Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Your Midweek Links: More Like Hall of Lame

Gratuitous Kaitlyn pic spam? Yeah, guilty.
It's hump day, so here are some links to get you through the rest of the week:

Selfies:

- Last week on the podcast, Jeff Paternostro and I talked about Dragon Gate USA and baseball [Episode 83: With Dawn Marie to Heal Us]

- And this week on the show, Patrick Vint and I talked about college football and the Royal Rumble [Episode 84: Wu-Kwang Forever]

- Butch Rosser joined us this week, and he wrote two reaction pieces that I think you should read [Best Coast Bias]

- Danielle Matheson also joined us in the last week, and while she hasn't posted here yet, here's her latest Best and Worst of Impact [With Leather]

- Where I argue that Rock/Cena II would be so very very bad [Camel Clutch Blog]

- Where I plead with Bill O'Brien not to go pro and stay at Penn State. You can actually thank this column for his decision. AT least that's what I like to tell myself at night. [The High Phive]

Wrestling Links:

- New Japan is hot again, so here's a full scouting report of their roster! [Cewsh Reviews]

- An argument on why Kaitlyn and AJ Lee have revolutionized women characters in WWE [Over as Hell]

- An argument that a truly great wrestler rarely comes out of the indies [Wrestlefan Writes]

- An argument that WWE doesn't need new writers, but new show runners [¡OlĂ©! Wrestling]

- Old pro wrestlers don't retire, they just become comics? [The Only Way Is Suplex]

- Hey, Razor's back, and he's got RAW reviewed on lockdown! [Kick-Out!! Wrestling]

- And hey, Best and Worst too! [With Leather]

Non-Wrestling Links:

- The most anticipated albums of 2013 (so far) [UPROXX]

- In light of today's awful voting results with no one making the baseball Hall of Fame, an argument for barring steroid era sportswriters from voting [Deadspin]

- And now, the oddest Hall of Fame votes ever cast [Baseball Nation]

- 20 things people think about food but will never say [First We Feast]

- Stone Brewery is making It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia-themed beer [Warming Glow]

- Some dude ate the entire Denny's Hobbit menu in under 20 minutes. He might have been better off eating the physical menu sheet it was printed on, to be honest [Film Drunk]

- TGI Friday's customer leaves a very interesting note on his/her receipt [Huffington Post]

- Gamma radiation turns cheap hooch into fine liquor [Gamma Squad]

- With another stinker of a BCS Championship Game in the books, an argument as to why college football fans can never lecture NFL fans that their iteration of the game is more exciting ever again [Kissing Suzy Kolber]

- No matter how much you dislike the NCAA, here's why Tom Corbett is the real bad guy in his suit against them over Penn State's sanctions [SB Nation]

- Bill Polian doesn't think "Moneyball" works in the NFL, misunderstands what that term actually means [Shutdown Corner]

- All 124 teams in FBS college football get one sentence apiece to sum up their seasons [SB Nation]

- The 12 greatest system launch games ever, with a huge dose of Mario, mainly because Mario rules your face, newbs [Dorkly]

- A good longread on why the Big Bang Theory is awful [But My Opinion's Right]

- The 100 best sitcom episodes ever [Warming Glow]

- Why no Community is better than the show being sterilized and homogenized [Warming Glow]

- Why George Washington was the luckiest, craziest motherfucker who ever lived [Cracked]