Pretty good but they missed a ton.

Rating: 7/10 (24 September 2011)

Look I liked this movie, I of course knew everything about the team before going in so I had some insight that most won't, but I have to admit that turning Scott Hatteberg into a first baseman is not what won that team 103 games. They make a big deal about not being able to compete with the Yankees, but this team had the best pitching staff in all of baseball. I mean statically, not just in my opinion. Tim Hudson, Barry Zito and Mark Mulder all pitched over 200 innings with ERA's under 3.50 and this is during the steroids era. In the field they had Miguel Tejada 34 HR 131 RBI MVP winner, and Gold glove winning third baseman Eric Chavez 34 hr 109 RBI. But they try to claim that David Justice is there only star. And he was the one getting the screen time with Jeremy Giambi. They didn't look at why that team won, and who the key components were. They tried to play them off like a second rate team which just wasn't true. They never brought up what that team had to work with. Half way through the movie Brad Pitt trades away Carlos Pena for a pile of beans to make a point to the Manager. This in hindsight is one of the dumbest moves Oakland ever made, Carlos Pena went on to be an all star while Hatteberg stayed mediocre at best. The movie is funny and it shows the casual fan what baseball is about statistically, but they really missed out on some great characters on that team.