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DrVenkman posted:I honestly hope he never leaves. He's the gift that keeps on giving. I know Reddit is frowned upon a lot and while there are people who take everything onboard that Metsfan says there's just as many asking him to stop. Someone linked to a story that Alvarez wrote about the freedom that NXT gets, and Metsfan tried to claim that he said basically the same thing, while linking to his own post that doesn't actually say the same thing. I'm not sure if my favorite recent MetsFan thing is his trying to report on other companies that he assumedly has no connection to, or his "Triple H's new clique" "report" that basically said "the guys who are among the best wrestlers in the world don't have to do the same workouts as the greenest rookies."
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Feb 20, 2015 04:52
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MetsFan is doing an AMA right now and all his answers are like 2-3 words so he might be drunk. Also he keeps typing Sami as Sammi and it's annoying as gently caress how do you not know how to spell a name with four letters you internet nerd
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MetsFan's constant ruination of his own supposed credibility is delightful.
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I always felt like if I could afford a WOL/F4W sub I could just listen to the daily shows, reword them, and then be _______Fan5Ever on Reddit, I'm only ten bucks and a local pro sports team away. I mean I could be WildcatsFan but when your college basketball team makes everyone else look like garbage puked a turd there's no point in bragging about it
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My favourite Metsfan memory is the time he posted something that implied his source knew more about something going on with the Rock than Dave Meltzers source. Meltzers source for Rock stories of course being the Rock.
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Skinty McEdger posted:My favourite Metsfan memory is the time he posted something that implied his source knew more about something going on with the Rock than Dave Meltzers source. He just did the most passive/aggressive AMA. He's given like two word answers the whole time and when someone asked if he was ok because he doesn't seem that into it he just moaned that it wasn't as exciting as he thought it was going to be and he's not sure why he did it. It's almost like he's done it purely for attention and when that didn't pan out he lost interest.
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I can't screencap it now, but someone asked if Montreal was a work and he replied that he was. METSFAN got the scoops.
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Reddit also buzzing over some bullshit report that ROH is in talks with Spike, completely forgetting they're already owned by a television company.
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dsriggs posted:Reddit also buzzing over some bullshit report that ROH is in talks with Spike, completely forgetting they're already owned by a television company. I doubt the report is true, but a monthly special on Spike would make sense for Sinclair IMO.
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rovert posted:
this is some real desperate attention-seeking from someone who by all accounts has had multiple adult jobs
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sportsgenius86 posted:I doubt the report is true, but a monthly special on Spike would make sense for Sinclair IMO. It would also supply this thread with endless fuel once Mecca and Asylum got wind of it, so I'm all for it.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:It would also supply this thread with endless fuel once Mecca and Asylum got wind of it, so I'm all for it. Especially if ROH did even slightly better than TNA on Spike.
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rovert posted:
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dsriggs posted:Reddit also buzzing over some bullshit report that ROH is in talks with Spike, completely forgetting they're already owned by a television company. If Sinclair could get paid more for ROH TV than it is worth to them they'd do that deal in a second.
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rovert posted:
He's talking about no longer supporting the Mets exclusively. He will henceforth be known as MetsFanSometimesAndAlsoTheChicagoCubs.
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MassRafTer posted:If Sinclair could get paid more for ROH TV than it is worth to them they'd do that deal in a second.
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I don't know things about TV business, but this is stupid and insane because NBC would never put pro-wrestling, not even Wrestlemania, on Prime Time network TV as if it were some sort of superbowl, right? I want to make sure it's not the opposite problem of it making way more money being sold on PPV for some weird reason that I'm missing.
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I don't think it'd be stupid of WWE to get Mania on NBC. I do love how this column loves the term smart marks, which I think was last used regularly in 2005.
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I defended Shoemaker's book as a light read, but goddamn that article is bad. His fantasy booking is sub-Cageside Seats.
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hmm yes ah the heh uncultured swine who pay for Hulu Plus yet do not even peruse the list of black and white French and Japanese movies from pre-1950. true "marks" heh did you see the term I used
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Mob posted:hmm yes ah the heh uncultured swine who pay for Hulu Plus yet do not even peruse the list of black and white French and Japanese movies from pre-1950. true "marks" heh did you see the term I used Hulu is such a weird loving place for the Criterion Collection to have ended up online. I feel like a venn diagram of the people who want to pay $10 a month to be able to stream Big Bang Theory or whatever from their iPhone and the people who would want to stream Criterion movies are just two separate circles, drawn on totally separate pieces of paper, by different people.
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TheJoker138 posted:Hulu is such a weird loving place for the Criterion Collection to have ended up online. I feel like a venn diagram of the people who want to pay $10 a month to be able to stream Big Bang Theory or whatever from their iPhone and the people who would want to stream Criterion movies are just two separate circles, drawn on totally separate pieces of paper, by different people. On separate continents, even. That said, I'm one of the people who pays the £6.99 for Netflix regardless of how much I use it, so… 
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Sanguinia posted:I don't know things about TV business, but this is stupid and insane because NBC would never put pro-wrestling, not even Wrestlemania, on Prime Time network TV as if it were some sort of superbowl, right? I want to make sure it's not the opposite problem of it making way more money being sold on PPV for some weird reason that I'm missing. They wouldn't do it because there's no ad money in pro wrestling
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Benne posted:They wouldn't do it because there's no ad money in pro wrestling There could be, but ad companies decide that, and they're idiots.
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I don't remember how the Saturday Night's Main Events did but it was probably reasonable. Since WWE advertising is still payday loans and Mike's Hard Lemonade, I doubt Wrestlemania provides enough value added that giving it away is a thing that makes sense, even after a couple good Network years. I wouldn't be surprised at all if they got a Sunday night to put on a Fast Lane kind of PPV, though.
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Under the vegetable posted:There could be, but ad companies decide that, and they're idiots. WWE's fanbase is not desirable. It's large enough to probably be worth a bit more than it is but it's relatively poor and uneducated.
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MassRafTer posted:WWE's fanbase is not desirable. It's large enough to probably be worth a bit more than it is but it's relatively poor and uneducated. Even if we believe the statistical data on this, it seems like such a stupid reason to not want to advertise with them. What are the two biggest cash cows of professional football? Cars and beer. The poor uneducated blue collar types in Chicago, the south and the New England/New York/Pennsylvania tri-state area buy that poo poo as much IF NOT MORE than the so-called 'desirable' demographics that WWE supposedly doesn't have. Raw has a consistent history of holding it's own against other professional sports including Monday Night Football even if it reaches a smaller audience, and the exorbitant prices of their merch and tickets shows they're willing to spend. What is the hangup? Since when does loving Ford of Anheizer Busch turn it's nose up at the opportunity to sell things to rednecks and factory workers?
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Sanguinia posted:Even if we believe the statistical data on this, it seems like such a stupid reason to not want to advertise with them. What are the two biggest cash cows of professional football? Cars and beer. The poor uneducated blue collar types in Chicago, the south and the New England/New York/Pennsylvania tri-state area buy that poo poo as much IF NOT MORE than the so-called 'desirable' demographics that WWE supposedly doesn't have. Raw has a consistent history of holding it's own against other professional sports including Monday Night Football even if it reaches a smaller audience, and the exorbitant prices of their merch and tickets shows they're willing to spend. What is the hangup? Since when does loving Ford of Anheizer Busch turn it's nose up at the opportunity to sell things to rednecks and factory workers? They are willing to support that product. Historically wrestling fans haven't even been seen as a giant boon for networks trying to get people to tune into other programs. One of the rare exceptions was The Ultimate Fighter. That's one reason why it's rarely been used as a lead in to other original programming. People who watch Raw are a really peculiar breed. Even if there were signs they want to support other things, brands don't want to be seen as low class even if they are cheap. When TV Networks, surveys and advertisers all view an audience as worthless maybe it really is worthless? It's ok to admit you are trash, I already know I am.
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Sanguinia posted:Even if we believe the statistical data on this, it seems like such a stupid reason to not want to advertise with them. What are the two biggest cash cows of professional football? Cars and beer. The poor uneducated blue collar types in Chicago, the south and the New England/New York/Pennsylvania tri-state area buy that poo poo as much IF NOT MORE than the so-called 'desirable' demographics that WWE supposedly doesn't have. Raw has a consistent history of holding it's own against other professional sports including Monday Night Football even if it reaches a smaller audience, and the exorbitant prices of their merch and tickets shows they're willing to spend. What is the hangup? Since when does loving Ford of Anheizer Busch turn it's nose up at the opportunity to sell things to rednecks and factory workers? Wrestling is thought of as a hicks demographic, so Vince will always try to get it accepted as 'Sports Entertainment', which makes it and him look carny and dishonest, etc. it's a cycle. But don't think that this advertisement poo poo doesn't drive him up the wall.
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Reminder that the last two times professional wrestling was mainstream, WWE fans cheered as the most evil man in the industry forced a woman to strip down to her underwear and bark like a dog to beg for her job, and a top star killed his wife and son. That is one of many, many legitimate reasons why WWE, and by extension its fans, are viewed as especially low class.
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Feb 22, 2015 01:20
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MassRafTer posted:WWE's fanbase is not desirable. It's large enough to probably be worth a bit more than it is but it's relatively poor and uneducated. And yet people still put ads on Two and a Half Men, all other network sitcoms, both Fox news and primetime, the History channel, and basically all tv that isn't premium cable. Weird.
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Under the vegetable posted:And yet people still put ads on Two and a Half Men, all other network sitcoms, both Fox news and primetime, the History channel, and basically all tv that isn't premium cable. Weird. On a good day only 80% of TV today is trash, it's true
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Under the vegetable posted:And yet people still put ads on Two and a Half Men, all other network sitcoms, both Fox news and primetime, the History channel, and basically all tv that isn't premium cable. Weird. Also let's reiterate a point I made in some other post that I can't go to any store without seeing something branded with Duck Dynasty, a show literally about rednecks dicking around while avoiding running their loving DUCK CALL BUSINESS. And also Honey Boo Boo's riveting toenail based programming. But we can't put advertisements on a pro wrestling show because that would make us look low-brow.
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