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by Kevin Nash
February 16, 1999
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 I got back to the Tampa Airport
Marriott after Monday Nitro and started watching some ESPN. Is it me, or did The ESPY show
suck? I really want to talk about wrestling, but after Billie Jean King’s moving ESPY
speech, I kinda need to spend some time on it. I gotz to speak on it. She’s up there
speaking like she’s Martin Luther King or somebody like that. So she played tennis
and was a broad ... give me a break. I’m asking her to either get on the thyroid or
get off the thyroid, but if at all possible, jump on something sharp.
Before I move on, the opening of The ESPY show ... well, I
had to turn it. I didn’t last 30 seconds; I couldn’t. Only because I’m in a
hotel with nine channels did I come back to it program ... and just in time to watch
Billie Jean King’s stirring speech where one person in the balcony said, "I love
you," and that probably was her girlfriend. And she couldn’t even get her a good
seat.
If they show Mark McGwire one more time, I’m gonna
commit Harry Caray.
Sammy Sosa is a great player, but once again I’ll
state my case that Mark McGwire is The Man.
The NBA is good this year; I enjoy it. All of the players
who jumped to different teams give the league a lot of complexity. Chris Webber has made
Sacramento fun to watch. The Suns are doing well. It’s hard to guess who’s gonna
be there at the end of this short season, but, if the Lakers get Dennis Rodman, he’s
the missing ingredient that they need. If Charles Barkley comes back healthy, the Rockets
will be tough. My dark horse: of course, the Pistons.
This is a shoot-question for all you people out there who
consider yourself smarts or even half-smarts: What do you think of the concept of shooting
this rasslin’ that we call a television show where the cameras are there because it
is a television show as opposed to the old way that the TV was done to make people believe
that everything that happened, happened for a reason, with the old k-fabe, shoot
mentality? Or, do we feel as a collective whole that we are beyond that now, that we are
now looking for entertainment, and the only way to get that is to take that three-hour
time-slot and try to make it as entertaining as possible. Of course we (WCW/nWo)
can’t do the things that "New York" does because of certain guidelines and
bylaws that we have through the Turner organization and, quite frankly, our boss
doesn’t feel that that’s the way to go anyway, even if it was an option. This is
a question/thought I hope you fans will answer here on my Site, or wherever you’d
like.
Although I haven’t personally been to the Chatroom yet
because my schedule has been so hectic, I’m gonna try to get on it over the next
couple of days. I wanna hear what you people have to say. There’s a lot of TV that
still has to be written and, since I’m a large part of what’s going on on our
program right now, I want to at least make sure I have my finger on the pulse, at least to
some degree, of what the Internet people want. Sure, the Internet fans are only a percent
of our total audience, but I think they are an important segment of the audience because
they -- the smarts and the diehards -- are the people who always stay, always support the
business. The smarts and the diehards were there when there were 1,200 people in the
arenas — not just when there were 12,000 people it was "in" to watch
wrestling. Your pulse, your view needs to be counted, so give me a little imputshky.
Peace, out, Kevin.
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