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Storyline wise, jericho doesn't even have a reason to be there. Batista's got gold glittering in his eyes, and he's struggling between taking it for himself or being loyal to HHH. HHH is nothing without his title and being the former champ wants it back. Orton got screwed by HHH and now that the title's up for grabs he's finally got the shot that he's been denied the past three months. Benoit is being labeled the best wrestler of the bunch, and the only reason he doesn't get the belt is because he keeps getting screwed. And Edge keeps going on about how he never even got a proper shot at the title.
But when did Jericho vocalize his desire for the belt? There are plenty of guys who have said more about the belt than Jericho did when the oppertunity came up. Maven gave up his chance to join Evolution so he could fight for the belt. Christian has said that there's only one belt left in his crosshairs. Hell, Stevie Richards took on five guys at once to get it. But when Jericho was the GM, he did nothing. He didn't even say, "We'll figure this out in a fatal four-way tonight." which was perfectly valid. Instead, he had his party and forgot about it.
Face it. The only reason Jericho's even in the match is because Management knows that he's a draw. If they mention him under their breath, we'll think that Jericho will get the title.
Of course, now that I've mentioned it, the writing team will probably give up on all of their current storylines and will give Jericho the belt, have HHH feud with Rick Flair, have Batista team up with edge to take the tag belts from Eugene and Mr. Socko, (his new partner, since the writers/bookers couldn't remember who his real partner was...) Evolution will be spelled "Evvolooshun" Shawn Michaels will show up to Smackdown for no reason and Raw's announcing team will be replaced with a talking RVD action figure....
In other words, don't count out all hope... Jericho might have been placed there for a reason. (But with RR coming up, don't count on it.)
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