HTPB 20.5

 

Week 5 caused the standings to bunch up closely.  13 of the 14 teams are either 3-2 or 2-3.  

All year, there has been talk around the league as it being the year for someone who has not drafted a championship team in 20 years.  This week a team that has not drafted a championship team in 20 years, put up a whopping 180 points to defeat Big Cat. 48 points from Herbert along with 4 20 point scorers. (I rounded up Chase's 19.95, so go to hell, Steve) was too much for Big Cat to overcome.

Dollars got into the Halloween spirit as his team rose from the dead to feast on Dom's brains.  Being such a light snack, Dollars also nibbled on Montgomery's knee, Dalvin Cook's ankle, and Ju-Ju's shoulder. The next few weeks of the season will be pivotal for these two squads to see if Dollars is really back to life or it was that thing where corpses sit up due to muscles tightening from dehydration before the days of embalming, and the Italian Stallions look to piece to together a team headed into a match up against Hardcore Cabinet, whom he has not beaten in 10 years.  

Speaking of Hardcore Cabinet they could really use the fountain of youth that is a match up against the Italian Stallions, after dropping their third straight to Rush'n Missiles.  RM dropped the up and down act and stayed up this week.  A good sign for RM was their well rounded attack to pull out the win.  As this may finally be the year that Rush'n Missiles makes the playoffs for the first time ever, since he has never ever made the playoffs before.  Not even once.  I'm bitter.  

Bricklayers hopes to get his bipolar disorder under control this week, as he proclaimed that his team was turning it around, voted against his team to win, made a swindler trade of that took the sole of The Shoes, proceeded to denounce his team, offer his best players up for a fire sale, take a generational tight end performance as sign that his team is good and call his shot on a Toyota for next week.  Also he lost, again. Also he wasn't even in the top 7 in scoring in the league.  Maybe next time you pay for airplane wi-fi it should be to seek a virtual meeting with a mental health professional.  Blue Gatorade continues to quietly move forward on his sneakily successful season.  

Hey Eh Bid Dude, do you want the good news or the bad news.  Since you are always such an optimist, I will give you the good news first.  You won.  The bad news you lost Wilson and Barkley for the foreseeable future and you play Bricklayers, who despite only being in the top half of the league in scoring just one week, has requested that you grab your ankles.  The Collegians had a rough week, as not a single player crossed the 20 point plateau, with a leading scorer of 16 from Stafford. 

Josh Allen and Zeke leads Ogre's Death Squad to big win over Los Zapatistas.  Los Zapatistas has been falling quickly down the standings and got swindled by a swindler.  He has been living vicariously through his butt buddies.  I am worried about you Sergio.  https://www.betterhelp.com/advice/general/is-living-vicariously-through-others-dangerous/

In short, living vicariously refers to living life through someone else's experiences rather than being a part of the events yourself. It requires immersing yourself in someone else's world and emotionally or mentally making their achievements and setbacks your own. It allows you to experience rewards without having to risk your own failures. You can tap into the feeling of achievement without putting in the work that may or may not pay off. It lets you explore personas and lifestyles you cannot have in real life and allows you to navigate the world through a different perspective without committing to any big changes. Living vicariously lets you have countless new experiences without stepping outside the prescribed boundaries around you.

We are here for you buddy.

In the craziest match up of the week, SMBR leapt into solo possession of first place after storming back against Tinker Stinkers.  68 points in prime time from the Bills and Lamar lead the come back, as Tinker Stinkers let this one slip between his tiny fingers something that JJ would have never let happen, rest assured.  

Power Rankings

1. SMBR 46-19

2. BG 44-21

3. BNE 41-24

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4. TC 37-28

5. HC 35-30

6. CB 34-31

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7. TS/EBD 31-34

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9. BL 29-36

10. IS/BCC/ODS 28-37

13. LZ 25-40

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14. $$ 18-47

There were no bad beats this week.

The luckiest team has been BCC which shows that maybe it has been the Year of the Cat all along.

The unluckiest teams have HC and EBD.

Pick em Results

ODS/BG/HC went 5-2

Tc went 2-5 but that still better than EBD 0-7 because of fear and pettiness. 

This week's pick em link https://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/14389/pickem

Looking ahead to next week:

Game of the Week #1 SMBR vs #4 TC

ODS vs BG

BNE vs $$$

BCC vs TS

HC vs IS

LZ vs RM

The Toilet Bowl Preview of the Week

#9 EBD vs #10 BL (Which honestly isn't that bad but it was the lowest combined seeding, tied with HC vs IS but HC is a higher overall seed than either of these two teams, so that's why I chose it. If you have a problem with the tiebreakers, you fucking type this out, do math, and be hilarious. Any hands? Didn't think so.)

Good Luck to everyone next week. 

    

HTPB Week 20.4

Week 4 in HTPB further bunched teams the league is full of parity this season.

In the highest scoring match up of the week, Blue Gatorade led the league in scoring, and gave Italian Stallions a hard luck loss.  43 Monday night points from Eckler and Cook where enough to run past the Italian Stallions, who know have to figure out how to replace keeper David Montgomery, which could be as difficult for Dom as that pesky reading.  

SMBR gave Big E a good run through with that Big D.  Defense that is. As the Buffalo Bills put up a whopping 25 points, which outscored everyone on ODS.  SMBR looks to be having a bounce back season after last year's toiletries and ODS looks like he could be headed to another basement season.

But not the basement floor, because that is occupied by Dollars. A live look at Dollars setting his lineup each week:

Dollars is having the season from Hell.  Concussions, COVID, blown knees, kickers not kicking, OUR PETS HEADS ARE FALLING OFF!  The Collegians put up 94 points and won....COMFORTABLY.  Maybe better days are ahead, but it sure doesn't seem like it.  

Speaking of wining with a low score, Tinker Stinkers and coach Mike Richards.  They pulled out a narrow 2 point victory led almost completely by Patrick Mahomes 5 TD's.  A zero spot from injured Logan Thomas was the difference for Hardcore Cabinet along with other various shit performances, knocking him from his two week stay atop the standings.  Clearly JJ, would have been smart enough to use his adult sized hands to enter Kalif Raymond into the starting lineup this week.  

Bricklayers finally broke into the top 7 in scoring in a given week with their victory over the suddenly tail spinning Big Cat's Crushers.  As an old guy Big Cat should have known that rain is bad for the old joints as Brady put up a stinker in his return to New England. Bricklayers has a tough time deciding which running back to send out in a given week. Miles Gaskin 0.3 was the correct play, however as he eked out Sony Michel's -0.9.  I don't know how much longer Bricklayers can leave Mark Ingram's 2.4 points on the bench. It's quite the three headed monster.  Pictured here: 

 The Big Nasty Express beat Los ZapaTinkerStinkers,  I'm unsure of the losing team's name.  The coach is way more worried about other teams.  It's weird.  You think JJ needs an Emotional Support Mexican?  Shut the hell up, you stupid Sergio.  

Anyway....

A very well rounded effort from BNE's squad led to an easy win as BNE appear to have gotten back on the right track since an early season slog.  

Eh Bid Dude took his first hard luck loss of season to the always dangerous Even Week Rushin' Missiles.  This one was hard to predict as EBD always says, "Projections are wrong and stupid except when they aren't for but otherwise fuck off and know the rules except the ones I don't know.  Fags"

Power Rankings: 

1. BG 38-14

2. TC 35-17

3. HC 34-18

4. SMBR 34-18

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5. BNE 28-24

6. IS 28-24

7. RM 25-27

8. BCC 24-28

9. TS 24-28

10. BL 24-28

11. EBD 23-29

12. LZ 22-30

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13. ODS 18-34

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14. $$ 7-45

Analysis:  HC and TC feel back into the pack with the rest of the top teams.  There has been little discern between teams 5-12.  ODS has been bad but not Dollars bad who deserves his own section.  Blue Gatorade has been the unluckiest team in the league, as the power rankings show he is the most consistent team in the league but he is only in 5th place.  The luckiest team has been Tinker Stinkers, who is 6 spots ahead of where the numbers say he should be.  

Weekly Pick em.  

Bricklayers took first place this week with a 6-1 record while Big Cat and Tinker Stinkers went 3-4 at the bottom.  Week 5 pick em can be done https://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/14389/pickem?week=5

Week 5 preview:  The Best Matchup of the Century of the Week is a battle between 3-1 teams SMBR VS Tinker Stinkers.

HC vs RM

BNE vs BCC

BG vs BL

$$ vs IS

EBD vs TC

and the Toilet Bowl Preview of Week is ODS vs LZ.

I hope you enjoyed reading, didn't take anything personal, and I wish you good luck in Week 5.

HTPB 20.3

 If last week was the week of blowouts, this was the week of upsets.  The lower seeded team won in 5 of the 7 games.  

The Collegians put up 132 points led(bian) by Matthew Stafford's 35 points to victory over first place Hardcore Cabinet.  Hampered by AJ Brown's injury and Kyler Murray's sub par performance, HC tasted defeat for the first time, although remains atop the standings.  The two teams combined for 46 points out of their defenses.  

Josh Allen and the reanimated corpse of Zeke Elliot led ODS to their first win and BCC first defeat.  BCC was let down by CMC injury, but he is used to be being disappointed.  (See Wright, Eric).  Other than the two monster performances stated before, ODS got little production from the rest of his roster, unless you count injuries as production. (Shepard, Moore, White).  

The Big Nasty Express used the highest score of the season to vault all the way into 9th place.  Great performances from Herbert, Adams, Mattison, Chase, and Hunt added up to a victory.  Blue Gatorade takes the tough luck loss with the third highest score in the league this week.  Although it was only the second biggest letdown of the weekend, as he toured colleges that his parents can't afford.  Quit looking at free agents and crack the books because your ass needs a scholarship.

Bricklayers got their first win of the season and per his modus operandi, it was of the lucky variety.  Ryan Tannehil joined Cooper Kupp on the island this week, but it was enough to best Dollars.  Who for the second week in a row put up the lowest total in the league.  These are the only two teams to have not cracked the top the seven in a week in scoring.  It's beginning to look like the JK Dobbins injury wasn't the only issue with $$'s squad.  Can he turn it around?  He luckily has all that FAAB he saved losing the tie break on Eli Mitchell.

It was the Dak and D show for the Italian Stallions who picked up a victory over Eh Bid Dude.  Half of the players in this match up failed to break the 8 point barrier.  First round running backs tell the story for the future of these squads as EBD is hoping that this game was the first for a return of healthy Saquon Barkley and IS hopes that Cook gets back in the kitchen soon.

Los Zapatistas handed Tinker Stinkers their first loss of the season.  LZ got 59 points out of his running backs and Kirk Cousins did in fact "Like that!" to lead The Shoes to victory.  Tinker Stinkers tried to win the Jim Tressel way with kicking and defense, but it was to no avail.  TS strategy of over drafting kicker, defense, and quarterback because they score more points worked as they scored 53% of his points.  It was those pesky every other position that let him down.

In the May Be Fat memorial doo doo butter game of the week, SMBR eked out a victory over RM, 93-86.  Miles Sanders did not in fact fumble and break his leg simultaneously in his first touch of the game.  RM has been Jekyll and Carlos Hyde this season.  With two stink bombs and league leading week.  SMBR would have only beaten two teams this week, but it cancels out his tough week 1 loss.  

In Weekly Pick'em results, Dom went a stellar 7-0 while EBD and Tinker Stinkers went 2-5.  Week 4 pick em available here.

Week 3 Power Rankings

1. HC 32-7

2 TC 31-8

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3. BG 25-14

4. BCC 24-15

5. SMBR 22-17

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6. IS 20-19

7. TS 19-20

7. LZ 19-20

9. BNE 18-21

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10. EBD 16-23

11. BL 15-24

12. RM 14-25

13. ODS 12-37

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14 $$ 6-33

Analysis:  Blue Gatorade has by far been the unluckiest.  Bad luck has cost him a whopping 5 spots in the standings.  Tinker Stinkers has been the luckiest by a slim margin.  HC and TC are currently the top two teams in the league by quite a bit.  $$$ has been really terrible.  The top seven continues to be dominated by people who don't get into groups in an individual competition and nary a AOE member to seen.  

Week 4 Preview

The premiere match up of the week is #1 Hardcore Cabinet vs #5 Tinker Stinkers

SMBR vs ODS

BNE vs LZ

BL vs BCC

IS vs BG

$$$ vs TC

The Toilet Bowl Slap Fight of the Week is EBD vs RM.

Thanks for reading and enjoy week 4!

HTPB Week 20.2

The theme of the week was massacres and disappointing comeback hopes.

 

Week 2 seemed like we may get some fireworks after only 1 close game in week 1, but 3 chances at  Monday Night miracles only led to 1 come from behind victory although with 3 guys going a only a short lead to overcome, Los Zapatistas win against Bricklayers was expected.  Los Zapatistas was able to overcome 1.85 points from Laviska Shenault which was still more than his keeper Brandon A Yuk (trademark pending, bite me Dom).  Cooper Kupp continues to be an island unto himself on Bricklayers squad who is struggling with their Super Bowl hangover.

It was the week of Rush'n Missiles as 72 points from the Monday night stack of Rodgers and Jones gave RM, the high score and the position bet for the week.  $$ managed to put up only 67 points and that's with Tampa's two defensive TD's giving him 19.  Usually when a team puts up that shit of a score, the defense usually puts up 2 points or less. It takes an entire lineup crap performance to lose by 99 points.  Dollars had 99 problems this week and sleeping through inactives wasn't one. 

The second molly whopping of the week was Hardcore Cabinet's decimation of Ogre's Death Squad.  Kyler Murray and Derrick Henry outscored ODS' entire squad completely by themselves.  In a match-up of what is currently the first place and highest scoring team and the last place lowest scoring team, such a beat down should have been expected. 

In the closest match up of the week, Tinker Stinkers outlasted Eh Bid Dude by 6 points.  A recount of the points was asked for since EBD was supposed to win in quite the rout per EBD's proclamation Yahoo probably missed those two TD's Matt Prater tossed.  It may be too much to overcome tier jumping receiver, Courtland Sutton's 9 for 159.

In another lopsided affair, SMBR took BNE out behind the shop and put a level 45 Elvin Mage of Summoning beat down on BNE.  Lamar Jackson had more rushing yards than both running backs for BNE (James Robinson and Kareem Hunt) combined. These two teams appear to be headed in opposite directions as SMBR bounced back from their tough luck loss last week.

The Collegians hoped for a Monday Night Miracle from MVS but MVS stood for "much vacant scoring".  Blue Gatorade used a well rounded performance from his team to knock Collegians off their one week stay at the top of the standings.  BG managed to put up an impressive 123 points despite 1 point combined from his kicker and tight end. 

Both Big Cat Crushers and Tom Brady have found the fountain of youth as the Year of Big Cat continues.  The final year undefeated season of dreams stayed alive with a 48 point spanking of Italian Stallions.  Dak Prescott avoided the end zone like IS avoids reading and it cost IS.  

There were no bad beats this week as the top 7 scorers all won, leading to only 1 bad beat all season which is very low.  This gives extra credence to the Bill Parcells line, "You are what your record says you are."  AOE was more AO Ewwwww as all took L's.  The Buffoon Squad is holding down the bottom of the standings. It has been a good time to be unaffiliated as the 3 teams that don't do the silly group thing an individual competition have a combined record of 5-1. The Week 2 Power Rankings (minus luck rankings because there is not enough data yet)

1. HC 24-2

2. BCC/SMBR 20-6

4. TC 19-7

5. TS/BG/IS 14-12

8. RM/EBD 13-13

10. LZ 9-17

11. BL 8-18

12. $$ 6-20

13. BNE 5-21

14. ODS 3-33

Looking ahead to week 3.  

The Matchup of the Week is HC vs TC as two teams that have been atop the standings face off.

ODS vs BCC

BNE vs BG

EBD vs IS

LZ vs TS

RM vs SMBR

The Toilet Bowl Match of the week is $$ vs BL.  

Make your picks here  https://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/14389/pickem

HTPB 20.1

 It was quite the week 1 in the 20th season of HTPB.  This week saw the creation of a new blood feud, as Dollars questioned the manhood of his opponent and the league commissioner over the healthy scratch of Trey Sermon.  Words were thrown and it was the Italian Stallions who came in with their own Sermon on the Mount preaching love.  In the end it mattered no,t as Dollars cruised to victory over ODS led by the week's top non QB score of 31.95 from Amari Cooper from Thursday night. Dollars received nary a vote in the weekly pick'em even from himself. 

The week featured mainly beat downs, but one game was extremely close.  SMBR and IS and a BIL battle that came down to overtime on Monday night.  Lamar Jackson's late fumble have the IS the victory and made SMBR the unfortunate distinction of being the only tough luck loser in the league as the top 7 scoring teams went 6-1.  SMBR can ease their pain with knowing that their 59.85 points for WR/WR/TE earned them the weekly positional bet.

Hardcore Cabinet avenged their Super Bowl loss led by two of the weeks top scorers, #1 overall Kyler Murray and Adam Thielen who are ironically the two players remaining from last year's runner up squad.  Bricklayers made 386 moves between the draft and week 1 and maybe it would have been move 387 that would have made up the 38 point difference.  

Los Zapatistas were gifted the Honda, for beat down of the week.  That Honda won't need a lot of trunk space to hold all of keeper, Brandon Aiyuk, points. 0.14 all on return yardage.  A yuk! Which gave him 6.99 in the weekly bet from Aiyuk, the corpse of Julio Jones, and Robert Tonyan  The Collegians 5 twenty point scorers will give him the weekly high point total win. Collegians had league high running back Joe Mixon, carry the load.

The Collegians 54.38 in the weekly bet would have given Rush'n Missiles a run for their money as a team.   RM put up the weekly low of 67.13, led by .43 out of Jeopardy host Aaron Rodgers who scored .43 more points than deceased Jeopardy host Alex Trebek did this week.  Big Cat Crushers, cruised to easy win in the first week of his swan song season.  

Eh Bid Dude led the entire way over Big Nasty Express, who was derailed early from a -0.60 from Ronald Jones.  EBD spent the weekend crowing about not being picked to win the game in the picks that he thinks are stupid and pointless.  A huge Darren Waller, Monday night game made the score look closer than it was Russell Wilson, DeAndre Hopkins, and Jamaal Williams were too much for BNE to make it close.

In a battle of the two shortest members of the league, Tinker Stinkers defeated Blue Gatorade by 14 in a decently close battle. Tinker Stinkers used Nick Chubb to break the stalemate as most of their rosters under performed aside from the quarterbacks.  Tinker Stinkers proved that they in fact "Had the Meats!" and moved to 1-0.  

Week 2 Preview

The top match up is the Italian Stallions vs the Big Cat Crushers in a 3 vs 4 match up.

Dollars tries to field a complete team against Rush'n Missiles although it might not be necessary.  

Collegians looks to stay hot against Blue Gatorade.  

SMBR looks to get the win that he deserved last week vs BNE

Eh Bid Dude and Tinker Stinkers have already released some footage of their match up. 

Hardcore Cabinet and ODS in a game that will end before 8 pm on Sunday Night.

Bricklayers vs Los Zapatistas is the Toilet Bowl match up of the week.

Make your weekly picks here: 

 https://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/14389/pickem

Sunday Night Heat Review 9.3.2000

 

                                                WWF Sunday Night Heat 9/3/2000 review

 

We are six days past SummerSlam and the march to Unforgiven is on although no matches have been announced during the first week of shows. Our announcers are Michael Cole and Kevin Kelly.  They are excited that the New York Mets are first in the National League East today.

Too Cool’s music hits and out comes the aforementioned tag team although we are informed that it will be Grand Master Sexay in a singles match.  Cole calls him Grand Master Sexy, and the extra “A” really helps to keep a chill from running down your spine, which happens when Cole pronounces it correctly yet somehow very incorrectly for consumption.  The Grand Master will battle The Goodfather from the Right to Censor accompanied by Steven Richards and Bull Buchanan. 

Grand Master Sexay vs The Goodfather

Grand Master gets the early advantage moving quickly around The Goodfather while the announcers convince us that SummerSlam was the greatest SummerSlam of all time.  At this point it is legitimately in the conversation.  The crowd is chanting “Save the Hoes”, much to the Goodfather’s dismay because he believes gardening should be done with your bare hands to become one with Mother Earth, apparently.  The crowd legitimately gets behind a Sexay hope spot that Goodfather cuts off.  Steven Richards’ facial expressions both positive and negative really enhance the match.  Scotty 2 Hotty pulls the top rope down to cause Goodfather to plunge out of the ring and the crowd pops for the babyfaces unprovoked cheating.  Too Cool was so over in 2000.  It’s amazing how fast and how big they got over. 

               Sexay tosses Goodfather back into the ring, applies the goggles and hits a dropkick.  This reminds Michael Cole that the struggling Yankees should fire Joe Torre.  Who within two months would be unceremoniously…… crowned the World Series Champions for the third straight year and three out of four.  I would hate to be Cole’s personal assistant.  Dude has really high standards.

               Steven Richards jumps back up on the apron and distracts the referee, in order for….Scotty 2 Hotty to interfere.  Richards distracts the ref so long that Scotty can get in a bulldog, his goofy worm running man, and the 4 hops while the crowd chants letters.  Right before he hits the chop, referee Jack Doane grabs him and tosses him aside.  This distraction allows Bull Buchanan, who I forgotten was at ringside, to come in and hit a scissor kick on the Grand Master, which Goodfather follows up with a leg drop for the pin. 

The Goodfather defeats Grand Master Sexay with a leg drop after Bull Buchanan interference at 4:10

 

Coming up next: It’s Kane.  We are told, “Who knows what he is going to do?”  Will he do cartwheels? Bake a cake? Run for mayor?  The possibilities are endless.

 

We get a video package of some of the shenanigans WWF superstars have been up to this week outside of Raw and Smackdown.  WWF Superstars took on Michael Bolton’s Bombers in a charity softball game in the Durham Bulls stadium, in one my favorite sentences I have ever written. 

Players that I caught in the clip or were interviewed: Team WWF: The Dudleys, Victoria, D-Lo, Chaz, Coach, Dean Malenko, Pete Gas, Jerry Lawler, The Kat, Howard Finkel.  Michael Bolton’s Bombers included Michael Bolton of course, Duke basketball coach, Mike Krzyzewski, and ESPN SportsCenter anchor and former Melrose Pool Boy, Charlie Steiner.  From the clips, Chaz legged a single into a double and D-Von throws in a strange sidearm fashion into the infield.  Both teams seem to say that they lost but many heels accuse Bolton’s team of cheating.  Classic Bombers. 

 

Highlights of Radio WWF from the week at WWF New York in the heart of Times Square.  The show is hosted by Michael Cole and Mick Foley.  The guests include a phone in from The Rock, Trish, Chyna, and Too Cool live in studio.  Foley dances with Too Cool which I’m sure was some riveting radio.

 

Off to the racetrack as NASCAR driver Hermie Satler, raced the SummerSlam car with the APA working as his pit crew.  They assumed beer would be the high performance liquid to add to the engine.  Hermie politely declines.

 

Out comes Kane, and we aren’t getting a cake.  He tells us that he has always been a monster.  That he wears his mask because he doesn’t want to have people stare at him.  Everyone wears a mask and he hates everyone.  Someone wears a handsome, eyebrow raising, catch phrase saying mask and that is the Rock.  Kane should be WWF champion but his brother interfered and Kane is coming for both of them. 

              

               WWF promo of a brawl breaking out at beauty pageant, where Miss Connecticut beats up Miss. Georgia.  Ah… the pettiness. 

 

               Crash Holly vs The Big Bossman

               The announcers tell us that this match was setup by Commisioner Foley because Bossman attacked Crash while he was trying to talk to some ladies.  This was never shown but the announcers are acting like we did.  Don’t know if this was cut from the version that I saw or that it was never shown.  If anyone knows please let me know. Bossman comes out second with a microphone and proceeds to tell Crash that woman don’t want him because he is small and that they only want big men like him.  The match is short and only really features punches and kicks with Bossman dominating until Dean Malenko of all people comes out and tosses the nightstick to Crash who wallops Bossman with it.  Crash makes the cover for the win.

               Crash Holly defeats Bossman via nightstick shot at 2:58.

 

               We are now shown a week in review package focusing on how the Love Triangle of Triple H-Stephanie-Angle has become a Love Pentagon to include Eddie Guerrero and Chyna. 

T ‘n A with Trish Stratus vs APA

It’s main event time.  Some back and forth action until T ‘n A takes control. After Faarooq gets beat down for a minute or so, Bradshaw gets the hot tag and clears house for awhile until Albert nails him with a big boot.  Trish hops up the apron and the Dudley Boys come running in and hit a 3D on Bradshaw, in retaliation for APA costing the Dudleys, their match vs Kai En Tai on Smackdown.  It wasn’t personal it was business as Kai En Tai paid for protection. The Dudleys have officially taken in personally and T ‘n A gets the win.

 

T ‘n A defeat the APA after a 3D from the Dudleys at 4:14

 

Overall:  We had three matches, none longer than 5 and a half minutes, a promo that wasn’t anything we hadn’t heard before, a video package of what happened this week already, and a video package of stuff that has no effect on anything with the storylines.  But guess what.  It was fun I enjoyed it.  Especially the softball stuff for some dumb reason.  The opening match was built strictly on characters and not in ring action, and it worked because all of the characters were over.  The second match seems to be leading to something, so it gives me a reason to watch further, and the seeds of an APA vs Dudleys rivalry are planted. This show was entertaining and for a C level show, it accomplished its goal.  On the Sunday Night Heat scale, I give it 6.5 fireballs out of ten. 

 

COVID-19 and the summer without sports

    It has been a long strange summer without sports to watch.  We haven't had the NBA playoffs.  We haven't gotten to ride the daily marathon of baseball.  Over the past few years, my sports watching has greatly decreased.  I have four kids and although I have watched a lot of youth sports, my time to watch live sporting events has greatly decreased long before the pandemic. (That is documented here in an earlier blog post http://mattferrellblogs.blogspot.com/2017/10/sports-juggling.html) 

    Some sports have returned.  NASCAR, golf, and UFC don't interest me. So I haven't spent any time watching those events.  What I have to ask myself is, "What have I done with the extra time?"  I have burned through shows that my wife and I had saved on our DVR that we said we would get to eventually.  Apparently the summer of COVID is that eventually.  I have spent much more time outside.  Many of the yard projects that I would said, I would get to when eventually, planting a garden, trimming trees and bushes, planting grass in formally barren patches of the yard, have been completed.  

    I have missed sports greatly, but it seems like my overall life has been better without them.  I have gotten many thing accomplished.  Such as writing this blog post because google informed me that if I didn't add new content that I would lose my sponsorship.  Speaking of which, please visit the companies websites that are supporting my writing and give their wares a view.  

    Despite the improvement of functionality, I can't wait for sports to return.  I want to hear the return of squeaking sneakers, the crack of the bat, the pop of the pads.  I know that seeing much of the data on COVID that we can't make sports return while this virus rages on, so if you like me, want to get back to sports and much less productive life, please socially distance, please wear a mask.  Think of the mask like a dress code rule.  The more this thing is contained before a vaccine is created the sooner we can have more sports and less yard work.  Do your part, if not for your own health or your neighbors, but so come fall I can watch sports on the weekend instead of raking leaves.  

PLEASE! I'm tired and want to watch somebody else physically work.  

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