People on IG defended these dudes in the ways you'd probably expect, unfortunately. It's always men in wrestling fandoms that will never take no for an answer and never hold anyone accountable. It's why I've been saying companies need to start policing the fandom themselves before tragedy strikes.

I love that wrestling companies allow for this level of silliness. Takes a pretty good relationship between members of the roster too, I'd imagine.

Blake Treinen going down the Noah Syndergaard grift path, minus the part where at least Noah was actually good at baseball for a bit before being terrible. As was mentioned by someone else, the Riley Gaines of baseball.

The SF Standard clearly has no standard. Add this one to the list of outlets that need to go when we get out the other side of this regime.

*taps microphone* *clears throat* People are allowed to complain about things, and you're allowed to scroll on past it. Thank you for time.

That Kelly McCrimmon rant about Vegas critics from earlier this week is the most bizarre thing I've seen a GM say in a long time. I honestly wonder if he's doing this because of his job potentially being on the line. With how cutthroat Vegas is, it wouldn't shock me if he was on the hot seat.

I'd be in this category if I remembered to buy FM4 before it got taken off Steam, but it's not surprising that many people have taken this path because Tim Sweeney is a fuckwit that can't code a platform worth a shit. When Epic ultimately goes under, it'll make for a hell of a documentary.

The DOJ trying to investigate something MLB did that is completely protected by previous legal precedent is both a waste of time and also totally on brand for this regime. I yearn for a judge that sits these people down and tells them "Stop being fucking morons or you'll be held in contempt".

For all the majesty FIFA claims the World Cup has, this is just a friendly reminder that Gianni Infantino is worse than Sepp Blatter ever could be for capitulating to Trump the way he has. When he gets the same treatment Blatter did, the next FIFA president has a lot of work to do to restore cred.

It's times like these where I'm thankful I'm not exclusively in the IWC for community and I actually watch things besides wrestling. Some fans that go hard in the paint for wrestling companies like they work there really need to watch other stuff. It would do a lot of them some serious good.

Don't worry, Mike. Pretty soon, you won't have to worry about playing for the Angels for a while since MLB won't even have a season next year, possibly the year after as well.

That MLB proposal to the PA makes me really believe that Rob Manfred actually hates baseball and wants to see it fail as a sport. He might get his wish if this lockout lasts as long as it very well good.

If you think about it, Jim Hiller as Leafs coach is the perfect hire for a team trying to cheap out on everything outside of the roster. Mediocre at best coach that got canned for being bad in LA gets hired on the cheap to stay in the NHL by a team pinching pennies. 100% on brand for MLSE.

For Hockey Showdown/Football Champions, I'm limiting things to playable/fully stated leagues. Football Champions will be playable leagues across FIP 16/FM while Hockey Showdown will be playable/fully stated leagues for FHM/EHM. Football Champions has 215 leagues to make, Hockey Showdown has 99.

Just ask Jensen Huang's loyal social media soldiers to pay the fine. I'm sure they'll toe the line and pay this for the companies since they seem hellbent on being sycophants until the bitter end. Maybe they might actually stop posting online due to not having a computer or phone to post with.

Because corporate legacy media is complicit in this regime and when we get out the other side of this, all the company heads and high ranking media members that went along with it need to be tried as accomplices.

Speaking of Epic, it turns out that UNINSTALLING A GAME via Epic Game Store is enough to get the client to completely crash and continuously crash on launch every time after. Tim Sweeney wants to take shots at Steam while his client is still barely functional by mid-2000s standards. Rich.

The documentary around Epic's demise is gonna be fascinating when it gets released in about a decade or so. You could probably do a 3 or 4 part series on it at this point, including at least one of those parts on how Tim Sweeney kept getting in his company's way by refusing to shut up.

Whoever designs stuff for FIFA Infinity Patch 16 is wonderful. The league selection for this patch is approaching Football Manager levels of crazy.

The year is 2029. MLB starts anew after 2 years of lockout with a salary cap and no salary floor. Rob Manfred has introduced a ghost runner rule for every inning with double ghost runners in extras. ABS and replay are gone and the World Series is decided by coin flip. MLB dies after the season.

I genuinely want to know: Does Rob Manfred even like baseball? I'm pretty sure he doesn't with all the decisions he makes. Like I said, hopefully the next lockout gets us a new commissioner. You almost can't do worse than Manfred at this point. Even Gary Bettman is an upgrade over him.

MLB under Rob Manfred: Remove all the good changes made, double down on all the bad ones, wonder why the league doesn't grow as much as it should despite baseball growing everywhere else. When this next lockout ends, I really hope it includes a new commissioner that might help MLB be good again.

Rob Schneider thinking he has the money to pay an MLB fine for a written on hat is pretty rich considering he barely has the money to pay attention. An MLB fine would bankrupt him into never being seen again.

Pretty sure that's just the plot to every video made by Route None on YouTube. At minimum, there's a wrestling reference in every video.

Tony Vitello is fixing to be down there with 2012 Bobby Valentine for worst managerial hires of the 21st century. That's how bad of a shitshow it is in San Fran already. Hopefully they learn to cut their losses and settle for an interim manager until the next MLB season, unlike 2012 Boston.

Tony Vitello is about to guarantee that no MLB organization EVER hires a college manager straight from college again. This is shaping up to be the worst managerial hire in recent MLB history.

Epic is gonna have a fascinating documentary made about it in about 10 or so years. Hopefully it includes a good amount of time spent on Tim Sweeney not knowing how to keep his mouth shut.

Good to see Hollywood has taken a cue from some wrestling companies and has decided to listen to the absolute wrong people for ideas.

Just shut the whole industry down at this point. Give us another crash that doesn't get resolved instantly by a Nintendo. Video games had a good run, but maybe we need to try them again in a decade or so with better people at the helm.

Drew Gooden (not the NBA player) is accurate with this. It took me over a decade of making my card templates to finally be happy with them and the process for making them. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, so if you don't take that step, you won't complete the journey.

With how Duncan is getting soundly dunked on for this, how much you wanna bet he's gonna write a hit piece about Bluesky in response? I give it about a week.

Side note: The amount of folks in the UK and outside of the US in general that are caught off guard by me calling The Beautiful Game football instead of what most Americans call it is too numerous to count, but I'm glad to be able to use the proper terminology for that stuff.

You know guys, I think this Messi guy might turn out to be decent at football.

Well, it's gonna be real awkward when I tell the two stores I worked with in the 2nd and Charles chain for 8 and a half years that I never actually worked there. RFK Jr needs to stop eating a parking lot full of lawnmowers before he talks, otherwise no one takes him seriously.

Torts getting fired after losing a Cup final due to his stubbornness is the greatest thing to come from this season. Vegas wanted to change coaches to win a Cup and they couldn't even win the Cup.

The greatest moment in Bluesky history. Wade is the best. And is also a noted fan of Race Day Revamped. (In my headcanon, at least.)

I've always thought the World Cup or Olympics or whatever should unironically be broken down by state or city if a talent pool is large enough. I already do city based teams for Showdown projects, so it can be done.

The downside of having access to so much history for Football Champions/Hockey Showdown/Basketball Showdown/ Baseball Showdown: I have no idea where to even start. I've got all of baseball history, every advanced stat for basketball, data on all of hockey and footie. Tough to pick where to start.

The Leafs signed a recent 2nd rounder! Here's how he looks in Hockey Showdown with the new formulas for the chart. Used his SHL and IIHF World Championships numbers to come up with this.

Once again, I have to question if the XBOX brand even has any value to the modern gamer outside of name value. Out of all the major console players, Microsoft might be the ones that become the next SEGA and pull out of the space due to their own bad decisions, which is highly unfortunate.

Bluesky is not only a sports app, it's also a wrestling app.

@thedaftestlap.bsky.social While you're hyping up the World Cup, I'm having a gander at the FM26 database to figure out what teams I want to make for Football Champions. So many leagues and clubs in these FM databases, I don't even know where to start.

God bless the FM26 Database having everything I could really need for Football Champions content. Whoever made the new Live Editor is also my hero since I can now browse the database without every club being classified as part of the Belgian League.

I still can't believe that I can say the Carolina Hurricanes are Stanley Cup Champions. Years of coming up short in the third round, years of thinking they'd never get it done, years of wondering if they'd need to find a new coach or core They never needed any of that. They're at the mountaintop.

The worst part is there is really no competitor that can take on the UFC like AEW did for wrestling. The rest of MMA is full of companies in even more of a shambolic state than the UFC is, which sounds crazy, but it's true. It might be time to shut MMA down and try it again 10-15 years from now.

I still maintain that we're not getting baseball in 2027 and probably not in 2028 either, in large part because of this labor situation that I don't see getting resolved quickly. The owners want a cap, the players don't, no baseball. This labor problem might be something MLB never recovers from.

Also, the Mikko Rantanen trade is now the Logan Stankoven trade. Have fun with that contract for your overpaid Finnish forward, Dallas! We'll take Robertson off your hands for one of your picks back if you'd like.

The Hurricanes are an example of a former player coming back to the organization and helping a team win the right way. Not every former player that comes back to their team is cut out for that. One guy in particular in the East is showing that pretty definitively.

Dude is a head coach that could legitimately still play in the NHL now if the Canes needed him to.

Brandon Bussi is an example of what can happen if you stick with your dreams. Dude was a fuckin' waiver claim for us and now he's a Stanley Cup champion after delivering a Game 6 shutout.