I was also referring to the narrative of the movie, since the narrative of the movie fits with the general public's idea of what Moneyball is (OBP! WALKS! DINGERS!) rather than what it actually was (MARKET INEFFICIENCIES!) . That it wasn't just that the Moneyball approach could win games, but win the World Series.

You who doesn't? Paul Holmgren, so excuse me while I go drink some bleach.

See, I always thought the "Billy Beane won" part of Moneyball was at the very end, when it says the Red Sox won the World Series after becoming a team heavily invested in analytics.

It wouldn't shock me either, Lavy works magic... for about a year or two.

Wait, why is "a goalie who last season was one of the best in the game" a feather in the cap for the Avs not to crash and burn, but "who, admittedly, played out of his skin last season while he was healthy, but..." is just one more sign that the Leafs are crap in a way the Avs totally aren't.

Didn't he give up and turn his sword off in the movie?

It'll be even more interesting to see how common, non-rich people still fall for the trap that is "it's moral that we give more and more money to the owners because we cannot side with rich athletes playing 'a game'." Even when the game is making more money we'll still somehow see an argument that players deserve even…

Great, I remember back in the day we had respectable players who would simply fake handing the ball off to the ref after scoring. How can I raise my children in this godforsaken environment now?!

I know unlimited subs and whatnot go against the spirit of soccer and all, but at what point can we just all go, "You know what? Goalkeepers are a completely different situation, just let them come in and out if they nearly get decapitated."

She really is the best Deschanel sister.

I don't know what happened, but the placements of those logos suggest that Buffalo is about to knock that Jayhawk the fuck out.

I'm going to put this here and assume it will never be read, but I'll never understand why "competitive SSMB" automatically means items have to be turned off. As an analogy, claiming SSMB can only be taken "seriously" as a competitive fighting game once items are turned off is to say you can only have serious…

It was easy for him to find. It's on the city flag of St. Louis.

Are you sure you're at the right website to be annoyed by that?

It doesn't look like he grabs it so much as lets the mic stand fall into his hand and from years of performing he would know where a mic stand is in relation to himself. As for how he knew it fell, dunno, may have made a thump that wasn't registered in the audio that made it to the youtube clip. I mean, it did hit…

Well, that could just easily be worked out before the game:

Uh... in your big picture, you've literally just argued that "One NFL coach who hates dealing with the media during press conferences" is tantamount to "One NFL Player knocked his wife out in an elevator," "One NFL Player just beat his kid with a switch," or "One NFL owner was caught driving around while carrying/on…

It's a press conference, you can call it lacking professionalism. I call it, "treating the bullshit like the bullshit it is". As an example, I loathe John Tortorella potentially more than you loathe Belichick, but I loved it when he acted like a schmuck to the media. It's the media, FUCK THEM. We're talking about the…

I literally cannot understand this argument. I've spent about twenty minutes trying to reply, and I cannot grasp the idea that someone gives a shit about answers at a press conference.

As a Pats fan, I can tell you, in all honesty, he could go 0-16 for ten straight years, and I still wouldn't care about him answering press conference questions that way. Granted, I'd be wondering why he wasn't fired, but those answers are ALWAYS fantastic. I wish every coach answered questions the way he does, press…