"Moneyball" put on hold.

[techs]

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/bl...-can-fi?urn=mlb,171748

Can anyone spare $50 million so Brad Pitt can film 'Moneyball'?

Hours before they were to start filming "Moneyball," Hollywood big shots hit the "pause" button.

Director Steven Soderbergh and star Brad Pitt were to give Michael Lewis' best seller about the building of Billy Beane's Oakland Athletics empire the silver screen treatment, until a Sony Pictures exec got hold of the most recent script revision.

Green light? Red light.


I'm one of the biggest Billy Beane fans around.
He should go in the Hall of Fame as GM.

But...who the hell thought this was a good book to make into a movie?
Apparently Brad Pitt did.

 

[BeauJangles]

That movie would suck so much. Basically, it's Paul DePodesta and Billy Beane staring at excel spreadsheets and running a MySQL database. Exciting! Then we'd get the exciting scenes where Beane refuses to watch the game and instead get the score broadcast to him while he works out. Then would they do a conclusion where we realize that all those guys that were so hyped in the book turned out to be, by and large, busts? Not to mention that it would be weird to see actors playing guys like David Justice, Jason Giambi, etc etc.

Beane does and did a lot for the game of baseball, but Moneyball is way too much of a dick sucking.

 

[techs]

Originally posted by: BeauJangles
That movie would suck so much. Basically, it's Paul DePodesta and Billy Beane staring at excel spreadsheets and running a MySQL database. Exciting! Then we'd get the exciting scenes where Beane refuses to watch the game and instead get the score broadcast to him while he works out. Then would they do a conclusion where we realize that all those guys that were so hyped in the book turned out to be, by and large, busts? Not to mention that it would be weird to see actors playing guys like David Justice, Jason Giambi, etc etc.

Beane does and did a lot for the game of baseball, but Moneyball is way too much of a dick sucking.

Well, Beane really got it right on Youklis, the Greek God of Walks (i laughed when I found out he was Jewish)
And he was also right on Swisher when you realize how few draftees actually make it to the majors.
Plus that underhanded pitcher guy has had a pretty good career.

In fact, I think Beane is a victim of his own success. Most other teams now use his derivatives approach to players. Beane has squat to spend, but Boston shows how well it works.

 

[ric1287]

yeah, look at all the championships Beane has won!!!! He's a god of GM's

 

[BeauJangles]

Originally posted by: techs

Originally posted by: BeauJangles
That movie would suck so much. Basically, it's Paul DePodesta and Billy Beane staring at excel spreadsheets and running a MySQL database. Exciting! Then we'd get the exciting scenes where Beane refuses to watch the game and instead get the score broadcast to him while he works out. Then would they do a conclusion where we realize that all those guys that were so hyped in the book turned out to be, by and large, busts? Not to mention that it would be weird to see actors playing guys like David Justice, Jason Giambi, etc etc.

Beane does and did a lot for the game of baseball, but Moneyball is way too much of a dick sucking.

Well, Beane really got it right on Youklis, the Greek God of Walks (i laughed when I found out he was Jewish)
And he was also right on Swisher when you realize how few draftees actually make it to the majors.
Plus that underhanded pitcher guy has had a pretty good career.

In fact, I think Beane is a victim of his own success. Most other teams now use his derivatives approach to players. Beane has squat to spend, but Boston shows how well it works.

Okay, he loved Kevin Youkilis, but so did the Red Sox. Yes, he was sorta right on Swisher, but until this season Swisher has been disproportionately famous for his talent, solely because he's featured in Moneyball. A lot of the guys that we think of when we think of the Oakland As from 1999 - now were either drafted against Beane's wishes or there when he took over. He has had a great knack for finding quality pitchers over and over again and he's done an astoundingly good job of fielding competitive teams on a shoestring budget.

So he's definitely a top 5 GM in baseball. No argument. He's also not nearly as awesome or amazing as Moneyball portrays him.

Regardless, my point still stands about a Moneyball movie -- nobody wants to watch a 1.5 hour math lecture and stare a spreadsheets.

 

[BeauJangles]

Originally posted by: ric1287
yeah, look at all the championships Beane has won!!!! He's a god of GM's

:roll:

Because it's really his fault that Oakland choked in the playoffs year after year. Give Beane a team with money to spend around the year 2000 and he'd have won or contended in every year since then. He's a top 5 GM, no doubt.

 

[Pollock]

I liked Moneyball, but I couldn't see it becoming a film.