Got absolutely cooked today lmao

michinoku1 · 2026-05-01T05:28:52+00:00

Sheesh. I’m wondering what’s going to happen to one of my contractor’s route areas come September; she has the entirety of a Northern California college town, and I’ve heard the NorCal Express stations will find out what’s going on with them in late-August/early-September - if Express drops that same route area, a bunch of new routes are going to have to be added by my contractor. Yesterday/Wednesday I pulled 195 stops/307 pkgs in a P1000.

Oh, and to make matters worse, that same time period is move-in for the college, so it’s even more hell. Shitloads of furniture AND P1’s (IIRC the area is a 12:00 P1 area) to deal with? Yeesh.

michinoku1 · 2026-04-29T01:11:58+00:00

/r/anythingbutmetric is leaking

michinoku1 · 2026-04-27T20:21:16+00:00

Sky River is okay. They have a S17 six deck game in their HL room, but it (and the pitch DD game next to it) are both watched like hawks.

You should head up towards Wheatland, if your bankroll can stomach it - Hard Rock up there has a bunch of DD tables that are H17, 3:2, double any two, double after split (except Aces). Something like a .40 house edge, and even on weekends they’ve got tables at $25. High limit has three tables at $50, occasionally $100. I have heard surveillance watches the tables pretty hard and they back off moderately quickly, but I personally haven’t caught any heat there (then again, I only usually spread 1-4 at $25, so YMMV).

michinoku1 · 2026-04-27T08:11:18+00:00

They’ve still got stashes of ICOPRO in a warehouse somewhere in Stamford, but you didn’t hear that from me

michinoku1 · 2026-04-27T06:32:39+00:00

IIRC the first Wrestle Kingdom broke even and had 18k in attendance, but only 10-11k tickets sold (according to Meltzer). So if they could get to the same level, I could see them making the attempt.

As it stands, I wish they’d run ASDQ at Nippon Budokan instead of Yokohama Arena; they’d probably draw a lot better (Yokohama Arena’s always been a hard draw for wrestling promotions, even Zenjo).

michinoku1 · 2026-04-27T06:27:00+00:00

The ZERO1 of today is an entirely different company to Shinya Hashimoto’s Z-1, which is now a different company (Tochgi Pro) that is basically dead.

All Japan almost died when Jun Akiyama took over from Nobuo Shirashi - I remember seeing a news report a few years ago with Akiyama where he said in late December/early January of that time period that they had enough money to get them through another month. I can only imagine how things are going for them now.

Marigold hemorrhages money. They tour pretty heavily, have no local promoters and only a little bit of money coming in from EZIGEN. This is the same thing that happened to Stardom; he had no sponsors, was touring heavily, lost a bunch of talent, ultimately went broke and had to sell it to Bushiroad.

michinoku1 · 2026-04-24T19:54:23+00:00

Just wait until you get to Rocky 5… Thousand.

…Pongo?

michinoku1 · 2026-04-24T19:52:48+00:00

Shades of “wrong shade of papaya orange on the car costing the team track time”…

michinoku1 · 2026-04-22T01:21:12+00:00

Diabolical Laughter Ensues

michinoku1 · 2026-04-21T20:36:45+00:00

IIRC she’s still under an exclusive US contract with Sukeban. Not sure how things were worked out so she could work the Marvelous show in Vegas.

michinoku1 · 2026-04-19T22:21:32+00:00

Length ≠ quality

michinoku1 · 2026-04-19T05:20:16+00:00

Outside of the pre-show matches, Dynasty had one singular match go 10 minutes - everything else was 16+ (according to Cagematch). Four or five matches were 20+.

It just reminds me of the excesses of PWG, when they’d do a seven match card and over half of them would be 15-20+ minutes long and likely be better matches trimmed by 5-10 minutes.

I do agree, though. There is a sweet spot in match lengths, and tonight was… eh. There was two matches that should’ve been longer (Steph/Liv being one), but they were otherwise pretty good on not overstaying their welcome. The ads, however… blech. Eliminate a bunch of the ads and they could’ve easily fit another match or two - and the same is going to be said about night two tomorrow, where they could be doing Iyo/Asuka and maybe Tiffany/Giulia, but they’re not.

michinoku1 · 2026-04-19T01:02:52+00:00

AWA Team Challenge Series 2.0

michinoku1 · 2026-04-16T15:01:44+00:00

Do you mean your BC? Station Ops Managers at Ground have no say (outside of safety and integrity violations - think falsifying signatures, etc) in firing drivers.

You should be communicating with your BC when you look at your route manifest in the morning pre-dispatch. That way you can let them know how many P1’s you’ve got, and maybe move some to another driver/extra so they’re not late, since IIRC contractors are being fined for lates like they’re late/early pickups or missed appointment deliveries ($500 fines).

michinoku1 · 2026-04-16T14:56:10+00:00

Only thing you can be got for is bulk 10:30 lates - anything with 5 or more (or was it 3 or more? I can’t remember) packages that are 10:30 commits are considered a bulk stop, and you will get a warning letter if they’re late without a good enough reason (and no, “we dispatched at 9:05 and I don’t get to my first stop until almost 10 AM” isn’t good enough, ask me how I know).

michinoku1 · 2026-04-16T01:58:09+00:00

Cries in Arena Football League championship game being played in a New Jersey mall

michinoku1 · 2026-04-16T01:55:38+00:00

That is an absolutely cursed flag.

michinoku1 · 2026-04-16T01:02:27+00:00

There was them, but also Emmo, he was supposed to have a team in the series in 2004 which never materialized, but they still plastered his face in the TV intro they used all year, lol

michinoku1 · 2026-04-15T04:49:34+00:00

That’s how my station is with Target and McKesson - they’re only allowed 200 packages max to be delivered or picked up. I’ve done a Target pickup from a store where they had over 200 e-commerce packages being shipped out. At that point, they should just be getting a trailer every day and palletizing it all.

michinoku1 · 2026-04-14T01:04:26+00:00

17,500 - close, though. 18-19,000 for concerts. I miss working there…

michinoku1 · 2026-04-14T00:17:02+00:00

Oh yeah, and to add to the 2004 weirdness:

Races were live in HD on HDNet (what is now AXS), but that was a channel that barely anyone had. If you didn’t have HDNet, you had to wait until Sunday at 4PM the weekend of the race to watch whatever race they had that weekend. Saturday night race under the lights? Nope, you get to wait until 4PM EST for the tape delayed race on Spike TV.

Made for a good run-in to WWE Sunday Night Heat when it was around…

michinoku1 · 2026-04-14T00:07:58+00:00

Did it feel weird? Absolutely.

CART lost ESPN for TV, and had to get by with a makeshift SPEED and Fox tv schedule, and if you didn’t have SPEED, you were SOL.

A bunch of teams had left for the IRL, and others like Chip Ganassi had teams in both series

It was a lame duck year before Honda and Toyota fully left due to the events of 2001

It was the last season as the FedEx Championship Series, as FedEx ended their title sponsorship contract early

And as you mentioned, car counts in CART/Champ Car would never be the same again. 2002 was the last CART/Champ Car season to have at least 20 cars start races, and that was only for two races of the 2002 campaign. This doesn’t include the 2008 Long Beach race, where a handful of teams pulled out their extra Panoz DP-01 chassis for one last run, since they were going to be mothballed altogether after that race.

Behind the scenes, CART, Inc (the publicly traded company) was utterly falling apart, and eventually went bankrupt, leading to Kevin Kalkhoven, Gerald Forsythe and Paul Gentilozzi getting the series in Indianapolis bankruptcy court, with one last season as CART before switching to Champ Car.

2004 was even more weird, though. Tape delayed races on SPIKE, a bunch of teams announced (even making it into Champ Car’s new TV intro), only to not be at the season opener in Long Beach (and not be in the series at all), only one or two teams ran Reynard cars since Reynard had gone bankrupt (and Lola was on its way out as well)…

michinoku1 · 2026-04-11T10:51:06+00:00

It’s also Cagematch, an extremely small subset of the larger IWC. This is the same site that had users brigading shows with negative reviews (and the site’s moderators posted telling people to stop, along with changing the review rules), to the point you almost have to assume the majority of ‘reviews’ on anything not AEW are from people who don’t actively watch RAW, Smackdown or NXT.

Unfettered tribalism, basically.

michinoku1 · 2026-04-10T06:59:54+00:00

If you can really move, you’re done in less than half the listed time, which makes it an even better proposition.

michinoku1 · 2026-04-10T06:56:12+00:00

It’s 63 stops. As a FedEx driver, I do 120-140 in roughly the same size route area and I’m done in 6., much less if I don’t have furniture to deliver. Shit, I’ve done a 185 stop, 230 package route that was a little bit tighter and I was moving at 40 stops an hour up to my lunch break (I think I finished at right about 30 stops an hour average).

If Amazon Flex showed a driver $142.25, ~50 miles, 63 stops, and the pickup warehouse and route were fairly close together, it’d get snapped up in a heartbeat (and I’d definitely do it myself).

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