The players are all bought, but the coach doesn't believe that these "old, weak, sick, and disabled monsters" can work, so they discard them. As a result, Oakland defeated successively, the score was bottom, and the big boss was alarmed. Billy and Xiaopang sat in front of the big boss, Billy calmly told the big boss that he believed in Xiaopang's algorithm. Xiaopang said that Oakland would have won 7 consecutive victories if the players they assigned could play. In the face of the coach's obstruction, Billy and Xiaopang teamed up to set the stage, concealing the situation, and selling the coach's imperial players to other teams. The coach was dumb and ate Huanglian, so he could only bite the bullet and send the rest of the players to the field. He didn't expect that from then on, if Oakland was helpful, he first achieved the 7-game winning streak predicted by Chubby, and then broke the Yankees’ record and achieved 20-game winning streak. . At this time, the crowd in the cinema was very passionate, and it seemed that everyone was ready for Oakland to perform miracles in the knockouts and win the championship. If you really act like this, then it would be too unconventional. Fortunately, the director didn't let me down. Oakland lost in the first knockout game.
After losing the knockout round, Billy was depressed, but at this time he received an invitation from the boss of Boston Red Sox to hire him as a manager at a sky-high price of $12,500,000. Accepting this invitation, Billy will no longer worry about money, and can completely get rid of the midlife crisis. The description of Billy’s midlife crisis in the film is silent, not heavy pen and ink, but sketched flesh and blood, 44 years old, high school education, marriage failure, wife remarried, career sluggish, even 12-year-old daughter is worried that he will not Will be unemployed. An interesting detail, Billy went to his ex-wife’s house to pick up his daughter. The ex-wife lives in a mansion. The new man is very thin. Even the name of the gold medal player of the Billy team is wrong. It is estimated that he is a rich man in the IT industry. Billy sat on the sofa and waited for his daughter. He had a few brief conversations with the new man and ex-wife. Facing these two people, he failed. The atmosphere was naturally very embarrassing. It is conceivable that every time he picks up his daughter, this kind of scene will happen. Repeat. If Billy accepts the money, he can wash away his previous "humiliation". Not only will his personal life be protected, he will also be able to play freely in the new team without being tied down by money. But Billy didn't accept it, as expected and unexpected. It is not easy to leave the team that I have brought for decades. It is not easy to leave the California where I have always lived. The most important thing is that it is not easy to leave my lovely and sensible daughter. When the money problem is finally solved, it is discovered that the key to the matter is not money. To put it bluntly, a person's sense of accomplishment cannot be measured by money.
If you really want to treat this movie as an inspirational film, it tells me not that "working hard can create miracles", but that people must have the courage to make changes. Billy has always refused to get close to the players. The reason is that if he puts too much emotion in, he will not be able to make a move when he wants to fire. However, when he was in his 40s, he put down these defenses and actively communicated with the players to cheer for them. Before meeting Little Fatty, Billy had been listening to the experience of the older generation all his life. When he was eighteen or nineteen years old, he listened to the lobbying of these people and gave up the full-awarded Stanford and joined the professional league directly. I haven’t achieved any results for ten years. When I became a manager later, I had to listen to the suggestions of these people to buy and sell players to run the team. But when I was in my 40s, I chose to stand out from the crowd and listened to a 25-year-old young man. Suggestions. If you believe it, you must take the courage to change. This is what I learned.
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