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Moneyball's Back On

Bennett Miller, the guy who did the Truman Capote movie that didn't subject us to Peter Bogdanovich's acting, will direct. He replaces Steven Soderbergh, who was traded to the White Sox for three prospects and a reliever. [Variety, via NYMag]

12/07/09

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By Tommy Craggs

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Bissinger Continues His Moneyball Trolling

Buzz Bissinger, shit-pissing author of Three Nights as Tony La Russa's Sock Puppet, is back on his battered old Moneyball hobbyhorse, firing off angry fallacies left and right. [TNR, of all places]

10/20/09

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By Tommy Craggs

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The Forgotten Man Of Moneyball, Part 2

Read Part 1 here. More »

10/07/09

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By Eric Walker

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The Forgotten Man Of Moneyball, Part 1

He calls himself "the pebble that started the avalanche," the man who taught baseball analysis to Billy Beane. Gandhi, someone wrote, sparking MLK's revolution. Today, Moneyball remains a hotly debated phenomenon. Eric Walker is a footnote. Here's the footnote's story. More »

10/07/09

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By Eric Walker

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Famous Actor Desperate To Portray Nerdy GM

Brad Pitt says that Moneyball: The Movie is still very much alive and he would very much like to play Billy Beane. So world-famous actors with beautiful movie star wives dream about being nerdy baseball executives? [MTV]

08/13/09

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By Dashiell Bennett

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Click here to read Buzz Bissinger's <em>3 Nights In August</em> To Become 2 Hours Wasted At Your Local Multiplex

Buzz Bissinger's 3 Nights In August To Become 2 Hours Wasted At Your Local Multiplex

That other baseball movie is flailing about, but the adaptation of 3 Nights In August, Bissinger's Moneyball diss track and paean to Tony La Russa and the manly virtues of lineup construction, is moving along nicely. The nerds can't win. More »

07/15/09

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By Tommy Craggs

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Now It's Aaron Sorkin's Turn To Fail At Writing A Moneyball Script

Columbia has enlisted Sorkin, the sanctimonious West Wing creator last seen making Ed Asner say "Macau" over and over, to write a draft of the star-crossed Moneyball script. Such waste. Such inefficiency. Somebody could write a bestselling book about this. More »

07/09/09

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By Tommy Craggs

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Soderbergh's Moneyball Script Too Real To Get Made

The Sony Pictures executive who pulled the plug on Moneyball says that Steven Soderbergh changed the original script because he didn't want anything in the movie that didn't actually happen. So Billy Beane isn't a sweaty, foul-mouthed, Hooters waitress slayer? More »

07/01/09

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By Dashiell Bennett

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Billy Beane Is A Golden God: Excerpts From The Scrapped Moneyball Script

It looks like Moneyball might not be coming to the big screen anytime soon because director Steven Soderbergh tinkered with the script and everyone realized that a movie version of the book made about as much sense as Joe Morgan. More »

06/24/09

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By Ben Cohen

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Moneyball's Deep-Sixed

Break out the baseball puns! Columbia has dropped Steven Soderbergh's Moneyball adaptation like an overvalued, arbitration-eligible pitcher after a career year. Why, it's as if producers made a running, 20-foot backhand flip to cut down the movie at the plate. More »

06/22/09

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By Tommy Craggs

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Moneyball’s Deep: How Baseball Prospectus Is Like The Oakland A’s

Click here to read <em>Moneyball</em>’s Deep: How Baseball Prospectus Is Like The Oakland A’s

Under Billy Beane, the Oakland A's won by scraping together undervalued assets. Since the rest of baseball has started valuing assets properly, the A's are having a harder time. The same thing is happening to baseball's leading propeller-heads. More »