May 21, 200916 yr comment_5439759 Well nobody said it wasn't smart. The point is that Vince is bitching up a storm about an arena canceling on him and now he's canceling on an arena.And Vince can still blame it on the NBA and the Pepsi Center, because had they not been forced out of the Pepsi Center they wouldn't have cancelled on the World Arena. Cancelling the World Arena is bullshit, but that'll be Vince's take on it.
May 21, 200916 yr comment_5439766 Some apologists on other boards are claiming that Vince is moving the Smackdown show because it's too much of a hassle to transfer the set from Los Angeles to Colorado overnight. Anyone care to bust this myth, say with some dates of Raw and Smackdown shows on back-to-back days in different parts of the country?
May 21, 200916 yr comment_5439772 Some apologists on other boards are claiming that Vince is moving the Smackdown show because it's too much of a hassle to transfer the set from Los Angeles to Colorado overnight. Anyone care to bust this myth, say with some dates of Raw and Smackdown shows on back-to-back days in different parts of the country? It's not that it can't be done, but it shouldn't have to be done when the original plan was a much, much, much shorter trip.
May 21, 200916 yr comment_5439774 I love how this story is forcing a lot of people to either admit Vince is actually dead-to-rights correct about something, or come up with some mental gymnastics to come up with a reason he's not.
May 21, 200916 yr comment_5439777 It's a smart decision. Running LA back-to-back is far more cost effective than running LA than CSprings. Of course, taping Raw the night before in Denver or live in Colorado Springs would be just as cost effective, probably more, than running back-to-back in LA.
May 21, 200916 yr comment_5439778 Yes, though I would be worried about the effect taping the show would have on ratings. One of the few advantages Raw has over other shows at this point is the fact that it isn't taped. Face it, Vince is totally in the right. These things happen once or twice a decade.
May 21, 200916 yr comment_5439782 Face it, Vince is totally in the right.In terms of being forced out of the arena on Monday, yeah mostly. But in rejecting their offer for compromise and fucking over the paying fans of Colorado Springs? Moving the scheduled Smackdown show is every bit as bad as what's being done to them in Denver.
May 21, 200916 yr comment_5439783 Face it, Vince is totally in the right.In terms of being forced out of the arena on Monday, yeah mostly. But in rejecting their offer for compromise and fucking over the paying fans of Colorado Springs? Moving the scheduled Smackdown show is every bit as bad as what's being done to them in Denver. Not just the Colorado Springs fans either. They cancelled the house show on Sunday in Loveland, Colorado too.
May 21, 200916 yr comment_5439790 Dylan, whenever Raw has been taped, it hasn't had a huge impact on ratings. So I agree with Jingus that there was no need to screw over the fans and arenas in Colorado Springs and Loveland. Sure running LA milks the controversy for more publicity, but at a huge expense and at the risk of testing the sympathy of the mainstream media to their plight, especially when the odds are this week's Raw will be turned into a vehicle to bash the NBA, the Denver Nuggets and Stan Kroenke.
May 21, 200916 yr comment_5439794 The thing that bothers me is this is one of those times in which Vince is in the right, yet he still turns into "Vince being Vince" with this supposed deal of doing an on-camera angle to rub the fact he's right in the face of Kroenke and company. It's a reason why, even when Vince is correct about something, it's sometimes hard to sympathize with him because he acts so arrogant about it.
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