tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624254435992330014.post4119284404873453098..comments2023-10-28T08:31:25.462-04:00Comments on Subway Squawkers - A Yankees-Mets Rivalry Blog: On the "Moneyball" crew taking their talents to Flushing -- and to the moviesSubway Squawkershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04156896665605326549noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8624254435992330014.post-19408791101985243132010-11-12T10:27:48.370-05:002010-11-12T10:27:48.370-05:00I've never understood why everyone made a fuss...I've never understood why everyone made a fuss over, and why someone's now making a movie about, "Moneyball."<br /><br />A, The Oakland Athletics have never won a Pennant with Billy Beane as general manager. They haven't even won so much as an ALCS game.<br /><br />B, In spite of the A's "success" from 2000 to 2006, no franchise in baseball -- perhaps none in all of North American major league sports -- is in danger of moving to a new metropolitan area. Translation: This team is dying, and none of Beane's "achievements" has been able to save it, and there's no reason to believe the publicity generated by "Moneyball: The Movie" is going to help. (After all, the Minnesota Twins were nearly contracted just 8 years after they were the focus of "Little Big League.")<br /><br />Now, Sandy Alderson and J.P. Ricciardi, they HAVE won Pennants and World Series. This is not all that different from the Mets hiring former Baltimore executive Frank Cashen to rebuild 30 years ago. This appears to be the right move, although that largely depends on what manager Alderson hires.<br /><br />Billy Beane refused to go to his team's owners and say, "Give me more money so I can sign the players to put us over the top." If the A's move, if Major League Baseball in the East Bay dies, Beane will be the man who sold the killer the gun. It's time to stop treating him like a genius and a hero. He is, in fact, a coward. George Steinbrenner would have fired him around 2004 or so.Uncle Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11618876073064128027noreply@blogger.com