Dave Hanratty

Been to a few games.

Well, nor do I and I think this could be one of those things where any of the inaccuracies don't bother me.

Whereas if this was a movie about Manchester United and I was like...

But they had Roy Keane as well.

You know, it was a superstar team.

You're saying they're underdogs.

There's a bit of that, I'm sure.

But when you come to it as a UK Irish audience with innate baseball knowledge.

And the subsequent scene when they go down into the parking garage.

Actually, Jonah Hill gives an unbelievable 60 second, 45 second summation of the plot of the film.

Yeah.

Sabre metrics in baseball, stats in baseball, should be the most dense, like, Tomy-esque thing you could explain to an audience, especially if you aren't American.

Like, I watched this last night in quasi-preparation for coming in today.

I also needed a pick-me-up.

And I was just, like, marvelling at the fact that this is actually so easy to understand for, like, my wife was watching with me listening about what they're trying to do and explaining why, oh, yeah, this is how we would value players in Oakland.

I read a review saying, it's a film about baseball that demands no knowledge of the game.

yeah which considering they're actually talking about very intricate parts of the game it's not just oh hit the ball over the fence for a home run it's like let's get on base and why that's important and stuff like that aren't some of the scouts and data guys played by real guys as well I think possibly some of the smaller background roles there's some great lines in that you know like oh I don't like him why not he's got an ugly girlfriend he's not confident lacks confidence

And Brad Pitt going, oh my God.

You got Philip Seymour Hoffman, a small role, but it's Philip Seymour Hoffman.

So it's just, it's perfection.