[Movie] Moneyball

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

Spoiler

The ALL-STAR 3-Point shooting contest's "Money Ball" :grin:

 

Moneyball 2: The Rise of Morey

 

Loved the book and the theory. I'll watch this.

 

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

 

philip seymour hoffman is in it. i'm in.

 

Jonah Hill should star as Morey in Moneyball 2.

 

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.

 

Brad Pitt just makes good decisions. There should be more Coach/GM movies. Stephen Root as Bum Phillips, Louie Anderson playing Jack Pardee...

 

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.

 

Bobby Kotick seems to be a natural for this role.

 

Who's going to play Morey in the sequel

 

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.

 

Brad Pitt is starting to look like Robert Redford a little bit.....

 

Beane didn't install sabemetics in the A's, it was Sandy Alderson, the GM before him.

 

Uhmmmm...so how about Jim Crane make a quick call to Brad Pitt???

 

looks like a good movie. philip seymour hoffman and brad pitt both usually do good movies, i'm in.

 

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...

 

He better get things going soon or it'll be:

Moneyball 2: The Fall of Morey

 

(Movie) Moneyball

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