Moneyball - Reflections

 

Socialism and Private Leagues is a bunny for round table debate. From NBA in America to EPL in England the pouring of money transcends over players like Andrea Iniesta and Lionel Messi. Such pouring that Christiano Ronaldo is considered bigger than the game he plays. In reality Big Leagues around the globe were a reflection of the unregulated market. Today they are a manifest destiny of the crisis of that same market.

Practice in Economics has been seen from an ethical point of view after the Global Economic Crisis. But if one tries to look at the way big league around the globe has been characterizing themselves for past ten years, one would be able to gauge the deciding performance factor, The GAP of all gaps, the economic and financial divide. Chelsea was a mediocre team at the start of the Century. Ever since Roman Abromovich (Russian Businessman) happened it’s a big league phenomenon. The same is the case with Manchester City.

You go to East and Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees are still the major cult in Baseball. The financial might of the clubs is such that sometimes good players are traded between two off games. The Revenue through advertisements and TV rights are only the labeling of issues when debating on Prime Time TV. The scenario is such that Poverty (Lack of Financial Resources) is attributed to the poor performance. No regard for potential and Talents.  Disdain it is for the Natural Ability and its positive consequences that Players are a big thing in the league and quite ambiguously mediocre while playing for their native countries.

This is the Context and Now Moneyball.

Moneyball is a film of a bigger thought. I mean you could discuss about the best matches of your life, the best players, and the best romantic’s game seems to provide you. But that is odd compared to the lopsidedness and the monologue between money and talent in Private League around the world.

Director, Bennett Miller never tries to make a fairy tale of a serious background. This could only happen when there is a twinge in heart after seeing the attitudes of neighbors, after seeing the possessions over possessions and the surplus over surplus. The Gullibility of being Global was a character of free and unregulated market. Moneyball suspects successful in private baseball league which prides itself on being a carrier of 102 year’s glory.

Here is a General Manager Billy Beans (played by Brad Pitt) of Oakland Athletics, Consigned to his team’s disabilities and pain, making sound players but much to his dismay bullied by Yankees and Red Sox and White Sox, tries a unique thing by following a player analysis formula created by a Beans Factory Guard. Supported and Surrounded by Peter Brand (Played by Jonah Hill) Billy makes a base on the values of potential of each player, thus, resulting in selections of players which are old, relegated and too luxurious to fit in any team. But they get on base.

If there is a physical problem, there is training, if there is lack of discipline, there is a trade off to a lower team. This is what Beans exemplifies through each of his statement when he conveys his message of being a team of champions.

Dividends are not to their seen in the first month of the season. The players are being put in wrong places. There are more than ten straight losses. Media is hoo..haa at the selections done by Manger Beans. They have there sympathy with the fans and the Coach, who has resigned to the fact that he is not been catered with good enough players.

The jobs of both Beans and Peter are in jeopardy. The images seem at peril. The Last throw of the dice is to throw few players who are hideous and arrogant to the passion that game tends to produce. They do it and hope a good on the basis of the base they created through that player analysis formula.

Suddenly there is a change in the fortunes of Oakland and they win, win and just win. Media is attributing everything to the efforts of Coach. Beans and Peter are nowhere to be seen in sensational news reports of TV. The same entity was critical of the player analysis formula, citing human emotions and potentialities ignored by Mathematics.

The Failure was theirs but success was never going to be theirs and they knew it. They knew up to the limit that their team is going to break an all time record of 20 straight wins set by Yankees seventy one years ago.

And After all those win the journey is curtailed by a Last match loss to Minnesota and so had been the story of Oakland, which always fatigued at the last moment. But now the big wigs are fascinated by Beans and his approach and Boston wants him to be their General Manager. So desperately that Billy Could easily became the highest paid general manager in all of the Baseball History. He ignores. Years ago on the lure of Money and Luxury a small town boy close the eyes to a Stanford Scholarship and go to league and fails miserably much to the surprise of his own potential. That boy was Billy Bean Himself. So there was no chance of paying attention to profession on the attraction of Money. He was bound to Ignore.

Brad Pitt firsts his performance of ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’. The subtle ness of his behavior, the redness of eyes and the strange property damage through his chamber reflects a man who is more disheartened by losing than his joy at the occasions of wins. He is a divorcee and has daughter living with her mother in far away town.

He vies for her longing and she is there once in every year to spend a holiday with her megalomaniac father. She sings on Guitar and sometimes produces a tear or two from her father’s eyes while he is driving in alley.

The formula of Beans and Peter is been followed by the Boston and it wins the Championship two years later.

The Daughter meant happiness for her father and she painfully cries ‘you are a loser, you are a loser dad’ A befitting end to a man who ignores lucrative money just because he does not have a love for Money. He is just passionate.