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Mlb 1992 minnesota twins mini felt pennant movie#
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(And the Rangers and Cincinnati Reds just did it this season.)ī, 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 more danger of moving to a new metropolitan area. The Washington Senators/Texas Rangers franchise only got its 4th just this season.Īnd there are 5 teams that haven't reached the postseason at all since the 21st Century dawned (11 seasons now) and the A's 'Moneyball Era' began: The Baltimore Orioles, the Kansas City Royals, the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Blue Jays and the Expos/Nationals. After all, there are 6 teams that don't have 4 postseason appearances in their entire history: The Colorado Rockies, the Florida Marlins, the Milwaukee Brewers, the Seattle Mariners, the Tampa Bay Rays, and the Montreal Expos/Washington Nationals franchise. Granted, winning 4 Playoff berths in 7 years is impressive, no matter how much money your team spends. * 2007-10: Haven't appeared in the postseason since.

Went into the ALCS against the Detroit Tigers, knowing that Games 1 and 2, and, if necessary, 6 and 7, would be in Oakland.

Mlb 1992 minnesota twins mini felt pennant series#

* 2006: Won the AL West again, and this time, won a postseason series for the first (and still only) time since 1990, beating the Twins. * 2005: Again, did not make the Playoffs. Who knows what would have happened if they, rather than the Sox, had been the Wild Card. * 2004: Just missed the Wild Card, losing it out to the Red Sox. Only needed to win 1 of the last 3, and if it went to a Game 5, it would be in Oakland. Won Games 1 and 2 of the ALDS against the Boston Red Sox. * 2002: Rode a 20-game winning streak, longest in AL history, to a Western Division title, and didn't have to face the Yankees in the ALDS.

Only needed to win 1 of the last 3, the first 2 of which would be at the Coliseum. Won Games 1 and 2 of the ALDS against the Yankees at Yankee Stadium. Won Game 1 of the ALDS against the Yankees, and forced a Game 5 at home at the Oakland Coliseum (or whatever corporate name it had at the time). He's been there since 1998, 12 seasons, and they haven't even won so much as an ALCS game since 1992. (Okay, that one was about a trucker and his chimp.)īut why make a fuss over Billy Beane, and the theories that inspired Moneyball?Ī, The A's have never won a Pennant with Beane as general manager. (Sounds like a bad 1970s cop (or private eye) show: Moneyball and Beane.

Mlb 1992 minnesota twins mini felt pennant movie#

I've never understood why everyone made a fuss over, and why someone's now making a movie about, Moneyball and Beane. Aaron Sorkin, the genius behind A Few Good Men, The West Wing, and the brief but wonderful Sports Night (I still miss you, Sabrina Lloyd), assisted Lewis and others on the screenplay. Michael Lewis is currently riding a wave of success from the film version of his book The Blind Side, about football player Michael Oher and his adopted family, which won Sandra Bullock the Oscar for Best Actress. Two real-life major league players are confirmed as being in the film, albeit playing other big-leaguers: Royce Clayton, a former All-Star shortstop who has acted before but did not play himself when his character was struck out by Dennis Quaid's Jim Morris in The Rookie, plays A's shorstop/steroid cheat Miguel Tejada and Jason Windsor, who really did play for the A's, but as a pitcher, plays outfielder and first baseman John Mabry. (These were recently 'Airplaned' into a parody film titled The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It.)Īrt Howe, the A's manager at the time, is played by Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Paul DePodesta, Beane's assistant GM at the time, has been renamed Peter Brand, and is played by Jonah Hill, best known for appearing in Judd Apatow's gross-out sex-comedy films, especially Superbad. A movie version of Michael Lewis’ book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, about the Oakland Athletics of the early 2000s and their general manager, Billy Beane, is currently being filmed.īeane is being played by Brad Pitt - who I once saw at the old Yankee Stadium, sitting in the Field Boxes with his adopted son Maddox Jolie-Pitt, but not with Angelina Jolie, a 'significant other' who is far more significant than he is.