EYE-BALL MovieZone – Favourites – “For Love of the Game” – 1999 …

EYE-BALL MovieZone – Favourite Movies and TV Series – : “For Love of the Game”

The EYE-BALL MovieZone” Favourites Index” is a collection of movies that did not make the Oscar Nominations list and TV Series and Mini-Series that have made a select list of extreme entertainment.  Each of these FAVOURITE’s  have a special quality that make them a part of the EYE-BALL MovieZone’s Favourites list. [Just a small note – this is a free website – there are no fees or charges – there is a gratuity/donation link provided to the right of this text – please if you are enjoying the site and are inclined to want to make a donation – please use the link provided. All finds received are thankfully received and they go a long way to help maintain the content of this site.Movie posters appearing at this site have been copied from Wikipedia and other research related source sites.] ________________________________________ Review – 1999 “For Love of the Game”: Movie Info Links: Link to Wikipedia Movie Information Link to Bit Torrent Download – Download Free copy of VUZE here – to download the movie you will need a Bit Torrent Program like VUZE – Plot: – [Pasted from Wikipedia] On the second to last day of the season, Chapel’s team, the Atlanta Hawks, are about to play against the New York Yankees. Chapel receives news from a friend in the media that is about to be traded. Just the night before, his girlfriend Carol did not show up at his hotel room, and Chapel reaches the conclusion that it is time to move on and finally make the transition from boyhood to manhood. Over half the book tells the story of that final game, with flashbacks from the pitching mound and dugout to incidents throughout Chapel’s life. Chapel is determined that his last game will also be his greatest, even though, with all the young new players on the Yankees, they are a far superior team. As he strikes out his opponents one after the other, he soon becomes aware of the fact that he has held the Yankees at bay thus far, not allowing one hit from the more talented Yankees team. He soon becomes determined to pitch a perfect game. Meanwhile, he reflects on his personal life, and especially on Carol, whom he finally realizes that he loves, even though he has never shown her that he really does. That morning Carol told him she was going to London and was leaving immediately, so the two key passions of his life, Carol and baseball, are about to vanish forever. As the game proceeds, Chapel feels the sharp pain in his arm that comes with age. Nevertheless, he refuses to give up the pitching mound, and chooses instead to divert his attention by delving deeper into his life and his relationship. At the end of the game, he has pitched a perfect game and retires from baseball with a new dignity. After the celebrations, he heads to the hotel and dials Carol’s home, where he plans to go to tell Carol his feelings. With baseball behind him, he has grown from a boy who has led a life into manhood. This short book was discovered after Shaara’s death, and publishing was arranged by his son, author Jeffrey Shaara. The book was made into a movie by Sam Raimi. EYE-BALL MovieZone Review: I love sporting movies – and Kevin Costner is a favoured Actor who played 4 roles as a baseball player.  This was his last baseball role.  His on-screen chemistry with Kelly Preston makes the movie and the story believable – and resonates with so many sporting relationships having to deal with the ‘road trip’ nuances when in a relationship with a sports player. This movie has patience and carefully takes the time to tell the story – nothing is rushed, and that effort is rewarded in with finished product that has your emotive connections tethered by the movie’s final scene where it all ends well.  Costner was made for this part and Preston did a wonderful job and managed to steal scenes from Costner. I’ve seen this movie at least 5-6 times and each time the story resonates with me in many ways.  There is no gratuitous sex – nor violence – just a tender love story with a few twist and turns in a relationship that hits a few bumps along the way. The baseball is not all that important – it is just the backdrop to an aging superstar trying to figure out what he wants as his career is coming to an end. The story is told in flashbacks as Costner’s role stands on the pitcher’s mound and that distraction is the story.  I highly recommend the movie as a heart jerker and for someone feeling the ‘blues’.  If you don’t shed a tear or two then your heart is an iceberg. EYE-BALL MovieZone Rating [scale 0-10]: 7.0/10 … Back to Top ________________________________________ [Just a small note – this is a free website – and the information posted hereto is the product of genuine research which has taken considerable time and effort. If you have enjoyed the product of these efforts a small donation would be appreciated. There is a gratuity/donation link provided to the right of this text – please if you have the time and are so inclined to want to make a donation – please use the link provided. 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EYE-BALL Guru on – The “Treasurer of the Year” Award – and the winner is our own Mr Wayne Swan …

Title: The “Treasurer of the Year” Award – and the winner is our own Mr Wayne Swan …

Make no mistake – Mr Swan won his gong as ‘Treasurer of the Year’ fair and square. The Australian Media have picked up on the story to be announced officially later this week. The only previous Australian Treasurer to win the award was Mr Paul Keating in 1984.  For several months now this author and this Blogsite has been espousing Mr Swan as a ‘dumbass turkey’ who would not know one end of a Financial Market strategy from a well planned ‘Bank Heist’ against the Reserve Bank. Whilst every other Central Bank in the World is taking action over concerns about the impact of their appreciating currency and its impact on their Nation’s competitiveness – the Australian Treasurer has taken no interventionist action to stem the rising value of the A$. This is despite repeated attempts to spell out in simple terms just what the impact on Australia’s Balance of Trade, internal employment, Small Business operators and the host of Industries suddenly finding themselves unable to compete in the global market – and this all on the back of the now ‘Treasurer of the Year’ – having no concerns or intent to do anything about the high value if the A$.The creditability of this award has to be questioned.   The Award is judged by leading European banking and the finance magazine EuroMoney – on advice from “global bankers and investors” to quote the Magazine’s own criteria.  The creditability in these peers stems towards ‘global bankers’ and ‘investors’. Previous Winners of the award can be viewed using this link. The reasons given by EuroMoney as to why Mr Swan was deemed worthy of the award can be read using this EuroMoney Link. Worldwide comments on this EuroMoney story can be read using this Link.  Comments made on the ABC story about Mr Swans award can be read using this Link.  By an overwhelming majority – the comments at both these links don’t agree with the magazines choice. Having exhausted all reasonable avenues to get Mr Swan’s true performance into mainstream media – frustration has become the order of the day.  It’s likened to a holocaust scenario where every other Nation and their TREASURER were obliterated by the GFC – yet Australia through shear oversight escaped the carnage – To be objective – Australian Banks did survive in much better shape – but that had nothing to do with Mr Swan and Treasury – the guarantee the Government issues at the height of the crisis was window dressing and designed to appease nervous investors – none of the structure of the Australian Banks and their business model which was the real reason they survived in great shape came from any decision made by Mr Swan. He just happened to be the TREASURER when all this carnage descended across the globe.  Australia’s survival and fate post GFC remains in the hands of others – namely China – China decision to expand its domestic consumption and proceed with internalisation of its infrastructure and modernise its society demanded resource imports.  Australia was the recipient of this good fortune. Evidence of this is recorded in the record volume of mining resources being shipped from our shores.  This is responsible for the ‘two-speed’ economy that has been acknowledged and this has created a situation in how the Government responds to these internal pressures. This is where foreign observers lose sight of what is reallyhappening to the Australian Economy.  In previous posts on this subject – [see below for links] – comments and research have shown that the high cost of the A$ has caused $100’s billions in lost export revenues – it has also allowed the off-shore investor to buy A$’s and invest in our ‘high’ interest rate debt with no real fear of a currency devaluation. Mr Swan has made a decision – he has sacrificed Australian Business and Industry in favour of selling our mining resources as fast as they can for as much as they can.  This ‘eggs in one basket’ policy can’t last forever and in the process many other Industries and Business are falling by the wayside. Meger export Nations like Japan and Switzerland have deemed it necessary to intervene in Currency Markets to keep their currency at a competitive level.  Mr Swan sees no reason to do likewise. What Mr Swan fails to understand – and this goes to the reason he was voted as ‘Treasurer of the Year’ – is the off-shore investment community want Mr Swan to think he is doing a great job.  They want him to be basking in his glory – having his ego stroked – all the while distracted him from what is really happening to the A$ Billion’s being sucked from our shores and under his nose – whilst he remains blissfully ignorant and distracted to what is really happening within the Global Investment community. These very same ‘Global Bankers and Investors’ who voted for Mr Swan as the ‘Treasurer of the Year’ – are lining their investors with easy and extremes of profits from their ‘cash and carry’ trade against the A$. Any off-shore investor who purchased A$’s in early 2009 at around the A$0.60c lows after the global investment community panicked and sold the A$ down from US$ parity – [see chart below] – all unwinding their existing ‘cash and carry’ positions against the pre GFC ‘resources boom’ – are looking at annualised returns in excess of 30% and un US$ terms returns in excess of 60%. Mr Swan must be aware of this trade opportunity – and with the $50 billion of new infrastructure investment due to hit our shores over the next 2-3 years – the A$ can only appreciate further. This will be the death knell to many already struggling industries – Tourism – once Australia’s second biggest industry and struggling already will finally roll over and die.  The millions employed in the hospitality and service industry who rely on tourism will be looking for work elsewhere. The Mining boom will continue and the demand for employment to support its growth far exceeds labour market capacity and people will be forced to go and work in the mines.  This is what Mr Swan is planning for Australia and for most Australians this is unpalatable.  This is only one industry – there are plenty more who will suffer the same fate under Mr Swans plan to let the A$ keep rising and do nothing about it. So when the creditability of Mr Swans actions are considered in terms of how it will impact on Australia’s future – in 5-10 years our economy will look nothing like it is now.  His regular ‘jobs-jobs-jobs’ chant is such a hollow echo – his jobs mean relocation – weeks away from families because these mining boom spots don’t have the infrastructure to accommodate workforces – and Australia will have lost its identity. What happens when all the resources are gone – what will we sell to the rest of the world then? Selling these resources at the current A$ levels means we ony get a fraction of the revenue is the A$ was trading anywhere its mean average since it was first floated in 1983 – A$ 0.75c – it’s like have a ‘Crazy Clarks’ sale where our most precious commodities have the 30% for sale sign up – permanently – and the discounts will continue to grow higher as the A$ appreciates. No! Those that really understand finance and trade think Mr Swan is the biggest DUNCE in Australia – and if the World thinks he is the ‘Treasurer of the Year’ then their admiration only comes from their wallet in telling Mr Swan what a great job he is doing for all their Off-Shore Investors.  It’s a sucker play and Mr Swan and the Government are celebrating in the future of Australia’s downfall. WAKE-UP Australia. To read other posts on this subject please use the links below: 16th Sept – Mr Wayne Swan – The Australian Treasurer gets it wrong again! 07th Sept – The Australian Parliamentary Process Part II – Monetary Policy arrangements between the Government and the Reserve Bank od Australia. 22nd Aug – Another Reason the Australian Treasurer deserves his DUNCE-HAT 26th June – What would happen if the A$ was devalued: 25th June – The Australian Treasurer – Mr Wayne SWAN – a Bridesmaid – a Jack-in-the-Box Puppet – or just wickedly incompetent … 02nd April – The real value of the A$ … ________________________________________ The EYE-BALL Guru …