Stephanie McMahon as General Manager of Smackdown! will be hard to pull off. First off, she seems to be playing a face role, but we're too used to her as a heel. Plus, she still has the most annoying, screetchy voice this side of Woman.

The WWE using what they already have makes more sense though with the major cost cutting the fed is doing. This time, the entire HWA was cut. Never-used people like Mike Saunders, Dark Match talents Ron "H2O" Wasserman and Chad Collyer were let go, but now an entire developmental territory was cut!

I thought of one reason to bring in Eric Bishoff now. Actually, two reasons:

Two wrestlers who had grievances with him, Mick Foley and Steve Austin aren't with the company anymore.

I suspect they would have stopped any plans to bring "uncle Eric" in otherwise.

Well, desperate measures yet again brings Vince McMahon to bring in potentially bad decisions: first he brought back Vince Russo (fortunately dropping him fast) now Eric Bishoff.

One good decision came down: the nWo is done and gone. Too many bad breaks just made it undoable. I'm just wondering what they'll now do with the talents oce they return.

- but Bishoff... all through his speech I expected someone to come out to punk him out. He's done so much good stuff? Anyone else remember the Team Challenge Series, the angle that led to the death of the AWA? The incredibly dull WCW Clash in Korea?

He had some success for a while... but face facts Eric: if you throw crap at the wall long enough, something will stick. Lucky choices don't make up for a string of failures.