- Wrestlemania, to try to recoup SOMETHING out of this, will be two nights, and it appears will emanate from several closed sets, including the Performance Center.
- The WWE, by one estimate, will lose about $22,000,000 from having the shows cancelled.
- AEW is evaluating week by week. They held an empty-arena show this week for Dynamite and will attempt their "WarGames" Blood and Guts show next week unless circumstances prevent it. But several during-the-show spots made it clear that Blood and Guts (and several other matches) will take place only at the next Dynamite, whenever it might be.
- The Dow lost the 20,000 plateau today. For the fourth time in eight sessions, the first circuit-breaker had to be invoked. At 2:30 PM Eastern, the Dow stood at 18,926.19, which would've been a loss of another 973 points below where it closed. At 3:36, 19,144.61, and it made back 754 points in the last 24 minutes to prevent another -2,000 day and ONLY be down -1,338.46 (-6.3%) at 19,898.92.
- At it's low point, the Dow was down 2,311.19 or 10.88%. The second circuit-breaker invokes at -13%.
- Futures are, again, almost, if not Lock Limit Down.
- Based on today's close of the Stock Market (though the market uses the S&P as the circuit-breaker): Circuit Breaker 1 now needs a loss of 1392.92 -- Circuit Breaker 2 needs 2586.86 -- and full closure of the market for the day needs a loss of almost 4,000 points.
- But is that THAT infeasible? Lincoln's Birthday, February 12th: 29,551.42. In five weeks, the market has lost 9,653 points. The stock market has lost about a third of it's former value in ONE MONTH.
- 19,827.25 is a key number. Why? Because, for someone so esconced in the stock market as Donald J Trump, losing that figure means that, even after gaining nearly 10,000 points and nearly making Dow 30,000 a reality just LAST MONTH, he will have lost all of the Dow 30 gains over his Presidency. (Meaning the Dow is now up just 72 points in his Presidency.)
- Adam Silver is evaluating as things go along -- he told ESPN today he is not opposed, if safely possible, of charity "diversion" games just to raise some money for causes and give people SOMETHING to look forward to in all of this. This, while he's taking criticism for NBA players getting some of the rare tests for the coronavirus.
- At least two major airports have had their towers shut down due to a positive coronavirus test among the air traffic controllers. Las Vegas is the latest.
- I mentioned, a couple of days ago, Tara Strong livestreaming a workout with a celebrity trainer. She wanted to do another one today but had to cancel, circumstances beyond her control. That said, the prolific voice-actress did, as promised, post the first workout to YouTube, and here it is:
- Earlier, I mentioned my love for game shows. A documentarian did a movie on one of the most controversial moments in the history of The Price is Right, when, on September 22, 2008, Terry Kneiss became the first person to go the show, win his way to the Showcase, and perfectly bid on said Showcase. Drew's flaccid reaction created a firestorm, and his attitudes toward the people who may have (at that point, legally!) aided Kneiss in said bid only added to the controversy.
- After a significant discussion of legality, Kneiss' appearance was finally aired on the show December 16 of that year. The movie, including several invectives from Drew Carey toward long-time fans of the show, was entitled Perfect Bid: The Contestant Who Knew Too Much. It has interviews with Kreiss, long-time fan who helped him Ted Slauson (now permanently banned from any further tapings for this incident!), Carey (see the aforementioned invectives), Bob Barker and Roger Dobkowitz (who both slam the entire handling of the incident!), and others. Free with ads on YouTube, and with a hat-tip to my anonymous friend for finding it, here it is:
- Now I've attended a number of tapings of the show. (End of Barker Era, first year of Drew) First off, if there was that degree of suspicion of a Federal criminal offense -- which cheating on a game show IS -- the only recourse, under the same law, is the complete and immediate cessation of taping.
- Second, when that light went on (after a 45 minute discussion and the decision of the show's producers and the network's Standards and Practices Department), Drew Carey failed completely in his duty (and on a termination level, I might add!) in not treating the moment as a legitimate feat.
- Third, how in the Hell do you treat your long-time fans like THAT? And WHY????
- Former Seinfeld, Friends, and Everybody Loves Raymond star Fred Stoller is joining the online content boom:
stuck inside, to have something to do I'm doing Cameo's for just 5 bucks! If you need a Pep talk in these crazy times, I'm your crazy guy! pic.twitter.com/bzUbutsC5w— Fred Stoller (@Fred_Stoller) March 18, 2020
Anyway, more diversions to come.
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