I think they work her as a “free agent” for a few weeks, just to get her on both shows and exploit the novelty.

I’d have a hard time believing the office doesn’t see Charlotte as their best female talent. She’s still pretty rough around the edges on the mic, but physically, she can work with anybody and she also does a massive amount of PR for the company (Ashley, it turns out, is a better personality than Charlotte). I can’t…

Beth and McCool, in particular, looked like they could come right back to work.

I think technically, the winner gets a title match. So, Asuka would have to win at Elimination Chamber, I guess, or at Raw in the coming weeks. But I think you’d want to reward Alexa with a Wrestlemania match; she’s been glue on Raw for nine months or so.

Raw tag title match was pretty bad. Jason Jordan is the shits, in the parlance of the profession.

For a battle royal, it was good. It’s more the style of match that has issues than any of the participants (except Kelly Kelly, who remains unbelievably bad). By definition, it has to last at least 45 minutes and in every one there’s a lot of down time and too many almosts. This one had a lot of good spots and the…

I don’t think there’s been a Rumble match in at least 10 years without old-timers, so you knew there were going to be some. This one was as much about commemorating their past as anything, so it makes sense to let the stars from the 2000s in there. Plus, they honestly don’t have 30 women on the current roster, even…

Now we know why the commander-in-chief doesn’t exercise. Shrewd move, Trump.

No, Asuka eliminated Nikki. Nia was long gone by then. As for why it was better, I certainly wasn’t expecting much. Not a lot of top-rope tosses in the women’s division. I dunno; I think they spaced it out pretty well, mixing some of the past generation in there. They actually did pretty well — McCool, Molly Holly,…

Nah, I think Asuka beats Bliss and then it’s Rousey and Flair. That’s the match anyone really wants to see. They were considering a Four Horsewomen angle at first, which would lead to this one day, but I guess they think Ronda’s ready to go.

Fine. It ruined Asuka’s moment, which sucks, and took the spotlight away from what was a much better women’s Rumble match than I would have expected, but it’ll probably sell tickets.

Well...never say never. Detroit is playing itself out of the playoffs with haste. So, they may or may not want to make a few moves. Doubt it would be that one, but who knows?

They’re 1-2 against Minnesota this year, and probably won’t overtake them in the standings if the defense lags now. And OKC is not particularly good on the road, so “solid” favorites...I don’t see it.

Yeah, if this team had pulled off, say, a Tyreke Evans trade to give them some bench scoring and depending on who’s hot or not on a given night, another weapon in the final five minutes, that would have been a pretty good roster. They could, theoretically, get a decent perimeter shooter at the 3 and move Paul George…

David Cronenberg: /cums

I don’t want to overstate things, but this is certainly the worst thing to hit New Orleans in my lifetime.

Oh, I thought that meant they signed Bartolo Colon to a minor league deal.

“Yeah, you can look around a maybe find a few beagles if you know where to look, but I wouldn’t say I’m famous for them.”

No, he just killed every other babyface but Dusty.

No, but he killed the Carolinas for a while.