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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Billy Beane spent 80% of that movie being wrong about pretty much every word out of his mouth.
Carlos Pena was a much better 1b and overall player than Scott Hatteberg. Chad Bradford had no business facing lefthanders and when you look at the people Beane actually drafted with his '**** body types' nonsense, almost all of them sucked pretty badly. I tried to explain to my wife that 3 years later Carlos Pena had a season on par with Albert !@#$ing Pujols and got MVP votes, not to mention a gold glove. But only after Beane dumped him for nothing just so Art Howe would play a 32 year old first baseman with no ceiling. She suddenly couldn't figure out why we were supposed to be impressed by Billy Beane.
God I hated that !@#$ing movie. 2 hours and not a single mention of Hudson, Zito, Mulder, Tejada or Chavez - the 5 best players on that team by a lot. Hell, Lidle was as important to that squad as any of the d-bags they wanted to talk about. Instead I'm supposed to act like ****ing Terrance Long and Ricardo Rincon made all the difference and Billy Koch throwing 100 goddamn miles an hour was just there for the ride.
**** Billy Beane in his face; overrated hack who knows he'd fail if he went to a big market team and didn't have the excuses to fall back on. The guy hasn't been shit for 10 years and wasn't really all that great at his apex.
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I don't disagree with any of that. Not to mention, even in the movie, it was Jonah Hill's character doing all the work, not Billy Beane.
Just thought it was funny about ****ing the prom queen. I doubt Tom Brady's skinny awkward ass was ****ing the prom queen, but he is now.
I don't give two shits if he looks like a goofy ****. I've definitely seen goofier looking ****ers. He has a live arm, a good head on his shoulders and a good work ethic. I would have more of a problem with someone who sounds like an idiot than someone who looks like one. I'm kinda hoping we take Mahomes or Webb.