I don't know about you, but I am quite tired of dealing with John Laurinaitis polluting my television screen twice a week.
Look, I get that he's being rewarded for a decade of loyal service to Chairman Wackjob himself, Vince McMahon, hence being pushed as the company's top heel. The problem is that Laurinaitis is using all the same, tired, moldy, stale reams that McMahon himself has used over and over again the last 15 years. Smackdown on May 11 was one such example. For the 2nd time in 3 months, Laurinaitis went to the Montreal Finish (Survivor Series '97). In March, Teddy Long overruled him, but now that Laurinaitis is the evil dictator mismanaging both Raw & Smackdown, he had no one to oppose him, as he screwed over Big Show.
That he used the Montreal Finish a 2nd time speaks to the general ineptitude of the writing team and that is, of course, McMahon's fault, refusing to train them in the finer points of the business. That the announcers aren't even making the connection, deducing that "Mr. McMahon" is still running things, using Laurinaitis as a proxy to get around the decision made last summer to force the insane chairman out, is galling. This again speaks to McMahon's myopic belief that the audience won't retain memory of angles as much as, say, three months ago. Of course, he's wrong, but he'll never admit it.
This is where the company needs to put in a face to offset Laurinaitis' shady tactics. They have used Steve Austin & Mick Foley in short-term angles opposite Eric Bischoff during Bischoff's run, but the reason why it never went long-term can again be blamed on McMahon. However, the ratings aren't exactly moving up the ladder, so, in this writer's opinion, it's time to pull the plug and get the so-called "permanent" GM out and let someone else run the shows.
The only man who can facilitate this is Triple H, but the angle is that he can't function as a GM unless he's able to avoid getting personally involved, and, given his years with the company, well, that's nigh impossible. However...............
Let's say that Laurinaitis decides to use another McMahon ream at Over the Limit and stack the deck vs. John Cena by making it no-DQ at the last minute. Laurinaitis is actually a better worker than McMahon, and that ain't saying much, but why would he need outside help to beat someone like Cena, or even Triple H, whom I think he'll end up facing in due course to end this storyline? Because, quite simply, the core of his character is that of a coward. A craven coward, as Frankie Laine sang in "High Noon". He's in the ring with a much younger athlete who can beat him in a one-on-one confrontation, and in order to keep his heat and any advantage at all, he has to take this kind of action.
But, let's change this. Let's say Cena raises up enough of an army to offset the likes of Lord Tensai and David Otunga and whomever else Laurinaitis wants to use, such that he beats the odds and pins the former Johnny Ace, who whines and complains the next night.
Then, it can be revealed that Cena had some high-powered help from HHH and/or his wife, Stephanie, who could be working behind the scenes to uncover the conspiracy that forced her husband off the GM's chair on Raw last fall, and knocked Long out of office last month. Long'd be on Team Helmsley, to be sure, looking to get his job back. It'd be finally revealed, sometime around Summerslam that Vince was the puppet master the whole time, unable to accept that the business had passed him by, and he insisted on remaining in control. Vince gets taken down, once and for all, ballgame over, happy ending for everyone.
Now, don't you wish it could be that easy?
