(Okay, that one was about a trucker and his chimp.)īut why make a fuss over Billy Beane, and the theories that inspired Moneyball?Ī, The A's have never won a Pennant with Beane as general manager.
(Sounds like a bad 1970s cop (or private eye) show: Moneyball and Beane.
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I've never understood why everyone made a fuss over, and why someone's now making a movie about, Moneyball and Beane. Aaron Sorkin, the genius behind A Few Good Men, The West Wing, and the brief but wonderful Sports Night (I still miss you, Sabrina Lloyd), assisted Lewis and others on the screenplay. Michael Lewis is currently riding a wave of success from the film version of his book The Blind Side, about football player Michael Oher and his adopted family, which won Sandra Bullock the Oscar for Best Actress. Two real-life major league players are confirmed as being in the film, albeit playing other big-leaguers: Royce Clayton, a former All-Star shortstop who has acted before but did not play himself when his character was struck out by Dennis Quaid's Jim Morris in The Rookie, plays A's shorstop/steroid cheat Miguel Tejada and Jason Windsor, who really did play for the A's, but as a pitcher, plays outfielder and first baseman John Mabry.
(These were recently "Airplaned" into a parody film titled The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It.)Īrt Howe, the A's manager at the time, is played by Philip Seymour Hoffman. Paul DePodesta, Beane's assistant GM at the time, has been renamed Peter Brand, and is played by Jonah Hill, best known for appearing in Judd Apatow's gross-out sex-comedy films, especially Superbad. The question is if someone like Cincinnati, Atlanta, or Washington will be able to get hot and capitalize on that.A movie version of Michael Lewis’ book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, about the Oakland Athletics of the early 2000s and their general manager, Billy Beane, is currently being filmed.īeane is being played by Brad Pitt - who I once saw at the old Yankee Stadium, sitting in the Field Boxes with his adopted son Maddox Jolie-Pitt, but not with Angelina Jolie, a "significant other" who is far more significant than he is. With the tough slate and a little overall regression, San Francisco will likely come back to the pack a little down the stretch. In addition to 10 each against the Dodgers and Padres. They haven't even played the leaders of the NL Central or NL East yet (Milwaukee and New York respectively), and have 13 collective games against those teams left. But can it last? The Giants' second-half schedule is daunting. Buoyed by the return of Buster Posey who opted out last year and a renaissance season from longtime shortstop Brandon Crawford, San Fran has drastically outperformed expectations. We knew heading into 2021 that the Dodgers and Padres were both going to be very good in the NL West, but nobody could have predicted Gabe Kapler's Giants owning the best record on the senior circuit for most of the first half. Given the current standings, this might be the boldest prediction on here. The Halos starting pitching has been abysmal, but even minor improvement there coupled with the return of Trout could help propel this team into the 2nd wild card. First baseman Jared Walsh has developed into a dangerous left-handed power hitter in his own right, and veterans Jose Iglesias and David Fletcher have done a nice job on both sides of the ball.
That's in large part due to the two-way performance of Ohtani who is the runaway favorite to win AL MVP, but the Angels have gotten boosts from other places too. So why would I ever think things might change in the next two and a half months? Well for starters LA has stayed afloat much better than could've been expected when Trout went down with a calf injury in May. Seemingly every year experts fruitlessly pick the Angels to snap their drought, and this team has admittedly been stuck in 4th place in their own division for most of '21. The Halos haven't qualified for the postseason since 2014 and have historically criminally underperformed while employing the best player on the planet in Mike Trout.
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