Real Deal

He's going to retire. I stated it in the off-season, and I'm sticking to it. I just don't think he's going to recover from that injury the way he'll need to in order to play at a high level, extended minutes, and for Yao, there's no reason to stick around and play out the rest of your career that way.

About time. Once I started seeing the Heels play and fall to teams they were supposed to beat, and seeing Barnes not able to step up and change those games, it was clear he wasn't worthy of the top pick in the draft. I would say he's not even top three right now. He's got a lot of work to do.

Seems like every single wrestling YouTube video contains a bunch of Cena hate in the comments, and it's not the "heel hate" that wrestlers get, it's the "he doesn't know how to wrestle or do anything different" hate. I'm sorry, but I can never, ever stick Cena into the top 10 of all-time. Add female fans, let them buy his merchandise and show me all of the sales, whatever...doesn't make him one of the greatest wrestlers OR entertainers of all-time, just another cash cow with above-average mic skills. Rick Rude without the wrestling skills and the awesome finisher. As far as HHH goes, I would say Foley, Rock and Flair all had their hand in making him one of the greatest. HHH talked about how he idolized Flair and had plenty of sit-downs with him about how to work matches and the crowd, etc. The Rock and Foley put it all together in the ring and produced some of the greatest matches the fans have ever seen. At the end of the day, it really doesn't matter what anyone thinks, I guess...and that includes me. It's not really an opinion...that wrestling is definitely not what it used to be.

Suns blew it in that fourth quarter. I saw about half of the fourth, unfortunately, but Portland took it by 13 and basically won the game in that last 12 minutes.

62.7 meters! http://i53.tinypic.com/b5glkh.jpg I'm getting tired, though...gonna quit for tonight.

Why in the hell are the Lakers playing like they've never won a game before?

Pretty move by Bryant.

The pattern seems to be OW, QP.

I reached 18.9 meters. It's too difficult...but funny as hell.

LOL, I've been laughing the entire time playing this... http://www.primarygames.com/arcade/skill/qwop/index.htm

He plays little to no defense, and with Drew out and Odom so inconsistent (even though he's doing good tonight), we need Gasol to drop points. We aren't as good, defensively, as we were last year...so the team has to continue scoring points. We can't rely on Bryant to drop 30 every night in the first two months of the season. He complained and said he was tired, the reason why he was missing easy baskets. Well, he's had 4-5 days off...and he's still missing shots. He has to step it up if he's going to take 11 shots in the first half of this game.

Seattle didn't even support their team when they brought in Kevin Durant. The attendance still sucked. I don't see why they deserve a second chance right now.

Pau Gasol sucks again.

Well, half of the fanbase will be from Kansas. KC lays in both states. There's a reason why I absolutely hate the Chiefs. There are so many fans around the area, and I'm in southeast Kansas, hours away from KC. The state is flooded with Chiefs fans.

Griffin got in the face of a player back in HS and when he played at OU, and while I don't know what his HS coach did, the coach over at OU (Jeff Capel) sat him during the next practice and nearly kept him out of the next game for it. Blake wants to win games. Even if the Clippers turn out to be the worst team in the NBA in April, he will still count those victories as progression towards a winning season. Miller blindsided him, knocked him off-balance, nothing more. It did absolutely nothing to him emotionally, and I'm sure it didn't hurt him physically, either.

The fan support will be off the charts. The state has been pressing for another pro basketball team for years (Kansas and Missouri).

If Cena went heel, he would have to really go hard on the mic. I'm thinking Triple H, in Cena's body, where a lot of his hate would have to come from the fans, and delivered TO the fans from him. A heel version of Cena that only took his anger out on other wrestlers would basically be him right now, but instead of going after Nexus, he would be trying to topple faces (don't know of anyone off the top of my head, just now started watching wrestling again). The female fans would still like him because they think he's cute, and while he would lose a few of those female fans, there will be male fans that start to like him a little more, as opposed to hating him due to how he has never changed. Same Cena. The WWE needs a heel that the fans truly hate, and a face that every single fan loves. It seems like nobody knows which one Orton is, half of the crowd likes Cena, and...I don't know...it's just not there. I'll put it this way: back in the day, when my friends and I would talk wrestling, we would be talking how someone needs to destroy the Nexus (assuming they were around in the late 90s), not how they need to be better-represented in the business. When Hogan dropped a leg on Macho Man, it was devastating. Fans were throwing cups, booing, absolutely HATING a man that breathed life back into wrestling in the 80s and early 90s. But, it was good...and that's what Vince needs.

Dude, Hogan is on another planet. I don't see how anyone could EVER stick Hogan in the same sentence as Cena. And you don't consider Flair a bigger superstar than Cena? Come on. Maybe you like Cena a little too much, or maybe not at all (I have no idea, really), but Hogan made an impact no other wrestler has ever touched, especially during the Gulf War, when he was "at war" with Slaughter and supporting America. Him turning heel was also one of the greatest moments in wrestling history, not to mention him slamming Andre in front of 90,000+ people and those two literally being the reason the WWF was put back on national TV. Cena has done absolutely NOTHING when it comes to Hogan's accomplishments. I won't need to go into detail about Flair. He's arguably the greatest technical wrestler ever, formed the most hated stable of all-time in the Four Horsemen (some will argue NWO, which is fine), and Flair wrestled anyone in any match, lost to anyone, and cut himself open anytime. Didn't matter the age. He has done more for wrestling, the sport, than Cena has done for the WWF/WWE, and that's not even debatable.

Out of those, it's easy to say Michael Beasley. He gets my vote, but you have to consider the opportunity he's been given. I think it's more about his situation improving, and not necessarily him. Same with most on there.

Quick question: I heard the name "Billy Kidman" the other night (think it was last week's Raw), and I swear they associated it with him writing for the WWE. Is that Billy Kidman, the former wrestler?

So, Cena draws money and is the face of an era that is obviously dying? I don't buy that as the reason to stick him above guys like Flair (who is the most hated heel in wrestling history) and anyone else on that list. Sting and Flair were the WCW. Those two literally put a federation on the map, something Cena wouldn't be able to do. I don't care how many wristbands and shirts Cena sells. The 10-12 wrestlers I named were ALL better in the ring, half (or more) better on the mic, had many more epic and historical battles/matches/rivalries, and fought in eras that would stick Cena into the Intercontinental champ division at the peak of his career. Top ten wrestler is out of reach, in my opinion, but someone can argue that he barely slides in there. Top five of all-time? That's insane. He'll never touch what at least five of those guys did throughout their careers, and I will state this over and over again because I watched wrestling religiously since I was six (back in 1989), and I've seen enough of Cena to say he doesn't even come close to those guys. Come on, though...Cena defeated Bradshaw (who should always be a tag team partner) and Edge (same) to get his first two WWE titles. He was in a storyline with Kevin Federline, and I'm pretty sure he also lost a match against him as well. He held the title for so long due to the fact that Vince had no talent to actually come in and take it away from him (other than Orton). For years, the WWE has been living off of Cena and Orton, and the quality of wrestling has taken a hit. Cena has been getting booed because it really is the same thing with him, every time he wrestles. His first boos were from fans thinking the same thing (actually saying it, if I remember right). By the time he was out of the Intercontinental title scene, all of the elite wrestlers were either too old to matter, or they had left the company. I stopped watching wrestling because of guys like Cena. His new storyline, with the mask...going to be awful. It was Hogan's only mistake of his career (Mr. America), but it has also been done over and over again by other wrestlers (ex. Brian Pillman), and Cena's roid-raged body makes it as obvious as Hogan's 24-inch super-tanned arms and golden mustache did. Jeff Hardy, Jack Swagger, Bradshaw, Guerrero, Sheamus, The Miz, Edge...how the [expletive] were any of these guys World/WWE champions, ever? I understand Cena winning it because he is a superstar among those guys, but over the last decade, Vince has seen his company hit rock bottom (no pun intended) a few times too many. He needs a miracle. If that means bringing in another reckless super-villain (like HHH was at one point) to generate hate and anger, or a D-X or NWO clone that's actually more legit than Nexus, or even a face that knows how to wrestle and is intimidating and generates excitement (like the Rock), so be it...but I don't see how Cena is the answer for anything right now, unless he's going to put someone over that's well-deserving of a title and potentially leaving a legacy that will be remembered 40 years later.

Cena? Hogan Flair Rock Austin HHH HBK Hart Sting Undertaker Andre Savage Warrior No way.

That's the group that Cena is feuding with, right? Just trying to get in on this a little.

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Well, most of that was due to what he did last season. Didn't Favre reach his INT total of 2009 by the third or fourth game of this year? I'm thinking if Favre stayed completely healthy, no Childress, and Rice was fine the entire year, he would be putting up better numbers and the Vikes wouldn't be in the hole they are in now. Harvin has been gimpy most of the season, too.