Bête Noire - A Tale of Unlikely Survival

[Tig]

 

[Hoss]

Tig + TNA, name a more perfect union.

 

[Tig]

ENTRY 1: THE PROLEPSIS OF TOMMY “IRISH” GRADY

OCTOBER 12, 2014 [undisclosed location]​

“They fucking did it.” I find myself speaking aloud, my hand trembling as I reach out for the glass of Jameson whiskey placed on the coffee-table. The sounds of a crowd cheering on the television are drowned out as I press the mute button on my remote with my free hand. I down the drink in one and then let loose a long-awaited, relieved, sigh of content. Suddenly, my iPhone buzzes loudly and I bite my lower-lip as I view the name on my screen. KEVIN KAY Taking a second to regulate my breathing, I place the empty glass down, pick up the phone and hit “ACCEPT”. I switch the phone to loudspeaker and hold it gingerly in my hand. There is a humdrum of background noise on the other end of the line for a few moments before a voice speaks out. “Irish, you there? Can you hear me?” “I… I can hear you, yeah… what’s up?” “What’s up is... we’re in. You got another year. I don’t know how you did it but… we’re in. That’s all you need to know.” “Tha-” I didn’t even get one word to express my gratitude for what had just occurred. I could scarcely believe it. Just over six months ago I was handed the unwanted keys to a house that was on the brink of collapsing in on itself. There was no support. No money. No hope. A year-long use-it-or-lose-it situation where the person forcing the situation upon me wanted it to lose. Was trying to make it lose. Failure was not an option - it was the expectation. Survival wasn’t seen as something viable by anybody. Except me. Except me… and the wrestlers that stayed aboard the sinking ship in a desperate attempt to keep it afloat. We were meant to die. But TNA doesn’t fucking die.

******RECORD SCRATCH****** [BRIAN ZANE]: “Wait, wait, wait! Hold up! So you’re telling me that you guys went into Bound For Glory - your flagship event, your WrestleMania, your biggest ever crowd - without knowing if Impact was going to be airing on Spike that Thursday?” [TOMMY “IRISH” GRADY]: “Hahaha! I mean, when you put it like that… yeah, yeah it was crazy.” [BRIAN ZANE]: “But surely, SURELY, you had to have some sort of inkling considering how things had been going?” [TOMMY “IRISH” GRADY]: “Look, like I said, it was a crazy time. The most unlikely of stories in the most unusual of circumstances. Some say we got lucky but man… we worked our damn asses off all year to make it happen. Like I dunno how much everyone really knows about how everything went down but honestly, until Kevin Kay rang me that night I was watching Mike and Pete sign off on Bound For Glory unsure if it was going to be the last Bound For Glory ever. People underestimate just how important Spike was to the company, there wasn’t a queue of broadcasting stations lining up to bring us on board, you know? Wrestling just wasn’t sexy in 2014, especially if you were the number… were we even the number two at that time? It was Spike or bust. It’s that simple.” [BRIAN ZANE]: “I’d heard rumours - we all had - but I didn’t know it was that dire of a situation. How did it get so bad? How did TNA get to the point where their very future was hanging on the whim of a TV exec?” [TOMMY “IRISH” GRADY]: “I’m starting to feel like I’ve started this story ass-ways, Brian!” [BRIAN ZANE]: “Well, you certainly have me confused! Hahaha!” [TOMMY “IRISH” GRADY]: “Right, forget BFG 2014, scrap it. I started at the right event but the wrong year; if I’m gonna take you back to the start we’ve gotta go back a little. We’ve gotta go back to Bound For Glory… 2013.”

BOUND FOR GLORY October 20, 2013 [viejas arena, san diego, california] RESULTS​

Chris Sabin (w/velvet sky) def. Manik [c], Jeff Hardy, Samoa Joe and Austin Aries (Ultimate X for the X-Division Championship) The BroMans (robbie e & jessie godderz) def. Gunner and James Storm [c] (Tag Team Match for the Tag Team Championships) Gail Kim def. ODB [c] and Brooke (Three-Way for the Knockouts Championship) Bobby Roode def. Kurt Angle (Singles) Ethan Carter III def. Norv Fernum (Singles) Magnus def. Sting (Singles) AJ Styles def. Bully Ray (No Disqualifications for the World Heavyweight Championship)

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[Tig]

ENTRY 2: THE NEARLY KNOCKOUT MAN October 20, 2013 Bound For Glory [viejas arena, san diego, california]​ “You’re pregnant!? Fuck, Taryn, seriously?” “Most people are just saying congratulations, ya know?” Tommy “Irish” Grady groans inwardly as Taryn Terrell looks at him with a raised eyebrow. This was meant to be the beginning of his long-awaited career trajectory. A lower-rung writer on the Total Nonstop Action creative team for the last four years, Tommy Grady had sifted through the madness of late 2009 and the last three years of The Hogan Era by keeping his head down, following orders, and trying his best to make some sort of worth out of whatever scraps Eric Bischoff had thrown his way. Though anything of any real tangible worth was few and far between, Tommy had quietly made the most of what he was given to work with. He had spearheaded Generation Me’s reunion and feud with Motor City Machine Guns heading into Bound For Glory 2010 before someone higher up the pecking order decided it’d be a good idea to pair them with Tara who was working a weird, cougar gimmick. He wouldn’t say it publicly - he was too shrewd for that - but Tommy felt like Generation Me hadn’t ascended to the same heights or relevance since he stopped being in charge of their creative direction. Another feather in his cap was that he was behind much of the booking in the 2011 X-Championship run for Austin Aries, while it wasn’t spectacular, it was quietly solid and he felt he had done a good job in regalvanizing the X-Division; the Option C angle was seriously hot and Tommy couldn’t really complain when Aries was taken off his hands and put in that lane but he was still proud of what he achieved as a creative writer during that time. Most recently, he had booked the Gail Kim and Tarryn Terrell feud that had taken even him by surprise with its success. With an internal shift underway - namely Eric and Hulk’s contracts expiring - he had been earmarked to take over the booking of the whole Knockouts division. His big break. The problem was two-fold: 1) the Knockout roster was at its thinnest ever with a grand total of six women on the books and 2) his initial first big feud plans involved revisiting the Kim/Terrell rivalry but now… now he was seeing that go up in smoke. “Awh, Tarryn, you know I’m made up for you, really, I am. It just isn’t exactly… uhh… aligned with my plans for the division. You know I’d the plans for you and Gail and the belt and-” “And they’ll still be as awesome as they are now when I’m back. Don’t sweat it, Tommy, a year is no time at all. I’ll be back before you know it.” “I know… I know. Seriously, Tarryn… congratulations.” As a smiling Tarryn Terrell turned and took her leave, Tommy had no idea of the irony her words held. A year is no time at all. ******RECORD SCRATCH****** ​ [BRIAN ZANE]: “Irish, hang on, you were meant to head up the Knockouts division with only FIVE active women in the division? That seems absurd.” [TOMMY “IRISH” GRADY]: “To be fair, I don’t think they knew Tarryn was pregnant! Still, absurd is the right word, I was being put in charge of a division that consisted of Gail, Brooke, ODB, and Jamie - Velvet - was there too. Of course, obviously we had Seini as well-” [BRIAN ZANE]: “Who was Lei’D Tapa at the time, right?” [TOMMY “IRISH” GRADY]: “Right. Look, in terms of each woman’s ability, they were all assets. For sure. There just isn’t much you can do with five people in a division. I was told I’d be getting heavy reinforcements but I guess with what happened there was some element of prioritisation going on. That promise kind of just lingered there over the next six months.” [BRIAN ZANE]: “Is that why the Knockouts were kind of left behind in those first few months?” [TOMMY “IRISH” GRADY]: “Look, I wouldn’t say they were left behind but the focus shifted, it had to. There is only so much you can get out of a division of five so I had to stretch it out a bit, so I decided the focus had to be Gail. I know on paper it looks like the girls were an afterthought but if you think back to those couple of months after Bound For Glory the entire focus was on The Turning Point 32-” [BRIAN ZANE]: “That was absolutely wild, North American wrestling hadn’t really seen anything like that before. It took the base idea of the Bound For Glory Series and fused it with the soccer World Cup. What a great idea.” [TOMMY “IRISH” GRADY]: “For sure. People point to the obvious thing that happened between Bound For Glory 2013 and 2014 and they ain’t wrong about giving that massive credit but The Turning Point 32 really laid the foundations for us. So yeah, something that ambitious obviously took a lot of effort and focus and despite the small Knockouts roster there just wasn’t really time for it to be featured more than it was those first few months. Gail was clearly the standout performer of the group and she was the Knockouts Champion so it was vital to keep her as happy as I could.” [BRIAN ZANE]: “And did you? Keep her happy?” [TOMMY “IRISH” GRADY]: “Hahaha… kinda.” October 20, 2013 Bound For Glory [viejas arena, san diego, california]​ The blaring sound of Gail Kim’s theme music snaps Tommy out of his trance as he looks up from his iPhone. Tommy had been trawling the internet, looking up clips of a couple of women he’d earmarked as potential call-ups from Ohio Valley Wrestling. The relationship with OVW wasn’t as streamlined as it once was, but Tommy felt it’d be an easy sell if he made good use of Lei’D Tapa - an OVW alumni already on the TNA books. The champion, Gail Kim, rounds the corner from the gorilla position and nearly walks straight into Tommy. Still sweating from her three-way match with Brooke and ODB, Gail stops and looks Tommy straight in the eye. She shifts the Knockouts Championship slung over her shoulder. “Well, Irish, what’s the plan?” Tommy smirks. He likes Gail. She is to the point. There was no tip-toeing around her and she wanted plans locked in early and often. She’d tell you if she didn’t like an idea. If she didn’t want to work with someone. Also, she was the only Knockout that ever called him “Irish”. Yeah, Tommy Grady likes Gail Kim. “Well, Gail obviously you understand that we’re a little-” “Light on talent? I’ve been hearing that for months - what’s happening, Irish, seriously? I heard Madison is back soon, just get a couple of bodies in the damn door.” “I know, I know but… there’s a couple of moving pieces, it’s not going to happen overnight. Trust me though, I am trying. I’m checking out a couple of girls here down in Ohio-” Gail snatches the iPhone out of Tommy’s hand and hits play on the video he had been watching. She quietly watches the video for three minutes before nodding her head. “Get them in. See if they recommend anyone else. What’s next? Turning Point? Tarryn and I can go there - that’ll get us to the New Year - and we’ll have reinforcements at that point. I’m expecting a cut of that new salary bump by the way... I’m doing your job for you, Irish!” Tommy laughs aloud as Gail cracks a slight smile. “I’ll see what I can do with Ohio, I’ll try to get it done quickly too. Just for you.” This time Gail is the one who laughs. “But the Tarryn thing… I’m sorry, Gail, it’s a non-starter. Don’t give me that look! You know my whole gameplan revolved around revisiting that feud but… look you’ll have to talk to Tarryn, it ain’t my place, Gail. I’ve an idea for Seini, I think we can make something work.” “Seini could work down the line but she literally just aligned with me, did you not watch the match?” “Of course I watched the match!” A half-lie from Tommy. He had watched some of the match but had missed Seini - or Lei’D Tapa as she was being billed - interfere and help Gail claim the title. She was being brought in as a bodyguard but Tommy felt with the dwindling roster, he was going to have to utilize her in a different fashion. “Just trust me, Gail, gimme a little credit.” Gail fixes Tommy a knowing nod. Far from happy, but content that the new head of the Knockout division was going to at least try and improve the division. Maybe unfortunately - in the short-term at least - Tommy was about to find his attention ripped away from doing everything in his power to elevate the standing of the TNA Knockouts and instead find himself focusing on a much bigger picture. ******RECORD SCRATCH****** ​ [BRIAN ZANE]: “I’m a little bit confused, Tommy; did you take over the creative team immediately or did you just do the Knockouts?” [TOMMY “IRISH” GRADY]: “I took over the whole shebang. I’m getting there… I just think it’s important to talk a little about what I was meant to be doing and why some wires are crossed about what my role really was. I had a few ideas that were in the works prior to getting the promotion and some people knew about them and pointed to this and said that I was just working with the Knockouts or I was just helping run point on The Turning Point 32. That wasn’t the case… I’d the whole damn book.” [BRIAN ZANE]: “The Turning Point 32… that’s what I really want to talk about now. Lay it on me.” [TOMMY “IRISH” GRADY]: “That’s probably where I should really start but damn, that’s gotta come later, man. There’s a whole load of stuff that came before that. Stuff you need to know to begin to make sense of it.” [BRIAN ZANE]: “Such as?” [TOMMY “IRISH” GRADY]: “The SpikeTV buyouts…”

 

[BattleTank]

It’s so much fun to read these entries. You know by now I am a huge fan of your writing style, you make this shit seem so effortless lol

This time period for TNA is such a big ”what if?” And I know you will do it justice. Keep these posts coming, my friend. Best of luck with this.

 

[Stojy]

Love the way you're setting the scene here, a really fun read so far. Definitely looking forward to Turning Point 32 and how Irish ends up with the whole damn book.

 

[Looking Glass]

Really enjoying the recent TNA BTB renaissance around here lately.

I'm a big fan of the podcast format as well - really sets it apart and gives a good hook at the end of each episode. I'll be keeping an eye on this for more!

 

[Tig]

ENTRY 3: THE (CHOSEN) ONE WHO KNOCKS October 20, 2013 [doubletree by the hilton hotel in san diego, california]​ Tommy cracks open the bay window of room number 274 on the third floor of the INSERT HOTEL. He fumbles around his pocket and produces a lighter with which he lights the cigarette dangling from his lip. His eyes gloss over the small metal sign labelled “NO SMOKING” on the table he sits at and he smirks. Tommy whips out his iPhone and thumbs through his contacts - though he doesn’t have to scroll very far given the name of the contact he was looking for. AL SNOW Tommy smashes the dial button and takes a long drag on his smoke. He doesn’t wait long before Al’s slightly raspy voice fills his eardrums. “Irish?” There is a slight air of confusion to Al’s voice, clearly not expecting the call from Tommy. “What’s happening, Allen? How’s things?” “All good my end, man. Gotta say, I’m a little surprised to hear from you. I’d have thought you’d be at the afterparty.” “I’ll head down in a little bit, you know me - I’m not gonna miss an opportunity to drink on the company dime. Pity you couldn’t make it this year.” “Ah, it’s whatever, Irish, really. Been to one BFG afterparty, you’ve been to ‘em all. I’ve stuff to do here, we’ve been getting some pretty big crowds in.” “That’s actually what I wanted to talk to you about… I’ve got the book for the Knockouts.” “So I heard… congrats.” A beat. “So, uh, I was wondering if-” “Who do you want? I know how this works, Irish. You don’t need to dance around it; that’s what OVW is here for.” “Uh, well I was thinking the fans will know Taeler and the twins already and then I’ve been checking out Jessie and Rachel-” “Are you gonna use them? Like actually use them? The girls that have come back didn’t exactly wax lyrical about their experience. What sort of push do you have in mind for them?” It was a fair point from Al - the misuse of OVW talent was not exactly a sentiment that Tommy could genuinely argue. Still, Al himself had said it: that’s what OVW was here for. Tommy respected the fact that Al was somewhat cautious about the futures of the talent he had helped trained but at the end of the day the state of the TNA Knockouts division was Tommy’s concern and if he had to raid OVW for bodies then so be it. Tommy wasn’t going to start making promises about their creative direction, it’d be a misstep to handcuff himself like that. “Look, Al… that isn’t how this works. They’ll be treated fairly, they’ll be paid, and I’ll make them available to still work Ohio if you give me a bit of notice. I’m calling them up - if they don’t want to come, that’s their choice, but I want you to let them know they’re wanted. I’m not promising you anything - I’m coming from a realistic place here, Al. I’m not trying to pull rank. I’m just being transparent. We need bodies. You have them. I can’t say much else beyond that at this point.” The awkward silence when Tommy finishes speaking is painful to sit through. Tommy takes another long drag of his cigarette as he awaits a response. Finally, it comes. “Alright, Irish, you got it. I’ll let them know.” Tommy allows his mouth to contort into a half-smile. “That’s great, that’s really great. I value our relationship, Al, I’m not going to fuck you over.” “Fine.” With that one-word response, Al cuts the call and Tommy is left wondering whether he’d done the right thing. It was hard to tell if Al was pissed off or if that was just how business was conducted at this rung of the creative ladder. Tommy didn’t have much time to dwell on it as a rapturous three-tap knock on his hotel room door echoes around the room and causes Tommy to jolt up in his seat. Tommy meanders around items of clothing strewn about his room and curiously opens the door. Wide-eyed, Tommy utters one word. “Jeff?”

******RECORD SCRATCH******

[BRIAN ZANE]: “Sounds like you things were a bit frosty between you and Al?”

[TOMMY “IRISH” GRADY]: “You sound surprised!”

[BRIAN ZANE]: “Well - and I know I’m speaking with the benefit of hindsight here - but it seems like OVW and TNA had at least a decent working relationship over the coming year?”

[TOMMY “IRISH” GRADY]: “I’m only busting your balls, Brian! Things worked out fine with Al. With Ohio Valley Wrestling too. He was just protective of the talent he’d helped build - and I get that. We’d a few… intense discussions back then but we didn’t really clash heads the way I did with some of the other guys. We both ultimately wanted the same thing: TNA and its affiliates to thrive. Whether he would admit it or not is a different story but Ohio’s success hinged on the TNA promise. There were guys working weekly in Ohio that could’ve made more money touring, gotten more exposure wrestling the circuit but… with the TNA connection, Al was able to persuade talent to stay by waving the carrot of nationally televised appearances with TNA on Spike. So, really, it was circular in a way. They needed us and I needed to lean on them. OVW would be successful if TNA was successful and for that to happen… we pretty much needed to stay on SpikeTV. If I had to step on a few toes to ensure that, well…”

[BRIAN ZANE]: “So, Jeff, is that what he wanted? A plan to stay on SpikeTV?”

[TOMMY “IRISH” GRADY]: “In a sense…”

October 20, 2013 [doubletree by the hilton hotel in san diego, california]​

“Can I come in, Irish?” Rather than answering, Tommy steps aside and allows Jeff Jarrett to walk past him and into his hotel room. Jeff looks at the bottle of half-drained Jameson on the coffee table and Tommy blurts out a question. “Drink?” Jeff eyes it for a second before he sighs and plops himself down on the chair beside the coffee table. “It ain’t Jack but it’ll do. God knows I need somethin’.” As Tommy scrambles to find a second glass, Jeff continues talking, shining some light on his rather jaded demeanour. “I ain’t gonna beat around the bush, Irish… we’re in the shit. Big time. Hulk and Eric… they ain’t resigning. The negotiations didn’t go to plan.” “Oh?” Tommy tries to keep the note of approval out of his tone. It was no big secret that Hulk and Eric were very unlikely to extend their deals beyond their October 2013 expiry and Tommy was a little surprised Jeff of all people seemed to be hung up on the fact that they hadn’t. “I know what you’re thinkin’… and yeah, yeah, they probably weren’t what we thought they were gonna be. Thing is, Irish, we only got the SpikeTV deal renewed in 09 on the back of ‘em signin’ for us. That deal is up next year and Dixie just got off the phone with Kevin…” Tommy finally procures a glass and fills it up. Jeff isn’t telling him to stop. Tommy sits down opposite him and looks at him properly. Jeff bears the face of a man who knows the gig is just about up. If Dixie was on the phone to Kevin - that’s Kevin Kay, SpikeTV president - then it could only mean one of two things: good news or bad news. Tommy wasn’t a rocket scientist but it didn’t take one to figure out that this was almost certainly the latter. “They ain’t plannin’ on renewing the deal. They said they were considerin’ it anyway but without the… draw of Hulk, the decision has been made internally.” Tommy notices the grimace on Jeff’s face and he knows that deep down that it’s painful to tell him this. “That’s… that’s pretty fucking shit, Jeff.” “It is. It’s more than shit… but we have to try somethin’ here, Tommy. I can’t just let this go with a whimper. Dixie asked me what can we do? How can we convince Kevin to extend the deal. I tried wracking my brains and you know what came to me? The Turning Point 32.” A sudden lump forms in Tommy’s throat. The Turning Point 32 was an idea he had pitched a few months ago in a creative meeting. The head writers and Eric weren’t too hot on the idea but Jeff had said it was worth shelving for a later time. Put a pin in it. That’s what he’d said. “Look… I won’t sugarcoat it… you ain’t the first choice but the books aren’t great, we’ve bled a lot of money these last few years. We can’t get a Paul in the door. You’ve been quietly solid, you’ve had a few good ideas. We need a new direction, a new vision, somebody who ain’t gonna bitch and cry about having to work with what’s in front of him…” Wait, what? Tommy wasn’t the first choice for what? What was Jeff getting at? “We’re at the bottom of the ninth, Irish, we’ve gotta take a swing. We ain’t in a position to hit a home run but we sure as hell need some sort of Hail Mary. Dixie asked me what to do… I told her to give the bat to you.” Stunned, Tommy tries to utter a comprehensible sentence. “You mean you want me to-” “Let me make it simple for ya; I told Dixie to give the book to you, Irish. I don’t know if she’s desperate, trusts my judgement, or feels she has no other option… but she said yes.” A loud smashing sound rings out around Room 274 of the DoubleTree by the Hilton. Jeff’s eyes dart to the whiskey glass shattered at the feet of Tommy “Irish” Grady and then slowly divert upwards to look at the trembling new head booker of TNA Wrestling.

******RECORD SCRATCH******

[BRIAN ZANE]: “Just like that?”

[TOMMY “IRISH” GRADY]: “Just like that. Trust me, Brian, I was more surprised than anyone. I was just about coming to terms with the fact that I’d be booking the Knockouts - a daunting task in my eyes - but to be told just hours after Bound For Glory that I was going to be the main man… it was surreal. Given the circumstances I should have been quaking in my boots but… yeah, look, like I’ve mentioned; I had some decent ideas. Kind of unique to North American wrestling. I felt like I could garner up enough interest those first few months to make a fist of it despite some of the obstacles I was going to go on to encounter.”

[BRIAN ZANE]: “And nobody had a problem with you being jumped up that high out of nowhere?”

[TOMMY “IRISH” GRADY]: “Oh… people had a lot of problems with it. I mean the Tennessee Three were NOT hap-”

[BRIAN ZANE]: “Sorry… the Tennessee Three?”

[TOMMY “IRISH” GRADY]: “Hahaha… god, I forgot that people not on the inside of TNA would have NO idea what I’m talking about. The Tennessee Three were what the boys called Dave Laguna, Matt Conway, and John Gaburick. At the time they were the creative. Eric oversaw the whole team and made the final call on everything but those three… they were who put most everything together.”

[BRIAN ZANE]: “And you were effectively going to be the new Eric?”

[TOMMY “IRISH” GRADY]: “I wouldn’t say that Eric and I operated similarly but in terms of simple hierarchy… yeah, I was going to be the new Eric. I was above them.”

[BRIAN ZANE]: “And they didn’t take to that well, I’d imagine?”

[TOMMY “IRISH” GRADY]: “I will get to that pretty soon… I mean I’m sure you can guess that me - effectively a nobody in the grand scheme of things - just being handed the book didn’t come without problems. For now, all you need to know is Jeff made the call and that was pretty much it as far as TNA was concerned.”

[BRIAN ZANE]: “Jarrett had a lot of influence in TNA. Some people point to Jeff Jarrett and TNA and levy the accusation that Jarrett could be a little bit suffocating when it came to TNA. Some say he did more damage than good… where do you fall on that?”

[TOMMY “IRISH” GRADY]: “I’ve gotta say he did more good… and I’m not just saying that because he got me the gig as head booker. I get what people are saying; he probably overstayed his welcome as a main event level talent, a focal point of the show, a little too long but Jeff always wanted TNA to succeed. He could have taken the SpikeTV buyout offer that came along - like some guys did - but he wanted to stay. He believed we could survive, he believed in the ideas, he got behind the Turning Point 32, he got behind me. I respect him and appreciate him for those two things alone.”

[BRIAN ZANE]: “Right, we’ve alluded to the SpikeTV buyouts and the Turning Point 32 quite a few times already and I imagine our viewers are chomping at the bit to hear more about them; care to indulge us a little on them?”

[TOMMY “IRISH” GRADY]: “Well… what do you wanna hear about first?”

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Hello, reader. Yes… YOU! This is the first of some interactive options that help pave the way of the story in this project. Fear not! You will eventually hear all parts of the story but this will dictate what you hear first and how. You have two options to continue this story:

Hear Irish talk about the SpikeTV contract buyouts [option a]

OR

Find out more about the Turning Point 32 [option b]

Make your decision and in 48 hours the one with the most votes will be the next entry.

Thanks for the support so far!
-Tig

 

[Stojy]

Another really fun entry here. Al being protective of his talents seems fair enough, and I can't help but enjoy the behind-the-scenes issues with Jarrett here. As much as the Turning Point 32 excites me, think I'm going to vote on hearing more about the SpikeTV buyouts at this time because I love the behind the scenes element of BTB.

 

[Roy Mustang]

Sorry cause this is over 48 hours but would also like to pitch my vote for the contract buyout talk as I feel we will get to turning point 32 down the road as well and I curious about the backstage scene being set