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So, you love wrestling but WWE is going fascist and you don't like AEW or NJPW: What's out there for you?

Alright, so many people are feeling burned by a bad WrestleMania main event and a week's worth of public relations mishaps so bad that it had legendary, record-breaking champion John Cena tell the New York Times he loves disgraced ex-WWE Owner Vince McMahon and the finally-beloved (after many,

Yes, yes, consume that content. It sustains me. It sustains all of us. We shall become immortal, together. But first, ads.

No, it wasn’t the election or the inauguration that made social media worse. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok have steadily been getting worse for years, at least since the advent of generative “AI.” It’s not generative, and it’s not intelligent, but boy, it sure is artificial. Maybe

If God did this, he's evil, so you better pray it's your fault

The ultra-religious in my life certainly won’t like hearing this, but if God is as they claim, he’s evil. I don’t have a dog in the fight, of course, nor do I believe God or the concept of God is evil. I think whatever they worship is

Sure, I watched healthy people die, but the economy!

I’ve seen enough of the national news media, the “respectable” sorts like the Washington Post and New York Times, buy into Trump’s stolen Reagan line asking “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” Well, in Oct. 2020, I was stuck inside after the full-time

Metaphor: Refantazio is Persona for old people

I’ll never claim to be anything other than an odd man regarding my media consumption. I have some extremely specific guidelines for a story for me to want to play. 1. It must be simple. I’m old. Don’t waste my time with frivolities and symbolism hidden beneath

The Millennials are killing babies

The salaries of the New York Times’ gallery of out-of-touch pundits should be published online the same way we publish our elected officials’ and appointees’ salaries. That way, we can have a bit of an idea how the people pushing the “we aren’t having enough kids” nonsense live. I’

Someone should make Botchamania for the Olympics

Blogs and microblogs are flooded during the Olympics with people making the exact same joke about how they’ll see a gymnast or diver do the most insane thing they’ve ever seen while the announcers act like Gordon Ramsey on Hell’s Kitchen. It’s the same joke, time

A Retrospective into Sports Games with Licensed Soundtracks, Part 1: NBA Street Homecourt

Let me be clear: Nobody who has ever played NBA Street Homecourt on purpose is a winner,and the wheel I used that randomly selected it as the first game I play in this journey is playing a cruel joke. I didn’t like NBA Street Vol. 3. I didn’

Remembering some games: MVP 06

You know what game was kind of awesome? MVP Baseball 2006. Not the one with MLB players and Manny Ramirez on the cover. I mean the janky, weird, analog stick-based monstrosity EA came up with when they lost the MLB license and shifted, albeit briefly, to making college baseball games.

Finishing a Naomi Klein book before attending a legislator's press event was a mistake

The first words out of my state senator’s mouth were “funny things happen in an election year,” an empty platitude used to explain away the complete, utter bullshit that happens at the national level whenever Republicans don’t get their way. This senator, who goes unnamed mostly to protect

Andre Drummond me_irl'd too close to the sun

I’m assuming Andre Drummond’s thought process went something like “this is gonna be so cool. Craig’s gonna lob that shit up there and I’m gonna throw it down. We’ll be in the highlights for a decade.” And then Torrey didn’t get out of the

AEW had to engage at some point

Adam Copeland addressed an elephant in the room Wednesday night when he addressed the crowd to open the show, something that has a lot of people who don’t watch AEW or pay attention to wrestling outside of WWE very upset.  “I want to talk about positives, and if you’

I spent how much streaming sports this year!?

Let’s see. $50 for NBA League Pass. $11 for the NFL Redzone package on Youtube TV. $150 for MLB.tv. At least $100 on wrestling PPVs, and $60 if we’re counting getting together with friends to watch the UFC PPVs. Oh, and there’s all the subscriptions to

Surprise! Gambling is a problem! Who could've guessed?

I never know if the heavy-handed gambling injection into sports is as obvious a problem to everyone else as it is to me, but the last week has answered that question for me. Defector’s Ray Ratto said it best: “Baseball has a gambling problem, even if Shohei Ohtani doesn’