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more about #moneyball more comments → Business_Socks: Jesus, what a forehead. It looks like someone drew 'angry eyes' on an IMAX screen. #moneyball more » We Are All Lance Uppercut: Bissinger is angrily replying to this post in last week's Failgate thread. #moneyball more » twoeightnine: Bissinger Continues His Moneyball Trolling Judging by that photo he's a method actor. #moneyball more » owlcroft: Thoughts on a couple of points not answered individually: As to "sunk costs": I am in reality a major advocate of ball clubs learning to understand w... more » kneemoe1: No Midgets? Has Dustin Pedroia shown you that that one wasn't quite right? more » Catenaccio: This guy also has a site about induction cooking, which he calls 'simply the best cooking technology there is...' No, it's not and therefore I discou... more » Chris Hanson's Axe: Also, you've got to be pretty fucking full of yourself to claim all "analysis" for your own term, which would be more accurately called "hyper-statist... more » Artie Fufkin: You should mention that a lot of the Oakland A's late 1980s-1990s success was due in part to steroids. Buckets and buckets of steroids. oh and a dash ... more » thetaxman: This is nothing - you should see the upcoming 2 parter on Gizmodo authored by Sony Betamax. more » MeanMachine: There is a definite relation between runs scored and runs allowed over a stretch of games and games won during that stretch. No fucking shit, Sherlock. more » Kid Canada: NOT ALL GIANTS - JUST NO MIDGETS -- I have the same sign taped to my headboard. more » Pedro Cuatrocinco: "Whining Baseball" /fixed more » crazyjoedavola: As Alan Schwarz put it in his New York Times article on it, "One of the most influential baseball minds of the last 40 years is angry. And he is comin... more » Gus Johnson's Cardiologist: Anyone else confused? I could see if Craggs had used his intrepid reporting skill to uncover the true founder of the Moneyball theory, but to just let... more » ClickClickThud: Surprising stat: The New York Mets this year are tied for the NL lead in outs made per inning. more » -
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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] -
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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 » -
#movies
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] -
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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 » -
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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 » -
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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?
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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 » -
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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 » -
#mlb
Moneyball’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.
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#atthemovies
"Moneyball" Casting Department Seeking Undervalued Actors
The cast of Steven Soderbergh's ridiculous Moneyball adaptation is starting to come together and it looks to be about as awesome as a dramatic feature about sabermetrics could possibly be. More » -
#nba
Michael Lewis Gives The NBA Its "Moneyball"
It took me the entire weekend and most of Monday, but I finally got through Michael Lewis' epic deconstruction of Shane Battier, also known as "Moneyball: NBA Edition." More » -
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The Curious Case Of Billy Beane
Soderbergh has almost committed, but Pitt's on board to star in film adaptation of "Moneyball". Scott Hatteberg was originally supposed to be played by Joaquin Phoenix. Dude went crazy, though. [Variety]
