![]() ![]() He only knows their stats and their salary. He doesn't know if they stand funny or if they swing ugly. He has no experience and he doesn't know these players. But then Beane meets Yale-educated, economics-, mathematics-, and computer-whiz, baseball fan, Peter Brand (Jonah Hill). One guy is no good because he frequents strip clubs too often, another guy is no good because his girlfriend is ugly, and on down the list they go. The humour of "Moneyball" starts in the off-season when the team can't afford to keep their top players and Beane and his experienced scouts start tossing around some free agent ideas. It's 2001 and Oakland has just lost to the New York Yankees in the playoffs, not surprising, seeing as their payroll was 76 Million dollars less. Brad Pitt as Billy Beane, the GM of the Oakland As, seems to take that even further, treating people as if they are only numbers, and yet there was something refreshing and humanistic about the whole thing. It's callousness at its highest when general managers trade away people as if they're objects with little regard for them or their family. ![]() Major League Baseball is not just a game of money, but in "Moneyball" it's a game of numbers versus a game of people. ![]() It has long been said that professional sports are more a game of politics than an actual game. ![]()
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