Kevin's Forum
from www.kevinbigsexynash.com
FEBRUARY 16, 1999
By Kevin NashI 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.