Thanks for the compliment dude! If I’ve become mainstream, then it’s news to me! My page/following is weird…. It’s very different than the other sites, I think, for A large percentage of them aren’t even wrestling fans… which is my intent… best way to grow the sport is to make new fans! But I thought I had some cool “King Of The Underground” thing going! 😎 🦍 😎 And I don’t really talk to or even know any of the other guys in wrestling media who I always considered mainstream… Lol I don’t know what it is, but I’ve never had an inability to fit in socially in any group throughout my life as I have had in the few situations where I’m around other wrestling media people at big events… most times I walk in the media room and I get the vibe from most of them that they see me as some scroungey 3-legged cat who’s trying to bury a turd on their figure skating ice rink… Tony Hager seems to be the only one who thinks there is any use for my spazzy ass in the wrestling media community. In the wrestling media bag, I feel like I’m the Harry S Thompson of the mix sometimes.
And I’ve certainly had my moments where I’ve displayed some rather blatant ass-hattery and douchebaggery…. Hell, one of my worst moments was in this forum! I try to learn from it though… There are 2 things that have made me happier when discussing wrestling and helped me alleviate these types of moments to a point where I don’t make enemies routinely as I did sometimes in The Predicament and IowaPreps days… 1.) I finally accepted my own wrestling career and the perceived shortcomings I had in it and have been able to finally look back fondly on the good moments opposed to omitting them when I think about it and obsessing over the negatives… and 2.) I let go of any animosity, envy, disdain or grudges that I harbored for years towards certain opponents or wrestlers who were more successful than me who I disliked for usually no good reason… doing these two things have made me a happier person when it comes to wrestling and while my positive “rainbows, lollipops and unicorns” approach that I generally take when discussing any wrestler from any school is not what some wrestling fans prefer and that’s fine… but I’m happy that it has seemed to resonate with some. Because I won’t change something I’m doing if that something is making me a happier person while I’m doing it.
Thanks though man… makes my night.
And I think this stuff has a chance of being a blessing in disguise someday. Iowa will be fine. Some of you should try listening to “float on” by Modest Mouse on repeat when these phases unravel…