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I absolutely loved this movie. The way it was written, directed, and shown to us. It felt like a refreshing mix of nostalgia and introspection. Like listening to the old radio my Poppy used to crank during hot summer days while the Yankees played mixed with a quiet weight of a documentary about a legend living with his regrets. It was all woven so beautifully into the deeply personal story of Billy Beane. A man who refuses, no matter what, to give up on a team he believes in.I love that Billy never felt like a man just chasing money or success. It never comes across that way. He just feels like a man always trying to outrun something. Outrun the promises that were made to him years ago at the kitchen table with his parents... That version of his life that was supposed to unfold perfectly. The expectation. And it shows in everything he does. In the way he can't just sit still during games. In how he keeps everyone at a distance. In how every decision feels just a little heavier than it should. To Billy it's not only about winning, it's about rewriting something completely. About proving that the story didn't end the way it should have back then for a reason. And watching him build something new, not from just coincidence but from that restlessness and unresolved feeling.. That made his journey feel so much more personal and uplifting.And this movie never forces emotions which I really appreciated about it. The losses sit heavy. The wins felt earned. Everything in between was just an honest story about a man changing the course of baseball forever.I don't know... This one just felt really special to me. How can you not feel romantic about baseball? 🤣 It's even inspired me to take the family to a Clippers game this summer! Thank you all so much for the recommendation!Thank you for your support on Patreon!Relax and enjoy 🍿🌿SYNC ALONG LINK: https://youtu.be/64k9nPK8PUAI watched this on Amazon Prime (Rented)

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rian

YESSS! i’ve been waiting all week :3 “dear god…it’s me jonah hill….from moneyball” 😆

Terry In the UK

I know literally less than zero about baseball...but I still really liked this movie too.. I haven't seen many movies about this sport, Moneyball, Field of Dreams and A League Of Their Own are I think the only ones....and this one is great. I was just wondering what to watch this evening Kali, and with this upload.... I have my answer. Thank you , as always....thank you. It's been a rough and emotional day for me, and I genuinely needed this to give me a good distraction, and I can't think of anything finer than a new Kali watchalong.

Steve Mercier

Not really a big sports movie guy, but then again this movie isn't really about sports. It's about embracing something unorthodox and having the cojones (metaphorically speaking) to challenge the norms, but with sports in the background. That said, for a movie with a bunch of baseball bullshit in it, this movie is really quite spectacular.

Chuckles1004

As a local, Bay Area, A's fan this was special. I remembered those games, I was there. I knew Billy, the situation, the gravity. The nostalgia, not just of the A's but the love of the game. The momentum shift of changing the game. This used to be one of my favorite movies. Yes, sure, It gets into the weeds but it's core, it's essence, is HOME. He changed the game and didn't even know it and he stayed home because he loved his daughter. How can you not be romantic about baseball. 😀❤️😭 You will absolutely love A Field of Dreams and A League of Their Own! I'm totally tearing up as I write this. The funnest baseball movie is Major League, you have to see it, the team is from Ohio. Lol

Robert da Spruce

This film is about the Oakland A’s. My father took me and my siblings to A’s games growing up. So this film is very nostalgic for me

PG Modehouse

I'm a geriatric millennial from the Bay Area. I was in highschool during the events of the film and remember that miraculous 2002 season. Oddly enough that's also around the time I started One Piece. Weird synchronicity there. By the way, that instrumental theme that builds and builds into a crescendo... It's from a Post-Rock band called This Will Destroy You, and the song is called "The Mighty Rio Grande". It gets me choked up and gives me chills every time. EDIT: Oh you knew it! NICE!! 🤘 That's guitar god Joe Satriani playing the US anthem at the 56:22 timestamp! I put so many plays on Surfing with the Alien after my cousin switched me onto THE SATCH.

Dude Longcouch

Yessss, I am about to DEVOUR this reaction, thank you Kali!

B.J. West

Fun Fact (maybe just for me): The ticket artwork hanging on the walls in their office? (25:39, 1:14:01, 1:17:52, and 1:19:28) - I made those. 😁

Darius Minette

This is seriously the only movie I've ever owned on Amazon Prime Video. 😅 I loved it THAT much!

rian

WAAAAAT? cool

MO-PETE!

This movie is great and I hold it in high regard but there’s two things about the real life situation I feel you should know: First, the real life Art Howe (the bald, stubborn manager) fully embraced the concept ‘Moneyball’. And was 100% onboard with what Beane was doing from the get go. In fact, his influence is why a lot of the players bought into the philosophy as well. Needless to say, the real life Art Howe was VERY displeased about how he was depicted in this movie. Secondly, while Billy Beane and Oakland As certainly popularized it, the concept of using advanced metrics to manage baseball teams didn’t start with them. It can be traced back to early pioneers such as Earl Weaver’s successful Baltimore Orioles teams of the late 60s/early 70s

B.J. West

Yeah... I used to work for a small sports memorabilia company called That's My Ticket. They made Mega Tickets, which is what those are. I was hired to oversee and make them. Back when they were filming this movie, they called my boss asking him for products to hang in the set. He grabbed four of the Mega Tickets I made, the four you see in the movie. They returned them after the movie was finished though, lol 😢

rSb - Rob Benjamin

Yooo, so glad you reacted to this! So excited that I wanted to comment before I even watch your reaction! 😀 I am a HUGE Cleveland fan (Guardians, Browns, Cavs), so I love the ties to Cleveland in this movie, like our old General Manager, Mark Shapiro. And I also wanted to say that’s awesome that you plan on taking the family to a Clippers game! After all, the Columbus Clippers are the highest-level minor league team for my beloved Guardians. So watching that team is potentially watching future star Guardians players, and even a few current Guardians players who happen to playing rehab games for the Clippers or were temporarily demoted to the minor leagues. Anyway, I’ma go watch the reaction! Thankoo !!!

Matt Rowland

This is such a fantastic film. As a huge Kansas City Royals fan (and a baseball fan in general), I was interested to see how they were going to handle "the streak" and the 20th win. I remember watching that game on TV - I had literally been fired from my job the day before (only job I've ever been fired from) and I turned on the game after we got home from church on Wednesday night, and it was in the second inning and already 7-0. I turned it back off and chatted with my wife for a bit (we hadn't been married but just under a year at this point) and then had it on in the background while I played on the computer. When Mike Sweeney hit the 3 run homer to pull the Royals within a run in the 8th, I was like "we may actually pull this off and prevent this win." You have to understand: the A's had won the previous two games (depicted in the film but easy to miss if you don't know what you're looking for) on walk-off hits, and each one was more exciting than the next. When the Royals ultimately tied it in the 9th, I was jumping up and down. We were such a terrible team that year (our record was almost the inverse of the A's!) but if we could just keep our former rival (Oakland and KC used to be big baseball rivals in the 70s and 80s, and the A's were in KC for 15 years prior to moving to Oakland in 1968) from winning, we would be happy. And then Scott Hatteberg ended all of that! Most of the movie is pretty accurate, but there were some creative licenses taken with some things (like Giambi and Pena were not traded the same day - Giambi was actually traded the day before that one scene early in the movie that showed the A's with a 20-26 record. Pena was traded 2 months later, closer to the deadline. The film also over-simplifies the A's to an extent. They had the best starting pitching in all of the American League in 2002, and the best infield defense too. Hatteberg is shown as a player who doesn't know how to play defense, but in reality, his fielding percentage was higher than the league average for first basemen. The actor who played David Justice (Stephen Bishop) used to be a professional baseball player in the Atlanta Braves farm system. When Justice was playing for the Braves in the early 90's, the minor league coaches and players called Bishop "Baby Justice" due to his uncanny resemblance to the major league player. And now ironically, he gets the chance to play him in a movie.

KamikazeCDN

If I'm not mistaken Billy Beane never ended up winning that last game either by the time he was finished a few years after this movie came out. We totally need to get some more Brad Pitt movie reactions. I think he is one of my personal favs in terms of actors. The Ocean's Trilogy (11, 12 & 13), Fight Club (I thought you reacted to this but seems I'm wrong?), Burn After Reading, Bullet Train, World War Z...and so many more great movies with him in them. And honestly Jonah Hill has some pretty solid movies as well. 21 & 22 Jump Street are great comedies. War Dogs is pretty good too. He also had parts or appearances in a lot of 00s comedies that could be in the same realm of Superbad and worth checking out too.

Lastboyscout73

Philip Seymour Hoffman RIP (The grumpy manager) was in many movies but I think I remember you saying you saw The Hunger Games? If you did, he was in them. He was a great character actor, and I'm sure you will see him again in future movies that you watch.

Chris

I played baseball at a pretty high level (not pro or anything) around the time the movie depicts, a bit before... and man, that room of scouts babbling absolute nonsense is VERY familiar. The dumbest adults I ever had contact with were invariably baseball coaches.

Joseph Olson

Billy Beane did help change the game. I have no idea what he’s doing now, but he’s no longer the GM of the A’s. I'm old enough to remember him as a ballplayer. In the last several years Oakland has lost their NBA team (the Golden State Warriors, relocated to San Francisco), their MLB team (the A’s, relocating to Las Vegas) and their NFL team (the Raiders, also to Las Vegas). All of those teams moved for more money and new stadiums paid for by taxpayers, so not everything changes.

Chuck Kania

This is one of my favorite movies. I really enjoyed watching it with you. thank you for sharing.

KJ

I have a very surface level understanding of baseball, but still enjoyed this first watch. Pretty interesting.

Joe

I am also a HUGE Cleveland sports fan. Was so cool to see Mark Shapiro and I remember Ricardo Rincon being a valuable reliever. What is wild to me is that Jonah Hill is based on Paul DePodesta (who did not want his name used in the movie.) Following baseball, DePodesta tried to make all these strategies work in football for years on the Browns to much less successful of a result, including probably the worst trade in the history of the NFL.

Kenji Kita

A fellow This Will Destroy You knower!!! Incredible album. I saw them live in Vancouver BC in 2010. Also this movie is a desert island movie for me. Somethin about the mood and pacing, it’s captivating and relaxing and has this slow simmering energy that’s so addictive. I watch it every year when baseball season comes back around. The original score is so good too.

Farbod

I grew up as a fan of the bash bros and that 88-92 team. The A's have always had a spot in my heart. I agree that it took a lot of liberties, but its a really enjoyable film.

Richard

First comment in a couple of months . . . feels weird . . . I'm a huge baseball fan, and what's cool about this story for me is that even though Billy didn't accept the Red Sox job, other guys they hired used the same ideas and within a year or two the Red Sox (my team) won the World Series for the first time in 86 years, and then won 3 more over the next 14 years. That first one in 2004 was very special, I remember being very tired doing into work because the playoff games were getting over at 1:00am 😵. Congrats on 2k paid members here, looks like you just hit it yesterday. Sorry you’ve been having so many copyright issues again, I know that’s very stressful.

Sam

I'm a huge baseball fan i will watch this reaction for sure! True stories are the best :)

rSb - Rob Benjamin

Well hello fellow Clevelander rooter! 😀 Yup, I remember Rincon. One of our few lefties that we kept around back in those days. So he certainly was very useful for us. Yeah, I forgot to mention the Depodesta thing. Yup, his strategy didn’t have quite the effect on our Browns, but aaah well. Still, it’s amazing how his unique story unfolded in and around Cleveland sports. Let’s go The Land!

kaliwali

I guess should have instead said baseball's popularity has been majorly declining. ESPN dropped them last season which.... Is sad but tells you a lot

kaliwali

That's actually wild the room sounded like that 👀

Carter Rowe

Billy turned down 12.5 million dollars. Wild.

Jacob

The money is what the teams have spent that year on players. The Yankees use to be the big dogs with the money now it's the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Jacob

The coach was a villain in one of the mission impossible movies.

Jacob

You should check out Major League in my opinion better then this movie

kaliwali

I haven't seen the Mission Impossible movies!

Jacob

I know he's been in other movies I just can't think of them. Mission impossible might be worth checking out, there's a lot of them and they're all good

Sam

Great reaction and awesome movie! True stories are the best movies by far :)

Kyle K

Analytics are now used heavily in every sport. Fun story.