Brutal! You don't talk about baseball all year, then my Astros come to town for like the first time ever and you let loose on the trash talking?! What gives?!

RESPNSE FROM KEVIN ECK: After 10 straight losing seasons, Orioles fans have to talk trash while it lasts.

TNA may not be perfect every week, but its still WAY better than WWE has been lately. TNA has good wrestling, genuinely funny gimmicks (CURRY MAN!), and there isn't the overkill of 5 hours a week of wrestling, plus PPVs every 3 to 5 weeks. I'm willing to throw them a bone when they don't put on an amazing show.

The big guy in LAX is a better talker then Hector Guerrero anyway. The only thing Hector should be doing is wearing a chicken costume.

There were way too many WWE references for my taste tonight also.

Whats the big deal with Kaz? The guy has the charisma of a park bench. TNA has done a horrible job explaining anything about his character and why we should give a damn about him.

What is with everyone jumping all over every champion who doesn't go around in a suit? I remember the days when only the heel champions wore suits to denote a sort of arrogance. If you're going to jump all over Joe, then why not jump all over Undertaker, Cena, Triple H, Diesel, Angle, Brock, Stone Cold, Rock, Eddie, and all the countless other champions that have made appearances in casual wear?

TNA is the Rodney Dangerfield of the wrestling biz , they get no respect . ... But seriously they do need to be able to put together a string of good shows . When a good one airs , it's inevitably followed by a lesser one .
I enjoyed the Awesome Kong "match", at least it wasn't the standard beatdown .
TNA has a potential superstar in A.J. Styles and doesn't seem to know it .
Kevin , I take exception to your saying Samoa (sloppy) Joe looks like one of us when wearing t-shirt and jeans . Give us all some credit ! It's sad when the champ can't "wear" the belt because of being , ahem , lets say "portly" .
On a side note Kevin , I bet if it were a Monday night and you had the option of going to an O's / Yankees game , or staying home to watch "Raw" , you'd have your feet propped up , bag of chips in your lap and a "soda pop" in hand watching the tube !
Does anyone have directions to "The Pink Taco" ?

Looks like the Duds have really moved up. Didn't they leave WWE as jobbers?

Kaz's "character" can be pretty much summed up in "personal" format:

Hi, my name used to be Frankie Kazarian. For some reason, I was cast as a rebel inside of a rebel group, dropping all but 3 letters from my name. Then, when breaking away, I never took back the other 12 letters, and it's those letters that were my charisma. That, and I used to have Matt Bentley and Traci to make me look a lot better.

There we go, the "Kaz" character in a nut shell-_-

Thank you for explaining that, Kevin. I totally missed the whole "jumping Trigg instead of Angle" bit. And two other weird things stood out to me - the fact that Joe (whom I find entertaining) came off looking like a crybaby teenager in his promo with Nash instead of a strong face (which is a trend I've been noticing with TNA's chosen #1 face) and also that LAX, also face characters, were going to pull a four-on-one thing on Jacqueline. I know they were supposed to be angry and everything, but don't faces generally demonstrate more self-control? I mean, it's part of what makes them faces, right?

I'd rather watch the worst Impact show than sit through a Orioles-Astros game!

Also, Kaz is the best wrestler in TNA and I hope he gets a 1-on-1 shot against Samoa Joe in the future.

Maybe Kevin can give us baseball scores at the same time as ring coverage . Ain't the beer cold !!!

@ Ryan:

Kaz did get a 1-on-1 shot against Joe just last week

The Frank Trigg segment was a pretty good idea played out well by Styles but ruined by a lack of clarity from the announce team.

When Styles took the glasses off "Angle", revealing him to be Trigg, West and Tenay were still saying it was Angle. Even a sharp eyed fan who can tell the difference between one bald guy in a suit and another would doubt themself once the commentators have stated it was Angle (whilst looking at clear shot of his face).

To make things worse, throughout the show whenever they mentioned Stlyes' revenge rampage they reiterated that he had taken out Tomko and Angle, no mention of any suspicion that it might not be Angle.

The final act of ricockulousness came at the end of the show when Tenay casually tells everyone that it was Trigg all along but “we didn’t follow up on this earlier”. "Didn't follow up" implies that they (as characters) knew all along, so why did they keep hammering home that it was Angle that got beat down? Especially as the tone in which they chose to admit it was Trigg was so low key and ineffective. It makes absolutely no sense and has zero impact this way. What should have been a simple bit of mistaken identity, all handled in one scene, was destroyed by drawing it out and then botching the finish.

I don't know if this was a result of bad writing or bad announcing (probably a combination of both) but either way the end result is that it makes the show look amateurish.

Ryan your wrong, although Kaz is a very good wreslter, there is no angle at all with his character. He doesnt have a grudge with anybody they just kind of stick him in a slot whenever they need somebody. I mean a couple months ago he was teaming with Eric Young going against Balck Reign and Rellik. Hey for all you Don West fans thats Killer spelled backwards. But serioulsy here is Kaz fighting Black Reign a couple months ago over a mouse and now with a snap of the fingers is in contention. He is a great wrestler but something needs to be done with an angle. A.J. Styles is probably the best wrestler on TNA right now. And Kevin although you think Kaz's match was the best id have to say the MMG match took the cake. So many good moves and counters and Davari looked pretty good as well.