02-06-2009, 04:11 PM
<!--quoteo(post=16465:date=Feb 6 2009, 02:35 PM:name=KBwsb)-->QUOTE (KBwsb @ Feb 6 2009, 02:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->The book Moneyball itself is a highly <i>dramatized</i> account of the day-to-day operations of a baseball GM. It's totally factual, but it highlights the juicy stuff, like all good dramatic material.
A movie would likely do the same.
As a film subject, Beane is an interesting guy; a genuinely gifted athlete who <i>failed</i> at playing baseball, then made a Phoenix-like rise through an intellectual pursuit (in the same field).
He's also handsome, charismatic, boisterous, bullish, and inspires both adoration and intense jealousy, even hatred...there's a reason they're making a movie about the guy, and that Brad Pitt is going to play him.
As for Dirk's laughable, juvenile, absurd quote, I'll just let it sit there and gather scorn...it's a "logic fail" question that has been blasted to smithereens so many times on the internet that I'll just let Butch's post answer it here.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I accused you of raping a book and my pointing out that Beane's teams never go far into the playoffs was the laughable and juvenile part?
A movie would likely do the same.
As a film subject, Beane is an interesting guy; a genuinely gifted athlete who <i>failed</i> at playing baseball, then made a Phoenix-like rise through an intellectual pursuit (in the same field).
He's also handsome, charismatic, boisterous, bullish, and inspires both adoration and intense jealousy, even hatred...there's a reason they're making a movie about the guy, and that Brad Pitt is going to play him.
As for Dirk's laughable, juvenile, absurd quote, I'll just let it sit there and gather scorn...it's a "logic fail" question that has been blasted to smithereens so many times on the internet that I'll just let Butch's post answer it here.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I accused you of raping a book and my pointing out that Beane's teams never go far into the playoffs was the laughable and juvenile part?