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I just finished watching Money Ball, starring Brad Pit. If you haven't seen it, watch it. An excellent baseball movie! I'm quite certain you two baseball nuts will dig it.
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For Adronicus and Jagger... and anyone else interested.
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Never watched the movie, but I was an extra in a few crowd shots. 
I thought it was kinda meh
I love sports but hate sports movies. The A's are a nice story, except they never won a title, now suck, and were supposedly money conscious but were really built around one superstar, Miguel Tejada.
What the fuck are you talking about? They have 9.
I think he means during the Moneyball era
Oh. Well that clears it up. Carry on.
Sam Fisher
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I thought it was a well done movie. I have never followed the A's, but it being a baseball movie, I wasn't going to not watch it. I wish more teams would take Billy Bean's strategy when building a team.
They were more built around pitching, and they weren't paying Miguel Tejada a market salary. They signed him as an amateur and had him through his arbitration years, when it was still cheap to keep him. As soon as he became a free agent, the A's couldn't pay to keep him around, just like Jason Giambi.
Almost all teams do now.
Ace Bandage
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I've had several friends tell me the exact same thing. I plan on getting around to watching it now that football season is over.
Cubs GM Theo Epstein is a sabermetrics guy too. I just hope he can be as successful in Chicago as he was in Boston.
Cubs GM Theo Epstein is a sabermetrics guy too. I just hope he can be as successful in Chicago as he was in Boston.
Sam Fisher
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Damn it...
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Damn double posts
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Yeah, had it been directed at JUST those two, I would have messaged them. However...
I figured others might enjoy the movie also.
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Bean might be the best general manager ever for doing what he did in that era. His downfall is that so many other teams had such a monetary advantage in his sport he needed to use sabermetrics just to get even with them and not pull ahead, the A's faced bad luck in the playoffs over those years where luck matters more in a short series of games than it does in an entire season, and eventually everybody else started to emulate what he did despite it taking a long time to shrug off baseballs mindless tendencies and he no longer had the advantage of running a smarter organization than everybody else at that point.
Ace Bandage
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Yikes. :surprise: Um... I didn't even notice that until he pointed it out. I guess I never really pay attention to thread titles. Yeah, that's still bad, isn't it? Fuck, I'm losing it. It's such an obvious misspelling. I should notice that.
Sorry, I let the team down today, guys.
