DePodesta not excited about 'Moneyball' Movie

by jbox on Oct 22, 2008 11:06 PM PDT

Word that the book 'Moneyball' will be made into a movie did not draw an excited response from Padres executive Paul DePodesta, who is prominent in the book. “I have no real interest in it becoming a movie,” said DePodesta, who was an assistant to A's General Manager Billy Beane when author Michael Lewis researched and wrote “Moneyball”.

I'm not a big fan of Science Fiction movies so I'll probably pass on this one. Though it would be cool if DePodesta played himself in the movie. According to the article DePo once acted as a rookie cop in Homicide. Who knew?

Brad Pitt is reportedly set to star in the movie. I might have to see it now just to witness the love scene between Pitt and a bunch of stats. If the movie is true to Billy Beane's novel, that scene should be filthy, look for an NC-17 rating.

I can imagine DePodesta leaving the screening early like Pee-Wee Herman (7:44) in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure. Alderson asks him "Don't you want to see the rest of the movie?"

"I don't need to see it... I lived it."

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The star of the book wasn’t necessarily Billy Beane, Paul DePodesta, Bill James or Voros McCracken, but DePodesta’s computer, that could make for an interesting movie.

Imagine an old Commodore with loud and dated-looking dot-matrix printer attached to it being wheeled around by Billy Beane who should be played by this guy:

(the douchey brother from Step Brothers)

…and all throughout the movie, Beane would be overreacting to various situations after bitching about money, and then the computer would wheez and whirr, and then the printer would churn out a sheet of paper to 80s hair music, and the sheets would say stuff like “DRAFT JEREMY BROWN.” or “CALL SCOTT HATTEBERG.” And then with express written consent from Major League Baseball, they could show highlights and clips of the 2001 and 2002 A’s winning baseball games.

Imagine that – displacing no less than three human elements from the book with one inanimate object, and calling it DePodesta’s computer. I’d pay to see that.

No wonder nobody likes you, Tuttle... everything's a (Pujols) damn debate.

by royhobbs on Oct 23, 2008 6:04 AM PDT reply actions