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First and foremost, I think (not sure about this, but oh well) that the Batista/Booker thing was legit and the WWE is just going to use the shoot-heat as a basis for an angle. Not sure about that, though, but that's what I thought I read, anyway.
As far as this MNM crap goes, remember who we're talking about here: Taker and JBL, two guys who have had some reputations as being awful locker room roll models for a variety of reasons. While I would like to think different of those two (I've been a Taker mark my whole life, don't ask, and JBL has been one of the brightest spots on SD lately), we have to remember that their rep sucks right now, and since they have the backstage pull, they will end up getting McMahon's attention REAL quick if they start bitching about anything at ALL. It sucks, but that's how it would go down.
The only real problem I MYSELF could see in the dating thing is what'll happen to the odd man out. Since it's Nitro that is dating Melina, and Mercury and Nitro are currently tagging, if this kind of news keeps coming up, we might be wondering how he feels about all of this (we know he is trying to distance himself from all the bullshit, but sooner or later he's gonna have to say something about it). If Mercury is not happy from this, then there will be some problems, because then MNM will be in danger as a tag team, and that will be one tag team in an already scarce WWE TT pool lost.
What I'd do is to go the smark route and just make it into a storyline, having Mercury come out and tell the world how unhappy he because he's known about Nitro and Melina going out (maybe to the same place that Nunzio and Vito's angle is taking them, if you want to tie in THAT angle, too), and it is hurting their WWE cred backstage and shit like that, which would prompt a Nitro vs. Mercury match down the road.
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