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Tuesday, November 9, 2021
Post-2021 World Series Thoughts
It's been a week since the end of this year's World Series for Major League Baseball. Where do teams go from here? There's a lot of questions into whether a 2022 season will even be a reality. No strike since the 1994 season. If one were to happen, the AL East and West take huge hits. I'd also say that would happen to the NL West and Central. As far as the Atlanta Braves go, this solidifies some of their players. Freddie Freeman adds another piece to getting himself in the Hall of Fame as do several other players.
Awards are almost over, but most have been picked. Gold Gloves had the National League dominated by the St. Louis Cardinals with five of them, including Nolan Arenado and Paul Goldschmidt. A handful of teams in the American League had winners. I'll do some predictions quickly. I think Vladimir Guerrero Jr. gets MVP and Robbie Ray gets the Cy Young for the AL. Rookie of the Year I think will be Randy Arozarena and the Manager of the Year would be Dusty Baker. For the NL, I think Bryce Harper gets his second MVP award and Corbin Burnes gets the Cy Young. Rookie of the Year would be Dylan Carlson and Manager of the Year will be Gabe Kapler. (Keep eye on Mike Shildt though for what he did in September despite getting let go after the Cardinals playoff run ended)
Who do you think has a chance to get some award hardware? Share your thoughts.
Friday, November 5, 2021
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Monday, November 1, 2021
The Future of 007
The latest James Bond 007 film, No Time to Die, has been out for almost a month in the United States and just over a month in most other territories of the world. A lot of critics loved it compared to Spectre. As of November 1st, it has made over 600 million altogether with 133 million domestically and 473 million in international markets. Some places have yet to or just put it in theaters in a few markets, so the number can still rise. It marks the end of Daniel Craig playing Bond, a role he has done for 15 years.
I've never watched any movies of Ian Fleming's secret agent outside of most of Goldeneye. But that doesn't mean I'm ignorant to what may be done in the future. Craig's take of Bond along with the writers of those films helped revive the franchise critically. Outside of Goldeneye, critics were not keen on the Pierce Brosnan ones. They did well enough, but were also getting outclassed by Austin Powers, a parody of Bond that got huge once the second one came out. I'm going to assume the people involved in the last 15 years wanted to stand out, which they did. I think with Skyfall, they outdid themselves critically and commercially and I'm not sure it can be topped ever again.
So where does James Bond go? I don't know. But I'd imagine they would want to go a route similar to what has been done since 2006. Maybe find a way to have some things that were good about the older films while seeing the quality of the Craig films. You have to find a good balance to please many fans of the last 60 years. No Time to Die's performance might determine what kind of scale they go on being an action film. I'm not sure they can keep making budgets of 250 million. Maybe going back to basics could go a long way. But I still think Bond will be around for a long time if the quality is still up there. Time for a new arc in the world of 007.
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