The only way this narrative would be even remotely accurate would be if in its one season in 2001, the XFL had a few okay teams but also the Raiders, Packers, Eagles, and Oklahoma Sooners, and in the first week of competition the Ravens suddenly defected to the league. DoN featured some of the absolute best talent in…

NXT is pretty clear evidence that Triple H will be taking the creative reins when Vince croaks. Steph is more on the business side of things nowadays, but it’s worth pointing out that she and Paul Heyman were the ones behind Smackdown’s absurdly stellar 2002-04 run. I’ll take Hunter and Steph running WWE as a team over…

You need to be very judicious in sending out job offers around Clearwater, FL because a lot of the ones that pay well for little experience are Scientology related. My last girlfriend had a really rough go of finding a job for a while but managed to find a really sweet admin job not far from where we live, then found…

Oh my god, I moved away from DC almost four years ago and I forgot about the perfume guys.

Ask the Miami Marlins and Detroit Pistons/Red Wings how many people show up to a new stadium. 

Everyone in Austin knew 20 years ago that the infrastructure couldn’t handle how many people were flocking to the city and the city council ignored it. 20 years ago. 

Mike Piazza played for the Italian team in the first World Baseball Classic even though he was born and raised near Philadelphia.

I feel like a simple “YEEUGH” would be enough to send him into a catatonic state. 

Honestly I think the solution is to build an air conditioned stadium with plentiful natural lighting in Tampa or Brandon, where it would be a lot more easily accessible to people in the part of Florida that people actually call Tampa. People in Tampa actually show up for the Lightning and (incredibly) the Bucs, and…

Video games sort of take a while to make. 

I grew up in Austin and it’s staggering sometimes how similar the two cities are, between the beer scene, the music scene, the young hipsters flocking to the city, the complete lack of public transportation, the constant construction of hideous condo buildings nobody can afford, and what I’m sure is the city council’s…

The heat in Tampa Bay has been so brutal lately I don’t even want to expend the energy to lug myself from my air conditioned apartment to my air conditioned car to another air conditioned building, even if there’s a baseball game in the latter.

Tropicana Field is just behind Central Avenue, which is effectively St. Pete’s hip downtown area with a really good bar/restaurant/dessert shop/retail scene, so it isn’t in the middle of nowhere. Problem is, it’s a pain in the ass to get to from anywhere in Tampa Bay other than Pinellas County, and the locals know…

It’s not as bad if you actually live in St. Pete, but city is definitely not built to handle the number of people who actually live here nowadays and traffic on I-275 is a nightmare whenever there’s more than five cars on the road (because Florida). The good news is that unless the Red Sox or Yankees are in town, you…

Queen of throwing out the first pitch

Everyone complains about JR on this show but that match was exactly what he needed to get on track for the night and he didn’t let up from there. He was at a fucking fever pitch when Mox came out.

DoN was the first time in quite a while I watched something wrestling-related that I could just feel in the moment was A Big Deal (and not having Michael Cole in my ear marveling at “what an historic moment” I’m watching certainly helped).

You’ve never read a GMG site before, have you?

Pizza is already an open-faced sandwich, so by the transitive property it skips right over the hot dog phase.

Tell me more about your Teamster sandwich.