“Do I care if it’s a walk or a hit?” - MONEYBALL!!
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“Do I care if it’s a walk or a hit?” - MONEYBALL!!
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About this listen
It’s time for the movie based on the book about baseball sabermetrics which somehow ended up being entertaining as hell.
Starring Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill and the always amazing Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Moneyball covered the beginning of the Billy Beane era as GM of the Oakland A’s, a team whose ownership was simply incapable of competing with rich MLB franchises such as the New York Yankees.
Beane was determined to find a new way of valuing players in order to find the ones who could produce runs at cut-rate salaries in order to compete on an unfair playing field.
Yep, sounds boring, yet the screen version was funny, heartwarming, engaging and suspenseful. Yes, the saying is trite as hell, but it was a home run.
Jump in for the watch & throw your thoughts in the comments - even if only to give us a GO BIG RED.