Moneyball

Both of these sound awful.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/dodgerthoughts/2009/07/moneyball-movie-is-back-on.html

so now the movie will be LAME

che was so fucken wack. with sorkin on board all they need to do now is ditch soderBOREgh and pitt and that's the movie right there.

Making Moneyball into a movie has got to be one of the worst ideas of all time.

Team 2009 payroll
New York Yankees $201,449,189
New York Mets $149,373,987
Chicago Cubs $134,809,000
Boston Red Sox $121,745,999
Detroit Tigers $115,085,145
Los Angeles Angels $113,709,00
Philadelphia Phillies $113,004,046
Houston Astros $102,996,414
Los Angeles Dodgers $100,414,592
Seattle Mariners $98,904,166
Atlanta Braves $96,726,166
Chicago White Sox $96,068,500
San Francisco Giants $82,616,450
Cleveland Indians $81,579,166
Toronto Blue Jays $80,538,300
Milwaukee Brewers $80,182,502
St. Louis Cardinals $77,605,109
Colorado Rockies $75,201,000
Cincinnati Reds $73,558,500
Arizona Diamondbacks $73,516,666
Kansas City Royals $70,519,333
Texas Rangers $68,178,798
Baltimore Orioles $67,101,666
Minnesota Twins $65,299,266
Tampa Bay Rays $63,313,034
Oakland Athletics $62,310,000
Washington Nationals $60,328,000
Pittsburgh Pirates $48,693,000
San Diego Padres $43,734,200
Florida Marlins $36,834,000

Moneyball II should be about the Marlins.

Astros holy shit. Drayton McLane needs a refund on his money.

imagine how much Dan will hate the A's next year, when they're good again.

shit got heated

I don't want to speak for Dan but you really think the A's are gonna have a good year next year?

Here is how Moneyball fits into the A's decade
Oakland A's win/loss/%/notes
2000 91W-70L .565 ALW Pennant - ALDS loss
2001 102W-60L .630 ALWC - ALDS loss
2002 103W-59L .636 ALW Pennant - ALDS loss
2003 96W-66L .593 ALW Pennant - ALDS loss
*** MONEY BALL PUBLISHED ***
2004 91W-71L .562 2nd in ALW
2005 88W- 74L .543 2nd in ALW
2006 93W-69L .574 ALW Pennant - ALCS loss
2007 76W- 86L .469 3rd in ALW
2008 75W- 86L .466 3rd in ALW
2009 75W-83L .475 4th in ALW

I think they'll have a good year next year, sure.

by good, do you mean better/improved (ie, 80-85 wins?)

or do you mean like, good/contending (90-95 wins?)

just curious... I mean Rajai Davis is their best player right?

they're about 2 or 3 good hitters away from that i'd say

chris carter could be one of them

"or do you mean like, good/contending (90-95 wins?)"

It's entirely possible. They've got a lot of good offensive young talent. Pretty sure the teams immediately prior 1999 weren't much worse than A's were this year and they managed to turn it around pretty quickly.

It's not like their R/RA was that bad this year actually. Their Pythag W/L was about .500.

"Shasta" expects the Marlins to win 102

Drunk posting again Morbs?

tbf, I see a hell of a lot more young talent on the Marlins than I do on the A's.

The A's have had six years of promising young, offensive talent that has been frankly, pretty fucking offensive. What was the last trade that went "right" for the A's? Jack Cust?

Uh the Haren trade still looks pretty good right now. As does the Swisher deal.

"The A's have had six years of promising young, offensive talent that has been frankly, pretty fucking offensive."

It's not been a good run, I'll admit.

When your best homegrown position has been Nick Swisher or Kurt Suzuki you def need a lot of help and the A's haven't gotten it.

"position prospect"

I dunno, Carlos Gonzalez and Andre Ethier are pretty good.

Well technically Carlos Gonzalez was a Diamondbacks homegrown position player (also being good in Colorado or for that matter Los Angeles isn't the same as being good in the AL).

(god i hope the NL wins the WS again)

Me too. Fuck the Yankees/Red Sox/Angels.

http://www.sandiego6.com/entertainment/story/Pitts-Moneyball-back-on/BO51bMaalEWJWFG-rZXSyw.cspx

Will they make Jeremy Brown a black guy who gets raised by an adorable southern white lady who leads him to the major leagues?

Iiiiiii LIKE IT!

I'm reading this right now but it's disappointing knowing how many of these picks turned out to be busts

also, can Michael Lewis ever write a book/article without making a bond trader analogy? ever?

What are you talking about? Barry Bonds was never traded, he was a free agent who... oh.

Sometimes I think Liar's Poker is his best book though dyao...

oh no doubt SS - but after reading that you realize how he sees pretty much everything in terms of his time on Wall Street, all these 'inefficiencies' and his analyses of what stats really mean/refer to/measure... it's hard for me to think of Lewis as anything other than "bond trader analyzes sports"

I should go back and reread Liar's Poker, the first time I just read it for aggro hairy chested men lols (and I need to separate it in my mind from the Rise and Fall of LTCM which I read at roughly the same time)

I'm reading this right now but it's disappointing knowing how many of these picks turned out to be busts.

why you got to do Ricciardi like that?

ha hahaha

So that fat fuck Jonah Hill is playing DePodesta.

this is happening?

hill would have to lose about... oh 250 pounds to accurately play that role?

Because adaptations about market inefficiencies in sports are so popular now. Just look at the Blind Side. Same shit.

who is gonna play jeremy brown's mom?

pretty much the only way I would watch this is if sandra bullock was playing billy beane

actual rofls

http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2010/03/14/jonah-hill-talks-moneyball/

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/blogs/popcornbiz/Seamhead-Rob-Neyer-Says-Jonah-Hill-to-Star-in-Moneyball-86907987.html

"Every guy who is in their twenties and making movies was after that part"

REALLY?

Aziz Ansari as Ron Washington

Jonah Hill as Jeremy Brown

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Friday, October 17, 2008 2:27 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark

Zach Galifianakis as Kevin Youkilis

all the ex-players (Strawberry, Justice, Dykstra) are out of the cast btw

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/11/2010/07/340x_custom_1279833676647_jonahhill.jpg

IS

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T12bXUlFaoU/SFvjk76mwEI/AAAAAAAAAWM/icL6rxXcDo8/s400/Depodesta+Suit.jpg

MONEYBALL: THE MOVIE

The idea that Philip Seymour Hoffman will be playing Art Howe is just as weird.

Also, I gave a woman in my department the day off so she could be an extra in the crowd scenes they shot yesterday.