Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Your Midweek Links: Giving Thanks for the Anarchy Champion

"It's all [Scot Summers'] blood."
Photo Credit: Leslie Lee III
It's hump day, so here are some links to get you through the rest of the week:

Selfies:

- Rachel Summerlyn came back on the show and talked about winning the Anarchy Championship... I repeat, I had a major Champion of a critically acclaimed promotion on my show. YEAH BOYEEEEE [Episode 79: Endless Summerlyn]

- As retweeted by Paul Heyman, why Jerry Lawler's approval of his heart attack angle last week doesn't mean you shouldn't be offended by it [Camel Clutch Blog]

- Where I examine the events at Cibernetico as a morality play [Cageside Seats]

- Hey! I did an e-mail exchange with Vince Morales about Survivor Series and other things [¡OlĂ©! Wrestling]

- Food Power Poll! All about pie [Holzerman Hungers]

Wrestling Links:

- A look at how the current AJ Lee/John Cena/Vickie Guerrero angle could turn out well and how it could turn out really, really bad [Cageside Seats]

- Jennifer Logsdon recounts her two weekends of women's wrestling immersion [Wrestling Reflections]

- Hey, it's The Color Commentator's Top 20 Women of 2012 list, a list where I was one of the voters! [The Color Commentator]

- Best and Worst of Survivor Series, guest posted by Dan "Soupy" Campbell [With Leather]

- And the Best and Worst of RAW, penned by Brandon Stroud [With Leather]

- David Shoemaker takes a look at the WWE's rookie class of 2012, including the three debuts from Survivor Series [Grantland]

- Tom Breihan looks at the Linda McMahon election bid [The Classical]

- How far is too far when it comes to extreme spots? [PW Ponderings]

- K. Sawyer Paul subs in for Dave Kincannon on this week's installment to talk about terrible yet interesting developments [Irresistible Force vs. Immovable Object]

- A cool account of the WWE's visit to Egypt [Deadspin]

Non-Wrestling Links:

- Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Need a last minute side dish idea? Here are sixty recipes [Buzz Feed]

- Castro and Plichter encounter some pretty vile pizza at Original Village [Doughboys]

- Upscale Taco Bell opening up on Chestnut Street? IT'S DEMOLITION MAN COME TO LIFE! [Foobooz]

- The Marlins traded everyone of worth for C-level prospects. Here's Jonah Keri with a somewhat contrary view of the trade [Grantland]

- And here's super psyched Marlins fan reacting to the trade [Zoo with Roy]

- Nate Silver not only owned the election, but he owned the case for Mike Trout as American League MVP. [Five-Thirty-Eight Blog]

- Is the Trout/Cabrera MVP debate really about stats? [Baseball Nation]

- Ian Riccaboni with one of the better plans for the offseason the Phillies could pursue [Phillies Nation]

- Jay-Z and Robert DeNiro, greatest beef ever? [UPROXX]

- The best options for the new Star Wars films [Unreality Mag]

- Bethlehem Shoals on Royce White, athlete hagiography and mental illness [Bethlehem Shoals]

- 26 of the BEST IDEAS EVER [Buzz Feed]

- Spencer Hall and Bryan Cook talk about the Big 10's expansion [Every Day Should Be Saturday]

- The most depressing Marvel What If? issues ever [Topless Robot]

- The Smorgasbord has a new home on KSK! [Kissing Suzy Kolber]

- Guy Fieri's NFL inspired menu [SB Nation]

- Five NFL tropes that have to die [Sports on Earth]

- ESPN's journalistic integrity is taking a hit [Awful Announcing]

- TROLL TUESDAY about the Bears not being elite [SB Nation]

- Six baffling modern day Biblical plagues [Cracked]

- One drawback of warp drive? Annihilation of planets [Extreme Tech]