Moneyball

[skizzerflake]

Anybody see Moneyball? We did tonight and I am in the middle on it. For one thing, I have an attitude about coaches, who I think generally are ignorant blowhards. For another, I never went along with the idea that somehow baseball is a metaphor for all that is good and right about America. I thought I was being cynical until, about 10 minutes before the end, Brad Pitt's character says...."baseball is a metaphor".... Oh well.

Brad was pretty good and Jonah Hill didn't do himself any harm in a role that was quite and geeky (he didn't do ANY jackass stuff), but I thought there was too much dead air and staring off into the distance. The movie went on too long. Besides, a movie about statistics? In baseball? Really? I guess the next logical step is a movie about tearing down a Buick transmission, which after all, could be a metaphor for rebuilding the economy of America.

 

[96cobra10101]

Anybody see Moneyball? We did tonight and I am in the middle on it. For one thing, I have an attitude about coaches, who I think generally are ignorant blowhards. For another, I never went along with the idea that somehow baseball is a metaphor for all that is good and right about America. I thought I was being cynical until, about 10 minutes before the end, Brad Pitt's character says...."baseball is a metaphor".... Oh well.

Brad was pretty good and Jonah Hill didn't do himself any harm in a role that was quite and geeky (he didn't do ANY jackass stuff), but I thought there was too much dead air and staring off into the distance. The movie went on too long. Besides, a movie about statistics? In baseball? Really? I guess the next logical step is a movie about tearing down a Buick transmission, which after all, could be a metaphor for rebuilding the economy of America.

I am guessing you're not a fan of baseball? And why do you think coaches are ignorant blowhards? Theres only about 26 of them at any given time, who most of, if not all were ball players themselves, and given their experience and insight of the game that we as spectators never see makes them the least ignorant of anyone. If you want to get a better perspective of the game, atleast better entertainment than a satistical movie, go rent "The Natural" or "Bull Durham".

 

[skizzerflake]

I am guessing you're not a fan of baseball? And why do you think coaches are ignorant blowhards? Theres only about 26 of them at any given time, who most of, if not all were ball players themselves, and given their experience and insight of the game that we as spectators never see makes them the least ignorant of anyone. If you want to get a better perspective of the game, atleast better entertainment than a satistical movie, go rent "The Natural" or "Bull Durham".

Actually I like baseball, especially live in Camden Yards, but I don't see it as having any fundamental virtue. It's a business, no better or worse than selling sofas or lawyers staking out ERs or whatever, but not a model of virtue. I've seen The Natural and Bull Durham, as well as the Costner flick that was played in a cornfield and old movies like Pride of the Yankees....same reaction.

My reaction to coaches came from being lied to by so many of them.."sex will make you weak", "drinking soda is like eating lye" etc. This movie was only middling in its reverence to coaches (especially since the actual coach was largely silent and the scouts were a**holes), but that's a touchy issue for me.

 

[Alex2507]

"sex will make you weak"

At the very least it will make walking uncomfortable.