Garden hose for ropes? How cheap is that?

You might have noticed a wee little change to the title of this here blog, loosely inspired by (or ripped off from) one Libby Von Lane. Thanks for the inspiration, Ms. Von Lane. And if you ever see "undefined" in the taglines, I don't know what that's about. That's not one of my taglines. I think it's just a script error or something.

Thank God it's spring. I usually like winter, but winter sucked this year. Everybody was getting several feet of snow, and I got nothing but rain. Lots and lots of rain. This past winter can bite me.

Want to know embarrassing? Imagine having the top rope of your wrestling ring break and nearly injure someone while the state athletic commission is in attendance. I was at an indy wrestling show last night, and one of the turnbuckles just snapped while someone was standing on the top rope during a match. And the funny thing is, I discovered after the show that the top rope was just a garden hose wrapped in yellow electrical tape. Folks, this is probably the most bush league wrestling ring I've ever seen. Garden hose ropes, a mat made of just thin pieces of canvas held together with duct tape, and it's only ten-by-ten. That's tiny by most industry standards.

The recent crop of post-Wrestlemania firings by WWE has really surprised me. Some of the firings have been so insane. Why Molly Holly? Why Matt Hardy? Molly Holly had a good reason to ask for her release (since they've done nothing but embarrass her since the Chris Nowinski thing a few years ago), but her leaving only makes the women's division that much weaker. When your women's division consists solely of three wrestlers (one of whom is very injury-prone) and a Playboy model, you'd probably better off hiring women who can wrestle or just retire the belt. And I don't like Matt Hardy's firing one bit. Sure, him airing his dirty laundry all over the Internet for God and everybody to see might not have been in his best interests, but the guy just had his heart broken. He probably wasn't thinking straight. That's no reason to fire him. They could have just moved him from Raw to Smackdown, then he would have only seen Edge and Lita no more than five or six times a year. Meanwhile Rhyno getting fired for doing something that should have earned just a warning is a little harsh. It isn't like he was beating his wife or smacking around a cop in the hotel or anything. Though Rhyno at least has a shot at returning, since I doubt WWE would want to do their ECW reunion show without ECW's last champion.

Though WWE finally did something good for a change: promoting MNM from OVW. Being a fan of MNM, I'm really happy they got called up. And if you don't think Melina's slide under the bottom rope is cool, check your pulse. After their debut, it looks like we'll be seeing MNM vs. Eddie Guerrero and Rey Mysterio at the next PPV. As long as Johnny Nitro busts out some of those standing shooting star presses and twisting moonsaults he was doing in OVW, I won't complain.

That's all I've got. Nothing witty or entertaining is popping into my head. Sutton out.