The A's Having a Great Season
MONEYBALL
The quantity does not matter but the quality does.
2. I made one decision in my life based on money. And I swore I would never do it again.
3. This shows that Billy Beane cares about the quality of his team not just because he is getting payed.
4. I'm not in it for a record, I'll tell you that. I'm not in it for a ring.
5. This shows that he doesn't care about the reward and he just wants his win to change the game and matter.
6. In the book The Blind Side a very poor kid became a great football player kind of like how the A's became so successful as a poor team.
A TEAM WITH LITTLE MONEY COMPARED TO THE OTHER MLB TEAMS
MAKE THEIR WAY TO THE TOP WITH A HUGE FINANCIAL DISADVANTAGE.
"The problem we're trying to solve is that there are rich teams, and there are poor teams. Then there's 50 feet of crap. And then there's us. It's an unfair game." This quote shows that it is very tough for the A's to become good because of their financial crisis but they need to get players that are undervalued to survive in the MLB
A major event in the story was when Billy Beane decided to pick Jeremy Brown a highly undervalued player to join the A's and he picked him up rather than all the other players he could have got.
"Would you rather get a bullet to the head, or fire to the chest or bleed to death?" This quote said by Billy Beane the GM of the A's is talking about how to cut a player. He is saying that you should just quickly release players without going into details with them.
Michael Lewis
Location: San Ramon, CA