Do you think they’ll ever make a movie about a big market team that has the money to spend but still sucks? We could call it something fictitious like, “The Mets.
Jon Stewart, pitching to Brad Pitt the idea of a “reverse Moneyball” movie.
Best picture nominees.
I’ve seen four: The Descendants, Moneyball, Midnight in Paris and The Help. I liked them all a lot, but Descendants has to be my favorite of the four. Planning to see Extremely Loud and The Artist before the awards. I have no interest in Tree of Life or War Horse, and I’m on the fence about seeing Hugo.
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I thought it was going to suck. When they told me they were making it I thought they were insane. I thought I was going to have to go high.
Michael Lewis, reflecting on the Daily Show about hearing that his book Moneyball was being made into a movie.
In Billy Beane’s mind, pitchers were nothing like high-performance sports cars, or thoroughbred racehorses, or any other metaphor that implied a cool, inbuilt superiority. They were more like writers. Like writers, pitchers initiated action, and set the tone for their games. They had all sorts of ways of achieving their effects and they needed to be judged by those effects, rather than by their outward appearance, or their technique. To place a premium on velocity for its own sake was like placing a premium on a big vocabulary for its own sake. To say all pitchers should pitch like Nolan Ryan was as absurd as insisting that all writers should write like John Updike.
Michael Lewis, Moneyball
