Evenings with Jim: A Basic Demonstration in Persistence Leads to Stone Cold Slumber Party
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If you know anything about Jim Ross, and we know you do, you know that he is currently in the midst of a heated contract negotiation, he loves MMA (enough to jump ship if Vince doesn’t ackrite), and he’s in love with Stone Cold Steve Austin. A scintillating day of college basketball games aren’t enough to make us forget about our favorite Sooner so let’s see what happened to Jim Ross this past week.
Yours truly spent Tuesday night in the home of Steve Austin in Southern California and had a great time catching up with one of my best, old friends.
At last! A slumber party with the rattlesnake. Jim texted, he tweeted, he called, he showed up unannounced and Steve finally gave in. Those late night Monopoly games must have been epic. 
If you follow either Steve, steveaustinBSR, or me, JRsBBQ, on Twitter you already knew that info. We had a great dinner, likely drank a little too much and stayed up later than either of us should have but we both enjoyed the much overdue visit.
Last week, Ross admitted to pounding 117 kamikaze shots with Flair. This week he’s blogging about boozing with the bionic redneck. Keep this cowboy the hell away from Scott Hall.
We destroyed ample amounts of grilled salmon. Steve is working OT in promoting his film “Damage” which is out on DVD on March 23. I know that I plan on supporting Steve’s efforts and hope that you do as well.
The consumate diplomat, Jim Ross describes Steve Austin’s ‘efforts’ instead of his acting career. Translation, ‘God bless him, he’s trying”.
Steve continues to train about 5 days a week and is in great shape.
OMG! OMFG!! So does that mean that you see Stone Cold Steve Austin wrestling agai…
Before anyone goes nuts and starts emailing me, “NO” I don’t see Stone Cold ever wrestling again as he is devoting the majority of his waking hours to building his film career and is well on his way to amassing an impressive body of work. “Damage” is a damn good, action adventure, kick your ass film.
Prick.
Steve has two other films in the can and ready to roll out over the next 12 months or so plus don’t forget his role in “The Expendables” which is the Sly Stallone blockbuster that also features MMA legend Randy Couture is set for its premier soon. Steve will be one of the select group of stars in the ensemble cast to do media work for “The Expendables” over the next few months.
And if you’re not nutting your pants over that, I suggest you save up for a dress.
The WWE HOF’er is going to try and make it to the Cauliflower Alley Club’s annual function this year on April 21 in Las Vegas if his schedule allows such. I’ll keep you posted but if he does attend he will introduce me when I receive the Art Abrams Life Time Achievement Award. Again, that’s TBD.
I googled Art Abrams, and she returned a bunch of Art Abrams, Swing Machine results. I wasn’t sure if that was the Art Abrams that Ross was taking about, but then I remembered this.
Congratulations on your award, Jim. That’s not exactly swing dancing but, damn it, you made it your own.
Small world…I accidentally ran into Mick Foley in LA on Tuesday as both of us were there on personal business unrelated to the other.
Do I even need to say it? AwkWAAAARRD! I wonder if one or both of them did that thing where you try to avoid eye contact and act like you didn’t see the other person when it’s obvious you did. And then it’s even worse when one person spots you intentionally trying to avoid eye contact. I wonder if they had to go the same way after bidding each other farewell following a forced 5 minute ‘stop-n-chat’ conversation…
Mick was in good spirits and has many interesting irons in the fire. Helluva talented guy who, in my view, should wrestling 2-3 times a year and then on PPV. Mick was eeven wearing a sport coat which complimented his sweat pants nicely.
So you did or didn’t talk to him?
Enjoyed the Rock’s appearance on the Tonight Show Wednesday night with Jay Leno as Rock sang an old, Sam Cooke song which did not totally surprise me nor the fact that the “Great One” loves old school, country music. Sam Cooke was one of the many aliases Rock used to use at hotels on the road with WWE.
Aliases are for pussies. That’s like if I were to go around calling myself Big Nasty or something. Wait, nevermind.
Remember, the CONTACT US facet of this site is not another Q&A and non business correspondence will be deleted as quickly as I can hit the delete button. If you send a comment, question, etc to our Q&A section I am the ONLY one who will see it and if you want it to remain private then simply denote such. Only I decide what makes the public site re: the Q&A’s. Please do not send your rants to Contact Us unless you enjoy writing things that no one will ever read.
The following ‘rant’, by TNA’s Mike Tenay, was promptly deleted by Jim Ross as it was sent to the CONTACT US section:
HEYJIM!ThisisMikeTenay.
IheardyouresignedwiththeWWEandI’mgladyoudidbecauseyou’renotgetting-withinapiss-streamdistanceofmydeskifIhaveanythingtosayaboutit.
YoujuststayyourassoverinthefedlikeagoodOklhomanYokelandyouwon’t-continuetogetdeaththreatsfromme!
Nowlet’ssendittotheback,whereIwillbewaitinghandandfootwithabaseballbat-shouldyoushowyourface-tomyImpactZone!
ESPN’s Skip Bayless would have made a superb, wrestling, bad guy manager or a Ventura-like commentator. The guy is a natural, heat seeking missile. He’s a native Okie, too. Okies that live too long in Connecticut usually go a little crazy. Skip is so easy to dislike on ESPN’s “First Take.”
I believed Jim Ross refers to Connecticut as an overpriced Hell hole [not shown], in this rare heel promo right Jim?
So suck on that, Connecticut.
On Saturday April 3, I will be appearing at the Homeland Grocery Store on Alameda Street in Norman from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and we are going to be celebrating “J.R.’s Rib Mania.”
This event was originally scheduled to go head to head with Wrestlemania, however JR and The WWE seemed to have come to a short term contract agreement.
A couple of emailers send us some cool suggestions on how to use our sauces including using the HOT BBQ Sauce to make a delicious, BBQ Chicken Pizza which sounded awesome. Also, mixing the HOT with the Chipotle Ketchup and using the mixture in the construction of a helluva hamburger is befitting any grill.
What about to rub on Randy Orton before his matches?
Nice to see WWE focus on eliminating chair shots to the [head] of their athletes. I blogged about this several weeks ago which I am sure means nothing in regard to this decision being made.
You wouldn’t have let that be known if you didn’t want some measure of credit. Your ninja mind tricks don’t work on me, Ross.
Some asked if I thought this mandate was “politically motivated” to which I emphatically say hell, no. It simply makes common sense and the overall health of the competitors has to be any companies utmost priority.
And it just so happened to have occurred in the thick of a Linda McMahon Senate campaign. Just coincidence. Nothing else.
One emailer told me that TNA was going to “beat” WWE because TNA had “stronger tag teams.” What?! TNA will never “beat” WWE but that doesn’t mean that TNA can’t be a viable brand that is profitable if they provide an alternative product to what WWE produces. Now watch the emails flow about how I am biased, which is true, and that I hope that TNA fails, which is very wrong.
I agree with Jim here. Ross still needs somewhere to go should McMahon finally make him snap (again).
It seems that many within the wrestling media know more about my Wrestlemania assignment that do I. I still don’t know what I’m specifically and officially doing in Phoenix but as I mentioned I am just happy to be attending the event.
He’ll be sitting ringside. Front row. Right in front of the announce table.
I’ve also read where I signed a new contract with WWE, I hope to BTW, however that is also wrong as what I signed was a contract [extension] to take us through the end of April. Re-signing with WWE is my top priority and I hope that we can get another, long term deal done sooner than later.
Just how much time do you sit around reading about yourself, Jim Ross? Are you one of those vein self-googlers?
I was introduced to Strikeforce’s Scott Coker Tuesday afternoon in LA and found Scott to be a really interesting and down to earth guy. He’s a man that wears a multitude of hats as the CEO of Strikeforce MMA group. I admire Scott’s work ethic and his passion for the brand that he is building.
Translation: No thanks, Scott.
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