefully it doesn't get messed up after this year.

They do lose depth, but Chapman will likely just slide into the pen and help absorb that loss. I don't put much stock into whether a guy is a proven closer or not. Marshall has thrown about 150 excellent innings over the past two seasons that make me think he can do the job fine.

I think the Brewers will be in the race, but be closer to like 83-87 wins or so. I think the Reds will top 90 wins. I think Madson/Marshall is a wash.

Hopefully Taker has been hitting the gas hard since this pic was taken. Yikes. http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/427872_351594434883312_1052373737_n.jpg