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I never heard about the after interviews. Sorry to hear it as I would have thought Tarantino to be a fan of Bruce. That does put a downer on the movie.

Reminds me of Hamilton with the Angels. Like you couldn't see a relapse coming.

Sometimes I think how bad a movie is also dependent on your expectations going in, hence Battlefield Earth. A, reportedly, good scifi book adapted to screen with some very good names attached and then we got...that. A movie you go into that you have low expectations too in the first place, if it is bad you think, well, I didnt expect much.

Does anyone seriously think this was not done on purpose, and probably after a few drinks?

I think the vote was telling. Most the guys on MLB and insiders think reported, as mentioned above, that the executive committee voted against it and the individual player votes as tallied by team were overwhelmingly for (26-4). Harold Reynolds pointed out that most of the executive committee were players earning over $300 million, but the biggest gains in the CBA were for the low end and younger players. I, again, go back to my earlier argument that maybe the executive (read negotiators) shouldn't be the guys who are making the top contracts, but more should be the guys who can relate to the other 1000+ players in the league earning minimum or low end contracts.

I liken it more to Chronicles of Narnia, more for adults and where it turns out their CS Lewis equivalent was a pedophile (I really hope, not knowing, that the real Lewis wasn't). The syfy series was actually pretty good, but reading the synopsis of the books suggested to me that the author was really putting out a trashing of the original.

Well, given the last set of proposals the MLB owners presented, you can't say they aren't willing to negotiate. Now we will find out if the MLBPA is. The owners basically came up to or close to everything the MLBPA had been asking for. Now its time for the players to allow some concessions so we can play baseball. Up til now, there stance has seemed to be all or nothing.

I agree, on any sport. It's all about appearances. No matter how much you may scream innocence, the visuals are bad. Ask Pete Rose about it.

I agree. And your right, i probably do focus what I am saying about the top end players (I am an Angel fan and we have both Trout and Rendon - not to mention Upton - and are probably going to have to match the national debt for Ohtani), but my thoughts are the jouneymen, which is why I am annoyed with how the MLBPA have driven those contracts up then seemed shocked when teams pay those contracts and don't want to have the other 20 players earn more then $5 mil a year if they can help it. I do think a minimum threshhold is very much needed and I understand the frustration of young players like Arozarena not getting paid commiserate to their production, but this (older players being paid for their body of work) is what the MLBPA wanted back 30 years ago and they have not, until NOW, tried to change it. Part of their problem is, Teams have become so analytics driven that the guys who are turning 30 (somehow a magic number) are no longer valued - easier to bring in a rookie who probably has similar stats and earns FAR less. As I said somewhere above - MLBPA hates what the Rays and A's have been able to accomplish because it entices other teams to try that mold but fail badly at it.

I feel that my statement yesterday was correct, now. Not enough room in this thread for Spence to list them.

I started reading that article about Manfred. My problem is, it starts with the rookie salary thing, which was part of the CBA. I am not sure what that article thinks he could have done about it. MLB owners have been presenting an increased rookie/pre arbitration amount with a decent (not great in comparison, but still decent) for those players in the rookie levels who are considered elite. Again, you can't put everything on the owners. How about $40 mil a year Scherzer, or some of the retired guys who made multi millions as stars AND advertising go and buy teams and then they can pay what they want, or start a new league if you want if you can convince everyone to go.

I guess I would feel better about the players side if one of their negotiators wasn't Max Scherzer and his $40 million a year contract. How about instead you let the guys earning $5 mil a year or less do your negotiating. MLBPA has spent the last however many years driving up the superstar contracts to a point that teams have to pay them and don't want to spend those middle $5-$15 million contracts; I mean, you sign 3 of these guys now and that is half whatever cap you want to put out there. I am fully in agreement with a minimum amount, but I also think there should be some type of top end. I see both sides points on expanded playoffs. MLB has always been about earning your way in, where the other 3 sports feel like mediocre teams can get in. I remember when the Lakers cruised through the regular season because it was all about the playoffs. It would be interesting if, instead of a team payroll cap, instead they had an individual player cap, though that would never happen and then the Yankees, Dodgers and Mets would truly be ridiculous. I would like to see MLB put in a "Larry Bird" rule, where one player on your team doesn't count toward your cap (think MIke Trout of the Angels) - if traded, then would count, but is a way to have that home grown superstar stay with a team.

It appears your cat is trying to send the dogs through, but I suspect that they are anchored by a dog's ability to sleep through anything but a doorbell.

Not to mention besmirching the memory of a brilliant character played by the amazing Michael Dunn. Could you not have named the character ANYTHING ELSE? Another hollywood "who is the most famous villain, ok, name our villain that" moment. I was offended by Branagh, who generally has a lot of class, playing this character in such a way. I agree on the casting. I would really have loved to see Will Smith and Kevin Kline actually play James West and Artemis Gordon, trusting friends from the beginning. They would have fit those roles well.

The problem with Last Jedi is the person in charge of the movie disliked everything that made Star Wars what it was and so intentionally went in and deconstructed every single piece they could. Honestly, I know some people who are part of the big Cosplay groups (Mandalorians and 501st Battalion) who chat with the various people behind the scenes and literally, the director went in specifically to undo everything done in the previous movie. Like Abrams or not, he had a plan for the 3 movies and really loved the series, hence his sort of turning his Star Trek reboot (which I like) into something closer to Star Wars. The only reason I didn't put the Costner Robin Hood on here is because of Rickman's sheriff - he was fantastic.

I would rank Prometheus and Green Hornet as they did above. Funnily, my first thought on seeing this thread was it probably can't be long enough for Spence to chime in. LOL

I don't know for sure, but it does seem that everytime either side seemed to move to a compromise, it was the owners side who changed and the players saying no, here is the line. My brother pointed out, one side (the owners) said lets get a neutral arbitrator and the other (the players). said no. It's not that I agree with the owners per se, but a big problem with baseball right now, for competitive purposes, is that the top end players are earning so much more then anyone else and the MLBPA loves that, except you are costing about 60% of your players money and, being honest, it is driving more and more teams to the bottom. Boston, Both NY teams, LA don't care about the CBT and are willing to pay the extra now. Smaller market teams cannot make a mistake on a big contract, as it sinks their team for years. I agree there needs to be a minimum payroll, but, even more to the point, there needs to be some type of balance. I honestly begin to think baseball needs a hard cap. In the above statement from Stripling, I would love to know what these items were that they hadn't seen before.

Those 3 guys were having way to much fun with the multiverse spiderman stuff, and glad I am of it. I like when actors play a character I like, do it pretty well and then don't hate themselves for doing so.

All you have to realize is that the Players hate the success of the Tampa Bay, because too many other teams outside LA, NY, Boston and a few others try to emulate them, poorly.

Kilgrave is such a great villain that in a lot of ways, he was still the villain in the second series.

Just finished listening to Age of War in Michael J Sullivan's Legends of the First Empire series. I read both Riyria Revelations and Chronicles and sincerely enjoyed both. This series is much less lighthearted but equally well written and I have enjoyed the writing and story, but I feel after this one, getting a posse together to track down and flay Mr. Sullivan for the emotional rollercoaster of emotions invoked in this book is completely forgivable. Most of that was semi sarcasm. I would absolutely recommend any of the above series to anyone looking for good reads.

I feel like it is just missing the CNN (or other news outlet)standing there trying not to be blown out to sea so they can be on the frontline reporting the story.

And, of course, the whole reason there is an ROC is because Russian can't have a team for crap just like this. Now they have succeeded in tainting the ROC, because if a 15 year old figure skater is having this done to her, why should we believe any of the others aren't.

Agree with all said above. Loved the Verus series, will miss him. I also read Blake up to Obsidian Butterfly, which to me is the best in the series because it isn't about sex. She started off explaining that she knew nothing about detective work and was really writing a fantasy series, but I also felt dealt way to much with sex. Also, the author let her personal life enter the books to much, especially regarding sex. She went from being with a bigger guy represented by the original shapeshifter in the series to a smaller guy represented by the panther one. Battle Ground is brutal and changes everything as much as Changes did.

And sadly, I think most fans have no idea who to side with. I am not sure I do. The things I wouldn't mind seeing changed, involving salaries and stuff, I am not sure are being addressed. I think the majority of the members of the mlbpa are the ones being marginalized by the process. Teams now want either the superstar player for 25+ mil a year (2-4 of these to compete) OR guys on rookie salaries. the players, to me, being shoved aside are the journeymen who were part of every team in the day, the workers you could root for every year are now being signed to 1 year low million contracts (which is part of the problem millionaires feuding with billionaires over how big the pie they should get, so even these guys, to the average person, are earning a fortune each year). Not sure where this is going to end as, and I understand most don't think anything the owners have brought is reasonable, the mlbpa apparently have not moved one iota from their initial demands to try win back everything they have given away over the last 30 years or so.