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The original name of the movie is Moneyball, but the Chinese name is "Jinyuan Baseball" perhaps more appropriate. Back to the question: Why did Billy reject the Red Sox's sky-high contract in the end? The owner of the Red Sox supported his team-building philosophy, gave him enough affirmation, was open-minded and like-minded, and determined to work with him to break the old baseball conventions and customs and establish a new set of baseball gameplay and order. Why refuse such generous terms? I think the key point is "Money". Billy lost his baseball career to money at the beginning of his career. He did not choose to go to college, but entered the major leagues prematurely. This is something he regrets in his life. If he matures, he has a stronger ability and mentality. When playing in the major leagues, maybe his career will be a different story. Young Billy joined the major leagues too early, and the scouts were brainwashed, but it was more of money. His family background was average, and at that age, such a poor boy could not say no to money. The astronomical check from the Red Sox owner stimulated him and reminded him of the past that has been interspersed in the movie, all kinds of regrets, and the nightmare that has always plagued him, this time he is determined to say nothing to money.
Billy's marriage was a failure. There is not much explanation in the movie as to why their marriage broke up, but after a little analysis, the reason is self-evident, and it is money. Billy enters the major leagues, the most promising newcomer, all-rounder, young and handsome, and hot, and the wife he finds is definitely not the general generation. Billy's baseball career did not last long. His self-confidence was destroyed, and he hurriedly chose to retire as a scout, which is surprising. This gap may be the main reason for the breakdown of their marriage. He could not afford the expensive life his wife and children wanted. The wife married a businessman and lived in a seaside villa with a 360-degree glass panorama and smart home. Billy sat in their room waiting for his daughter, embarrassed, and even more frightening was that they even called the team superstar's name wrong. . Billy hates money!
The main reason is Billy's ideas and paranoia. What counts as success in the Red Sox? They were originally a gold dollar baseball team. To be successful is to be completely successful, and to subvert baseball is to be completely subverted. He paranoidly wants to prove himself in the small ball club, the budget is limited, the boss is stingy to death, this kind of success will be shocking. He wants to fight moneyball, he wants to rewrite the rules of the game, and he wants to prove that money is not a panacea in the baseball industry.
Money is an important point that cannot be ignored in this movie.
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I like Billy, I like many qualities in him. A true genius is not a top-notch person in a certain field, so it is far from enough to be called a genius. A genius is a person who can subvert the old traditions and change the rules of the game with a creative mind. Billy is such a character. He regrets that he did not win the championship, but what he did is more meaningful than 100 championships. Baseball is no longer a simple game of waving checks and stacking star players. It gives baseball more meaning.
The whole movie creates a very subtle atmosphere of loneliness. The shouting volume of the audience on the stadium was infinitely reduced, and Billy wore earplugs and looked at the TV in the gym by himself. Genius is often lonely. Billy has nothing in his life except baseball and his daughter. He is full of baseball. He looked lonely and out of place with everything around him. Stupid and ridiculous scouts, boastful and pretentious managers, coaches and players who are disobedient like donkeys. He doesn't even socialize with players and never goes to watch games live. Waving his fist in his empty living room. Cows and sheep will flock, and beasts always go alone. People’s ignorance of baseball is as terrible as the plague. He alone can handle all of this. He wants to overcome the long-standing prejudice and all bad habits of baseball by himself. He never cares what others think of him or care about others. Feelings.
Billy has courage and will do what he looks for. He is in his forties and only has a high school diploma. If he fails, he has almost no retreat. He can't make a comeback. He can only sell baseball supplies. Because he is fighting against the entire industry, and what is subverting is the perception of baseball for more than 100 years. No one wants him to succeed, because changing the pattern of the industry will make most people lose their jobs, and too many people want to see his jokes. It is difficult for society to accommodate heterogeneous, no matter how good you are.
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Whether baseball is a science or an art is difficult to define clearly, or both. After Billy retired, he started to do scouting work. The reason may be that he was pitted by scouts when he was young and wanted to be a good scout to save the young man. This kind-hearted starting point allowed him to see the chaos of the scout circle. In fact, the scouts didn't understand anything, appearance, girlfriend, personality analysis, everything came. Some inherent prejudices have buried many good people. So, let's speak with data.
Baseball may be a metaphysics. Billy himself is also very superstitious. He never watched football matches on the spot and felt that his bad luck was more serious. Starting with Heidenberg is still about the same as the starting team of Pannia, but the team immediately broke the record for 20 consecutive victories after Heidenberg came on the court. So much so that the coach who has always hated Heidenberg also believed in metaphysics, and he sent Heidenberg on the last shot with a home run.
Billy's team has never won a championship. He firmly believes in his own set of baseball science, but the championship may also be a metaphysical problem.
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Some people hit a home run with a swing, but they didn't know it, and they were still regretting it. Billy, the man who changed baseball forever!
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