Moneyball

“some of his books have even become some of our favorite movies such as the blind side moneyball and the big short”

“Some of his books have even become some of our favorite movies, such as The Blind Side, Moneyball, and The Big Short.”

“Uh, The Moneyball, you talked about what Billy Beane was doing up in the Oakland Athletics and then you talked about—it through the lens of a guy who was kind of a renegade, who was amongst GMs an outlier, if you will, because he approached the game differently.”

“And then every time I get your newest book, I always go, 'Wow, how surprising!','So, so, the two examples you mentioned, I love you so, Moneyball.”

“when I wrote Moneyball I wasn't thinking this is an example of something much larger than itself”

“so by the time I sat down wrote Moneyball I had a beat on the thing and it was a total pleasure to write”

“I mean, Moneyball took seven years between the time they bought it.”

“And what's funny is I said that to each of the directors and the writers who have taken the projects on: John Lee Hancock with The Blind Side, Bennett Miller with Moneyball, Adam McKay with The Big Short.”

“yes uh I'd written a book called Moneyball which was about the never heard of it never heard of it uh you know who Brad Pit is”

“Um his other best known work is probably Moneyball, which is a about a baseball team manager who uses what's called Saber Metrics...”

“He's got people to care about Moneyball. The most in the most boring ass thing I've ever heard about in my life.”

“his other best known work is probably Moneyball which is a about a baseball team manager who uses what's called saber metrics”

“there's no other way you get people to give a [ __ ] about Moneyball”

“books like Moneyball which was about the way the Oakland A's managed to function on a a shoestring budget in Major League Baseball”

“the undoing project began to germinate more than a decade ago Lewis had just published Moneyball the heart of the story was that markets can really pretty dramatically Mis value and misjudge people”

“if you need some Michael Lewis before then you might want to listen to an episode we made with him last year on the 20th anniversary of his book Moneyball that's episode number 523”

“this book is called Moneyball it too was turned into a good movie”

“we're going to break down the entire film Moneyball which of course is based on the hit book by Michael Lewis from 2003 Moneyball the art of winning an unfair game”

“we all know the story of moneyball in baseball that created a revolution where people were finding under-appreciated players or looking at statistics that made you think differently about certain players”

“I think those who saw moneyball I think a bunch of people have seen it because Netflix decided to put it in their catalog and shove it down everyone's throats over the last month um but great movie”

“And by the way, I remember reading Moneyball. That was 2003. The great Michael when that book came out. The great Michael Lewis. Absolutely. The great Michael Lewis. I've read all his books. These guys have never read a book in their lives. And I read I read that book. My ears work. They read book reviews though, I'm sure.”

“And by the way, I remember reading Moneyball. That was 2003. The great Michael Lewis when that book came out. The great Michael Lewis. Absolutely. The great Michael Lewis.”

“the uh moneyball you you told it you know you you talked about what billy bean was doing up in the oakland athletics and then you talked told it through the lens of a guy who was a kind of a renegade who was amongst gm's an outlier if you will because he approached the game differently”

“actually this is an argument in Michael Lewis's uh Moneyball he's like Billy Bean was just not good enough at baseball that he had to really figure out the game of baseball”

“actually this is an argument in michael lewis's moneyball he's like billy bean was just not good enough at baseball that he had to really figure out the game of baseball”

“so in Moneyball they they showed the war between the the old but seat-of-the-pants Scouts and the new quants is that happening in the NBA”

“I think we all know the Moneyball story which was just a great insight into the use of data to help frame up an organization also what's a big part of that story is the culture of that organization was ready to act on that data”

“He wrote Moneyball, which is the book that we'll be talking about, which I'll get to in a second. And he wrote The Blind Side”

“So he Lewis has written two of the most famous books ever written about sports, right? He wrote Moneyball, which is the book that we're going to be talking about, which I'll get to in a second.”

“I'm sure I'd heard of him; I read Michael Lewis's book Moneyball, but I think he was the executive right who sort of first had the idea that if you actually calculate statistics and you aren't biased by just picking the person who looks like they'd be a good baseball player because they're so tall and good-looking, look like Robert”

“he reads a book called Moneyball which we all know of the Michael Lewis book about the Oakland A's in almost what seems like an instant decided I really need to be in sports analytics and I mentioned that a lot of the stories we found have this intentionality so that book just like the Seinfeld the last laugh did”

“when I began doing this I hadn't read Moneyball I didn't know that”

“what is Moneyball so Money Ball was a assessment of the MLB done by a guy that was picked up by the Oakland A's and he was using very advanced mathematics”

“When the famous book was written, Moneyball, that book was written at a time that many people didn't realize that these mathematical models were being used and the Oakland A's had a big advantage in it.”

“So I'm going to use a baseball analogy from the book Moneyball. You can either bat for like on base percentage and I want to swing to get a safe trip to first base and that's actually easier than trying to hit a home run, but if what you want is the home run, you got to swing hard and”

“Oh dude, Moneyball. First of all, the really hard film to make from that book is a great book and you I remember thinking like they'll never do it.”

“Moneyball was such a trip cuz like my I remember my dad was a fan of that book and he's like, "How are they going to make this Michael Lewis?"”

“And you had a very interesting interview the other day with Michael Lewis, famed author, author of Moneyball and Blind Side and Liars Poker.”

“but then i read moneyball and i was like this is awesome this is like so interesting right”

“And instead of trying to band this, and we're spending so much time with this, just go watch the movie "Moneyball," and he hacks, this guy named Billy being and get all the data and we'll realize, you thought home runs were important, no one cares, home runs is not how you go to the top on base percentage.”

“But I'm trying to remember what baseball maybe it's Moneyball where they go, you know, at some point they tell you you can't play baseball anymore. Like we all just want to keep playing the game.”

“we've talked about moneyball on the program michael lewis's book the bill james phenomenon”

“So the Moneyball strategy that was famous for in baseball to find undervalued assets and to build a team construct a team with like you know sort of the using data as an edge rather than these old school Scouts”

“we were talking about Moneyball it's the 20th anniversary of Moneyball”

“If you need some Michael Lewis before then, you might want to listen to an episode we made with him last year on the 20th anniversary of his book 'Moneyball.'”

“I think I was gonna say Moneyball I think would be another Money Ball is great which is a movie I think that up for for non-business people comes up a lot in terms of like business lessons that you could extract from a movie Moneyball I think was a a really clever sort of way to take that non-fiction”

“that's what money buy was about the movie correct the Oakland days they were one of those lower spending teams”