Why does Billy Beane trade away Jeremy Giambi in Moneyball?
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Is losing fun?
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I thought some of this was real. Didnt know it was all just a movie. Wait, didnt the A's start all of the steroid movement? Maybe not, IDK.
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because the A's love a good comeback story
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The biggest secret to "moneyball": have a rotation built on Hudson, Mulder and Zito...
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@tonythetiger2k16 said in Why does Billy Beane trade away Jeremy Giambi in Moneyball?:
@snakeeyes23_psn said in Why does Billy Beane trade away Jeremy Giambi in Moneyball?:
He was there because It made Jason happy to play with his brother.
They didn't get Jeremy until the next season after Jason left.
Jeremy definitely played with Jason in Oakland from 2000-2001 at least. Jason didn't sign with the Yankees until 2002 so he had a front row seat on the A's dugout steps watching his brother become famous because of Derek Jeter.
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I like how Moneyball made it out like Scott Hatteberg and scrubs won all those game. No mention of MVP Miguel Tejada, Eric Chavez, or the stud rotation of Zito, Hudson, and Mulder.
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He was a tree falling in an empty forest.Only he heard it.
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@smalltownkid1990 said in Why does Billy Beane trade away Jeremy Giambi in Moneyball?:
I like how Moneyball made it out like Scott Hatteberg and scrubs won all those game. No mention of MVP Miguel Tejada, Eric Chavez, or the stud rotation of Zito, Hudson, and Mulder.
Need to read the book, Tejada, Chavez, Zito and Hudson are constantly brought up.
It’s a movie, there has to be creative compromises.
It’s a great movie, but the book is next level greatness.
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@red_ted_is_back said in Why does Billy Beane trade away Jeremy Giambi in Moneyball?:
@smalltownkid1990 said in Why does Billy Beane trade away Jeremy Giambi in Moneyball?:
I like how Moneyball made it out like Scott Hatteberg and scrubs won all those game. No mention of MVP Miguel Tejada, Eric Chavez, or the stud rotation of Zito, Hudson, and Mulder.
Need to read the book, Tejada, Chavez, Zito and Hudson are constantly brought up.
It’s a movie, there has to be creative compromises.
It’s a great movie, but the book is next level greatness.
Yeah I haven’t read the book, I’ve heard great things, though. They weren’t mentioned at all in the movie, however. I’m sure they were just playing up that underdog story. Just think it’s a little funny
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@smalltownkid1990 said in Why does Billy Beane trade away Jeremy Giambi in Moneyball?:
@red_ted_is_back said in Why does Billy Beane trade away Jeremy Giambi in Moneyball?:
@smalltownkid1990 said in Why does Billy Beane trade away Jeremy Giambi in Moneyball?:
I like how Moneyball made it out like Scott Hatteberg and scrubs won all those game. No mention of MVP Miguel Tejada, Eric Chavez, or the stud rotation of Zito, Hudson, and Mulder.
Need to read the book, Tejada, Chavez, Zito and Hudson are constantly brought up.
It’s a movie, there has to be creative compromises.
It’s a great movie, but the book is next level greatness.
Yeah I haven’t read the book, I’ve heard great things, though. They weren’t mentioned at all in the movie, however. I’m sure they were just playing up that underdog story. Just think it’s a little funny
The movie underutilises the Chad Bradford story which is one of the best parts of the book… along with… well, basically every other part of the book. But the movie also includes him superficially and as a result his inclusion is kind of pointless.
But the movie does some things wonderfully. Billy, Pete and Grady are perfect. Paul/Pete’s reminder to Billy that he has changed the game forever without realising it by showing him the Jeremy Brown home run is the book’s epilogue and it is even more perfectly represented in the movie.
Seriously, you gotta read it or even better, listen to the audiobook. The guy who reads it (I got it on Audible) is absolutely perfect at it. All of those players and more (including coaching staff) get their fair share of attention.
Now I want to listen to it again for the 8th time
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