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Before I get to SKid's comments, let me just say that I was wrong about Alberto Del Rio. I was among those who thought his push came a little too soon, but was willing to see what he could do with it. Turns out he was more than ready. The match with Punk was excellent, and could've easily gone another 5-10 minutes with plenty of story still to be told. That said, I liked the surprise ending off the round kick to the back of the head. I like it that you can have a match end on something other than a finisher or a triple-reverse-y pinning combination. But back to the point, ADR has proven to me over the last couple months that not only is he not stealing the thunder away from Punk & Cena, but he's in fact a welcome addition to the main event picture, and as I've said before, the main event picture is at it's best when there are as many qualified competitors in it as possible. Now, as far as HHH goes, his role is different now. Even though he's not as active in-ring, I consider him to be more like a player-coach out there now. And if you're going to have a COO be an active and prominent character in that way, then he's going to have to show his power and dominance in some way. Unlike Mr. McMahon, who'd pee his pants and take beer baths and get his ass kicked for the good of the business, HHH is a different kind of COO. He isn't going to subject himself to repeated emasculation and be the butt of jokes on a regular basis. And HHH isn't going to get unfunny or unargumentative or suddenly lose the knowledge of his career or the history of the business just because he wears a suit the majority of the time. Another thing HHH is not going to be is the diabolical consolidator and flaunter of power primarily because, right now, he [i]can't [/i]be. He's the guy new to the COO game (pardon the pun) who's unaware of all the machinations going on behind and around him. He doesn't have a bunch of front office allies aside from his wife and as long as she remains behind the scenes, which she pretty much has other than an occasional backstage snipe at Punk, he's not in line to become that. He's learning by the seat of his pants and it's something he's not comfortable with. What he is comfortable with is dropping one-liners on douchebag heels and standing strong against Punk, Nash, and others who try to make a mockery of him. How HHH is [b]NOT [/b]different from Vince McMahon as a COO is that everyone who's working with him in the ring has a chance at being a star. Getting a push isn't always about winning every match or winning every scene or getting in every last zinger. Sometimes it's about being the match, being in the scene, or getting hit with zingers. And as much as I like it when there are many contenders for the #1 spot (or 1A or 1B or however down the alphabet you want to go), they can't all just pop in out of nowhere. Right now we've got Cena/Punk/ADR/Henry/Orton/Christian and that's great. The next men up (Ziggler, Rhodes, JoMo, Barrett, Riley, even Miz & Truth right now) need to build themselves up to that level and riffing with HHH is as big a test as there is right now. So don't hate The Game. Hate the game. As HHH says, you've got to get over with us. And if you can hold your own on the stick with Trips, that's going to be a big step towards that.
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