Strat-O-Matic Baseball 365

Top Ten Current Third Basemen
1. Anthony Rendon, WS--Greatest college hitter of his era now the greatest hitting 3b. Has speed as well.
2. Josh Donaldson, TO--Blue collar stud with power, defense, and smarts will become Jays' leader.
3. Evan Longoria. TB--Healthy year and better plate discipline could have him back at #1 in a year or so.
4. Kyle Seager, SEA--Wicked LH power and strong D makes him SEA's other stud.
5. Adrian Beltre, TEX--On the decline now, but future HOFer still rocks the Corner.
6. Nolan Arenado, CO--Defensive whiz with potent bat will rise on list in the future as power further develops.
7. Todd Frazier, CN--Greatly under-rated player has considerable power and decent speed.
8. Pablo Sandoval, BS--Sweet-swinging switch hitter better athlete than many think. Still needs to shed lbs.
9. Manny Machado, BLT--Similar player to Arenado. Not nearly as consistent, but possibly greater upside.
10. David Wright, NY--Has talent to be higher on list, but offense has been on the decline.

Greatest Westerns
1. The Searchers--John Ford's best film and Wayne's best performance in this Western rescue epic.
2. The Wild Bunch--Peckinpah's classic post-Western chronicles the last days of 5 outdated outlaws.
3. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance--Wayne and Stewart shine in brilliant study of myth and/in the West.
4. My Darling Clementine--Fonda excels as Earp in greatest film version of Wyatt Earp story.
5. Stagecoach--John Wayne's first great film and Ford's first great Western in Monument Valley.
6. The Proposition--Australian gem about honor, violence, and family in the 19th c. Outback.
7. Unforgiven--Eastwood's brilliant Bergmanesque Western about violence and the past.
8. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly. Leone's best of his classic Eastwood Spaghetti Westerns.
9. The Outlaw Josey Wales--Gritty Civil War western has one of Eastwood's best performances.
10. Tombstone. Not as good as Clementine, but much more fun. Kilmer is brilliant.

Shane

Evil Roy Slade is the best western ever and Blazing Saddles is very good.

Evil Roy Slade
One of the 10 Funniest and Cleverest Comedies Ever! (But still a western)

If you haven't seen this movie you are missing out!

This movies was a masterpiece and a delight. Dick Shawn was stupendously funny, and the rest of the cast, perfectly cast. The movie was well directed ALWAYS kept you laughing and never let up. In this viewers opinion it is one of the 10 funniest and cleverest comedies of all times. I gave it a 10 and so did 297 people out of a possible 419 voters here on the data base. Will someone explain to me how you can have over half the votes a 10, have the Arithmetic mean = 9.1. The Median of 10.0 and still our beloved IMDb gives this movie a weighted average vote of 6.3? Come on I've heard of "weighted" but is the butchers hand on the scale here? Is it that those folks intellectual capacity just couldn't bare to see this film in the top ten of the top 100 movies? Hmmmmmm? Well guess what? The Direction, The Acting, The Script, and just the general "clevertude" (is there such a word?) Should put this film just about in the top 10 percent of films....Come on Fellas....be fair. At least level this out to 8.5 I can buy that a whole lot "weightedly" than 6.3 Just one viewers opinion.

I didn't write this but I did get it off the internet and I am a French Model!


Flossie: [Roy is breaking up the gang] Roy, you aren't going to leave me alone are you? I love you.
Evil Roy Slade: [pause] Alright, who wants Flossie?

Betsy Potter: Let's try some arithmetic. If you had six apples and your neighbor took three apples. What would you have?
Evil Roy Slade: A dead neighbor and all six apples.

Evil Roy Slade: I learned a valuable lesson today. Never trust a pretty girl, or a lonely midget.

That's quite an enthusiastic and effusive endorsement for Evil Roy Slade. I had never heard of the movie. But after that, I'm definitely going to check it out. Blazing Saddles is obviously funny as well and was probably my first "Western" I ever saw.

Shane, however, was one of my first two "real" Westerns--along with the also-excellent The Magnificent Seven--I ever saw. It's truly a beautiful film--actually better than Tombstone--and showed everybody why the diminutive Alan Ladd was such an outstanding movie star. However, it took me three viewings of it to realize what Shane's actual fate was.

Thanks for the shout-outs.

Great Westerns: Once Upon a Time in the West: The slightly bizarre opeing sequences end when 3 villains turn up to meet Harmonica off the train – but they have only brought 3 horses. They have murder on their mind….

Harmonica: “Did you bring a horse for me?” Snaky: “Looks like we’re….[snickers] Looks like we’re shy one horse.” Harmonica: (shaking his head) “You brought two too many.”

Henry Fonda in a shocking (at that time) role of bad guy. The 6 minute duel between him and Bronson along with the musical score accompanying that scene is truly classic.

Once Upon a Time in the West is an excellent film; many consider it Leone's finest Western. You're absolutely right that audiences were shocked to see Fonda play such a sadistic villain. They just weren't ready to see Tom Joad shoot three kids to death. Also, Bronson, despite his own virtues, was not nearly as charismatic or cinematic as Eastwood, so the film has faded a bit into obscurity.

Thanks for bringing it out, though.

When are we going to get to the top 10 DH's right now?

If you want, Bombers, you can start a DH list yourself. In the meantime, why don't you actually try contributing to a thread's subject instead of trolling it like a grumpy codger...

Suggesting a thread on DH's is bad for business?? What planet are you from?

I said nothing of the kind. The fact you think so means you're not from this one...