I really liked this movie!

Rating: Null/10 (27 September 2011)

I use to watch baseball! I liked watching baseball, but became tired of watching the Yankees winning over and over again. The Jays etc became feeder teams for the richer teams. "Moneyball" addresses the free agency issue of how does a poor team compete with the Yankees.
After the A's lose to the Yankees, Pitt's character Billy Beane asks how can the A's compete. The part of the movie I like is Billy keeps asking why? The scouts have no answers. Billy knows, as a manager, he needs to recruit players a different way. Billy needs to replace three top players, and runs across this accounting type guy from the Cleveland Indians and implements money ball. A great theory. One recruits less quality players, which cost less to pay, who get on base often, and score. The team might have more errors, and their mistakes will cause runs. These same players will create more even greater amount of runs and win the game.
The best part of the movie is with such a radical idea, Billy faces much opposition from the establishment. People in control hate new ideas. People get fired, they trade players,(my favorite part) Billy trades and demotes a huge chunk of the team to force the coach to play his players and system. The movie shows Billy as a maverick, a 3 D thinker, straight shooter, tests people, who loves the game. Loves it so much that he stays in Oakland, which show Billy's character. The movie was a joy to watch.