Posts Tagged ‘moneyball’
Southern California Suckers Gloat About Josh Hamilton…For Now
Jeff PrinceLos Angeles Times readers are feeling pretty good about themselves today, crowing about Josh Hamilton snubbing the Texas Rangers and taking his freak show to the Left Coast. Three out of four Times readers said they thought the...
The Best Movie Dialogue of 2011
Kristian LinI’ve done this before, and it’s rapidly becoming my favorite blog post of the year: I’ve compiled this list sampling the best dialogue I heard in the past year’s movies. I had access to the published shootin...
Moneyball: A’s for Effort
This baseball movie for brainiacs is unflashy and productive.KRISTIAN LIN
The Oakland A’s are currently a distant third in the American League West behind Anaheim and our own Texas Rangers. Though they made the playoffs several times in the early ’00s, the team never won a World Series and has be...
Ron Washington Is in “Moneyball”!
Kristian LinI didn’t have room in my review of Moneyball to include this tidbit, but the Rangers’ current manager turns up as a character in the movie. Washington was a coach on the A’s staff during the time period covere...