MLB: Don’t Spend Your Money on Moneyball

Since I have two degrees in statistics, I was looking forward to seeing the movie "Moneyball" this weekend. I was disappointed.

"Moneyball" is a movie about Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland Athletics, a small-market team trying to compete against teams with total payrolls more than twice his budget.

Beane hired a recent economics graduate from Yale, Peter Brand, to help him use analytical methods to select the players the team might acquire. Much to the dismay of the Athletics' scouting staff, Beane chose to listen more to Brand than to the experienced scouts.

There were several funny scenes:...

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