A Wrestling Update

Well I'm back! There has been wrestling news since my last post. Captain Lou Albano and Umaga passed away. Outside wrestling Captain Lou also had a stint in Hollywood where he played Mario in the popular Super Mario cartoon show and in the 80's played Cindy Lauper's father in one of the most popular music video's of the 80's Girl's Just Want Have Fun. Umaga's sucess came mostly through wrestling. His most famous match came at Wrestlemania where Vince McMahon hand picked him to take on Donald Trump's wrestler, Bobby Lashley. In a loser gets their head shaved match. Lashley won however and McMahon got his head shaved. But still one of the most memorable moments in wrestling.
Also the Hulkster Hulk Hogan is making his return to wrestling as he has recently signed with WWE's competion TNA Wrestling. His first appearance is scheduled for January 4, 2010.

MLB Postseason Predictions

The baseball playoffs begin tomorrow and here is how I think things will go down.
ALDS
Yankees 3 games to 1 over Twins
Red Sox 3 games to 2 over Angels
NLDS
Rockies 3 games to 1 over Phillies
Cardinals 3 games to 1 over Dodgers
ALCS
Yankees 4 games to 2 over Red Sox
NLCS
Cardinals 4 games to 1 over Rockies
World Series
Yankees 4 games to 2 over Cardinals

Fantasy Football

I'm usually a little behind the times. I just got an ipod a few months ago. I didn't start blogging untill I had to for a class. I still haven't joined twitter. I never did join myspace.
And well I just now starting doing fantasy football.
My team name is The Perverts. This weekend I'm against The Dick Lickers managed by the man who talked me into joining, Carl. I do have a delima this week as both my quarterbacks are hurt. McNabb from PHI is definitely out and Hasselbeck from SEA got hurt last Sunday and very well might not play this weekend. I'm trying to organize a trade if that doesn't work I'm thinking of picking up Buger from the Rams. Nobody seems to want him. I figure this week is their home opener aginst GB. maybe it won't be so bad. Plus Hasslebeck will surely be back the next week then McNabb will be availble the week after that so it's really just 1 week that I need to worry about Bulger and the Rams blowing it for me.

I'd like to show the standings so far for our league. Week one I defeated Brandon. Week two I wasn't able to hold off Craig. And like I said this week it's Carl, who right now as it stands, is the favorite to win by roughly 5pts. Below the standings I'll show our match up and how yahoosports predicts it will go. Keep in mind though that if Hasslebeck is unavailable I'm picking up Bulger.



1.
irish has-beens
2-0-0
1.000
166.66

2.
Carlz Nutz
2-0-0
1.000
158.95

3.
The Perverts
1-1-0
.500
154.50

4.
Fighting Knockwursts
1-1-0
.500
146.83

5.
Jarmen's Hell
1-1-0
.500
137.95

6.
Dick Lickers
1-1-0
.500
136.95

7.
Chicken McNabbets
1-1-0
.500
131.04

8.
Smash Nasty
1-1-0
.500
129.61

9.
Gunsfootball
0-2-0
.000
133.12

10.
Springfield Atoms
0-2-0
.000
123.16





ME- The Perverts
QB
Matt Hasselbeck
(Sea - QB)
Chi
Sun1:05 pm
0.29
WR
Percy Harvin
(Min - WR)
SF
Sun10:00 am
6.19
RB
Matt Forte
(Chi - RB)
@Sea
Sun1:05 pm
8.53
TE
Jeremy Shockey
(NO - TE)
@Buf
Sun1:05 pm
3.52
W/R/T
Darren Sproles
(SD - RB)
Mia
Sun1:15 pm
10.74
W/R/T
Felix Jones
(Dal - RB)
Car
Mon5:30 pm
8.54
W/R/T
Torry Holt
(Jac - WR)
@Hou
Sun10:00 am
4.93
K
David Akers
(Phi - K)
KC
Sun10:00 am
9.39
DEF
Minnesota
(Min - DEF)
SF
Sun10:00 am
13.52

Total
65.65



CARL - Dick Lickers
Points
Pos
Player
Opp
Status
Projected
QB
Drew Brees
(NO - QB)
@Buf
Sun1:05 pm
12.32
WR
Randy Moss
(NE - WR)
Atl
Sun10:00 am
7.24
RB
Ray Rice
(Bal - RB)
Cle
Sun10:00 am
6.11
TE
Jason Witten
(Dal - TE)
Car
Mon5:30 pm
5.78
W/R/T
Brandon Marshall
(Den - WR)
@Oak
Sun1:15 pm
2.89
W/R/T
Cedric Benson
(Cin - RB)
Pit
Sun1:15 pm
4.70
W/R/T
Carnell Williams
(TB - RB)
NYG
Sun10:00 am
6.59
K
Robbie Gould
(Chi - K)
@Sea
Sun1:05 pm
8.72
DEF
Baltimore
(Bal - DEF)
Cle
Sun10:00 am
16.23

Total
70.58

An Update

It's been 2 months since I last posted anything. I figure it's about time I did....It turns out wrestling stories might be even fewer now as the top 2 wrestling shows won't be available to me for awhile as I'm taking a Monday night Spanish class that will prevent me from seeing RAW and Springfield no longer carries MYTV which aired Smackdown. So that's out as well...The past few months have been rough. I almost thought about writing something on here about it but I elected not to as I'm afraid it would really do more harm than good. So I'm trying to move on with my life and see where things go.
Till next time!
Adios Amigos!
BTW I finally got a picture up. Hopefully I'll add more info on my profile in the fairly near future as I also hope to get on here more often.

MJ

Welcome to my first nonwrestling post. But don't worry there will be plenty of wrestling news in the future.
I just wanted to take this opportunity to talk about Michael Jackson.
I've always loved his music and that's what I know him for. And I hope everyone else feels the same.
I have a theory. Tell me if you think I'm crazy, but MTV was originally designed to be Music Television. Eventually at some point MTV drifted away from their roots and today rarely show music videos. And while I'm sure there are other factors but 1 of those factors I truly believe is that Michael Jackson wasn't only the King of Pop but the King of Music Videos. With what most consider the biggest of all-time Thriller, and Smooth Criminal, Black or White, Billie Jean, Beat It, Bad, Remember the Time, and could go on and on and on. and when his popularity declined it caused music videos as a whole go down and that could be why MTV has changed their format.

Another point I wanted to make was I've been hearing people criticize him for how his popularity went down. I even heard some say that the Bad album was a disappointment. But I mean let's get real here. Thriller was the biggest album ever. There was no way to actually top that in sales. But it did have more #1 singles than Thriller did. Then when Dangerous his popularity slipped a little more. But so what?! the debut single from that, Black or White was the #1 song for 7 weeks the exact same amount of time Billie Jean was #1 when it first came out. And he still had I believe 5 more top 10 hits from Dangerous. So I don't believe someone can call it a failure. It just the way things go. Once you reach the top it's natural to slowly but surely decline a little and there's nothing wrong with that.
Take a look at movies. Wouldn't you say that 90% of the time the original is usually the best then the sequels while maybe not quite as good but still good enough?

Or is it just me?

Comings and Goings

Some big changes have taken place just in the past few weeks Mr. Kennedy made his return then got his release from the WWE and is already rumored to be negotiating with WWE's rival company TNA. And he's not the only one Umaga also made his long awaited return only to get released after his scheduled Samoan strap match last Sunday against CM Punk. Vickie Guererro Raw's GM sent her notice to the WWE that she was leaving the company to spend more time with her kids. And it is also being said that Rey Mysterio is unhappy and could possibly be leaving. However that's not set in stone yet. Jeff Hardy, one of the most popular stars in WWE, it was recently said that he could be leaving by the end of the summer.
So with a lot of important people leaving that means a lot of replacements too. Right now the one I'm hearing most about coming back is Chris Masters, who was let go due to a steroid scandal. I always liked him though. I'm glad he's coming back. If hated everybody who did steroids I wouldn't be a wrestling fan. Chances are more are guilty of doing it that we know about. For instance it is believed by some that Batista's current injury is a cover up for his suspension for using steroids. I don't know. I'm just telling you what I heard!

A lot has been said about the tag team division lately. TNA's champions The Dudley Boyz have criticized WWE's weak division. And what they say is very true. It would probably be disbanded if it wouldn't cause such an outrage among the fans especially the traditionalist. The Raw and Smackdown brand unified the titles at Wrestlemania in a match that wasn't even seen on the ppv itself instead they decided to make it an extra for people who buy the dvd.
While WWE usually ignores TNA's criticisms. It certainly looked like this week WWE listened with several tag matches. Not to mention the 10 man tag main event on Raw. ECW, Vince's weakest brand, seems to be pushing the new hart foundation, Cryme Tyme got plenty of air time this week, and perhaps and interesting scenairio when Shelton Benjamin & Charlie Hass, who have been fighting in singles competion for quite some time reunited this week. I don't know if they're planning to keep them together full time or not but the fact that they fought together not just once but twice this week does make me wonder. Back in the days of Team Angle they were a very very good team. Not to say there's anything wrong with the current champions The Colons, but they do need some more established teams like TNA does with the Dudleys, Motorcity Machine Guns, Beer Money, The British Invsion, and Lethal Consequences.