8 Things I'd change if I was in charge of AEW

 

1) Stop using picture in picture.

Just go to commercial. We don't need to see the heal get the upper hand. 

2) Julia Hart and her eye patch.

Get rid of it and move on or advance the story line. Turn heal already 

3) House of Black

Need to do something with them before they become the new Dark Order 

4) Get a GM Character

Just don't have it be Tony Kahn 

5) Trios Title

Get these titles active already. Fans want it. Wrestlers want it. Let's do this.

6) Drop Rampage

Show is pre taped a lot. Make that time slot for ROH. 

7) More managers for the faces. 

Face, or the good guys, need some managers. Face managers work if done right. 

8) Crossover matches with ROH

Just don't have the titles change between brands. No ROH wrestler to have a AEW title and vice versa 

These are my ideas, agree or disagree? What changes would you make? 

AEW Revolution Picks 2022

 

Andy and Jason Ink make their picks on the PPV

“Hangman” Adam Page (c) vs. Adam Cole for the AEW World Title

Andy - Hangman 

Ink - Hangman

Britt Baker (c) vs. Thunder Rosa for the AEW Women’s World Title

 Andy - Thunder Rosa

 Ink - Thunder Rosa

Jurassic Express (Jungle Boy and Luchasaurus) (c) vs. Bobby Fish and Kyle O’Reilly vs. Young Bucks

Andy - Young Bucks

Ink - reDRagon

Jade Cargill (c) vs. Tay Conti for the TBS Championship

Andy - Jade Cargill

Ink - Jade Cargill

Keith Lee vs. Wardlow vs. Powerhouse Hobbs vs. Ricky Starks vs. Orange Cassidy vs. TBA in the Face of the Revolution ladder match

Andy - Keith Lee

Ink - Wardlow

CM Punk vs. MJF in a Dog Collar Match

Andy - Punk

Ink - Punk 

Bryan Danielson vs. Jon Moxley

Andy - Danielson 

Ink - Moxley

Chris Jericho vs Eddie Kingston

Andy - Kingston

Ink - Kingston

Sammy Guevara/Darby Allin/Sting vs. Andrade El Idolo/Matt Hardy/Isiah Kassidy

Andy - Team Guevara 

Ink - Team AHFO

8 Things to fill my days during the Baseball Lock Out

 

Beside Minor League, High School, College and Town Ball - Here are 8 things that will fill my days during this lock out 

1) Clean out my car

2) Clean out the shed

3) Grill more often

4) USFL

5) Get rid of old pictures on my cell phone 

6) Work on my family tree

7) Fantasy NASCAR 

8) Get in some OT at work 

This is just a few things. What are you going to do to fill your time? 

-Andy  

8 Matches I'd like to see in AEW this year

 Once a month on the blog I'm going to list 8 things I'd like to see, want or see changed.

This month are 8 matches I'd like to see in AEW this year. This list is based in wrestlers currently in AEW or are free agents. 

None of these are current feuds, so it is purely fantasy booking.

Hook vs Miro

Lance Archer vs Windham 

Ricky Starks vs Adam Cole

Brock Anderson and Lee Johnson vs Young Bucks

Gunn Club vs Proud and Powerful (Santana and Ortiz)

Kris Statlander vs Jade Cargill

Thunder Rosa vs Layla Hirsch

Matt and Jeff Hardy vs Jurassic Express

Lets see how I do. Hopefully these matches take place

-Andy 

NCAA Football Bowl Games and COVID-19

Hey everybody Andy here Sports and songs page 2 blog format. Today I want to talk about how college football games have been affected this year by COVID-19. I'm doing this on the 30th of December so there's not many bowl games left so we should be done with what's affected and not affected so pardon me if there's been changes since then but here we go. College football bowl games have been canceled due to a rapid rise of COVID-19 cases across the globe. Bowl games have been canceled or altered as teams site positive tests on their rosters. To me, yes, the positive tests are affecting the rosters but even in the minimal bowl games there's a couple three players are sitting out because they think they're getting drafted in the NFL. So between the COVID cases and your NFL draft picks (now let's just make that clear in my opinion) here's an updated list of all the games altered or canceled due to OVID-19. 

Despite moving policies around to get Hawaii into a bowl game this season they are still left without a game due to COVID-19 so the SoFi Hawaii Bowl which was Memphis and Hawaii was canceled, The Military Bowl with Boston College and East Carolina,The Fenway Bowl Virginia and SMU and the Holiday Bowl with  UCLA and NC State. Fox Sports Bruce Feldman reported Tuesday of this week that the UCLA - NC State game was going to be canceled less than 5 hours ahead of kickoff. The Sun Bowl with Miami vs Washington State and  The Arizona Bowl with Boise State vs Central Michigan. Those two games are supposed to be changed. Boise State official removed itself in Arizona Bowl and this came after Miami of Florida had not even made the flight to the Sun Bowl in El Paso Texas. Washington State was left without an opponent for the Sun Bowl and now Central Michigan is left without one for the Arizona Bowl. There is a stipulation that would allow the Chippewas to play the Cougars in the Sun Bowl but the MAC conference would have to allow CMU to be removed from their bowl affiliation. Well the growing number of teams seen a surge in cases it seems likely that some games may find a replacement teams for their other bowls. That isn't the case yet but the Sun Bowl looking more like it's Washington State vs Central Michigan.

Why sudden COVID-19 cases for their problem, Texas A&M opted out of the Gator Bowl do the COVID-19 while the NCAA to find a replacement, Rutgers has officially stepped in to Texas A&M place and will face Wake Forest Friday the 31st. At the time of this report there are also reports going around the Alamo Bowl between Oklahoma and Oregon both teams seem to be relatively short-handed for a couple reasons Oregon reportedly seeing a spike in cases 

How's this going to affect college basketball coming up. How's the NFL going to do its playoffs with what COVID is doing to the college games. When the NHL and NBA kick back up here they've kind of had to miss some games and cancel games because of this. 

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-Andy

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More WWE Firings

So it looks like WWE has let some more wrestlers go. One name I want to talk about particularly today is what they went by in WWE anyway Drake Maverick when he was in impact or TNA as Rockstar Spud he did do some work with Matt Hardy. With that said I won't be surprised if he showed up in AEW working with Matt Hardy once the 90 days is done. I think Rockstar Spud and Marco Stunt could put on some great matches together. I also think Rockstar Spuds really good on the stick. I think he'd be a great asset for Matt Hardy and his group  Also there's other guys too, but I'm focusing on Rockstar Spud right now  He's got more talent than people give him credit for (my opinion)  and he needs a chance to shine a little more  He had that in TNA Impact for a while but he needs that light again cuz I think he still has a lot to offer. 

Another name that was released John Morrison. I don't know if he will go AEW. He might go back to Impact maybe but I'm pretty sure he'll wind up somewhere. He's got too much talent still to be sitting there wasting away. I don't know if his wife will sign somewhere to with him or if they'll stay separate but that's another story for another day. I don't think they'll go back to Impact cuz there might be some issues there when they left if there's burnt bridges  I'm not sure but maybe AEW maybe he holds on just those Indies for a while  We'll see more power to him on that.

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Do high MLB salaries equal a playoff team?

 

Below is a list of team payrolls this year. 6 of the top 10 made the playoffs (highlighted in yellow). MLB has 30 teams and 2 in the bottom 12 made the playoffs. 

The lowest payroll belongs to Cleveland. They finished 80-82. 13 games out of first and 12 out of the wild card. Payroll of $47.9 million for a 28 man roster. 14 players in MLB this year made at least $30 million. 

Yankees are 2nd in payroll and made the wild card on the last day of the season. 

Tampa is 26th in payroll ($70.2 million) and made the World Series last year. They are in the playoffs this year as well. Division Champions. 100-62 +8 GB

Mets are 3rd in payroll ($197.7 million) and finished below .500 (77-85  11.5 GB)

Seattle (25th in payroll) and Oakland (22nd in payroll) were in the playoff chase until the final weekend. 

San Diego (8th in payroll) like the Mets, finished below 500 (79-83 28 GB) Both teams at the All Star Break were in the playoff chase. 

This is what makes Baseball the great game it is 

1. Los Angeles Dodgers ($267.2 mil)
2. New York Yankees ($203.8 mil)
3. New York Mets ($197.7 mil)
4. Houston Astros ($191.7 mil)
5. Philadelphia Phillies ($183.9 mil)
6. Boston Red Sox ($181.9 mil)
7. Los Angeles Angels ($180.7 mil)
8. San Diego Padres ($175.6 mil)
9. St. Louis Cardinals ($168.5 mil)
10. San Francisco Giants ($159.6 mil)
11. Toronto Blue Jays ($150.8 mil)
12. Washington Nationals ($148.5 mil)
13. Atlanta Braves ($147.7 mil)
14. Chicago Cubs ($141 mil)
15. Chicago White Sox ($140.9 mil)
16. Cincinnati Reds ($126.1 mil)
17. Minnesota Twins ($117.4 mil)
18. Colorado Rockies ($114.3 mil)
19. Milwaukee Brewers ($98 mil)
20. Texas Rangers ($95 mil)
21. Arizona Diamondbacks ($89.6 mil)
22. Oakland A’s ($88.6 mil)
23. Detroit Tigers ($85.5 mil)
24. Kansas City Royals ($85.1 mil)
25. Seattle Mariners ($81.4 mil)
26. Tampa Bay Rays ($70.2 mil)
27. Miami Marlins ($58.1 mil)
28. Baltimore Orioles ($57.4 mil)
29. Pittsburgh Pirates ($54.7 mil)
30. Cleveland Indians ($47.9 mil)