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Yeah, I think it’d be great if WWE didn’t suck. I only root for them to fail because I hate their business practices and I think Vince lost touch with what his viewers want a decade ago and often books o deliberately spite the fans. As for NXT, I’m not optimistic.

I’ve never understood why people give their allegiances to companies and blindly follow them regardless of the quality of their products. I love NXT, but it’s easy to see that main roster WWE has been creatively bankrupt for a decade now, and that they can’t effectively push more than two guys at a time. Right now, the only people that matter on Smackdown are Roman Reigns and whoever his next opponent is. Everyone else on the show isn’t worth a sack of shit, and that’s why their best performers are jumping ship.

I don’t know think it hit the highs of some of the best NXT shows the past six years or so, but that’s more or a testament to how great NXT has been. It was definitely a quality show top to bottom, and the two big debuts plus Punk’s return to in-ring action made it feel bigger than shows that I think were better from an in-ring standpoint.

So Daniel Bryan and Adam Cole both debuted at All Out on Sunday. I honestly think getting those guys is a bigger deal than Punk. Bryan was, by all indications, happy wrestling in WWE, but he left anyway. And reports are that they asked Cole, a 32 year old who has been one of the best performers in the entire WWE for the better part of the past four years, to be a manager on Smackdown, which is an outright slap in the face. Rumor has it that Bray Wyatt will debut in October as well, and both Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn are expected to have their contracts up in the next four months, meaning they could jump ship as well. Certainly exciting times ahead for AEW. WWE, on the other hand, is just hemorrhaging high end talent.

I don't have anything set for next week that I can't just move to a different night.

Keep: Kyler Murray Miles Sanders Nick Chubb Aaron Jones D'Andre Swift Chris Godwin Tyler Lockett DK Metcalf Diontae Johnson Bryan Edwards TJ Hockenson --- Cut: Sam Darnold Joshua Kelley Leonard Fournette Jalen Reagor --- That Henderson contract would be nice right about now.

The dragon episode was one of my least favorite last season, but there were a lot of quality episodes like the opener where Morty uses the death crystals to try to find a way to die old with Jessica (the post credit scene was amazing), the second episode where Rick tries to find who used his toilet, the heist send-up, the snake time travel episode, the train episode, the vat of acid episode (one of the best in the series imo), and the aforementioned finale. There were a few duds, but overall I thought it was a solid season. And there are at least two duds in basically every season of Rick & Morty, so that's nothing new. Last season had three, and overall wasn't as good as season three, but I really don't see why people thought it was so bad. Plenty of rewatchable episodes there.

The ninth episode doesn't air until September 5th in the US either.

I appreciate when the show tries to add depth to the characters and/or provide some long-term storytelling and set-up, but most of the episodes like that in the past were a lot funnier than last week's showing like the Citadel of Rick anthology or the one where Rick escapes from space prison.

I'm in. Can do pretty much any night before the season starts as long as I have at least a week's notice.

Yeah, I'm torn on episodes of this show sometimes. Last week's episode was really nothing special from a storytelling perspective, but the jokes landed for me. I laughed out loud a lot during it, and given that Rick & Morty is a comedy, that matters. This week's episode was certainly more inspired from an artistic and narrative standpoint, but I'm not sure I laughed a single time. So now I don't know what to think.

The series finale of this show better be Morty finally making it to Boob World.

Trying to make sense of my roster. From what I can tell, it looks like this... QB Kyler Murray - $15 - 2 years remaining QB Sam Darnold - $12 - 2 years remaining RB Nick Chubb - $12 - 1 year remaining RB D'Andre Swift - $9 - 3 years remaining RB Aaron Jones - $1 - 1 year remaining RB Miles Sanders - $27 - 2 years remaining RB Leonard Fournette - $5 - 1 year remaining RB Joshua Kelley - $2 - 3 years remaining WR DK Metcalf - $3 - 2 years remaining WR Chris Godwin - $1 - 1 year remaining WR Diontae Johnson - $5 - 3 years remaining WR Bryan Edwards - $1 - 3 years remaining WR Jalen Reagor - $5 - 2 years remaining TE TJ Hockenson - $5 - 2 years remaining --- Dead Cap: RB Derrius Guice - $4 - 1 year remaining RB Royce Freeman - $6 - 1 year remaining RB Darrell Henderson - $1 - 2 years remaining WR N'Keal Harry - $1 - 2 years remaining TE David Njoku - $2 - 1 year remaining That's obviously not counting any guys I cut this year, and there will be a couple. I think I did the math right on all those dead cap hits. Finally getting out of those Guice and Freeman contracts this year too! Guys I'm considering cutting this year include Sam Darnold, Lombardi Lenny, Josh Kelley, and Jalen Reagor in case anyone wants to strike up a deal and take a flyer on one of them.

We still doing this?

Every season of Rick and Morty is pretty much the same in my eyes. They hit a couple of home runs, have a couple of good episodes, a few forgettable ones, and one or two bad ones. This season seems on pace for that. I don't think there's been an outright bad episode yet this season, but the third one was pretty close.

Yeah, I've been hearing that for years and I always thought that it's both probably true and also completely idiotic. If someone becomes big enough as a wrestler that they can piss off to Hollywood, that means they've elevated your show and brought more eyes to wrestling. WWE should strive to make more Rocks and Cenas, because that might mean they are actually relevant in the cultural zeitgeist again in a way they haven't been for over a decade.

When my boxer Loki died four years ago, I started searching for another one a week later. Found one two weeks later. Got lucky right before Christmas when someone abandoned their deposit on a pup that looked exactly like what I wanted (aka flashy brindle). Don't regret it at all. The tongue on this one is a little out of control (see my profile picture), but I'm fairly certain I'll always have a boxer now. Two for two so far. Never getting another German Shepherd, though. Too much hair.

The president shouting "one hundred percent male marines" got me good.

Morty's horniness is compiling quite the body count.

I fucking loved that episode.

It might not even be this season. A lot of this show is setting up big things down the line, like the Citadel of Rick episode from two seasons ago that still hasn't paid off. If I recall, it took two seasons for Phoenix Person to return as well after he was killed and reanimated by the galactic government.

While that was definitely the worst of the three episodes, I don't think it was terrible. It reminds me of a lot of episodes of this show that are good but not great. There are a few every season, along with a few amazing episodes and a few duds. Biggest laugh in this week's episode was after Summer destroyed the asteroid about to collide with the third planet on Rick's bar crawl. "She's the girl who saved the planet! Now we have to go to work tomorrow. BOOOOOOOOO!"

Probably will be at some point. I find doing the ears to be far more reprehensible than the tails, though, since they do it at a much older age.

So strange to see a boxer with a tail. I know that's very common in Europe (it's illegal in many countries to dock them, right?), but you never see it in the States. Even some mixed breeds that look kind of like boxers have their tails docked here, which seems insanely pointless to me but whatever. I've never even had the option of going undocked with my two boxers because they do it at around three days old, which was before I knew either dog existed.

I didn't have boxers growing up, sadly. When I was a real little kid, we had a Maltese that sucked, but that was my only dog growing up. Got my first boxer in college after one of my good friends recommended the breed and I had done a little research. Seemed ideal for my college lifestyle. Low maintenance in regards to grooming, I was around all the time to train, high energy but great with people, so perfect when we had parties...a nice fit for a student lifestyle. I remember we had an actual party for his first birthday where it was just a normal college party where we all got shitfaced and played beer pong, flip cup, and other similar games while the dog just ran around and had a wonderful time getting petted by two dozen people. He particularly loved beer pong, and would chase down the ping pong balls when they hit the floor. Strangely, he didn't destroy them. He just held them gingerly in his mouth until someone took it from him. My second boxer has done the same thing the few times she has been exposed to beer pong, but they never met so she definitely didn't learn it from him. But yeah, they are all around a great breed. Medium sized and muscular, so you can take them on athletic and outdoorsy activities but they're also not massive, so you can have one in an apartment or a house. They're usually very social, so you can take them to breweries and dog parks, and usually don't have to worry about having friends over (the main thing mine will do is lick the hell out of you). They don't shed a ton unless you have a white one, in which case it's a nightmare. Easy to clean. They're kind of dumb, but in a really endearing way. And they just have a lot of personality compared to many other breeds. My German Shepherd is really smart and obedient as all hell, but he's also kind of boring.