Shakefire writes, "When it comes to baseball, typically the men with the biggest pockets can simply buy the best teams. I mean, just look at the New York Yankees. It’s no coincidence that they lead the league in both revenue and World Series titles. This means that small, cheaper teams like the Oakland Athletics have little chance of rising to the top when they can’t afford to pay for the best of the best.
Based on the 2003 book by the same name, Moneyball attempts to defy all standards when it comes to putting together a baseball team by only looking at statistics of players, rather than other factors that are often considered important."
Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to assemble a baseball team on a lean budget by employing computer-generated analysis to acquire new players.
You might not be able to hear his seven words on TV (at least not on a network anyway), but soon you’ll be able to hear them in a movie. Moneyball scribe Stan Chervin has been brought on to write a George Carlin biopic, which will be produced by his former manager Jerry Hamza and …
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Brad Pitt Reveals Strategy For Winning an Oscar on 'The Daily Show' (Video)The "Moneyball" star, up for best actor at this year's Academy Awards, impresses Jon Stewart with his unconventional idea to beat rival nominees George Clooney, Jean Dujardin, Gary Oldman and Demian Bichir.
This is a very funny video but then Jon Stewart is always funny and Brad Pitt can be too. His comments on how to win the Oscar at the end are not bad at all....not gonna happen, but not bad.
