Also barely mentions Miguel Tejada who won the AL MVP that year.
Still though, great movie.
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hahaha I’m not sure that would send the message we want about our two coaches, given how the movie plays out.
They’ll always have the sewer adventure though.
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According to the Internet, Ugo is only 20 years old right now as a rising senior. He’ll turn 21 on September 25. Dickinson was 19 when he started college and turned 20 by the start of his freshman season. Almost 2 years difference in age at similar points in their careers. (This is assuming that the info on Wikipedia is correct.)
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Tend to think that this site is accurate. So you are right.
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Its a really good movie, and it does genuinely tell an important story of how statistical analysis got its foothold in MLB which really did revolutionize things there both in public perception of baseball as well as how things were done internally (which took longer).
Its a pretty accurate picture of how the media portrayed how it happened, as well as popular perception of it. But it gives Beane way too much credit for coming up with the ideas (Bill James had been writing on this stuff since the 80s and Baseball Prospectus was selling its books in Barnes and Noble in the late 90s), plus it gives the ideas way too much credit for the A’s unexpected success. The analysis gave them an “ok” offense virtually for free, which was neat. But their real success was due to old-fashioned scouting and incredible drafting success,
I mean, Beane did a great job considering the budget he had to work with. But as a life-long A’s fan, it was deeply frustrating that this guy who was so respected and widely hailed as a genius won one playoff series in his 18 years as GM.
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I read this pretending you were talking about Friendship and enjoyed the post immensely
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Wade seems like the type that will drive the blue blood types at UNC and Duke absolutely nuts.
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There was something with a trucking company that helped fund the majority of their NIL from what I understand. So he had funds to get players like former ‘Cuse starter Quadir Copeland, etc.
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It’s always funny how the movie just completely ignores the fact that the As had Barry Zito, Tim Hudson, and Mark Mulder pitch 100 games that season.
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While that’s true, Oakland drafted all three — Hudson (1997, 6th round), Mulder (1998, 1st round), and Zito (1999, 1st round).
Really shows how good Bean was at building a team. (Money was locked up on the pitchers, had to go cheap on the hitters.)
Can someone with a subscription please ease my mind that our new HC isn’t a coward like Rhoades and Penn St?
Aren’t we already buying out our Charlotte obligation though?
But Odom and McLaughlin, close friends dating to their time together at American University in the early 2000s, have discussed potential Rams vs. Cavaliers matchups down the road.
Odom during his two years at VCU had conversations with UVa and former coach Tony Bennett about playing one another. There was mutual interest, but the dates did not line up.
“We couldn’t make anything happen for the coming season, but coach Odom and I have talked about scheduling games in the future,” McLaughlin said.
IMO, in theory if the selection committee relied more on WAB, these kinds of games would happen more because the schedule would be less game-able.
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Phew
So far, I’ll give Odom a B or so on noncon scheduling.
He walked into MD and the Greenbrier. Former being solid and latter being extremely meh to mildly bleh. So I don’t count those. Oh, plus Texas. Solid, but doesn’t count
Ohio State is solid / not spectacular. Clemson seems like an elegant solution to an ACC botch job.
Rumor is he’s considering Maui for next year or soon. Tho Maui prestige has been kneecapped by that silly Vegas tourney
And glad he seems to be trying to schedule VCU
Putting him on notice tho: schedule a game in the NYC metro area or it’s gonna be hard to get above a C. Heck, even DC. But no convention centers in Bmore.
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I guess the difference being that the only ties Odom has to Charlotte was as an assistant and then interim HC a decade ago without a contractual obligation when he left (the schedule move was a Bennett/Sanchez thing). Rhoades was the HC at VCU three years ago and was contractually obligated to play VCU as part of his departure.
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H/t @HoozGotNext for reposting this on twitter.
The whole thread is awesome, esp Wake, Arkansas, and Auburn.
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Also a game at VCU is almost certainly Q1 while a game at Charlotte can only hurt you. I wish we played it, but I get why we didn’t, especially if we’re doing a neutral site game in Charlotte.
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Yeah, the Charlotte game would’ve been a nice goodwill gesture if Tony/Ron were still here
But without the connection, there’s no compelling rationale for it (unlike a game with VCU which has a compelling rationale even absent the Odom connection)
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I need a happy baby Odom gif for commitments
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