As you probably surmised from the cable cutting, I'm incredibly burned out on WWE and TNA both right now, and so I'm calling it a day on the RAW reviews after two years of doing it again. This now gives me a chance to do what I REALLY want, like NJPW reviews and old Mid-South.
So I'm now looking for new reviewers for RAW and Impact. Any interest, let me know!
I don't blame you as I only keep up with RAW via clips from wwe.com based on what I heard was good. It'd be cool if you still gave some thoughts on whatever RAW segments you do catch and think worthy of comment, because, as you've heard a million times, you're a funny dude with good insight.
ReplyDeleteTELL ME A LIE
ReplyDeleteAND SAY THAT YOU WON'T GO
Maybe Scott reviewing Japanese wrestling is the final push I need to really get into it.
ReplyDeleteSounds good man. You deserve the break.
ReplyDelete"And the Hulu situation has been taken care of, to which I am always humbled and amazed that people care so much about my stuff that they would help out just to keep me publishing things to read. You guys are just awesome."
Did the people who took care of the Hulu situation do so expecting you to be reviewing RAW? I'd be a bit bummed if that were the case...
Leave the memories alone!
ReplyDeleteBut! What am I gonna do with my Tuesday mornings at work now?
ReplyDeleteJeez, 3 hours! I MAY do... maybe alternate with someone or something.
ReplyDeleteCrap, now I may have to watch Raw again. I only keep up with it through your reviews.
ReplyDeleteAnd I thought we were getting truncated Raw reviews. Guess I was wrong.
ReplyDeleteI'd be very interested in doing this setup with you.
ReplyDeleteJerk off like a good 'Merican!
ReplyDeleteI don't blame you. That show is so hard to watch week after week, even on Hulu. I can't imagine having to pay attention to each segment.
ReplyDeleteMichael Bradley?
ReplyDeleteSCOTT LOST HIS SMILE!
ReplyDeleteI am sad to read this. Thank you Scott for doing the recaps of Raw and Impact. I will miss both of because they made my day every morning for a great read.
ReplyDeleteI'm also intrigued to try Main Event since its SHORT. I might do the edited RAW on occasion, but at least it'll be at my convenience now.
ReplyDeleteSince WrestleMania your reviews are the only way that I've kept up.
ReplyDeleteI'll miss it, but can't say as I blame you one bit. I'm cutting the cable myself when my current contract runs out in December.
Luckily the Live Threads shall continue!!! :)
ReplyDeleteOn one hand I feel sad, because like everyone else, Scott's Raw reviews were worth waiting up for, but at the same time I'm shocked Scott managed to keep going for as long as he did.
ReplyDeleteNXT is also worth the watch. I think the Sami Zayn vs Antonio Cesaro match is next week, by all reports a MOTY candidate.
ReplyDeleteupsetting news, but a mans gotta do what a mans gotta do. Will you still review some PPVs from time to time???
ReplyDeleteZanadude probably needs to change his pants on reading the above. =)
ReplyDeleteYou know what I'd rather have Monday nights? A Scott Sez of the Raws of 2002.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I know you're all hoping I'd take up the mantle of reviewing Raw, but I just couldn't do it.
I have no idea why all the downvotes. Mike was a great reviewer. Good guy, too.
ReplyDeleteThe fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves...
ReplyDeleteWith Raw reviews out can we get more Scott Sez for older shows?
ReplyDeleteI think NXT would be the best option rather than Main Event - the faces are fresh, it's short, and new guys always come in as others get called up, you likely wouldnt tire of it in comparison to seeing 16 years of Kane and 14 of Big Show, etc. - plus its good stuff in general
ReplyDeleteI imagine Julius as he is, and in the Rome setting and all, and talking all wise & such to Brutus, who's wearing a bow-tie, with a mullet, and huge hedgeclippers in his hands.
ReplyDeleteWe are?
ReplyDeleteYup.
ReplyDeleteI actually got the impression you were getting more into Raw, as they had a couple of really stellar shows in the last month. Oh well :( keep bringing the PPV rants!
ReplyDeleteBut will Scott learn Japanese in order to determine if the announcers are similar to Jim Ross or Tony Schiavone?
ReplyDeleteyeah wow that's surprising, from memory no one had an issue with his reviews at the time...
ReplyDeleteTag team Raw reviews, Caliber and his trusty editor side-by-side!
ReplyDeleteSorry to read this, Scott. However, in your quest for a replacement, may I suggest someone who has an unwavering positive attitude about the whole scene? Is that too hard to find? Yet another sarcastic reviewer on the internet is kinda stale. Leave that to the BoDers.
ReplyDeletehow 'bout the bastard child of mroberts and charlie reneke
ReplyDeleteI might type up something decent about Impact tonight or tomorrow morning... no guarantees though. Hell, knowing me I'll manage to somehow miss it despite thinking about it now.
ReplyDeleteIf I do... send it to Scott? Caliber? Anyone else?
Someone positive about both TNA and WWE?
ReplyDeleteWhat are you smoking, because I want some. Even though I'm pretty much as straight-edge as Punk, minus the "better than you" attitude.
(Now half a lifetime ago, I'd have been good for both. Today, though? Nope.)
Do you get ESPN Classic? I'd love to see your feelings about the GWF, which they are rerunning from 1991 and 1992.
ReplyDeleteI actually think WWE is pretty good at the moment. And TNA has a fair mix of good with the bad.
ReplyDeleteThree hours = 3 reviewers, maybe?
ReplyDeleteI'm not really too upset about this, for some reason.
ReplyDeleteBut..but how will I know what my opinion of Raw is without SK Raw rants? I feel lost.
ReplyDeleteWhat the eff Scott, am I supposed to ACTUALLY DO WORK ON TUESDAYS NOW?!?!?!?
ReplyDeletePay attention? Guess you haven't been reading the rants.
ReplyDeleteThe shows are just way too long for a weekly deal, quality aside. I'm totally willing to try the 90 minute version and see if it helps me, though.
ReplyDeleteIt should probably be a team of reviewers. Raw is like the Red October during the radiation leak, no one should spend more than 20 minutes watching it at a time.
ReplyDeleteWell, the live thread has around 50 different posters at one time all reviewing the show. Can't top that.
ReplyDeleteI'm not looking at it so much as losing the Raw reviews, but hopefully gaining reviews of good wrestling. As much fun as the snark can be, I'm looking forward to that.
ReplyDeleteAs long as they don't hire the 411mania RAW recapper I'll be happy.
ReplyDeleteI wanna get Scott's take on the NJPW ippvs and such that have been on. It's been some GOOD SHIT.
ReplyDeleteWe've got a good NXT guy in my opinion. Thomas Hall has been on top of that show for a while and does a good job of explaining the story lines and how they are progressing.
ReplyDeleteShoot me am email, johnathanm.mcdonald@gmail.com. Scott, would you like a wrestling related piece of writing as a tryout?
ReplyDeleteNo offense to Thomas, but if Scott starts reviewing NXT, whatever readership he has will be gone in a blink.
ReplyDeleteTony Acero? Yeah, he is awful.
ReplyDeletehaha could do it like the old 'War Zone' hour and 'Raw is War' hour!
ReplyDeleteAs much as I'm not into WWE, an El Generico/Claudio Castagnoli match sounds great. I may have to catch that.
ReplyDeleteThe blog should vote on the next reviewer, "Chopped" style.
ReplyDeleteStart subscribing to the F4W website and listen to Bryan Alvarez, Dave Meltzer and Vinny Verhei recap Raw on their various shows.
ReplyDeleteI watch the 90 minute Raw and I like it. they shave a lot of the entrances to save time and besides keeping the stupid divas stuff related to the new show, the cuts have seemed reasonable- I haven't had to look up many matches to watch after the fact, based on general quality consensus.
ReplyDeleteYeah. I can see getting burned out on 3 hours of RAW. At least you know you can "tag out"
ReplyDeleteSCOTT GOT BEAT UP BY MARINES?
ReplyDeleteWAIT, DO WE EVEN HAVE MARINES IN CANADA?
CAPITAL LETTERS!
ReplyDeleteEw.
ReplyDeleteI kinda want to give it a whirl... but I don't think I can afford the drugs/alcohol required to get the job done, week in, week out.
ReplyDeleteCan't wait for the mid south stuff
ReplyDeleteAll right. We have seen the end of the Raw reviews. For TPrincess, for Flair4dagold, for Caliber Winfield, I don't know...I'm Dirty Dave Delaney. Scott Keith, you can go to hell! We're outta here. Straight to hell.
ReplyDeleteSweet opportunity for the caliber winfield brand!
ReplyDeleteYOU PROMISED YOU'D DO THE 90 MINUTE SHOWS IF WE GOT YOU A SUB TO HULU+
ReplyDeleteThis is why we can't have nice things.
ReplyDeleteHow hard can copying and pasting a Raw recap from 411 be?
ReplyDeleteYou are correct sir! Yes I could stop reading him/411mania, but it's just a force of habit and I'm a sucker for sticking with the things I know.
ReplyDeleteOh, I love Thomas Hall's recaps, I only meant that watching NXT (for fun) is worth it, not meaning he should recap.
ReplyDeleteShould have made that clearer..oops
I propose we dig up Matthew Roberts for RAW recaps.
ReplyDeleteI think you took something out of context. I can certainly c understand where the confusion would come from there.
ReplyDeleteFuj and cult review Raw. You know you want to read that.
ReplyDeleteMuch appreciated. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteNone taken. I would read Scott's instead of mine too.
ReplyDeleteFirst hour: Scott (So the sarcasm is still fresh)
ReplyDeleteSecond Hour: Cultstatus
Third Hour; The Fuj
Maybe have a guest come in every once in a blue to recap one of the non-Scott hours.
If we do guest reviewers can we get Dougie and that Baker dude to do one together?
ReplyDeleteDoes JD Dunn still write? That's the only guy I could read except for Scott... and of course Hyatte's Mop-Ups.
ReplyDeleteI have it on good authorities it was MOUNTIES. They were trying to prove how tough they were, so while The Princless and Cultstatus watched (they were too drunk to help), anywhere from 3 to 18 mounties kicked his ass outside of a nightclub in Syracuse.
ReplyDeleteSo I'm not the only one hearing a "Dougie! Dougie!" chant coming from the other members of the forum?
ReplyDeleteI've been DVRing the shit out of those show. Man, what fun. Raven when he was pretty boy heel. Buff Bagwell with a mask. X-Pac before he was a total greaseball duche.... good times.
ReplyDeleteHow about you? IMAGINE THE DOWNVOTES!
ReplyDeleteCan I make a suggestion? Move away from a match-by-match, move-by-move, minute-by-minute recap. Just tell us what worked, and what didn't, and review the matches that mattered, and skip the rest.
ReplyDeleteThis is the move that most online tv recappers made from the early 00s to today -- the recap doesn't need to give the same experience as viewing the show in its entirety; it just has to tell people "did it work?" and how the things which mattered moved forward.
No, mounties just taser the shit out of you.
ReplyDeleteNobody south of the border understands just how *accurate* Jacques Rougeau's Mountie gimmick was.
Cui bono?
ReplyDeleteIt would still require him to watch the show, which he doesn't want to do. And I can decide for myself what worked and what didn't. It was the entertainment value of the whole piece that made it worth reading.
Man...first Marion Bartoli, now this. And they say things like this happen in threes...
ReplyDeleteJohn Cena is gonna retire???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFSrINhfNsQ
ReplyDeleteThis one's better.
Total Divas is just as short, with less shows and more cultural relativity.
ReplyDeleteYes, they do...but they spell it with an extra u.
ReplyDeleteIn a bold move that has stunned Hollywood insiders, newly-divorced comeback-kid Troy McClure has turned down the supporting lead in McBain IV to direct and star in his own pet project: The Contrabulous Fabtraption of Professor Horatio Hufnagel. Will the gambit pay off? 20th Century Fox is betting... it will.
ReplyDeletei read that some munch said something like 'did her dad tell her that she wouldnt grow up to be a looker'
ReplyDeletebut i think shes cute
Wouldn't go out of my way to get her, but wouldn't kick her out of bed either.
ReplyDeleteWhy wrestling related?
ReplyDeleteYeah I've argued for that before, honestly the Q-n-D, strictly review style is more fun to read. That's how I usually write. Presumably everyone already watched Raw and knows what's going on. But if he really just doesn't want to watch, can't say I blame him.
ReplyDeleteI think we have a chap like that round here...
ReplyDeleteCaliber's Blog of Doom. Get used to it.
Tried that in 2005 and it led to some of my worst work. The format of the writing isn't the problem here and I'd just go back to the classic format out of sheer force of habit anyway. As zanadude said, I just don't want to sit through the whole three-hour show anymore. So I'm gonna try the 90 minute format and see if it helps.
ReplyDeleteI am disappointed. Maybe some more Scott Sez to hold us over?
ReplyDeleteYou've given so much to the WWE I believe in general, you should just download the RAW episodes and keep going. I would highly suggest it because I don't watch the show any more either but I still regularly come to the site to read the reviews to keep up on it. Plus I have always enjoyed your writings. But if you quit RAW again I can see myself not coming back.
ReplyDeleteScott, I sent you my 411 and Inside Pulse reviews that I did working for them. I'd be interested in reviewing TNA for you!
ReplyDelete*clears throat*
ReplyDeleteYes! I knew it! I knew I'd win you over some day! Victory has never tasted so sweet.
ReplyDeleteYou know, I do have feelings, man.
ReplyDeleteOnly if you wear the purple shirt
ReplyDeleteWell, it's pretty simple. Just Control C, then Control V. But I suppose with your extremely chubby fingers you mash keys. You may want to get a keyboard like the old folks telephones. Where each key is about 6 inches in diameter.
ReplyDeleteHope this helps!
An announcer said something like, "Her dad knew she wasn't going to grow up to be a looker, so he coached her to get ahead with her grit and toughness."
ReplyDeleteInstead of a Raw rant, maybe take the open mic thread, find some people to do a dramatic reading of the comments and post audio of that.
ReplyDeleteScott, I'd love to try my hand at a Raw recap of sorts. After all, I have a journalism degree I'm not using at all and would love to be writing...something.
ReplyDeleteSince most of my background is in sports writing I have a ton of experience writing game recaps. I've long wondered if that format- minus postgame quotes from players and coaches, of course- would work. It'd be a cross-breed of an AV Club type episode review and a sporting event game article, rather than your straightforward, sequential, linear recapping of/opinion-giving/match rating.
I'm kind of coming up with this idea as I type it, Scott, and am getting excited about trying it. I think it could be something that could even work in conjunction with someone else doing a more straightforward-style review.
I imagine I'm not the only one here with journalism/professional writing experience, but even if it's just for fun I'd love to shake the rust off and try this format.
I can't fathom I have the time to do this weekly, but I want to give it a shot and see if I enjoy doing it so much that I find the time.
So, I emailed this to Scott in case he doesn't catch it here, but I'd like to hear from the rest of the BoDers, if you guys would be interested in reading this style of a Raw review. Like I said, I would hope it would be in addition to, and not rather than, a more traditional show recap like Scott and so many others here do so well.
ReplyDeletelol
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely. You can be the Brainiac to my Luthor.
ReplyDeleteI'm bummed about this. Honestly, I don't like any of the other reviewers on the site outside of princess. It was good while it lasted.
ReplyDeleteDisappointing, it was the main thing I looked forward to reading on the blog, but you gotta do what you gotta do.
ReplyDeleteFIVE MOVES OF DOOM.
ReplyDelete.....And, we cut to a commercial.
Cole talks about INTENSITY and MOMENTUM
KICK WHAM PEDIGREE
And he POINTS AT THE SIGN.
There. Hire me.
Just kidding. Go refresh Scooter. We will happily await your return.
Just review Total Divas and rate the segments.
ReplyDeleteScott's reviews were my only link to current wrestling. Oh well, Bring on the NJPW and Mid-South!
ReplyDeleteI read this paragraph as "I know you're burnt out, but I think you should keep doing it because I don't want to watch the show myself! And if you don't, I'm leaving" Did I read that wrong?
ReplyDeleteOr maybe we can induct Scott into the first ever BoD Raw Rant Hall Of Fame and start a "ONE MORE RANT!!! ONE MORE RANT" chant
ReplyDeleteSpoony.
ReplyDeleteDo you need a Halls?
ReplyDeleteMy thoughts exactly.
ReplyDeleteI'm the Mountie and the Mountie always gets his man!! Great, now that's gonna be stuck in my head for a week!
ReplyDeleteIt's a sad day on the BOD.
ReplyDelete