>>13729733You talk like someone who is a craven liar, a paid stooge or who has never been a fan of a major sports team. Possibly all 3. Most fans of Baseball/Football/Basketball teams know that, salary cap or not, 1) most teams will have some kind of budget, and 2) there's only so much playing time to get everyone involved. So when you see the owner bringing in a bunch of high-paid talent, and yet the team still isn't doing markedly better, yes, it changes your enjoyment of the games. It's one thing to be a 7-10 football team, starting a lot of draft picks and UDFAs. You can convince yourself, hey, we're right there - a few balls don't get tipped, we make a few plays on 3rd down, sign one or two key free agents, and maybe we sneak into the playoffs. When you are a team at 99% of the salary cap and go 7-10, already traded away your top draft picks, it's a completely different feeling.
AEW is much closer to that latter team than the former. AEW keeps bringing in million-dollar talents just to become increasingly irrelevant. They look try-hard instead of looking like a true challenger brand. They sign too many reclamation projects, too many former NJPW/TNA stars, instead of finding diamonds in the rough from poorly-run promotions like NWA/MLW, and pushing them instead. There seems to be an obsession with only pushing guys that Dave Meltzer has already ordained, instead of trying to push guys who could really connect with the audience
But If you're actually concerned with what goes on in the mind of someone who is interested in AEW, but hasn't found a reason to put it into their schedule, you can't continue this gay ass act you're doing right now --- "Does the person watch AEW or not? They don't? OK then they're the enemy, shit on them" -- this is why AEW can't build a fanbase, they have incurious assholes like you as ambassadors.
