Dear CRZ and Netcop:

Just a few notes for you guys for your reports from someone who was there, I think CRZ might find these usefull if he's gonna do his report on Saturday (I hope anyway).

Edge and Owen both had matches pre raw, they taped a shotgun before the show. Edge and Christian faced the hardy boys in a good high flyer match. In fact it was a great match with a clean finish which raw was missing. Edge got a MAJOR pop. Owen faced Droz (I think), Owen won, got an ok pop. I'd like to know who thought of leaving them off raw, and putting that Midion with the eye and Mabel crap on instead.

During a Blue Jay game 4 or 5 years ago, a couple were fucking in one of the sky dome hotel suites and ended up being on TV, that what the Val Venis reference was too.

Not ONE person was chanting rocky sucks, it was all pro rocky, proof that you only have to say trailer park trash ONCE to get over in Canada. There was also very little "asshole" chanting, those who were doing it were doing it kayfabe, Vince got some great pops, I think it shows that Toronto fans, despite being 45,000 strong, are a tad smarter than your average mark. I also didn't like the fact that they were very hard on blackman, hopefully they won't turn him heel just because some canadians mocked him (like they did with shamrock). I really like blackman, I want him to actually serve a purpose.

You may have seen a lot of CASHMAN signs and were wondering what the hell it all meant. In Toronto there's a jewelry store run by a guy named Russell Oliver, his advertising campaign consists of him shouting at you and telling you that he wants to give you money for your old jewelry. He promised "loads" of cash to the people with the biggest CASHMAN sign at RAW. Frankly, It really bugs me that someone can attempt to elbow in on the popularity of a product, and when I saw the HUGE number of signs I was really offended. He came out before raw to his own music (in a stupid superman spandex suit, which is gross cause he's a flabby old guy) and ran around ringside giving money to people. I'll bet the idiots on the 500 level felt pretty dumb. He was handing out nothing but 5's and 10's (which in American money wouldn't buy a candy bar, j/k) and the crowd pretty much turned on him. I myself shouted out a few too many "FUCK YOU OLIVER" and my throat hurt. Anyway, after he was gone most of the CASHMAN signs went away, a few people showed up late and held theirs up hopefully, not knowing the moment had passed. Fucking retardation, I'm ashamed of titan for not stopping it. So much for Toronto fans being smart.

I doubt it was televised, but fink said that they had a special announcement and that someone who had been absent from the program for a few months wanted to be a part of this evening. J.R. came out to a HUGE pop, it's good to know that everyone misses him as much as I do. He is the best part of RAW IMHO and it suffers without him.

There was a "CRZ is GOD" sign ON the air, my "Stonecold is POOCHIE" sign also got some air time (very beginning, top left hand corner) so CRZ, you've got your CRZizms on the air, never forget your Canadian fans :)

During the Kane/X-Pac match, you'll hear the crowd pop when there's NOTHING happening in the ring. Well there's a reason :) Over the course of the night MANY fake fights occurred amongst the crowd, it was my first live non house show event so I'm not sure if that's normal behavior, fans giving each other the "people's elbow" in the aisles and such. During the kane/xpac fight a HUGE brawl broke out on the 500 level, we all were turned around and staring up at this crazy guy standing at the top of the stairs, KICKING SECURITY GUARDS IN THE FACE, it was crazy. There were many fake fights, but even as far away as they were the whole crowd OOOOed and AAAAAed when 5 security guards rushed this guy. It was actually REAL and it was a much better show than anything that involves X-Pac. And you can tell because people were cheering some jabronie in the stands and not the match in the ring.

During the break before the gauntlet, the whole floor chanted "YOU SCREWED BRET" to Hebner, who promptly turned and gave us a crotch chop, the fans got it going again during the match but it was hard to hear what we were saying on air, It was very much definitely "YOU SCREWED BRET". Eventually some fans got pissed and started throwing their drinks at Hebner, who took it all with a smile. I wonder what Bret would think of that?

I'm not sure when exactly when RAW went off the air, but I'll try to do a brief recap as I know you guys missed a LOT. Austin gets pinned, austin gets handcuffed, they beat on him and tell him he's gonna pay on sunday (I think this is where TSN cut it off), foley eventually comes out to make the save, the ROCK comes out to join in on the beatings, then in a VERY bizzare turn of affairs, UNDERTAKER came out in his old outfit and the three of them cleared the ring. The beers come out and austin did a cute bit where he tapped taker on the shoulder ( I was expecting the stunner ) and instead austin gave him a beer, foley, taker and austin drink up, and leave.

And now for MY story, which I hope you'll enjoy and find away to share with people if you want to encourage this behaviour. Mick Foley has single handedly turned me into a fanatic, and my good buddy Dan Hartrell (who got me hooked in the first place) had this crazy idea of going to the RAW and throwing socks into the ring as a show of support for Mick. So prior to the RAW we collected all our nasty old crust socks, all our mis matched socks, and 4 packs of walmart el cheapo crapo socks (tottaly about 64 socks) into a large plastic bag, we made 2 signs that read:

donate your socks to the foley cause, FOLEY for WRESTLEMANIA MAIN EVENT a message from the church of mick foley and latter day saints.

We went around before the show handing them out to people asking them to throw them in when foley put the mandible socko onto austin. A few people at the begining didn't seem all that into it, one guy said that he'd get thrown out, and that he got thrown out for using a light pen, I argued that we were pretty much contributing to the show and not RUINING it with a STUPID FUCKING LIGHTPEN (I hate stupid FUCKS who think they're making the world a better place with a fucking lightpen). Hell they can't very well throw ALL of us out can they? :) At first I was worried that no one would join us, but eventually word got around and THRONGS of people came rushing to us asking for socks, there were more people asking than I had socks in the bag. I gave out as many as I could letting everyone know that they had to throw them during the big moment. And eventually I threw the last remaining socks in the air and 20 or so people fought for them. Dan turned to me and pointed out that I'd STUPIDLY not saved any for US. But like the true fan he is said "I'll throw in the ones on my feet, I'll walk home with cold feet for mick. He's worth it".

So the main event happens and we discover that the foley/austin match isn't gonna happen, which means I'm not likely to see my Foley match at WM :( but because there's an hour left most people knew to hold onto their socks, no more than 5 left peoples hands, none got on camera.

During the final brawl (After we went off the air, because I'm stupid) I finnaly decided that a socko on shamrock was enough to throw my socks in, we took off our shoes, ripped off our socks and we rushed passed security and threw them in, MANY people (but certainly not the full 60) followed suit, I wanted the ring covered in socks, I wanted them dangling from the ropes, and instead I got very little. No more than 20 I'd say :(

And then a great thing happened, I ran into the 5th row, which was pretty much empty as most had rushed to the big mess in the aisles and I held up my big "FOLEY FOR WRESTLEMANIA MAIN EVENT" sign (which pissed off the people behind me). Mick looked RIGHT AT IT (this WOULD have all been on camera had we been on the air) and then he looked at me. Gave me a smile and took of his socko. He pointed RIGHT AT me and threw socko to me, sadly, some ASSes in front of me fought over it, socks don't sail so good from the ring to the 5th row.

I'd told you guys what we were going to do (so you wouldn't think it was a plant had we pulled it off), and all my friends who were going to watch at home and I look silly because it really didn't go the way I wanted. Yet, I still consider our venture a success simply because what foley did shows me that he believes in the cause. As Dan and I walked to the car, our feet were cold but content in the Toronto winter air, we decided that it was all worth it, and that if it's handled right, we can turn this into something that happens at all the RAWs.

If you love foley, and you want to see him to CONTINUE to hold the belt, AND you want to see him go to the BIG show. You can continue with the foley cause.

Do it right, learn from our mistakes:

1) Bring more than 60 socks, or better yet, only bring 20, just make sure you aren't the only person supporting foley. Everyones got shitty singles in their drawers and you can get a pack of 12 (6 pairs) for like 2 bucks at walmart (ugh), and you have no choice but to throw them to mick, as they certainly aren't good enough to wear.

2) Enlist the support of everyone in the first 5 rows, don't waste your time giving them out before hand as the people who are there early might be 20 rows back and not capable of getting it there. Note to fans, if you're sitting on the floor and a sock hits you in the head from behind, throw it at the ring goddammit.

3) Do it during his entrance, which is the only thing you can count on happening, I'd like to see them wrassle with socks dangling from the ropes, that would be amazing.

4) Coordinate coordinate coordinate. 300 socks coming in one at a time over a 3 hour spead doens't hit as hard as 30 all at once. If we all do it when the car crash hits and he makes his march down, it can't fail.

If the punk who got foleys sock wants to mail it to us, drop us a line :)