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Moneyball” strikes again. In the six years since the book was published and became a massive bestseller its title has been the most loaded word in baseball the mere mention of which could start bar-room brawls or at least heated late-night arguments with plenty of red-faced shouting and banging of beer bottles.
If you think I’m exaggerating ask any of the baseball scouts who went from honored symbols of baseball wisdom fodder for some of Roger Angell’s most finely wrought portraiture to allegedly outmoded relics made redundant by Sabermetrics and data crunching.
“Moneyball” has been exalted in some circles with a reverence both cloying and embarrassing and blamed by others for everything from the Steroid Era to the demise of old-school narrative-driven baseball storytelling in favor of trendy – and shallow – number-fetishizing Now it has apparently morphed into a bizarre doomed movie project one that we’re assured is in limbo probably indefinitely all because of “script problems ” the movie equivalent of a politician stepping down and citing “family reasons.” Watch Moneyball Movie Online
They’ve got to be kidding. Steven Soderbergh and Brad Pitt ought to team up and do whatever it takes to get this thing back on track again and then they ought to go out and make a great baseball movie. Sadly making great baseball movies seems to have become nearly an impossibility with callow recession-panicked film executives apparently wanting to keep right on dumbing down Hollywood fare until we have nothing left but loud action movies with wooden acting (coming soon to a theater near you: “The Return of the Governator: He’s Baaack!”) or fizzy-cute romantic comedies that can safely be exported to Asia and Europe. (And yes Sony may have shot itself in the foot by throwing “Moneyball: The Movie” into some sort of turnaround but apparently they have what’s being dubbed as a “romantic baseball comedy” in the works Owen Wilson hard at it again this time with Reese Witherspoon.)
General manager Billy Beane introduces Jason Giambi on Jan. 7. The A’s guru – and former Oakland manager Art Howe (below) – were to be key players in “Moneyball: The Movie.”General manager Billy Beane .introduces Jason Giambi on Jan. 7.The thing people seem to forget about “Moneyball ” the original Michael Lewis book was how much it left out. That of course was its brilliance. It’s just like high-level product branding: The more you leave out the more you can let people fill in the blanks themselves. To View The Full HD : free movies online for free
Moneyball” strikes again. In the six years since the book was published and became a massive bestseller its title has been the most loaded word in baseball the mere mention of which could start bar-room brawls or at least heated late-night arguments with plenty of red-faced shouting and banging of beer bottles.
If you think I’m exaggerating ask any of the baseball scouts who went from honored symbols of baseball wisdom fodder for some of Roger Angell’s most finely wrought portraiture to allegedly outmoded relics made redundant by Sabermetrics and data crunching.
“Moneyball” has been exalted in some circles with a reverence both cloying and embarrassing and blamed by others for everything from the Steroid Era to the demise of old-school narrative-driven baseball storytelling in favor of trendy – and shallow – number-fetishizing Now it has apparently morphed into a bizarre doomed movie project one that we’re assured is in limbo probably indefinitely all because of “script problems ” the movie equivalent of a politician stepping down and citing “family reasons.” Watch Moneyball Movie Online
They’ve got to be kidding. Steven Soderbergh and Brad Pitt ought to team up and do whatever it takes to get this thing back on track again and then they ought to go out and make a great baseball movie. Sadly making great baseball movies seems to have become nearly an impossibility with callow recession-panicked film executives apparently wanting to keep right on dumbing down Hollywood fare until we have nothing left but loud action movies with wooden acting (coming soon to a theater near you: “The Return of the Governator: He’s Baaack!”) or fizzy-cute romantic comedies that can safely be exported to Asia and Europe. (And yes Sony may have shot itself in the foot by throwing “Moneyball: The Movie” into some sort of turnaround but apparently they have what’s being dubbed as a “romantic baseball comedy” in the works Owen Wilson hard at it again this time with Reese Witherspoon.)
General manager Billy Beane introduces Jason Giambi on Jan. 7. The A’s guru – and former Oakland manager Art Howe (below) – were to be key players in “Moneyball: The Movie.”General manager Billy Beane .introduces Jason Giambi on Jan. 7.The thing people seem to forget about “Moneyball ” the original Michael Lewis book was how much it left out. That of course was its brilliance. It’s just like high-level product branding: The more you leave out the more you can let people fill in the blanks themselves. To View The Full HD : free movies online for free
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