Wednesday, June 24, 2009

You Can Bloom My Onion Anytime Mr. Beane

Over the past few months there have been scattered updates about the movie adaptation of the book Moneyball. If you have not read this book, which is probably THE baseball book of the decade in terms of popularity and importance, then i suggest you buy, borrow, or steal this book. Yes, it is worth the misdemeanor shoplifting charge. Anyways, as some of you may know, the movie was shot down once Sony received the final version of the script that was touched up by Steven Soderbergh. Apparently, the original version of the script, written by Steven Zaillian (he wrote Schindler's List, Gangs of New York, A Civil Action, and a whole host of other great movies) is now available online here...http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/images/column/62509/Moneyball.pdf

Anyways, there was one part of Moneyball that I apparently forgot about that Zaillian decided to include...A one night stand that Billy Beane has with a waitress from an Outback Steakhouse in Cleveland.
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/The-Moneyball-script-complete-with-Billy-Beane-?urn=mlb,172463

Now that is art.

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