Moneyball (2011) - He Gets On Base Scene (3/10) | Movieclips

[@chrisc.4144]

The acting in this movie was incredible. Not just Brad and Jonah but almost everyone. So many little realistic mannerisms and subtle things going on. I was completely immersed while watching this film.

[@AllUpOns]

Yep, great acting out of those old baseball scouts. 100% believable.

[@jaymartini]

I haven't watched this movie but this scene makes me feel like I know these people from real life.

[@Whoopdido777]

I loved Philip Seymour Hoffman in this movie. He was great in basically every movie he was in, but I loved him as the cranky old manger in this movie, whether the portrayal was actuate or not, he was still great.

[@Whoopdido777]

@MANCHESTER UNITED So, what’s your point? This thread is about the acting in the movie, not about baseball being the best sport.

[@wvu05]

Maybe it was his pretty boy persona before this, but this was the first movie where I realized just how great an actor Brad Pitt really is.

[@iorekby]

Scouts: "Billy, he used to play lead guitar but then jumped in to the rhythm section when they were shorthanded, why do you like him? Billy: "Because he gets on bass"

[@GC-yw1mn]

Nice

[@westinmcclister1507]

Outstanding

[@MrCorgitalks]

This is stellar

[@mikehill1114]

Greatest Moneyball joke I have yet heard

[@hd-xc2lz]

You win!

[@Gabeghouls]

“Scott Hatteberg.” “Who??” “Exactly, sounds like an Oakland A already.”

[@doom-driveneap4569]

LMFAOOOOO ! 😂😂😂

[@stevea2085]

"Star-Lord." "Who?!?" "Star-Lord, man. Legendary outlaw."

[@flightofthebumblebee9529]

Hatte is actually a good man with a wonderful family. Some baseball museum wanted him to donate his bat from the infamous homer and he refused he wanted to keep it. 😂. Awesome

[@sovo1212]

Eminem vibes there.

[@Thesoutherndandee]

As an Oakland As fan this is a true statement

[@matthinkel7823]

“Recreate him in the aggregate” “The what?” Gets me every time

[@ryancalhoun2910]

The one that always gets me is "Scott Hatteberg." "Who?" "Exactly. He sounds like an Oakland A already."

[@ryanwarner5006]

Shows you how dumb some of these jocks are. Barely qualify as human.

[@K3end0]

@@ryanwarner5006 James what the heck are you talking about?

[@eadams1057]

My favorite is Whos Fabio? The other guy hes a shortstop.

[@otterinbham9641]

"He has an ugly girlfriend. That means he has no confidence." We quote that line all the time.

[@snivithefox]

But does he get on base? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@ryanwarner5006]

@@swimboatdeepaxe so the teams that didn't make the playoffs? What did they do? Not choke.

[@matthewsawczyn6592]

2:11 It's a small moment, but this is top notch cinematography and directing. Choosing to focus on the scout's reaction instead of your star Brad Pitt's delivery of the line is not the first thing most would think to do, but it really immerses us in the scene. I feel like I'm in that room

[@counciousstream]

Best scene in the film. It captures in one scene the entire essence of the story. Perfectly written, perfectly directed and perfectly cut. A perfect example of the "film makers art"

[@enzov9772]

On another video of this same scene, a commenter mentioned that the camera work was done as if it was actually a real recording of a strategy session and I thought that was a perfect analysis of the cinematography here. The quick camera pans to the person who is talking, the out-of-focus shots really immerses you into the scene

[@jamesentertainment9030]

"Billy, he murdered over hundreds of people and he just lost both of his legs in prison..." "But he gets on base."

[@cisium1184]

@MANCHESTER UNITED You're a ManU fan. What would you know about soccer?

[@benw1656]

@MANCHESTER UNITED and I still don't care about soccer

[@mikehill1114]

@MANCHESTER UNITED I would say it's more like the biggest and most important flop show on earth. Buncha wussies crying if somebody brushes by them, falling down, and flopping around worse than a fish out of water.

[@bengaltiger96]

Look at your charts or I’m gonna point at Pete.

[@crd311]

"Murdered over hundreds of people"... wouldn't that mean thousands?

[@luisgabrielcaetanodiniz3251]

"Billy he's Barry Bonds WITHOUT a bat, we can't hire him" "He gets on base"

[@GalinDray]

Shoutout SB Nation

[@nabii5951]

@@GalinDray Somebody knows what's up.

[@007Hutchings]

lol SB Nation very nice my man :)

[@eriklakeland3857]

He doesn’t need a bat. Fear is his bat.

[@smeagolplaysgames4517]

@@eriklakeland3857 Let's take his bat away. *Cue Saxophone*

[@Paraaronoid]

"Look at him, that's my Quant Pete...That's my math specialist, Yeah, I'm sure of the numbers"...Oops, wrong Michael Lewis movie.

[@Creech786]

Paraaronoid “His name is Yang. He won a national math competition in China. He doesn’t even speak English.”

[@CigarKingDom]

ROCK BOTTOM FICO SCORES

[@prashantjeevendrakumarloni3303]

You fell a big short of the actual video dude

[@Creech786]

Willam Joo “They call me chicken little. They call me bubble boy.”

[@ChristopherWalkenPUA]

"That's a nice shirt, do they make it for men?"

[@danielplainview926]

RIP Jeremy Giambi. Condolences to his family.

[@alexandrebertrand-lafleur3114]

When he is dead?

[@danielplainview926]

@@alexandrebertrand-lafleur3114 2 months ago. Just look him up on YT. I believe he took his own life. Sad indeed.

[@flightofthebumblebee9529]

I agree. It was so sad what I read. If you ever know people struggling please reach out and keep reaching out. You never know the pain and sadness someone could be in. Nobody should ever have to suffer in silence.

[@TerrillFischer]

One thing they overlook in the movie is pitching the A's had that year. Their team ERA was 3.68. They had a killer rotation with Hudon, Mulder and Zito. You'll win a lot of games with that kind of ERA.

[@eyesofnight]

But did they get on base?

[@TimeofQwerty]

pretty sure ERA isnt the only thing tho for pitchers

[@starfox6439]

@@swimboatdeepaxe I don't think you get the point. The Oakland A's were the first team to use analytics and statistics in sports. There had already been other teams in other sports that used odds but no one ever dared to take it to the point where Billy Beane did. The NBA went from dominating the paint to becoming a 3-point shooting game. The NFL became a league of QBs and of throwing the football. They changed the game forever, not just the MLB, the entire World of Sports.

[@swirlingtoilets]

They had a great starting rotation, AND had Miguel Tejada and Eric Chavez under team control, but you can't win a game with just five players. Also, some of their guys in arbitration were making very close to the maximum, pushing the A's budget to their limit. Tejada and Chavez were both approaching the end of arbitration, and thier salaries were appropriately big given their output. The whole point of the analytic strategy is try and find diamonds in the rough; decent roleplayers who will over-perform compared to what the market says they're worth. Hatteberg was in the top 5 for WAR and OPS+ for the A's that year, which is a steal given how cheap he was. If the A's had just thrown whoever at 1B and RF, there's a chance they don't win the division. The Angels had 99 wins that year and the Mariners had 116 the year prior; the A's needed every ounce of output from their players to win in 2002.

[@panner11]

​@@starfox6439the movie didn't give a good representation of how stats analysis impacts sports though. The movie sorta gave the impression that stats analysis is better than scouting or the eye test, when it's more about how stats enhances scouting, and in this case how it can be used to stretch a budget. Of course, hollywood dramatizes things so it is what is. And the paint still dominates the nba game. Points in the paint have gone up a lot since the early 2000s. The spacing of threes actually allows players to dominate the paint more than before. It's the midrange that died in the modern era due to the stat revolution. Both the paint and 3s increased.

[@aison4014]

"Billy, he's doesn't exist. He's just an auto generated MLB The Show character in road to the show, why do you like him?" "On base percentage is all we're looking at."

[@praokon]

"""U gotta carry the 1""" hahahaha i died laughing at this scene

[@NJGuy1973]

I was like "Yo, there's a new invention, it's called a calculator, look into it."

[@HajiStaxGaming]

It shows how in the past most of these baseball minds had become

[@1994mrmysteryman]

It's so cute how he corrects him.

[@budders9958]

Long division lol

[@hellasleepypal]

That guy knows how to do written math better than many of us

[@Bobaklives]

The lead scout is a solid actor, surprised I haven't seen him featured in more movies.

[@JasonPerryman]

Yeah that guy was brilliant. I wondered who he was, woudn't be surprised if he was a real baseball guy and not an actor, as he fits the part so well - though he's brilliant in dramatic delivery and moments for sure.

[@rdg760jr2]

He Was in Major League 2 As an Umpire When The Whole Indians Team Were Fighting Each Other and He Ejected All Of Them

[@pathfinder018]

0:25.... wtf was that, he wasn’t even sipping the cup....

[@ericgraham6310]

@@pathfinder018 hes spitting out sunflower seeds.

[@EquinoxEP]

Ethan Paul Cataritas He was spitting into it.

[@slater-san]

Brad Pitt spitting out that marker cap is some of the best acting of the 2010s.

[@BitcoinMotorist]

He puts something in his mouth almost every scene he's in

[@slater-san]

@@BitcoinMotorist It's not as obvious as feasting Brad Pitt in the Ocean's series, but it still works.

[@alexandravalerious3274]

eat-acting

[@scotts148]

“He’s a defensive liability...his legs are gone.” You’re in the American League. They have this position called designated hitter where the guy only hits and doesn’t have to play defense. Maybe try him there?

[@RockoSDMF]

True but he still played half the season in the outfield.

[@thejesusaurus6573]

seriously though abolish the DH

[@flanigans1029]

@@thejesusaurus6573 they are doing the opposite lol. They don’t want pitchers getting hurt and they want more hitting

[@ryancalhoun2910]

@@RockoSDMF His fielding. Does not matter.

[@TKDFam]

@@thejesusaurus6573 OH HELL NO

[@govindkrishnan6839]

"Billy he doesn't ever get on base" Billy: "but he gets on base"

[@Death-jl1cv]

Never had a girlfriend..... But I get on base.

[@luisperez4297]

Death danm right

[@tycardwell2991]

@@619GuitarSteve r/whoooosh

[@iorekby]

Scouts: "Billy, he used to play lead guitar but then jumped in to the rhythm section when they were shorthanded, why do you like him? Billy: "Because he gets on bass"

[@TehFelis]

billy welcomes you to the team

[@DannyJ-zi6ib]

Billy would love to have you

[@yomomma2054]

Billy: All the scouts: Babe Ruth!?!? He’s dead!?!? Why Billy? Billy: Pete: Because he gets on base.

[@Crazyjedi2]

Jesus Christ Jason Giambi’s obp was almost fricken .500! Basically every other time he stepped up to bat he ended up on base that’s incredible.

[@rbrinks5]

Ichiro winning the MVP over Giambi in 2001 was a travesty

[@razkable]

@@rbrinks5 giambi could not steal field or play first base

[@tytipton6346]

“Does Pete really need to be here?” Ouch - meetings hurt

[@oni5909]

yeah but i love how brad defends him

[@Scorch428]

Yes, because Pete gets on base.

[@hansgrueber8169]

@@Scorch428 and Pete cleans out entire bakeries.

[@Jamthecoolerator]

He was the second-most important guy in that room.

[@jamesd5241]

is that a chess reference to the great ben finegold?

[@RobertWF42]

"Bob Jenkins." "Billy. Bob Jenkins?! He's 70 years old, missing an arm, and is blind. Why do you like him?" "Because he gets on base."

[@MichaelKingVids]

RobertWF42 lmao

[@razkable]

obviously they were trying to replace stars but imagine a team of just guys who hit like 255 but can get on base but cant play defense or move on the bases worth a damn ...your team would still suck lol

[@MichaelKingVids]

I like what the oldest man in the room says The one with the green jacket These guys work hard But Billy and the kid were willing to take a big risk against major criticism within THAT’S the stuff of legend.

[@warilban]

@@razkable True true, but like the owner said, it's about making the most out of what you got.Brad Pitt's character got a B score with C+ players on a F- paygrade

[@uppymcdowny58]

"Steven Gurcos." "Steven Gurcos? Billy, he died 10 years ago, he was addicted to heroin, and he supported Adolf Hitler.... why the hell would we want him?" "Because he gets on base."

[@smitchix1]

The comedic element of this movie is grossly underrated. Really really brilliant stuff.

[@matthewmccallion3311]

"Honus Wagner. Cap Anson. Mordecai "Three-Finger" Brown." "Billy, all those players have retired and passed on. In fact, your right fielder has been dead for 130 years." "But they get on base."

[@Me-gf1pp]

Simpsons

[@BrianRetro]

I wonder if anyone ever tried to freeze frame the board showing all the players and zoom in to the right fielder just to find out who it was that had been dead for 130 years. I'm sure it was some joke and just some random member of the writing team. Maybe it's actually Matt Groening.

[@NJGuy1973]

@@BrianRetro No, it was a real guy named Jim Creighton. He played during the amateur era and died in 1862. And someone actually did a simulation of how the nine old-time players would have done against Strawberry, Mattingly, Boggs, et al.

[@JakeJonRoberts]

"Barry Bonds is refusing to hold a bat!" Jon Bois: "Yeah, but he gets on base."

[@tobiasvallely1261]

This made my week

[@timothyernest6429]

Because he is a vain glorious, serial lying, sleazy , narcissistic, illrgal steroids/ peds and illegal hgh taking scumbag!

[@vinhduong1469]

That chemistry from Brad and Jonah.... they really need to do another flick together.

[@totallybored5526]

Or reboot Bosom Buddies

[@counciousstream]

Jonah Hill is not a good actor imo but as Peter Brandt he nails it. It's hard to think of another actor who could have played this so well.

[@frostedhams]

@@counciousstreamwhat about wolf of wall street. If you didn’t like the character that’s fine but he sold his role. Very good actor.

[@jackkitchen737]

"It's right, Artie. You gotta carry the 1." LMAO

[@UltraAporia]

Justice went on to have a .376 OBP that season with a total, and respectable, 111 OPS+

[@NJGuy1973]

Justice played LF or DH that year. The A's got a .346 OBP out of 1B and it would have been higher if Peña had been traded sooner.

[@paulcolburn3855]

The outstanding players have a high OBP for their career. If the legs are gone as is the bat speed, you simply have to be more disciplined at the plate. Justice was that, lots of walks.

[@razkable]

justice was still a stud in 99 I would say..he just sucked with the yankees and had some injuries in 00-02

[@thomasscherrer8393]

All for half the salary...I tell you, these guys were geniuses.

[@evanhaskel206]

And according to Lewis’ book, Hatteberg was a greater threat than this portrayed him mainly because of his control of the strike zone.

[@tjtaylor5273]

“ you gottahhh carry the 1 ” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@RainbowManification]

“He used slave labor in his factories and may have had complicit knowledge of the holocaust.” “We’re only looking at how good he is at shooting rockets into space.” Americans during Operation Paperclip

[@philoubertjeanlouis4682]

lol got to beat the Soviets at ANY cost

[@calvin5541]

They guys who built rockets and the guys in the SS were totally different people. Go back to school idiot

[@baxakk7374]

"He used slave labor in his factories, why do you like him?" "Because he gets into space".

[@JB-uv4hm]

@@calvin5541 your ged is showing.

[@tizocvelasco3520]

This is gold. I laughed so hard.

[@larrytipton2868]

I remember my grandpa telling me about on base percentage when i was like 9. He knew his baseball.

[@10INTM]

"Billy, he's an imposter, I saw him vent." "But he got on base."

[@MarkH10]

"Does he need to be here?" "No, he does not! As soon as the meeting's over, he's gonna leave!"

[@taekwondotime]

This clip reminds me of an article I read recently about hitters who continue to hit into the shift and make for easy outs. The batter in the article was quoted as saying something along the lines of: "I hit the ball hard, and that's what counts, so I did my job". This movie scene and the "get on base" thing perfectly reflects my thoughts on this issue. Your job as a hitter isn't to hit the ball hard into a swarm of outfielders where they can make easy outs. Your job as a hitter is to hit green. If that means a single the opposite way, you do it. If that means a walk, you take one. Hitters today have lost the concept of getting on base and "manufacturing" runs. Everyone just swings for the fences so it's either a home run or a strike out, and most of the time (as the stats indicate) hitters are striking out in record numbers today.

[@theccpisaparasite8813]

It's not so easy to not hit into the shift. Your timing is what it is. Ted Illiams e en had problems with it. His solution, heavier bat ... .388 for a 38 year old. I'd say it worked, for him.

[@burningcole2538]

And here we are, where the league has gotten so tired of people not hitting to get on base that they literally banned the shift

[@justinbel68]

First I was taken back and surprised at Seth Rogen’s amazing and dramatic performance as Woz in Steve Jobs and now another comedic actor, Jonah Hill, is doing the same and amazing thing. God I love when an actor/actress break typecasting or just a comedic actor doing a dramatic role.

[@andrewgalea5012]

Jonah hill is probably the most underrated actor in Hollywood. Very talented and massive range of roles.

[@kegginstructure]

@Justin Bel - I have seen many interviews where dramatic actors HATE stepping into comedy because they don't have the necessary timing. But the comedic actors have no trouble stepping into a drama, hitting the timing of any lines - because to be funny, it is all ABOUT timing. Take a hard look at Leslie Nielsen of "The Naked Gun" series and as the doctor in "Airplane." But folks don't recall that he played many dramatic leads early in his career. E.g. "Forbidden Planet" in the 1950s. Having said that, I agree with you. Jonah Hill played that character perfectly well. I doubt you could have found anyone better.

[@JasonPerryman]

@etru6 Yep to that.

[@trequor]

I've never seen a poor Jonah Hill performance. He is great at comedy (Superbad), great at drama (Moneyball), and best when he works with both at the same time (Wolf of Wall Street)

[@weplayatnight3913]

@@trequor damn straight

[@davidmoore535]

Jonah Hill was brilliant in that movie!!

[@LEMMYKISGOD]

Yep.

[@iwanegerstrom4564]

Everyone was

[@trequor]

He's an amazing actor. With a pretty decent range as well

[@Backhand77]

Brilliant? You were memorized by Hill's performance? In rapture?

[@josephhanratty]

His wolf of Wall Street performance was his best imo

[@paddymack3224]

Fun fact: the Yankees traded David Justice to the Mets, the A’s acquired him a week later.

[@_GandalfTheGrey_]

This is a great example of how many committees, organizations, groups, what have you, become political in an attempt to find purpose among like minded people and in so doing, lose sight of what the original purpose of the group was. It also highlights how complacency precludes innovation…not just precludes, but fights against it. Great film. Great story.

[@timothyernest6429]

I tingle all of over the place every time I watch this scene and that line is spoken, " Because he gets on base. " When I was a kid playing farm and little league baseball, we were taught by our sage manager this : " A walk is as good as a hit." Still so very true. So very true .

[@NatTurnerswitBurnerz]

At best, a walk is as good as a single with the bases empty. Even with the bases loaded, a walk can only get you one run. So, no. It isn't.

[@Biscuitchris7again]

"This guy here is dead." "Cross him off, then."

[@janellemaynait]

Wrong movie and he gets on base

[@CHUCKBALLERSTIMEPRICEDNFT2024]

lol

[@dancharnas6374]

@@janellemaynait Exactly!

[@terrancethomas9792]

@@MrUAPaul, Lou Brown is the shortstop in Seattle. He and Fabio are battling each for the job. Give Fabio the edge. Lou’s got a heart thing.

[@TeamBob]

What the hell kinda league you been playin’ in? California Penal

[@athenian9795]

"He gets on base." "Who?!" "I don't know! But He gets on base." "...."

[@michaeltracy9932]

Idk why but I really like how Billy takes the cap off with his teeth instead of his hands at 1:31, its such a weird minor detail

[@redpillfreedom6692]

"Billy he has arthritis and was just declared legally blind. Why do you want him?" "Because he gets on base."

[@Alex-AJ1105]

Just looked like there were cameras in a real team meeting. The acting was incredible simply for the fact that it felt so real and casual.

[@ChairmanMeow1]

For a movie about baseball numbers, it sure did have amazing acting and cinematography.

[@chrisstarrett3546]

“Billy he’s a fictional Looney Tunes character. He doesn’t even exist.” 👈🏻 “He gets on base.”

[@turtlesallthewaydown8831]

"I'm telling you, you can put him on any position! One second he's hitting the ball the next he's catching it! This Bugs Bunny guy is amazing! I've never seen anything like it! He'll play for carrots, I tell ya!"

[@johnstjohn1987]

"Starlord. He is a Space outlaw, a Guardian of the Galaxy, gets with women across the Universe, but he gets on base."

[@bullshark3771]

johnstjohn1987 best part is that he was in this movie as Scott hatteberg lol

[@johnstjohn1987]

@@bullshark3771 🤣

[@bullshark3771]

johnstjohn1987 I didn’t know that myself till like six months ago

[@bullshark3771]

Gmoney3nt I know

[@shanemcnelis2667]

I do wish that they straightened out the facts presented of this story a little better. Jeremy Giambi wasn't acquired in the 2001-2002 offseason. The A's had him since 2000. Also, I just learned that he passed, so RIP Jeremy.

[@danlincoln8987]

This is one of the great underrated sports movies in my opinion

[@LeviBulger]

"Billy, he's still a virgin. Hasn't even gotten past copping a feel" But is he a kissless virgin? "No, but...." Welp, then he gets on base.

[@codyeble0713]

Not allowed to steal second tho...

[@charleswillis614]

"There's reports about him on the weed" hahahaha that's funny to think an old dude saying "on the weed" in a GM room.

[@summonliiva5673]

@Will Joo *Ditto*

[@yekaneast]

"Billy, he's been dead for 20 years, he literally can't play baseball why do you want him?" "Because he gets on base"

[@notsauer]

I love how these get gradually more ridiculous as I scroll down through the comments.

[@unknownunknowns]

not Sauer But the important part is these comments get on base....

[@DASCO2136]

He’s been dead for 20 years? Cross him off then. Oh wait, wrong baseball movie

[@KingdaToro]

"Billy, he stole the Infinity Stones and wiped out half of all life in the universe!" "But he gets on base."

[@kurthaberle4698]

Love the subtle mannerisms in this scene. Billy pulling the cap off the marker with his mouth and spitting it out. Billy simply pointing at Pete the second time waiting for the expected line of "he gets on base."

[@freedomring3022]

"Number 2 - David Justice" "oh no"

[@Linkous12]

As someone who grew up watching the Braves that part hurt a little bit. lol

[@dante040]

It's funny that this movie kind of dismisses scouts and talks about the saber metrics but the main reality of why the a's were successful in this stretch was because of their pitching. Hudson, Zito, Muellder. Movie tends to gloss over it was that 3 headed monster not walks that led the 8th be successful

[@Parafasio]

For a movie with statistics background, there is a fundamental mistake in calculating the average OBP of the three players who’ve left the A’s (Giambi and the other two whose names I can’t recall). It’s not just adding them all up and dividing by three. That would presuppose that all three players had the same number of at bats. You need to calculate from scratch: add up all the at bats to get your denominator, and add up all the on-base situations (hits, BB, or whatever other form) to get your numerator.

[@JohnDobak]

Boo this man!

[@Alexander_the_Greatest]

booooooooooo

[@wolverinefangowings]

"Billy, he's just making up ridiculous parody quotes to get likes on KZbin." "But he gets on base."

[@Imperialspy]

2:17 Idk why “Old Man Justice” makes me laugh every time

[@Il_Exile_lI]

This is a good movie, but it ignores a lot of inconvenient facts about that Oakland team that don't fit the moneyball narrative. Like the fact that they had the MVP in Miguel Tejada and 3 Aces that had Cy Young caliber season with one of them winning the award. Those guys had nothing to do with the moneyball approach. Yeah, Beane did a great job filling out the roster with players that were undervalued by the rest of the league, but they were still carried by legit star players.

[@kennybenestad6999]

Il Exile lI ive always thought the same thing. Solid sports film regardless

[@travisdunlap4526]

Ultimately though it still revealed tremendous flaws in the traditional scouting and player evaluation methods that teams had used for years. That's what made it such a big event.

[@smccabe2012]

"we'd be lucky to get 60 games out of him" little did we know 😳

[@razkable]

@@swimboatdeepaxe ok but justice was a big name in 1993-1998 hell even 1999 so when he said 10 years ago justice was a big name i laughed...2000 is when he started to be over the hil...so he was not past his prime in the mid 90's dude...that scout is nuts....

[@CAVlogs121]

Brad Pitt is such a ridiculously good actor. He owns this scene.

[@CincinnatiNick25]

"You gotta carry the one" lmfao

[@yaakw]

All the scouts’ boards are straight lines and Billy just throws his picks up there on his new board. Nice touch!

[@flightofthebumblebee9529]

Moneyball took some dramatic liberties but overall it was indeed a true story and I consider it one of the best sports films ever made along with Blue Chips and Warrior (both starring Nick Nolte)

[@mrmacross]

@Ulysses432 IMO, if you're going to use historical figures, you have a little more obligation to the actual history. What they did to Art Howe is tantamount to slander. Again, this is just my opinion, but if you're going to make fiction, don't obfuscate reality.

[@mrmacross]

@Ulysses432 Appreciate your thoughtful remarks, too. I'll just consider the movie something like Cameron's Titanic: good movie with a historical backdrop, but don't watch it for the facts because too many important facts are glossed over or ignored altogether.

[@mrmacross]

@Ulysses432 I guess Rudy would be the better comparison. It's a movie I mostly enjoyed, but it's not something I'd describe as accurate.

[@flightofthebumblebee9529]

@@mrmacross I agree many dramatic liberties are always taken but I think this film is awesome and the A's 20 game streak was more memorable than winning the world series.

[@Ben-bb7mi]

The flaw with this system is that power matters. It completely ignores the importance of slugging%. A walk is not as good as a hit. If a runner is on 2nd, most singles score him from there while a walk just puts 2 runners on and doesn't advance the guy on 2nd. If a runner is on 1st, sure a walk advances him, but with a single you have a good chance of getting him to 3rd for runners at the corners. That's why Billy Beane's teams that do make the playoffs go nowhere there. Walks are a product of bad pitching and teams you face in the playoffs tend to not issue them as generously.

[@dumevision4573]

This scene reminds me of a modernized version of “12 angry men”

[@mikegeiler2347]

Jeremy Giambi sounds like a pretty fun guy

[@django7762]

Mike Geiler ha ha heh huh hah ha haaaaa

[@draftfilms3772]

On Base Man gets paid

[@terrancethomas9792]

Dances on top of a tablet with his belt loose after a team loss. Wonder how he dances in Philly.

[@Twister051]

"When I point at you, yeah." LOL!.....

[@griergentry8777]

What’s sad is I remember my friends and I building teams this Exact Same Way in the early 80s when we’d play Stat-o-Matic Baseball.

[@no-bozos]

"That's Pete."

[@sidtom2741]

“You gotta carry the one” 😂😂👏🏽

[@Sneakycastro69]

Grady’s face when Billie said none of them lol. He’s thinking like damn all the hard work scouting players and he ends up saying no to all , that sucks they did all that for nothing.

[@IVIagicful]

I really don't get how people are so hyped up on these mediocre performances. Has nobody watched any movies of real quality?

[@rebecca4680]

@@IVIagicful . No one's saying they've got the best performance ever in the history of cinema, ffs. People are appreciating the little things they did right. Even mediocre performances have 1 or 2 good moments that we can appreciate.

[@RangerCaptain11A]

not for nothing . . . that was 30 players that were eliminated.

[@jimmccormick6091]

I know this is a movie, but, THIS is the definition of “change”

[@leos1023]

Scouts: He's a 55 year old diabetic schizophrenic heroin addict. Billy: He gets on base...

[@johnnyt3392]

"Why do you watch so many KZbin videos? I don't understand." "Because KZbin gets on base."

[@kxmode]

In A.D. 2019 Baseball Season was beginning. "What happen? Somebody set up us the bomb. We get signal. What! Main screen turn on. It's you!! How are you gentlemen?" "All your base are belong to us."

[@AllenHanPR]

But Billy. He had an affair with your wife and literally destroyed your marriage. Why do you like him? Because he gets on base.

[@pittland44]

Billy, he went on a seven state killing spree and is wanted for over 23 murders, why do you want him? Because he gets on base.

[@seattleite6631]

Past second base. Clearly.

[@もさかど]

"Billy, why did you marry her?." "Because she gets on base."

[@Latinofire202]

This is the type of baseball I like. Not the homerun numbers. Not the power display. Those players that always find a way to get on base. Just get on base and you have a chance to score.

[@flightofthebumblebee9529]

Their theory actually did work. Undisputedly. Get the bases loaded with no outs and then get runners in scoring position.

[@StormX6]

I just imagine James Gunn acting like this when planning The Suicide Squad. Gunn: “For my next pick, Polka Dot Man” DC Exec: “James, he’s one of the silliest villains DC has ever made, why do you like him?” Gunn: “He gets on base”

[@halla1548]

This is a great example of a terrible management style. Introduce a new person to an established group, give no explanation and then talk down to everyone in the room with a vague new concept. Hollywood always does this.

[@ghersic8161]

You'd be surprised how often the majority of the team slows things down to the effective halt that warranted the hiring of the new, more talented individual in the first place. That inertia and ineptitude combined with entitled seniority has to be counteracted firmly in many instances where it's otherwise just "open to new friends ideas" on the face of it. Sometimes you need to simply rip off the bandaid and give the wound some air.

[@ghersic8161]

Though they demonstrated later in the movie that they overdid the "math-only approach" without explaining it enough to the players. They then corrected this by explaining to each player how to play to their unique statistical strengths and turned the season around completely. So I'm not sure what you're complaining about exactly - they corrected what was Brad Pitt's over-correction mid-film.

[@emperorreign6154]

‘Billy, he doesn’t even exist...’ ‘He doesn’t exist, there’s no such person, but he gets on base’

[@MickLoud999]

Jeremy was already on the A's at this point. He was the guy who forgot to slide on the Jeter "flip" play the year before. Jeremy and Jason were team mates for 2 years prior to this scene.

[@crowleybond4778]

Even if he had, they prolly would've still called him out. If past umping decisions that have been blatantly towards the Yankees in the playoffs in the past are anything to go by. Jeffery Maier HR anyone? Where the kid literally reached into the outfielder's glove to catch the ball? Unfortunately, the umps rolled nat one's on their perception rolls.

[@terrancethomas9792]

Scouts: But Billy he has no chance with Grace. She’s a 10. Her last boyfriend was Brad Pitt. Billy: We can’t replace Brad Pitt. But we can recreate him. Scouts: come on. Billy: He gets on Grace.

[@terrancethomas9792]

If a player hits 180 hits with 600 at bats, that’s .300. If he gets an extra 100 walks, that’s equivalent to .400.

[@blekkster]

Hey, just stopping by on my 10th viewing to thank you for putting this up 👌

[@christophermartin8143]

Lol all I see is a room full of 10 people making 6 figure salaries, doing the job of 2 or 3 people. Half of them don’t have anything to add, outside of shuffling papers, and groaning at someone else’s ideas. I get that its a movie, but it’s a mirror image of any big corporation in America.

[@-Muhammad_Ali-]

That black actor next to Jonah plays it outstandingly. His reaction, curious look and kinda amusement says it all. The next awesome acting was done by that super ambitious and at the same time super irritated scouting manager :) I laughed when he is like "who is that"

[@GregoryTheGr8ster]

"Because he gets on base" This should be the meme of the decade, possibly capable of surpassing "In Soviet Russia..." jokes! It is underappreciated.

[@theevilascotcompany9255]

Let's combine them: In Soviet Russia, base gets on you!

[@DPMusicStudio]

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[@bargdaffy1535]

"Does Pete need to be here?" "Yes he does, he is my Quant" 🤣

[@thomaschristopherwhite9043]

Brad Pitt sitting there with all these normal looking people like it's normal

[@BoloBouncer]

"I told you, we lost Crotchety Old Man. We can't replace him but I believe we can get a roomful of men that can equal his crotchetiness."

[@MrSirFluffy]

"Next, is Airbud" "But he is a dog Billie... It's not feasible, why?" 👉 "He gets on base" 👍

[@Nick_Barone]

Such a frustrating scene but so good too. I’m sure every institution has these old bats that just can’t see through their own smoke. Too stuck in their old ways

[@goldwaterproductions]

Brad Pitt is one of the most underrated actors of all time. Yeah his talents are talked about but it’s always overshadowed by his relationship drama and the fact that he’s gorgeous.

[@renee6524]

Agreed. I think each decade his acting gets better.

[@LumpyAdams]

You need to learn what underrated means bud.

[@MontyQueues]

it means that people dont put him in the same category as like joaquin phoenix or de niro@@LumpyAdams

[@psychothof]

The issues with Justice that Grady bought up were disproved that year. He played in 118 games, had a respectable BA of .266 and his OBP was .376 and every player from that team said Justice was a great leader.

[@andrzejkondracki9796]

"What we might do is try to recreate his value in aggregate" "The what?...." LOL

[@drg8687]

Gotta carry the one!

[@thisishandlenumber2048]

aggregate: a whole formed by the combination of many separate units or items Basically, instead of finding one player who could recreate Giambi's offense Billy wanted to find 3 players who together would total the offense they lost when Giambi left.

[@flightofthebumblebee9529]

RIP Jeremy Giambi. If you know someone struggling please reach out to them. Nobody should ever feel suicide is the only option. I really mean that.

[@jkarnes7529]

129 people can't get on base.

[@Telruin]

I like the little "Oh... I'm important" look.