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[Grandstander]

Originally Posted by JoseA

Who was your favorite professional wrestler growing up and why?

Wrestling was fragmented and regional back then, so I don't know how many are familiar with The Great Malenko except possibly through his vastly inferior son who was around for a time. He was from New Jersey or some place like that, but was marketed as the commie villain. He was always a bad guy, not like the ones who switch back and forth in their careers. What made him such a standout was that he was a great interview. He never lost the illusion that he was actually a tremendous hero to all the fans who were throwing things at him night after night and he would always have some complex psychological explanation as to why they were booing instead of cheering. He had this long running gimmick one year centered on the people of Miami Beach erecting a statue of Malenko outside the Miami Beach Convention Center...every week some new excuse why the project was being delayed. Finally, an understanding Malenko decided to advance the city the statue money out of his own pocket. He had four foot replica of what the statue was to look like when finished which he carted around and talked about endlessly. Then one week some good guy got hold of the statue and smashed it into atoms.......the grief stricken Malenko put on an Oscar level performance with that, which of course set up a long running feud with the statue smasher.

I met Malenko when I was at FSU. I wrote a sociology paper on wrestling fans and went out to the shows for a few weeks to get ideas and material. Malenko agreed to a short interview and he was great. I asked him what he was getting out of wrestling and he told me "Alimony money for five ex wives."

[Grandstander]

Originally Posted by skrable

My memory is that they kicked you out of the Colosseum for starting the wave, which you blamed on me and led to my being shackled for six weeks. Or have you conveniently forgotten about that?

You were so drunk that you don't even remember taking off your toga and racing out onto the arena floor to try and get Flavius Gavius' autograph right after he broke the single season slaughter record.

[Grandstander]

Originally Posted by LaxD

If a train was moving west at 24 mph and a train moving east 17 mph started 192 miles apart, how many people could JoseA eat with a straw?

All the wood he could chuck.

[JoseA]

Would you rather go to Crazy Horse or Paris, France and why?

[Grandstander]

Originally Posted by JoseA

Would you rather go to Crazy Horse or Paris, France and why?

My pathology is the internalized sort, a condition which means that my having a good time or not will depend on the company I'm with, the mood that I am in and the absense of things going wrong. Thus for people like me, the destination is actually far down on the list of factors which determines the worth of a trip. I've been to Paris, but the circumstances at the time were such that it wasn't especially memorable. On the other hand I passed a New Years Eve in Toronto once where I had one of the best times of my life. Had I known none of that in advance and been asked "Where would I rather go, Paris or Toronto?" my answer would have been based on false factors, my perceptions that exotic Paris was the superior choice.

[bedir than average]

How do you spend your summer?

[jtur88]

Considering that Major League Baseball is insisting that it is trying to make the game more accessible to young fans, some of whom have a bedtime, do you think 6 minutes to 9 is a little bit late for the first pitch of the All Star Game?

[Grandstander]

Originally Posted by bedir than average

How do you spend your summer?

Same way I spend my winters except not having to fiddle with my wood stove.

[Grandstander]

Originally Posted by jtur88

Considering that Major League Baseball is insisting that it is trying to make the game more accessible to young fans, some of whom have a bedtime, do you think 6 minutes to 9 is a little bit late for the first pitch of the All Star Game?

That is the penalty which must be paid by those foolish enough to live on the East Coast.

[perfectstormhits]

Yeah? Well at least we're not going to slide off into the Pacific.

What have been the Top Five Ask Grandstander Questions?

[Grandstander]

Originally Posted by perfectstormhits

Yeah? Well at least we're not going to slide off into the Pacific.

What have been the Top Five Ask Grandstander Questions?

1) Who the hell do you think you are with this thread?
2) Which would you prefer, horrible thing A or horrible thing B?
3) What time is it?
4) What have been the Top Five Ask Grandstander Questions?
5) When the Coyote paints a road tunnel on the side of a mountain and the Road Runner continues on his vector right through it as though it was actually open space, where is the Road Runner? Is he passing through solid matter in some sort of molecular dodgeball deal, or does he operate on a completely different set of physicals laws whereby the tunnel becomes open space for him yet remains solid when the Coyote attempts to pursue through the tunnel?

[Nighthawk]

A story is making the rounds of a baby born this week on 7/7/07 which weighed 7 lbs, 7 oz. on the 7th floor in the hospital in the 7th year of the couples' marriage. What I want to know is, do you think the Giants would dare to make a run at A-rod this offseason?

[perfectstormhits]

Was that baby born at 7:07?

[Grandstander]

Originally Posted by Nighthawk

A story is making the rounds of a baby born this week on 7/7/07 which weighed 7 lbs, 7 oz. on the 7th floor in the hospital in the 7th year of the couples' marriage. What I want to know is, do you think the Giants would dare to make a run at A-rod this offseason?

The Giants fans certainly did not help tonight with the lukewarm ho hum reception afforded Rodriguez when he was introduced. That may get remembered when he is considering where to play next.

I think that the Giants going after him is a realistic possibility. Sabean has operated on the one superstar and flesh out the roster with vets formula his whole career, so I'm sure he would like to simply replace Bonds with Arod. They will have several years before they can no longer afford Cain and Lincecum, so now would be a good time to spend money.

[Grandstander]

Originally Posted by perfectstormhits

Was that baby born at 7:07?

Yes...the 7th child of Mr. and Mrs. Seven who live at 2007 Seventh Street, Sevenville, Seventana. And their phone number and social security numbers are all sevens and like that.