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Paul DePodesta On Clubhouse Confidential (Video)
Paul DePodesta was on MLB Network's Clubhouse Confidential with Brian Kenny this evening, which is great. What's not so great is that there was hardly any new ground covered. Kenny asked a lot about how DePodesta got into the baseball business — he played baseball and football at Harvard and his...
The Billy Beane I Know: The Man Behind the Moneyball Myth
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Oakland A's GM Billy Beane, Post-Moneyball, Visits Athletics Nation Part III
Yesterday you had part 2 of AN's exclusive interview with Billy Beane. Wednesday you had part 1. Today the interview with Beane concludes. I want to thank Billy for sitting down and chatting with me for such a long period of time the Monday after Moneyball was released. I hope you really enjoyed it...
Oakland A's GM Billy Beane, Post-Moneyball, Visits Athletics Nation - Part II
Yesterday was the first part of the Billy Beane exclusive for Athletics Nation. Today you get part 2 where Billy delves into Moneyball, the minor league system and where he actually was for that mammoth 20th consecutive win. Remember the conclusion hits Friday morning. <!--[if gte mso...
The REAL Moneyball player (and how I would've adapted the book to the big screen)
Moneyball premiers today and I'm really really wanting it to be good. Like I desperately want it to be good. Because here's the thing. If it's good, then people will realize that the book is about the people in the front office and not so much their tactics. Sun Tzu is popularly misquoted as...
Poll: Are You Going To See Moneyball?
At press time, Moneyball has a 94% rating on film review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes. This means 94% of 128 available reviews have been positive, which is a notably high mark. For comparison, The King's Speech holds a 95% rating and Michael Lewis's other book-turned-film, The Blind Side, is...
Historic Underappreciated Mets
It’s Moneyball Week at Amazin’ Avenue, Sports Illustrated, the MLB Network and your local movie theater. Michael Lewis’s celebration of baseball innovation is back in the news eight years after its publication. And with it comes renewed discussion of what the book is about. It is...
How the Rockies Helped Make Moneyball
A week from today, Moneyball will debut in theaters. When the specifics of the movie were initially released, it was met with near unanimous eye rolls. I mean, Brad Pitt as Billy Beane? Jonah Hill as Paul DePodesta a character modeled after Paul DePodesta named Peter Brand. And how can a book like...
The San Diego Padres and the REAL Moneyball Players
Moneyball, the movie, is coming out soon. Though it reads like science fiction, and contrary to popular belief, the movie and the book were both based on events that actually happened. Anybody who says that Moneyball is about the players on the field, a particular type of approach to at-bats, or...
Moneyball Movie Madness: A Cincinnati/Reds angle
It was touch-and-go there for a while, but the film adaptation of Michael Lewis' critically-acclaimed book, Moneyball, was green-lit, in the "can" and is now the pic is set to bow on September 23. I've been waiting a long time to pepper a post with Variety slanguage, so I'm glad they didn't ankle...
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