I Just Signed Up For Peacock to See Zane Richards and the Brawlnagels Smash

[ILLINIWrestlingBlog]

It costed me $5.99 plus tax. Seems like a fair price for a month. Supposedly, I can cancel any time. On top of that, there are movies and tv shows. I haven't seen Oppenheimer, so that's a good deal, but my goodness, there's a lot of trash. The Dog Who Saved Halloween? 

This website needs a font to show when you're dead-*******-serious. 

I'm serious, The Dog Who Saved Halloween. Is that why are brains are all mush? I will certainly cancel the service within a month. 

In any event, I wanted to ask this question: Does anybody know when brackets come out? I heard it was today, but that narrows things down to the next 16 hours or so, and I want to get to work on a Moneyball post. If you know, but don't want to say in public, please send me a direct message. Cheers! 

[ionel]

2 hours ago, ILLINIWrestlingBlog said:

It costed me $5.99 plus tax. Seems like a fair price for a month. Supposedly, I can cancel any time. On top of that, there are movies and tv shows. I haven't seen Oppenheimer, so that's a good deal, but my goodness, there's a lot of trash. The Dog Who Saved Halloween? 

This website needs a font to show when you're dead-*******-serious. 

I'm serious, The Dog Who Saved Halloween. Is that why are brains are all mush? I will certainly cancel the service within a month. 

In any event, I wanted to ask this question: Does anybody know when brackets come out? I heard it was today, but that narrows things down to the next 16 hours or so, and I want to get to work on a Moneyball post. If you know, but don't want to say in public, please send me a direct message. Cheers! 

You can also watch replay of the full Volta.    

[BAC]

7 hours ago, ILLINIWrestlingBlog said:

I'm serious, The Dog Who Saved Halloween.

I'll agree that the premise is suspect, but I'm actually more offended by the giveaway built into the title.  We know from the title that the whole movie will be about a Halloween gone awry and a dog who tries to fix it, which is fine, but the problem is we also know how it ends -- that yes, in fact, the dog will indeed save the holiday. 

Its like Sixth Sense being called "The Boy Who Could See the Dead Psychiatrist." 

I mean, at least keep me in suspense on whether the pup will be able to save Halloween or not.  Maybe "The Dog Who Tried to Save Halloween," or maybe a question mark title, like "Can the Dog Save Halloween?"

Yeah, I know, its a kiddie movie, so by definition it'll probably have a happy ending.  But at least let me hold out hope for an Old Yeller type ending where the dog succumbs to its injury to a flesh-eating Halloween mummy while trying to save his family.  Those unexpected tear-jerkers are great.  Or better still, a Million Dollar Baby type mid-move plot twist where early in the movie, the dog gets shanked by some hook-wielding Halloween pirate while trying to save the day, prompting a timely internal family debate about whether to euthanize the crippled dog. 

But no.  We already know the damn dog saves Halloween.  I call BS.

[ionel]

24 minutes ago, BAC said:

Halloween gone awry and a dog who tries to fix it, which is fine, but the problem is we also know how it ends -- that yes, in fact, the dog will indeed save the holiday. 

But no.  We already know the damn dog saves Halloween.  I call BS.

ahh ... but save it from what?   See there is some intrigue. 

[BarSeries]

Peacock might be worth it because they also have The Dog Who Saved Easter and The Dog Who Saved Summer.

[scribers]

Traitors is hilarious 

[ILLINIWrestlingBlog]

18 hours ago, scribers said:

Traitors is hilarious 

Looks interesting! Good audience and critic scores on Rotten Tomatoes. I will check it out while it is free and available. I would've likely missed it otherwise (and without your recommendation). Cheers! 

 

Back to the topic at hand, we posted a Moneyball look at the opponents of Zane Richards, Danny Braunagel and Zac Braunagel here. I very much like the fact that Zane will probably be much fresher when he faces Spencer than Spencer will be when he faces Zane. The cause was missing the US Open (that Zane won), and the effect is having to wrestle Nico Megaludis about 3 hours after making scratch weight, while the IRTC wrestler faces the winner of the 8/9 seed. 

Also of interest, the average age of the two men facing the Brawlnagel twins in the first round of the OTT is 32½. Both of the baddies have been Greco mainstays for years. If my calculations are correct, Danny and Zac were in sixth or seventh grade when Ben Provisor and RaVaughn Perkins were wrestling in Senior Greco National tournaments.

Was a year enough training for the young guns to unseat the greybeards? 

[ionel]

19 hours ago, scribers said:

Traitors is hilarious 

Is this a show about the portal?  

[ILLINIWrestlingBlog]

 

OTHER BRACKETS

I'm mostly interested in 57 kg Freestyle and 77 kg, 87 kg and 97 kg Greco, but there are some other great brackets here. 

97 kg Freestyle: One of the first matches out of the gate will be two fatties having to make weight and wrestle in the first round: Tony Cassioppi and Christian Carroll. J'Den Cox and Isaac Trumble are my picks to meet to see who gets to face Captain America. This is a great bracket!

86 kg Freestyle: Not really a great bracket, but PD3 and Stallrocky in the first round is intriguing in the way Stalin versus Hitler was. I do think that Brooks versus Dieringer in the semis of the challenge tournament is a quality, quality match. That is a must-see match.  

74 kg Freestyle: Burroughs, Dake and Nolf. That's a winner by itself. But what makes this bracket really "fun" is the bottom of the bottom half: Haines versus Cenzo to face Nolf. There will be Lion blood on the mat here. What makes it especially intriguing for this match (and for all of Friday) is that the wrestlers only have one shot to win or lose. In a perfect world, why not do like the NBA with a best of three in each round? It would probably require two weekends in a row, but seems a little random to me the way it is. One lucky leglace.... 

All the Women's weights: They have somebody already sitting in the Saturday best of two finals at each weight, and they are all huge names in the sport. So, Friday, kinda meh until the semis; Saturday, WOW!

 

MORE ABOUT PEACOCK

If Heaven only offered Peacock streaming, I'd be like, I'm good. I'll just roam the Earth as an untethered spirit. After going through most of the offerings, this is my list of things to watch before the month is over: Oppenheimer, SuperBad, Heroes (a few episodes maybe) and Scrubs (a few episodes maybe). 

I think this is how the negotiations went between Peacock executives and the executive producers for 99% of the movies on the streaming service:

PEACOCK: We will give you $7.

PRODUCERS: Is that per view on your service?

PEACOCK: No. We will give you $7.

And yet, I'm very happy to pay $5.99 plus tax to watch the OTTs. Additionally, according to the internet, Peacock will upload a replay of their sporting events within 24 hours of their completion. 

 

FINAL THOUGHTS

I'm sorry y'all have to deal with my antsy-in-the-pantsy-ness until I get banned. But, c'mon, man, clear the mats and start the matches! 

[JuanMogen]

“Halloween” is the nickname of the town rapist. It’s a touching story about not being so quick to judge and realizing that we have a little bit of The Devil in us  all. 

[bnwtwg]

6 hours ago, ILLINIWrestlingBlog said:

two fatties having to make weight and wrestle in the first round: Tony Cassioppi and Christian Carroll

You made Poeta blush with this zinger of those Benedict Arnolds

[ionel]

3 hours ago, JuanMogen said:

“Halloween” is the nickname of the town rapist. It’s a touching story about not being so quick to judge and realizing that we have a little bit of The Devil in us  all. 

Gee thanks for giving it away JM, I now have time to clean the garage.