Mile Hi - New Things

I didn't have time to post last night, therefore I'm posting this a day late as this occurred yesterday (Fri 7/6/12). We watched a movie entitled Moneyball with Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Robin Wright, that came out on September 23, 2011. It is a biographical sports drama film that is based on Michael Lewis 's 2003 book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game , an account of the Oakland Athletics baseball team's 2002 season and their general manager Billy Beane 's (would-be baseball superstar) attempts to assemble a competitive team. Heading into the 2002 season, Beane faces a situation where his small-market Oakland A's have lost their 3 star players to big market clubs (and their enormous salaries) and is left to rebuild his team and compete with a 3rd of their payroll. Beane takes on the system by challenging the fundamental tenants of the game. He looks outside of baseball, to the dismissed theories of Bill James, and hires P...