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[Movie] Moneyball

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  1. GRENDEL

    GRENDEL Member

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    <div><object width="576" height="324"><param name="movie" value="http://d.yimg.com/nl/movies/site/player.swf"></param><param name="flashVars" value="vid=25625800&"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed width="576" height="324" allowFullScreen="true" src="http://d.yimg.com/nl/movies/site/player.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="vid=25625800&"></embed></object></div>

    Brad Pitt as Oakland A's GM Billy Bean...
     
    #1 GRENDEL, Jun 16, 2011
  2. SwoLy-D

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    :( I sincerely thought this was going to be about...

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    The ALL-STAR 3-Point shooting contest's "Money Ball" :grin:
     
    #2 SwoLy-D, Jun 16, 2011
  3. RedRedemption

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    Moneyball 2: The Rise of Morey
     
    #3 RedRedemption, Jun 16, 2011
  4. leroy

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    Loved the book and the theory. I'll watch this.
     
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    same. Though I think I'm gonna have some issues getting used to this cast playing these guys I read about. Not just because I've read the book, but because I've seen the guys on TV and all AND read the book with images in my head
     
    #5 kaleidosky, Jun 16, 2011
  6. OmegaSupreme

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    philip seymour hoffman is in it. i'm in. :)
     
    #6 OmegaSupreme, Jun 16, 2011
  7. CXbby

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    Jonah Hill should star as Morey in Moneyball 2.
     
    #7 CXbby, Jun 16, 2011
  8. percicles

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    The A's haven't won a World Series let alone that AL during Beane's reign.

    This is about 25% truth and 75% fiction.
     
    #8 percicles, Jun 16, 2011
  9. Dairy Ashford

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    Brad Pitt just makes good decisions. There should be more Coach/GM movies. Stephen Root as Bum Phillips, Louie Anderson playing Jack Pardee...
     
    #9 Dairy Ashford, Jun 16, 2011
  10. Jugdish

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    There's a lot of variance in baseball. You need a large sample size (162 games) to understand who the best teams are.

    The playoffs are won by the luckiest team.
     
    #10 Jugdish, Jun 16, 2011
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    Bobby Kotick seems to be a natural for this role.
     
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    Who's going to play Morey in the sequel
     
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    The A's averaged 95 wins per year from 2000-2006 from a payroll of about 30% of the Yankees. I'd considered that extremely successful. A 162-game season is far more representative than winning a couple of best-of-7 series.

    Beane has largely been a victim of his own success. He exploited the system so well for so long that the bigger payroll teams took notice and started to integrate his ideas with some financial muscle behind them.

    Beane's philosophy is certainly not foolproof. The 2002 draft that was one of the focuses of Moneyball had many examples of players the A's were high on who busted (John McCurry & Ben Fritz) as well as guys Beane didn't like who have been great players (Scott Kazmir & Prince Fielder, who was called too fat even for the A's). But he has done so much with so little that you simply can't dismiss the results.
     
    #13 Hammer755, Jun 16, 2011
  14. VanityHalfBlack

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    Brad Pitt is starting to look like Robert Redford a little bit.....
     
    #14 VanityHalfBlack, Jun 16, 2011
  15. percicles

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    Beane didn't install sabemetics in the A's, it was Sandy Alderson, the GM before him.
     
    #15 percicles, Jun 16, 2011
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    Uhmmmm...so how about Jim Crane make a quick call to Brad Pitt???
     
    #16 rockets934life, Jun 16, 2011
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    looks like a good movie. philip seymour hoffman and brad pitt both usually do good movies, i'm in.
     
    #17 txppratt, Jun 16, 2011
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    Why does these movies always have these losers in it and spoiled it?
    Jonah Hill
    Michael Cera
    Seth Rogen
    Jesse Eisenberg
    and now it continued on with Andrew Garfield...
     
    #18 Cowboy_Bebop, Jun 17, 2011
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    He better get things going soon or it'll be:

    Moneyball 2: The Fall of Morey
     
    #19 Hilltopper, Jun 17, 2011
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    (Movie) Moneyball

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    #20 BasketballReasons, Jun 25, 2011
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