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Paul DePodesta On Clubhouse Confidential (Video)
Paul DePodesta was on MLB Network's Clubhouse Confidential with Brian Kenny this evening, which is great. What's not so great is that there was hardly any new ground covered. Kenny asked a lot about how DePodesta got into the baseball business — he played baseball and football at Harvard and his...
Poll: Are You Going To See Moneyball?
At press time, Moneyball has a 94% rating on film review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes. This means 94% of 128 available reviews have been positive, which is a notably high mark. For comparison, The King's Speech holds a 95% rating and Michael Lewis's other book-turned-film, The Blind Side, is...
Historic Underappreciated Mets
It’s Moneyball Week at Amazin’ Avenue, Sports Illustrated, the MLB Network and your local movie theater. Michael Lewis’s celebration of baseball innovation is back in the news eight years after its publication. And with it comes renewed discussion of what the book is about. It is...
Amazin' Avenue Book Club: Moneyball, Chapter Ten
This is the tale of Chadwick Lee Bradford. Here is "Chapter Ten: Anatomy Of An Undervalued Pitcher". Y'all remember side-arming, knuckle-scraping, former Met Bradford: Bradford's journey from 13th round White Sox draft pick to A's relief ace is recounted. He is taught in high school to drop his...
Amazin' Avenue Book Club: Moneyball, Chapter Nine
Old friends Steve Phillips and Omar Minaya play a role in "Chapter Nine: The Trading Desk". Much of the chapter is devoted to Billy Beane's quest to improve the A's at the 2002 trade deadline. Interactions with other GMs like Phillips, Minaya (then with the Expos), Brian Sabean and Mark Shapiro are...
Amazin' Avenue Book Club: Moneyball, Chapter Eight
A chapter a night is the plan this week. The tale of Scott Hatteberg is told in "Chapter Eight: Scott Hatteberg, Pickin' Machine". The former big league first baseman/catcher receives fourth billing in the Moneyball movie and is played by Chris Pratt of Parks And Recreation fame. This is one of...
Amazin' Avenue Book Club: Moneyball, Chapter Seven
After a brief hiatus, the AA Book Club is back to continue its discussion of Moneyball. And just in time for the release of the film adaptation later this week! In case you missed it, here are the first six chapter discussions: Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter...
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