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@_xaibii VI.

Which WrestleMania is your Birth Year???

@WrestlePurists @HeyHeyItsConrad The WWF’s victory lap. The end of the attitude era. The best Mania of all time.

25 years ago today, WrestleMania X-Seven. Widely regarded as the best WrestleMania of all time.

@_RK_Oh_No @WrestlePurists Ball knowers.

@WrestlePurists Who regarded it the best among all??

@AlTheBoss03 Wasn’t a game. It was a series. 2004 ALCS.

Has your team ever suffered a DEVASTATING loss… the kind you still think about years later? 💔 What game was it?

@jonpokerwriter @PokerNews @WSOP @texascardhouse What about WSOP coverage on PokerGo this year? I know ESPN got their grubby paws on it, but will full coverage still be on PGO?

Good news for worried Texas poker players following The Lodge situation. I can confirm the @WSOP Circuit series at @texascardhouse in Austin in April is on. More on this on the upcoming @PokerNews Podcast. Stay tuned!

@TRowOU Well that’s a better food take than your steak choices. 😂😂

Pancakes w/maple syrup. I’m a simple man.

@_IGI_Media_ @iJordanMoore Exactly right. We’ll learn which umps are actually bad at calling balls/strikes, and which ones are just human and miss occasionally. The latter will adjust and get better, the former will be forced out.

@iJordanMoore Everyone is saying "the umps are bad the umps are bad" No, there's a system now that when there's a bad call it can be rectified. we've been subjected to the entire league trying this new system, so we've been inundated while the sloppiness of the league is adjusted. The formula: Good pitches and good calls + 50% of the challenged calls are still good officiating. * because some of the pitches get challenged doesn't me all calls are bad. What happens next is called a pendulum swing. In life when a new rule is imposed, people adjust: * often they over compensate The umps will shrink the zone slightly, and work on their craft so it fits. CB and a handful of other umps will be forced to adjust or remove themselves from plate duty. Pitchers lose the outside area around the zone. The next topics are the zone variance from player to player, and the location of the new strike zone. We'll see the scoring impacted (both good and bad) We'll see teams and players wasting challenges to their own detriment.

Nobody’s really talking about it yet, but ABS is going to completely change the catcher position. Framing isn’t dead but now you’ve got to manage challenges, read hitters/umps, and pick your spots in real time. That’s a whole new skillset. It’ll be coached in the minors, baked into development, and eventually standard at the college level. Catchers are hitting on 60% of their challenges right now… that’s game-changing.

@WCWNitroBook Of all the shitty options, at least they went with the least shitty.

The revamped #WCW Monday Nitro logo (and its earlier iterations), developed in Spring 1999. From the book, NITRO: The Incredible Rise and Inevitable Collapse of Ted Turner's WCW. Get the book here: amazon.com/NITRO-Incredib… Listen to the NITRO Book Collection on Audible: audible.com/series/Nitro-B…

@infamous04 @burackbobby_ Eisen is already in the ESPN family. Though I’m curious if they’ll move him to NFL Live duties and/or Sunday NFL Countdown

@burackbobby_ What about Rich Eisen, Sara Walsh, Jamie Erdahl?

With ESPN taking over NFL Network tomorrow, here are some NFL Network people I think are good and will have success at ESPN, if given a chance: Pelissero, Rapoport, Jane Slater, Cynthia Frelund, Daniel Jeremiah, Kyle Brandt, and Kurt Warner.

@TRowOU If you could do PBP for one non-sooner team, who would it be. Can be pro or college.

I’ve got WiFi on flight to Vegas. How about some 30,000-foot Q&A…whatcha got? ✈️❓🤔

@WrestleRant Watched it a couple of weeks ago as part of my annual Mania Marathon. It holds up. Still the gold standard to me.

Looking forward to doing a watch-along for the exact 25th anniversary of #WrestleMania 17 starting Wednesday morning around 10-11am on YouTube! Does it hold up as the greatest 'Mania of all-time? Hope you can join us! Stream link coming tomorrow!! YouTube.com/WrestleRant

@WrestleRant I think that’s a fair reasoning. Certainly sounds like Bron/Rollins will carry WWE through the summer.

Well, there's your post-WrestleMania Raw angle.

@TRowOU Who is in the booth tonight? I don’t recognize the voice… I just know it’s not you!

@CloudWrestling 16. That should have already been gone.

WWE 2K Elimination Game – Day 7 👀 WWE 2K23 has been eliminated ❌ Comment ONE game to eliminate next. The game with the most comments is OUT. Which one goes next? 👇 The game is getting interesting who will win lets see. #WWE2K26 #WWERaw

@PrickyStarks @ReneusMeister Funny. I don’t remember TNA having a match where a guy stuck a syringe through his opponent’s cheek.

@Red_6iant @ReneusMeister You is right, TNA is a bunch a garbage thanks for pointing that out Blaine

Saying this while working for the promotion that actively goes out of their way to have the least amount of actual wrestling is very funny.

@rationalyankee Stern was WELL respected by the fans.

I’m convinced it’s impossible to be the commissioner of a major American sports league and get the fans to like you. I’m 34 years old and can’t think of one commissioner of a major sport in my lifetime who wasn’t constantly berated by fans of their respective leagues. You probably have to go all the way back to Pete Rozelle (NFL) in the 60s, 70s and 80s to find a commissioner who fans universally liked. With how big of a business pro sports has become, there are too many competing interests. Commissioners are bound to piss off the fans eventually and when they do, there’s no coming back from it. I am a fan of the changes Rob Manfred has made to the on-field MLB product. Unfortunately, I also think he’s going to oversee the most significant labor crisis in 30’years and that’s ultimately going to be his legacy.

@GiftedMoney THE WHOLE FOUNDATION OF WRESTLEMANIA IS THE BLENDING OF WRESTLING AND POP CULTURE. My god, this app is full of fucking morons.

WWE has had celebrity involvement since WrestleMania 1. What are we doing?

@TheBubbaArmy LOL.. Bubba The Love Sponge or Marc Mero. I think I’ll stick with Marc.

Bubba says Marc Mero’s real-life behavior doesn’t match the victim story he keeps telling....

@AaronQuinn716 I can accept 18. But that’s as far as I think it should go. What I hate more is international games.

There is an unfair layer of data in this stuff where the NFL thinks they can just expand and grow and add more, and it will work because we are addicted to this thing and consume all of it as much as we can. But I don't think MOST fans want more of it. And we don't want it all over the world. And we don't want it on Thursday nights. My 2 cents.