"Now, could you go out to your front lawn and get me a beer out of your refrigerator."

By far the funniest blog entry of the year.

Why wrastlin' fans can't laugh at themselves every now and then is beyond me.

Would the Neck Tattoo be in Asian Script?

I thought it was funny Pete, don't worry.

To be fair to Kev, he's holding out for Shawn Michaels even though Goldust has the better hair. In case you wondered, that's also why he walks around singing "I'm just a sexy boy."

Anyway, I figured you for a wrestling fan all along. You weren't going for the Jimmy Buffet or SoCal beach look with the Hawaiian shirts, you were going for the Captain Lou Albano look.
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BigBill -

Some people just take themselves way too seriously. Like the guy on the original wrestling post who compared WWE to figure skating.

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I can appreciate the humor and irony to your comment based on the level of discourse among O's fans on this blog being oh so civilized. Although, the level of offers to fights in parking lots have dropped a bit.

It's very simple if you can't bet on it, then it is not a sport. Vegas never give WWE odds do they? And a Pro Wrasslin event in Dundalk is like setting a watermelon on a T for Gallagher. He is gonna hit it. If you are over the age of 12 and still follow wrasslin like it is a real sport then you really need to get out of your mothers basement and find a life.

Actually Peter with your physique you would make a good jobber in the WWE!

Mesotheliangelos - Jeter has never been thrown out of game. Does that mean he doesn't care? The Orioles can show all the emotion they want and getting thrown out of game doesn't change the talent level

Hi P.S.,
Those were fun times back then, Wrestling from the Olympic Auditorium and Roller Derby too with Little Ralphie. They were just plain fun and entertaining and we had the great "Whoa Nellie" Dick Lane. Richmond 9-5171, must have heard that a million times over all the years. Keep up the great blogs. Bite, Freddie, Bite!

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Pete's reply: Robert, thanks for the memories. I hadn't thought about Ralphie Valaderas and Terry Lynch in decades. Dick Lane, however, is never far out of my memory. I'm guessing you were a USC or UCLA guy, because the frats used to go there with signs and root for Freddie.

Great job once again Pete. You are my sole source for wrestling news and insights. Keep up the good work. Articulate humor is always appreciated.

Granted, I don't care about wrestling, but I thought your post was funny. I can get my news from anywhere on the web, but your posts always have a nice comedic touch, so keep it up!

Aren't all television dramas, sitcoms and movies scripted entertainment? Would you consider everyone who watches these shows losers considering the outcome is predetermined? Same with wrestling...adults who watch it are in on the joke. The people who find themselves compelled to bash it are the ones who need a life.

Aren't all television dramas, sitcoms and movies scripted entertainment? Would you consider everyone who watches these shows losers considering the outcome is predetermined? Same with wrestling...adults who watch it are in on the joke. The people who find themselves compelled to bash it are the ones who need a life.

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Dear Schmuck,
Please let me start by saying that your stereotypes are completely off. I am a Finance MBA student who's never lived in Dundalk (though I've met plenty of smart people from DUndalk who have never watched a min of wrestling), nor do I have any tatoos... On my neck or otherwise. I have also never touched a steroid in my life nor do I plan to, and I drink perhaps a beer
a week. To be totally honest I'm not even a diehard rasslin fan.
But your post was just plain dumb and unnecessary. I don't mind people hating on wrestling, everyone has their opinion. I for one think that an hour or two of scripted entertainment - non unlike many sitcoms or soap operas - that features some good athletes perfoming in front of thousands of fans in arenas and millions of fans around the world, is MUCH MORE entertaining than watching a bunch of overpaid losers make mistake after mistake in front of an empty stadium, where the result of the game and the whole season is more obvious to anyone - from Dundalk... With tattoos or without - than any wrestling show. Plus the way you write about the team, with mostly insane blind optimism, almost seems like you are getting your blog posts spoken into your ear from MacFail, like McMahon does during his shows. But no, everyone is entitled to their opinion, as rude and condescending as it is.
What really upsets me is how you basically ripped on a colleague who is not only a better writer than you, but also a more successful blogger, and a generally nice person. If anything, I have a feeling that Petey is basically using a rasslin move and basically using the fact that this is a polarizing article and subject to get himself more hits - a work.
Pete, I just want to say in general, since I am already writing, that the quality of your writing has gone down the same toilet as the quality of orioles baseball. I used to read your posts because of useful information, insight, and fun smart humor. Those qualities have been lacking from your posts for quite a while. Now we get rehashed information and blatant vitriole. It seems that you have resorted to cheap tactics to get site views and keep your job. Even as little as a year ago I'd still read your posts just to read the comments, but now even those have dried up because your posts are not even worth the mouse click most of the time.
Part of me wants to start listing some of the finer qualities you posess that can be made fun of, but I'll refrain because that's what adults do.
Best part is, how many baseball players are out of shape and how many took anabolic steroids in THAT "sport"?
I really hope you take a moment out of your busy schedule to come up with a witty response to anything I just said.

Thanks goof,
Gene

PS I can laugh at myself all day, I just don't see it when Pete Schmuck is doing it. Now if Brady "50 homers" Anderson talks to ME, then I would have much respect.

The point is not wrestling or the pitiful O's. Your apology to a COLLEAGUE is ridiculously bratty and worthless. You have offended a fellow journalist (and friend? doubtful...) and you follow it up with "IF I offended anyone". An honorable man owns up to the mistakes he makes. You made one here, an ethical one, so man up and truly make this blunder right. I regret that the Sun does not police its staff of 'professionals' better.

I was going to express my displeasure about yet another hack writer making negative comments toward Dundalk, but then I decided to look at the bigger picture. You are of obvious limited intelligence, and have the misfortune of working for one of the worst newspapers on the East Coast, so I can understand why you would feel the need to insult my beloved hometown. If I lead a similar miserable existence (and I thank God that I don't) I would probably do the same thing in an effort to make my life seem a little less pathetic.

Mabye next time you could spell Goldust correctly.

Thanks for the insincere apology, prick.

Totally disrespectful, no class, no wit, no professionalism. This guy is talentless hack.

You need to attend the MCW event and have a run in with Kevin Eck!

Play your wrestling cards well and some day, Peter, you might get to hang out with Maryse:

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AND get paid for it!