The Skolney Blog

The 2018 trade deadline has come and gone. For my money, Falvine did the right thing. They unloaded a bunch of pending free agents, as well as Ryan Pressly, and got a boatload of prospects back. The Twins fanbase though have lost their fucking minds over the last week. Raging at the Twins front office for giving up on the season, for daring to trade a couple of popular players. These fans do not live in reality. This Twins club has spent most of the spring, and all of the summer, proving beyond any doubt that they are not a playoff contender. They just aren't. The standings may have said this morning that the Twins were 8 games back of Cleveland, but that might as well be 80. They've seemingly been at least 5 games back for about 2 months. They never gain ground, cause they never win consistently. These fans will point to that pre-ASG homestand where they went 9-2. But sandwiched around that was the recent 4-6 road trip, and that utter fiasco of a trip to Chicago and Milwauk...

Being an old fogey, I remember when the first MI came out back in 96. Back when it was just the latest of that mid-90s trend of movies based on old TV shows. It was kind of a slow burn for me. I liked it fine, but it was hardly the standout during that particularly strong summer. I grew to like it more over the years. MI 2 I did love at first, but it didn't hold up. 3 was almost seen as a desperation move for Tom Cruise, then still very much in Oprah couch controversy mode. It wasn't until Ghost Protocol that this series seemed to really hit its stride. That one is still my favorite, though I did like Rogue Nation a lot too. Fallout is a direct sequel to Rogue Nation, and it feels sort of like the ultimate version of the series. More stunts. More twists. More action. More everything. Frankly, it goes right up to the line of being TOO much. This one brings in Henry Cavill, complete with his moustache, as a new adversary/partner/mystery man. And Angela Bassett pops up to talk...

Top 10 of 2018 so far: 1. Avengers: Infinity War 2. Black Panther 3. Isle of Dogs 4. Hotel Artemis 5. A Quiet Place 6. Sicario: Day of the Soldado 7. Love, Simon 8. Annihilation 9. Thoroughbreds 10. Deadpool 2 The 5 worst: 1. Action Point 2. Truth Or Dare 3. Breaking In 4. Winchester 5  Early Man