***SPOILER ALERT--I give away the entire ending PLUS the POSTSCRIPT ***
I had high hopes for this one but it was disappointing. This movie was consists of: talking about stats, talking on the phone, talking to negotiate trading of players, talking about changing the world of baseball and barely any baseball is ever played. Jonah Hill plays a smart aleck Ivy Leaguer who figured out a way to get a bargain rate badass baseball team and Brad Pitt is the General Manager of Oakland Athletics who hires Jonah Hill to help him run his team. The movie starts with Brad Pitt's team losing in the postseason, which is exactly what happens again after investing 2 hrs+ in this movie. Yeah, you heard that right.
In the postscript you learn that Brad Pitt's character turned down what would have been the biggest paycheck any GM had been offered to go to the Boston Red Sox. Boston hired the statistician that actually inspired Jonah Hill's theories, so we are to believe the Red Sox won a few years later using the same ideas. This of course cannot possibly be true because if it's theory alone then Brad Pitt's team would have won and the $$$ offered to Pitt's character proved that the almighty dollar was still very much in play in assembling a winning team. Besides, we all know that the key to winning baseball is steroids and other performance enhancing drugs.
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