From: dave.scherer@darkside.gwinnett.com (Dave Scherer) 
Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling
Subject: This Group Should Be Kill
Date: 4 Jan 93 20:39:00 GMT
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Organization: The Dark Side BBS - Ocean City, NJ - 609-391-0987
Reply-To: dave.scherer@darkside.gwinnett.com (Dave Scherer) 

Steve_Hooper@mindlink.bc.ca(Steve Hooper) writes, rather shortsightedly:

SH>So you should...I have come to the conclusion that John Arezzi has to be the
  >biggest idiot in the world...

Nah, the BIG idiots are the guys like Vince Russo who invested big money
in John.

SH>All his "hard work" in exposing Vince did NOTHING.  WHy bother?  The shit
  >that goes on behind the curtains is no one else's business.

I don't totally agree.  While I think a person's sexual preference is
their own business, if a person uses their position in a company to
force people into uncomfortable sexual positions, the lid should be
blown off.

  >If one of the
  >boys had a legit complaint, let him deal with it in his own way.

The problem is, there was no real way for them to do so.

SH>Speaking of exposing the business, I have to make this comment.  You people
  >that write to this newsgroup think you are all "insiders" to the business.

And you are?  I know I am no insider.  I have a few friends that work in
and around the business, and I enjoy the stories they tell me.  I think
the people here are just smart, in the literal sense, people who speak
in an intelligent manner.

  >You ain't Jack SHIT!

Who is this Jack Shit person?  Is he a member of the net?

  >Just because you know a few keywords and such does not make you an
  insider.

Coming from someone who refers to wrestlers as "the boys," what does
that say about you?  Lighten up.

  >If you guys had ANY respect for this business which yo
  >all say you love, this entire newsgroup would be in a mailing-list format,
  >NOT a public group.  I cannot count the times that a mark has "discovered"
  >this group, posted a simple mark question, and been flamed for being
  >ignorant.

Get real man.  Why should we have respect for a business that has no
respect for its consumers?  When they give us a product worth
respecting, we'll give it back.  Respect is earned, not given.

I could have bought that argument 20 years ago when wrestling did not
break the laws of kayfabe with undead character, cartoon gimmicks, and
voodoo men.  But today, that argument is just lame.

  >That person then just sits in the back and reads for a month or
  >so, realizes what wrestling is all about, and boom...there is one less mark
  >that will come out to the house shows and help pay the paycheque of the boys

Bullshit, pure and simple.  Only the densest of morons does not know
going in that wrestling in this country is a wrok.  Only antiquated dim
bulbs like Bill Watts believe that.

  >There are too many people making a living off of this business to have it
  >ruined by Expose' groups like this.

If the "boys" worked a little harder, they would not have to worry about
what outside groups do.  The product should stand on its own.

SH>One other thing...be advised that what you write here DOES go all over the
  >place.  As an example, everything written about Portland, good or bad, is
  >read by Sandy and the boys.  The match reports are considered good input.
  >All the Whiff stuff (the interesting stuff, not the stupid bullshit gossip)
  >is read by the boys in the locker room, along with middle management (Garea,
  >Strongbow etc).

Too bad they don't respect what the fans say enough to do something
about the horror that they have created.  That one's for the boys in
Stamford.

SH>So on that note, I would really like to put it to the people "in charge" so
  >to speak, to turn this group into a MARK group, and any of you that think yo
  >are insiders, keep it to an E-mail mailing list.

Thank God there is no one in charge.

  >shit anytime?"  That's my feeling too.  It's not right.  Change it.  For the
  >good of this business that you people all say you love, change it.

Again, respect is a two way street.  When the bozos playing us for
patsies get their act together and give us something worth being
secretive about, maybe we'll do so.
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 . SLMR 2.0 . Vince McMahon is P. T. Barnum's illegitimate child!
                                                                                                           
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