On Raw, having Ryback stick around after running off Rusev was a bit of a strange sight. The idea wasnt bad at all, as I wish WWE would have wrestlers talk about why theyre in the company more often, but its something they so rarely do. However, this one may have backfired a bit as Ryback made me like him about 25% less by professing his love for the self-help book The Secret. If youre not familiar with The Secret, its all about positive thinking. Are you broke? Think positive and you can be a millionaire! Have cancer? Well, you didnt think positive enough! Want to not be fat? Just dont observe fat people (seriously, thats all in there!). I would rather have thought of him as a one-dimensional Goldberg type than someone who believes that you can win the lottery just by thinking about it. What if Ryback and I both think about being WWE champ? Which one of us is going to get it? All those WWE wrestlers reaching for the brass ring got it all wrong. Dont work hard, simply visualize and Bolieve like Bo Dallas! Wait...that didnt work for him either.
As Rust Cohle from True Detective said "Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you're good at."
Sadly, I can't solve a murder like Rust...or change a tire, or even tie a tie. But I do know all the lyrics to Hulk Hogan's "Real American" theme song and can easily name every Natural Born Thriller from the dying days of WCW. I was once ranked 21st in the United States in Tetris...on the Playstation 3 version...for about a week.
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