Moneyball: Baseball Truth or Hollywood Fiction?

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  @BaseballsNotDead · 4 years ago · pinned

  A couple corrections I caught after making the video. &nbsp;First, Chad Bradford did join the team in 2001 and not 2002, so, similar to Giambi, that&apos;s another player the movie mis-characterized as a &quot;new addition.&quot; &nbsp;However, the book did focus on him some and why the A&apos;s acquired him, so not completely out of place. &nbsp;<br><br>Secondly. I did overlook that the book does describe Beane as a more involved GM in the clubhouse, but I&apos;ll still say the movie way overstates that.

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  @patrickkanas3874 · 3 years ago

  The reason Hatteberg was a main focus in the movie is because he hit the walk-off homer to win the 20 straight game. In order for the monent to have extra weight, they needed the audience to be invested in him

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  @commonsense2156 · 3 years ago

  &quot;who is Fabio, he&apos;s a shortstop for the Mariners&quot; is the funniest line in this movie 🤣

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  @moedanglez · 2 years ago

  “What about the fans?” <br>“Yeah, maybe we could teach one of them”<br><br>This is the best line in the movie

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  @thawkereynolds · 4 years ago

  Yea team depth is incredibly important BUT ignoring the A’s BIG3 starting pitchers is ridiculous

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  @randallwong7196 · 3 years ago

  In the book, Lewis writes a symbolic thought that the ownership is cheap enough to use vending machines for soda, where the players have to pay for it. &nbsp;This &apos;becomes&apos; a real thing for a scene in the movie.

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• AC

  @accuradreams · 2 years ago

  I&apos;m from Argentina. I&apos;ve never seen a Baseball game in my life. Baseball is probably the hardest sport to relate being a football (soccer) fan. But I really loved this movie, and somehow, it felt like for a couple of hours, I could experience and understand the magic and soul of this sport.

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  @thebeauchinator · 1 year ago

  It turns out that a story of &quot;there were a bunch of really good players on the team in 2002 that were already under contract and everyone was already on board with everything&quot; isn&apos;t anywhere near as exciting haha.

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  @andrewadmire3104 · 3 years ago

  The worst thing about moneyball is ignoring the fact of how great they were at drafting talent. Sure the players they picked up were good but the kids they drafted were the difference makers.

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  @ducknorris233 · 3 years ago (edited)

  The way they treated Art Howe and some of the omitted players reminds me of the movie Friday Night Lights at the end it states that the next year the team actually won the championship. Can you imagine having been on a championship winning team back in high school only to find out a movie is being made about your old team but it’s about the year before you won.

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  @tedtuckerAU · 3 years ago

  As an Australian college student studying economics, reading Moneyball was what really got me into Baseball, so I credit it with that. I appreciate a sports movie that centres on decisions made at a management level, instead of on the field.

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  @6thwilbury2331 · 2 years ago

  Not only was Carlos Pena traded while in the minors, he was in the on deck circle when he found out. I was the official scorer of that game. We watched as he grabbed his stuff, then the umpire called timeout so he could run to the clubhouse (access to which is in left field). None of us knew why this was happening at the time, but the Sacramento Bee beat writer got on the horn to his A&apos;s counterpart and learned of Pena&apos;s trade to Detroit.

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