boconnell

What a brutal use of a single data point. You're either intentionally trolling or you're not very bright. I'm going to walk away in case it's the latter.

It's classic to put Merrill in with those guys.

If RAF was good at selling wrestling to a mainstream audience then they would have sold RAF 2 with Kyle Dake to a mainstream audience. What RAF is good at is selling almost wrestling to a mainstream audience. Because the almost wrestling is the part of the card that sells. It's like saying the Savannah Bananas are good at selling baseball to a mainstream audience. But what I do really appreciate about RAF is that their highly skilled sale of almost wrestling allows wrestlers to get paid for wrestling.

So you're going to pretend you didn't mean bad or lesser. Interesting. How does this fit with you saying that if you think the home team represents you, it's because of 20th century propaganda meant to fight the red scare? Did you intend that statement to mean that people fooled by old propaganda have equal motives to you? Or maybe better motives than you? You can't tell someone their rooting interests come from propaganda against the red scare and then claim you never said their rooting interests are lesser. Your words weren't misunderstood. They were clear. If you didn't intend them, then say that and explain it better.

Yes. You made rooting interests by where you live a base reason. That's absurd. If someone from Cleveland roots for the Cavaliers that's not a lesser reason. And if an American roots for the American wrestling team it's not because of a response to the red scare. Your attempt to combat some borderline nationalism was weirdly dismissive of people rooting for the home team. Your reply here about more nuanced reasons is just as dismissive. If you pick based on style instead of laundry, you aren't more nuanced or better.

100%. Your post was brutal.

I agree that nobody should be rooting for anyone. Fan interests don't need justifications. But it's absurd you telling someone they can't root based on their own fan interests. The vast majority of fan interests in every sport are tied to where you live. You don't get to gatekeep fan motivations any more than he gets to gatekeep what an American is.

what time is wrestling today?

It's awesome that you say lots of the world looks down on America because America looks down on other places.

Good stuff. I didn't realize they underperformed last year. Hopefully that becomes a trend.

This would be super relevant if they were underperforming their seeds. Since they aren't, it's completely irrelevant. It's absolutely reasonable to not like how PSU goes about winning crazy amounts of titles. It's unreasonable to attempt to dismiss their titles because you don't like how they go about winning their crazy amounts of titles.

Isn't the stiffest competition the NCAA tournament? Isn't winning that tournament the definition of what wrestling stands for?

I bet almost the exact same.

The only thing he is getting closer to by the day is the world championships.