Guest Blogger: Micahel K2

In 2001, General Manager Billy Beane's Oakland A's lose to the Yankees in the playoffs then lose their top three all-stars to free agency. Beane’s team is crippled with a low salary cap and can’t afford many good players. Beane hires and listens to Peter Brand, Yale grad who evaluates players using Bill James' statistical approach. Everyone on his staff doesn’t believe this will work including the manager Art Howe. Beane signs a bunch of no names from the free agency list that everyone doesn’t want, but on paper, can get on base and score runs. Howe won't use the players as Beane wants. Can Billy put a playoff team on the field after losing his all-stars? Well find out and watch it. Brad Pitt who plays Billy jeane did a terrific job on this movie for many reasons. I like his performance because he portrays the character on the spot. He was very humble and knew what he was talking about and I just like the guy too. Art Howe who is played by Philip Seymour Hoffman did a great job also because Art had that attitude where he didn’t care and wanted to rebel against Billy. I like his attitude in the movie it portrayed him very well. The theme in this movie is a very important one. The MLB has a lot of holes and managers won’t sign you unless you are the same as everyone else. Kevin Ukaliss from Boston didn’t even get drafted because he walked like a duck. Boston gave him a chance and now he is an all-star in the league. So to conclude this theme the theme is the MLB is very biased. Another theme is, money can’t buy you wins in the MLB. It just buys you players. Money is not everything in the MLB. I agree with the critics 100%. In my overall opinion of this movie is a great movie and it was outstanding. It is definitely worth my money and time because I like baseball and true stories.