Moneyball

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.

hahahaha FP was begging to get in on the filming.

Maybe he could help with the steroid scenes.

Former Giant Royce Clayton is playing Miguel Tejada, and onetime Oakland pitcher Jason Windsor is playing John Mabry, Iserson said. He said the former minor-leaguers playing Barry Zito and Tim Hudson look especially like the real thing.

"It's funny to see the Coliseum without all the tarps again, and with the old ads on the walls," Iserson said. "It's movie time in Oakland."

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/29/SP7F1EL74K.DTL#ixzz0vBS0o6Vn

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/29/SP7F1EL74K.DTL

DePo rebukes character portrayal (aka fattye), asks for character to be pulled from film:
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AmbGitzWdEuSP.p23sCtt5kRvLYF?slug=ti-depodestamoneyball080510

see Neyer link today about Scott Hatteberg portrayal

actually, Hill is now playing a 'fictional' character (Peter Brand).

Philip Seymour Hoffman is playing Art Howe! I guess the movie'sd clubhouse spread is bigger than the Athletics'.

http://www.firstshowing.net/2010/08/04/first-look-philip-seymour-hoffman-as-art-howe-in-moneyball/

Is that "Miguel Tejada" (Royce Clayton) to PSH's extreme left?

Barry Newman would have made a good Ken Macha.

http://i.imgur.com/s7R4o.jpg

philip seymour hoffman as earl weaver?