Lance Storm rants on Mike Adamle

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Mike Adamle

April 28, 2008

I'm going to go on a bit of a rant this week, as I'm finding it hard to bite
my tongue. As most of you should know by now Joey Styles is no longer
announcing ECW television. Joey has been moved to the Website division and
has been replaced at the desk by Mike Adamle. I'm both a friend and fan of
Joey's, but his moving away from the desk isn't what I'm going to rant
about. Joey is a great guy, and above all else a professional, so he will
succeed no matter where he goes. What I want to rant about is moving Mike
Adamle to the desk and having him call ECW action.

I missed Mike's debut at the desk but caught the highlights, or rather
lowlights, on YouTube in an amaze compilation video. This week I made a
point of watching ECW to witness his announcing first hand, and after those
two experiences I can't for the life of me figure out why this man has a
job. I will grant you that announcing wrestling is a very difficult job, and
if Mike Adamle just sucked I'd be okay with that. I've done play by play
before and believe me I sucked too. My problem with Mike Adamle is that in
addition to sucking he is completely unprepared for, and incompetent at, the
job he is being paid for.

Adamle is obviously not a wrestling fan, has no knowledge of our sport, and
is completely unfamiliar with the WWE product. This is completely
inexcusable! Even if he had never watched a wrestling match in his entire
life, the day he accepted the job with WWE it became his job to familiarize
himself with the product and prepare for the job he was being paid for. Mike
has been working for WWE since the beginning of the year and after his debut
interview with Jeff "HARVEY", he should have been watching 4-6 hours of WWE
television per day to ensure mistakes like this never happened again.

In his debut on ECW television he screwed up the names of wrestlers and
their moves, and even after a degree of post editing was still absolutely
atrocious. This past week on ECW he said practically nothing at all. There
were unbelievably long stretches of absolutely silence when I guess either
Tazz needed a breather from trying to carry the entire show, or they just
tuned Adamle out in post editing, to avoid even more mistakes. The only
comment I remember hearing Adamle make this past week was when he informed
us that Tommy Dreamer "TAPPED OFF" in his tag match, when he in fact "TAGGED
OUT".

How many tag matches do you have to watch before you figure out that it's
called a "tag"? I'm guessing unless you are Eugene's dumber brother 1, which
leaves me thinking Adamle didn't watch a single tag match before sitting
down at the desk to call this one. I guess we should be grateful, it could
have been much worse. He could have said that Dreamer "Tapped Out" rather
than "Tapped Off", or maybe if it was Out Back Jack tagging out he would
have called it "Jacking Off".

I just don't understand how someone can care so little about their job
performance, and show up so unprepared. Mike Adamle has been employed by WWE
for 4 month and is still struggling with the most basic wrestling terms not
to mention the names of the guys on the show. This should be completely
unacceptable. There has to be a better choice out there somewhere. Hell,
even Helen Keller would be better; at least a blind deaf mute wouldn't say
anything stupid. Mike Adamle needs to be replaced and he needs to be
replaced NOW. If he really wants this job make him go home and study
wrestling and pass a wrestling quiz before allowing him back, or sending him
another pay cheque.

There is a saying I am a big believer in. "If you fail to prepare, you are
prepared to fail" and thus far Mike Adamle is an EPIC FAIL!

Lance Storm
--
--- Tied for 4th Best RSPW Poster of 2007.
--- Co-Winner of 2006's Worst Feud/Flamewar/Thread.
--- Winner of 2007's Most Deproved Poster (with everyone else)
--- 8th Funniest Poster of 2004, 6th in 2005, 5th in 2006 and 4th in 2007.
--- 5th Most Improved Poster of 2004, 6th in 2005, tied for 4th in 2006 and
tied for 2nd in 2007.
--- Involved in the 2nd and 4th in Best Flamewar/Thread/Feud of 2007
--- 3rd Highest Vote-Getter of the 2005 KORSPW (I got screwed in 2006).
--- In the Final Four of the 2006 RSPW Rumble
--- Ranked 4th on Lvubun's Top 127 RSPW Posters of 2005

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news:lFGRj.10719$fO5.10070@wagner.videotron.net...
> [url]http://www.stormwrestling.com/042808.html[/url]
>
> Mike Adamle
>
> April 28, 2008
>
> I'm going to go on a bit of a rant this week, as I'm finding it hard to
> bite my tongue. As most of you should know by now Joey Styles is no longer
> announcing ECW television. Joey has been moved to the Website division and
> has been replaced at the desk by Mike Adamle. I'm both a friend and fan of
> Joey's, but his moving away from the desk isn't what I'm going to rant
> about. Joey is a great guy, and above all else a professional, so he will
> succeed no matter where he goes. What I want to rant about is moving Mike
> Adamle to the desk and having him call ECW action.
>
> I missed Mike's debut at the desk but caught the highlights, or rather
> lowlights, on YouTube in an amaze compilation video. This week I made a
> point of watching ECW to witness his announcing first hand, and after
> those two experiences I can't for the life of me figure out why this man
> has a job. I will grant you that announcing wrestling is a very difficult
> job, and if Mike Adamle just sucked I'd be okay with that. I've done play
> by play before and believe me I sucked too. My problem with Mike Adamle is
> that in addition to sucking he is completely unprepared for, and
> incompetent at, the job he is being paid for.
>
> Adamle is obviously not a wrestling fan, has no knowledge of our sport,
> and is completely unfamiliar with the WWE product. This is completely
> inexcusable! Even if he had never watched a wrestling match in his entire
> life, the day he accepted the job with WWE it became his job to
> familiarize himself with the product and prepare for the job he was being
> paid for. Mike has been working for WWE since the beginning of the year
> and after his debut interview with Jeff "HARVEY", he should have been
> watching 4-6 hours of WWE television per day to ensure mistakes like this
> never happened again.
>
> In his debut on ECW television he screwed up the names of wrestlers and
> their moves, and even after a degree of post editing was still absolutely
> atrocious. This past week on ECW he said practically nothing at all. There
> were unbelievably long stretches of absolutely silence when I guess either
> Tazz needed a breather from trying to carry the entire show, or they just
> tuned Adamle out in post editing, to avoid even more mistakes. The only
> comment I remember hearing Adamle make this past week was when he informed
> us that Tommy Dreamer "TAPPED OFF" in his tag match, when he in fact
> "TAGGED OUT".
>
> How many tag matches do you have to watch before you figure out that it's
> called a "tag"? I'm guessing unless you are Eugene's dumber brother 1,
> which leaves me thinking Adamle didn't watch a single tag match before
> sitting down at the desk to call this one. I guess we should be grateful,
> it could have been much worse. He could have said that Dreamer "Tapped
> Out" rather than "Tapped Off", or maybe if it was Out Back Jack tagging
> out he would have called it "Jacking Off".
>
> I just don't understand how someone can care so little about their job
> performance, and show up so unprepared. Mike Adamle has been employed by
> WWE for 4 month and is still struggling with the most basic wrestling
> terms not to mention the names of the guys on the show. This should be
> completely unacceptable. There has to be a better choice out there
> somewhere. Hell, even Helen Keller would be better; at least a blind deaf
> mute wouldn't say anything stupid. Mike Adamle needs to be replaced and he
> needs to be replaced NOW. If he really wants this job make him go home and
> study wrestling and pass a wrestling quiz before allowing him back, or
> sending him another pay cheque.
>
> There is a saying I am a big believer in. "If you fail to prepare, you are
> prepared to fail" and thus far Mike Adamle is an EPIC FAIL!

"People don't plan to fail, they fail to plan." - Mike Loomis

LG (AWTP, and hesn't even seen Adamle)
--
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. - Henry Ford

Stormy will be sorry when he finds out this is why Adamle killed himself.



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> [url]http://www.stormwrestling.com/042808.html[/url]
>
> Mike Adamle
>
> April 28, 2008
>
> I'm going to go on a bit of a rant this week, as I'm finding it hard to
> bite my tongue. As most of you should know by now Joey Styles is no longer
> announcing ECW television. Joey has been moved to the Website division and
> has been replaced at the desk by Mike Adamle. I'm both a friend and fan of
> Joey's, but his moving away from the desk isn't what I'm going to rant
> about. Joey is a great guy, and above all else a professional, so he will
> succeed no matter where he goes. What I want to rant about is moving Mike
> Adamle to the desk and having him call ECW action.
>
> I missed Mike's debut at the desk but caught the highlights, or rather
> lowlights, on YouTube in an amaze compilation video. This week I made a
> point of watching ECW to witness his announcing first hand, and after
> those two experiences I can't for the life of me figure out why this man
> has a job. I will grant you that announcing wrestling is a very difficult
> job, and if Mike Adamle just sucked I'd be okay with that. I've done play
> by play before and believe me I sucked too. My problem with Mike Adamle is
> that in addition to sucking he is completely unprepared for, and
> incompetent at, the job he is being paid for.
>
> Adamle is obviously not a wrestling fan, has no knowledge of our sport,
> and is completely unfamiliar with the WWE product. This is completely
> inexcusable! Even if he had never watched a wrestling match in his entire
> life, the day he accepted the job with WWE it became his job to
> familiarize himself with the product and prepare for the job he was being
> paid for. Mike has been working for WWE since the beginning of the year
> and after his debut interview with Jeff "HARVEY", he should have been
> watching 4-6 hours of WWE television per day to ensure mistakes like this
> never happened again.
>
> In his debut on ECW television he screwed up the names of wrestlers and
> their moves, and even after a degree of post editing was still absolutely
> atrocious. This past week on ECW he said practically nothing at all. There
> were unbelievably long stretches of absolutely silence when I guess either
> Tazz needed a breather from trying to carry the entire show, or they just
> tuned Adamle out in post editing, to avoid even more mistakes. The only
> comment I remember hearing Adamle make this past week was when he informed
> us that Tommy Dreamer "TAPPED OFF" in his tag match, when he in fact
> "TAGGED OUT".
>
> How many tag matches do you have to watch before you figure out that it's
> called a "tag"? I'm guessing unless you are Eugene's dumber brother 1,
> which leaves me thinking Adamle didn't watch a single tag match before
> sitting down at the desk to call this one. I guess we should be grateful,
> it could have been much worse. He could have said that Dreamer "Tapped
> Out" rather than "Tapped Off", or maybe if it was Out Back Jack tagging
> out he would have called it "Jacking Off".
>
> I just don't understand how someone can care so little about their job
> performance, and show up so unprepared. Mike Adamle has been employed by
> WWE for 4 month and is still struggling with the most basic wrestling
> terms not to mention the names of the guys on the show. This should be
> completely unacceptable. There has to be a better choice out there
> somewhere. Hell, even Helen Keller would be better; at least a blind deaf
> mute wouldn't say anything stupid. Mike Adamle needs to be replaced and he
> needs to be replaced NOW. If he really wants this job make him go home and
> study wrestling and pass a wrestling quiz before allowing him back, or
> sending him another pay cheque.
>
> There is a saying I am a big believer in. "If you fail to prepare, you are
> prepared to fail" and thus far Mike Adamle is an EPIC FAIL!
>
> Lance Storm
> --
> --- Tied for 4th Best RSPW Poster of 2007.
> --- Co-Winner of 2006's Worst Feud/Flamewar/Thread.
> --- Winner of 2007's Most Deproved Poster (with everyone else)
> --- 8th Funniest Poster of 2004, 6th in 2005, 5th in 2006 and 4th in 2007.
> --- 5th Most Improved Poster of 2004, 6th in 2005, tied for 4th in 2006
> and tied for 2nd in 2007.
> --- Involved in the 2nd and 4th in Best Flamewar/Thread/Feud of 2007
> --- 3rd Highest Vote-Getter of the 2005 KORSPW (I got screwed in 2006).
> --- In the Final Four of the 2006 RSPW Rumble
> --- Ranked 4th on Lvubun's Top 127 RSPW Posters of 2005

On Apr 29, 9:55 am, "Smart Ape supports Rev. Wright" <Za...@POTA.com>
wrote:
> [url]http://www.stormwrestling.com/042808.html[/url]
>
> Mike Adamle
>
> April 28, 2008
>
> I'm going to go on a bit of a rant this week,

I like how this guy acts like if he was booking WWE that it would be
great.

The guys a mark for himself. He obviously wants to be a booker but no
one will hire him for that job.