I recall a while back on WCWSN, The Patron Saint of DDT Digest used the phrase "I'm gonna get in your butt" while doing an interview to respond to a challenge by Curt Hennig. This phrase has been mentioned a few times in reports on your site.Many of us wondered just what Stevie meant by that. Was it just a slip up? Was Mr. Ray so excited during his interview that he mixed up the phrases "get in your face" and "kick your butt"?
Maybe, but I don't think so. Last night I was watching a classic video of Richard Pryor doing standup comedy. I wasn't paying to much attention until Richard offered his opinion on what goes through the mind of a Doberman Pinscher that wants to hurt a person but can't. Mr. Pryor proceeded to growl and talk as if he were a dog. Then he said something I will never forget, "GRRRRRR ...I'm gonna get in your butt.... GRRRRRR".
I was up in a flash, jumping up and down. See, I knew the Patron Saint would never botch up an interview! I knew it! All this time we thought he had erred but Mr. Ray was simply paraphrasing Richard Pryor! So let it be known that Stevie Ray has always said what he meant and meant what he said, even if what he said sounded slightly gay.
P.S. I love living in Montana, we get Black Star on tap.
People in glass houses...
I personally didn't like my first taste of it. I kept calling it the "all shoot, all walking edition of Nitro". By 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday morning, I had myself convinced that the show had to be a parody. I figured it had to be a goof on all the people predicting that Nitro would become a carbon copy of RAW. I figured the producers said, "Fine, since that's what everyone's predicting, then we'll make it an exact copy and make everyone think that we don't have a single new idea for the show".
Frighteningly enough, I'm probably 100% wrong and they really don't have a single new idea. Something to think about, though. Ferrara and Russo had their own names mentioned countless times during the broadcast. Hmmm, when did Nitro starting turning south? When Bischoff's ego got the better of him and he started booking himself into the angles. Hmmmm...
I'm mentioning this because Dan had been completely out of the Internet loop all weekend, and he was totally surprised by it. He thought it rocked because he had no idea it was coming. It made me think about how all the Internet dirt sheet readers (including me) just kind of shrugged when it happened. We picked apart how it was done and whether we would have done it differently. Dan and everyone else who was surprised just got to enjoy it and be a fan. Personally, it reenforces for me that we're doing the right thing here. You can be confident reading this site that we won't ruin any upcoming angles with insider info.
Of course, sometimes we guess and we could guess right. But, it hasn't happened yet. :-)
I found that really interesting. I had assumed that the DDT Digest writers would have universally panned the new look. Hmmmm, one might argue that a bunch of guys sitting around start bitching about it will reenforce for each other how bad they're expecting it to be. Maybe if they had all looked at it individually and objectively, they might have liked it....
Nahhhhhh....
Hmmm...who's on the WCW roster that's loved by the Internet fans and great on the microphone? Arn! If there's anyone in WCW that's being underused in WCW, it's got to be Arn. Might I suggest that my fellow Arn Anderson fans write to WCW and send them a nice, polite e-mail telling them how great it would be to have Arn back on TV?
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Just think...Arn on the microphone instead of Hogan...Mmmmmmmm...