Moneyball

**How can you not be romantic about baseball? ** All things considered this is great; Brad Pitt does a wonderful job and Jonah Hill is also great. But, as a big time baseball fan, this movie is hilarious to me in the fact that the 2002 Athletics, although they did have a very low payroll, had the AL MVP (Miguel Tejada) and the AL Cy Young (Barry Zito). Neither of which are recognized at all in the film outside of broadcasting calls. The movie just kind of acts like two of the best baseball players on the planet weren’t there. The 20-game win streak had Zito, Tim Hudson, and Mark Mulder pitching (basically all three ace level pitchers), but sure, let’s credit the spreadsheets and statistical anomalies. Outside of my weird baseball complaints, this movie is brilliant, very entertaining, and one of my favorites