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Supplemental Raven's Log
Stardate:1.02.04
12:21 a.m. in front of my computer reading responses to my most recent journal entry while sitting at my Waffle House kitchen table (yes, my kitchen table is a Waffle House table).
A glaring example of what I was speaking about in my previous journal entry (that's why this is titled supplemental) occurred in Queens. New York. Al Snow and I put on a forty-eight minute masterpiece. It started at 11:30 pm, four and half hours after the show started. By this point, the people were getting restless, tired, they'd seen everything there is to see and yet we were able to take them on a ride that I believe was one of my finest performances of the year. The majority of the fans stayed even though it ended well past 12:30 at night. Every nearfall the crowd counted one - two - ahh! I was a 100% booed heel, Al Snow was a 100% cheered babyface. The response to the finish was huge and then came the Triple Threat. They beat me senseless, turned me 100% babyface, and then riled the people into a frenzy for well over fifteen minutes. That means the entire segment lasted over an hour. The fans were so incensed (in the right way) that they threw well over one hundred cups of beer in the ring. The fans never do this. The fans know they are not allowed to do this. The fans know they risk getting into serious trouble. They never do this. They never do this unless something strikes so viscerally at their emotions that they forget about rational thought, the rules of the building and just indulge their emotions. This is an exceptionally rare occurence when the fans become so emotionally attached to the proceedings and something to be savored. It is a high greater than any drug I ever took (and I took a lot). Last time I recall seeing it was when Hulk Hogan turned heel and joined the nWo. I'm sure there must have been other occasions but that's the last one that I remember. That is the object of the business; to affect the fans that deeply on an emotional level, to take them on an emotional roller coaster. It means we did our jobs exceptionally well, unbelievably well. I read in the Torch that it said "Raven Al Snow went 48 minutes." Then it said, "so and so vs. so and so had a match of the year candidate." I watched that match, I listened to that match, it was on well before mine. Long before the people became tired. Long before the people became restless. Long before they had seen every other move that they could possibly have seen ... x 5. It was entertaining, they did a good job, but never once did the people respond as loudly, as vocally, as vociferously, or as emotionally to the proceedings as they did to ours. They didn't have the one - two - ohhs! on the false finishes and they certainly didnt engender such a visceral emotional response as to be assaulted by hundreds of cups of beer being thrown into the ring.
According to the Torch, they were hailed as a match of the year candidate, we were just mentioned in passing.
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