#125. Wrestling

You know what would be totally fantastic? If Randy orton and Chris Masters, say, teamed up to oppose the reformed DX. This is getting back to wrestling talk, you understand, so the pretend readers who are interested in other things I write can step aside and the pretend readers who are interested in my wrestling thoughts can tune back in. So yeah, thoughts on the future. Orton, rumor has it, is due for another feud with Triple H, and I can imagine no greater segue than for the posturing poster/golden boy (you understand, I like the guy, probably more than most people, and believe more than ever that he's the next franchise star) to take on Vinnie Mac's grudge for him (because Vinnie and Shane-o-Mac haven't exactly done a stellar job of it themselves...and speaking of which...is Triple H God?), and since he can hardly be expected to carry that by himself (after all...the Spirit Squad...uh, can't do it...), bring in Masters when he returns from whatever exile he's on (rumors also have it that he's another victim of the drug-busting that's gotten RVD, Sabu, and Kurt Angle). It'd be great. Masters already has a history with Shawn Michaels, after all. Anyway, I think it'd be a nice program, an excellent way to make DX relevant as more than pranksters and cheerleader-bashers.

That's something for Raw. For Smackdown, Rey Misterio, before he loses the World title to Batista (c'mon, who doubts that, right?), needs one more program after dealing with King Booker. And that program is with Chavo Guerrero. Think about it. It's the one program Eddie never got to finish, the program that launched a half-year war between two of the greatest Latino wrestlers of the modern era, the one we saw in WCW but never got to finish in WWE. The closest we came was a match at the 2004 Royal Rumble, as well as a half-hearted encore during Eddie's championship reign. Chavo's current angle is that he's retired. They've teased him coming back out of anger against Mark Henry. But make him come back against Rey Misterio. make it for all the marbles. He doesn't have to win. But he deserves it. He's always been a class act. He's not Eddie, but he's a great wrestler in his own right. He'd make Randy Orton's program right. And it wouldn't be about excorcising demons, but moving on, which conceivably would make fans happy. It'd be a beautiful thing. But it probably doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of happening. Unless they make Batista feud with Henry through SummerSlam. Then it could.

But it probably won't. Anyway, I've been thinking a lot lately about fitting in, the pretense of fitting in, whether fitting in can ever really happen or whether yoy make do, or make yourself fit in by compromising. What does it take? Why is it so easy for some people, yet so hard for others? Why can't it always be easy? And why is it so easy to almost fit in, but not to an extent where you actually believe you do, or so you can least screw yourself up and say you definitely don't when you sorta do? Is it just meant to make you crazy? Because I think I've got that done pat pretty well. Is it easier to run away from problems? Even when you aren't running away, right away? That's you've given every indication fo your intentions, think it's for the best, even if it definitely seems like it isn't sometimes, definitely seems like it is at others? How do you really deal with such things? Is that also in part why he feel excluded, because of the varying ways people handle such questions? Oh, why can't there be more easy, good answers?...

Sorry, I could give details to explain a lot of that, and in some ways, I have already in the past, and I'm not talking writing frustration. That I've got plenty of. Just a few minutes ago I nearly decided to quit reviewing at Paperback, because it would be easy, and give me more free time, which I've been getting less and less of. And I actually started a column there, too. I tell myself it's all useful. Maybe it is. There's just so much shit to worry about...