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I think it's fair to worry about Gio already. On a positive note, I really believe we have the best positional and pitching prospect in baseball.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 8, 2017 -> 05:11 PM) Pirates pro scouts are at the W-S game Since we're clearly contenders now, we're probably trying to trade for McCutchen.

There's 0 chance of SLU, bighurt. It'd be a big downgrade for them at this point and it'd be a silly thing for them to do. Obviously anyone the league gets is going to be a huge downgrade from Wichita but I'll cheer for Belmont so I have an excuse to road trip to Nashville.

Ya this super sucks. Like I said in the Arch thread, you can't blame them but damn it.

Burdi's K numbers are going to be silly.

Have at it...

QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ Apr 6, 2017 -> 03:30 PM) I feel like Davidson needs to get 400-500 ABs this year, even if Frazier and Abreu are around. Maybe he gets some of his shine back and you have a league average 3B for the next several years... I don't think he's ever going to become a league average 3b but we absolutely need to give him the at bats this season because who knows.

CANCEL THE REBUILD

QUOTE (soxfan49 @ Apr 6, 2017 -> 09:59 AM) Odd to know that the house show in Hammond on 4/23 is adverising Styles vs Orton vs Wyatt, so I wonder if they'd scrap that and just go Orton vs Wyatt? Good ol' "Card Subject to Change"

QUOTE (Brian @ Apr 6, 2017 -> 09:21 AM) Any rumors on who would replace them? The mighty high powered Edwardsville??? Murray, Belmont and Valpo are names I've heard. Who knows.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Apr 6, 2017 -> 08:56 AM) I've got tickets to Backlash already -- but if those above rumored trades occur, I will be enormously heart broken. Ya, I'm with ya on that. I like Charlotte but I've also seen her a lot more in person than I have Alexa. And AJ is AJ so it'd suck to not see him in person. I'll still be pumped to see Nakamura though. Only seen him once in person and it was before everyone knew his song so you didn't get that aspect to go with it.

It's kind of been oddly kept under wraps I feel but there's a Takeover now the day before Backlash in Chicago. There's an Evolve show during the day that Saturday as well. Think I'm going to hit up Evolve, Takeover and Backlash which is just stupid but whatever, it'll be a good time.

I'd give it a try.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Apr 5, 2017 -> 09:45 PM) AAC voting this week to admit Wichita State for the 2017-18 season https://www.si.com/college-basketball/2017/...flow_twitter_si Sucks but can't blame them at all.

So you don't watch NXT as a series, you don't care about matches with out a backstory but you watch the NXT ppv's? To each their own. And I had a feeling that was going to be your response on the New Day and Enzo and Cass. I'm not going to argue much on that as there is a reason I've soured on both(thought I still get a kick out of the New Day at times). Still, their mic skills are what got them over and they're good at what they do. Might not be for me or you but they're definitely good on the mic.

And Emma is a great character worker and the story with Asuka was well done so I don't get where you're coming from there. Omega is also a fantastic interview but that's fair if it's not your style. I mean, everyone has their things they prefer in wrestling so you're entitled to your opinion on what you like most like the rest of us. If you're not Emma's biggest fan then that's understandable but call her crap is just incorrect and it's funny cause everything you ranted about that you like is stuff she's good at.

It'll definitely be interesting to see what happens if AJ, Finn and Gallows/Anderson are all on the same show. My hope would be a Finn heel turn to join up with Gallows/Anderson after they turn on AJ again. Probably wont happen as I'm sure Finn sells a lot of merch and is an easy market but I can hope.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Apr 5, 2017 -> 09:39 AM) If you trade AJ to RAW in light of Cena leaving -- you may as well cancel Smackdown. Nakamura will not be able to carry that show on his own with just the Miz to go heel against him. This talent shuffle HAS to even out the rosters in the end. I keep hearing the same thing from the IWC -- that AJ and Bliss are going to RAW for crap like New Day and Enzo/Cass/Emma. Do that and other than Nakamura matches against Miz, I could stop watching the rest of Smackdown entirely. Calling Emma crap is silly. She's really good in the ring, plays a great character and ain't too shabby to look at either. There's plenty of rumors about who is going where so I wouldn't get crazy yet. It seems likely AJ is going to raw, wouldn't be surprised if Alexa does either but I'm sure they're not getting just tag teams back.

I wouldn't be shocked if Roman goes to SD. Keeps him and Brock away from each other so they can run that at Mania next year if they want. Sami should be a no brainer to go to SD but who knows what they're doing with him. I'm cool with all the people above switching brands.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 4, 2017 -> 09:00 PM) Wyatt gimmick has become very lame It's been dead to me for years. But he's over and people still love him so whatever.

To add to the Roman debate that is never going away: Dude is really good in the ring, I don't think that's even a debate anymore. He's still incredibly boring as a promo and a character to me but last night was f***in perfect. If they use him like that then great. He's never going to be my favorite guy but he's definitely earned his spot. Anywho, super happy Nak and The Revival are on the main roster. Tye isn't my jam but he's incredibly over and should be a fun mid card act on the main roster. Roster shake up should be fun. Hoping Finn and The Club stay on Raw with AJ coming over so we can finally dive into that whole thing.

Taker absolutely should have put over Roman, kind of surprised that's even being debated.

There's plenty of reasons to hate but I won't tonight, just going to get drunk and watch 43 hours of wrestling.

Thing I want tonight: Sasha turn, Matt and Brother Nero showing up, Finn showing up. I'm guessing at least one of those happen. I hope emma is in the SD title match too.

He's despised, Greg. No other way to put it.