Moneyball | Moral of the Story (Film Analysis) 

Moneyball is literally the perfect sports movie. Yeah sure on the surface there’s the actual sport itself, but it goes so much deeper and it’s actually a movie about recognizing your own achievements and learning that just because people call you a failure all your life because you had unreached potential doesn’t mean you can’t still succeed.

"The statistical analysis.......IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL!" - Captain Raymond Holt

One of my favorite movies.

The only real failure is not getting up to try again.

Watched it yesterday and 10/10. It gave me an opprtunity to see my business in a different way, make some changes to improve..

I knew the movie was a classic and a masterpiece but I didn't know why. Your text was quite close to poetry in that you showed the masterpiece with a gold leaf frame. You told the point and left the impact to reveal itself. thank you great editing too

I love the way most of what's being said in the movie isn't spoken. It's mostly silence, the look in peoples eyes, and emotion. That celebratory fist pump by Billy in the gym being exhibit A. The opening scene in the empty stadium with the radio off when the game has been lost being Exhibit B. The look in his eyes at the end when he's fighting the tears to the song... and so on.

I think the Philip Seymour Hoffman character (Art Howe) is also important to note, as it was a foil to his vision.

...it's not the destination, but maybe it's tuning and collaboration along the course and savoring all the moments in the journey. Gosh, I love this movie--while I was annoyed by some of the heavy handedness of the message delivery on repeated viewings, the truly all-star cast hits home run after home run. Can't wait to watch it again. Enjoyed your analysis Life is a Story! Thank you. (Also, listening to Randy Newman's soundtrack from the Natural now...and those astonishing seconds of pure auditory savor! Chills!)

Outstanding! A very “growth mindset” take on Moneyball. Great video!

I have the same mindset as Billy. Afraid of success after being torn down too many times.

Honestly, this video is a masterpiece, I have already seen it 4 times and I don't rewatch these videos often. Thank you for making this!

I know nothing about baseball and i love this movie

My Favorite sports movie of all time

I just loved the sentence mentioned in the conclusion of this video.

Holly Smokes awesome video. I remember this back in 2002. I do believe. I'm a former walkon wide receiver @ a D3 school, and my senior was promising until I got sidelined. I was given the opportunity to coach as an undergraduate but turned it down since I still wanted to play. Life doesn't always work out, and it seems failure has been following me over 2 decades. Brad Pitt nailed it in this film. He reminds me of myself and how I deal with failure. It sucks but we have to find a way to navigate the failure and find the path to better ourselves, somehow.

I stopped this video to rewatch Money 💰 Ball ⚾️👏

Living outside North America, I know nothing about baseball and never heard of this story until after I built a clothing and footwear collection starting with zero. I did it by offloading a few pieces, free finds and trading. I used statistics to avoid costly purchases and focus on real value. In the end my endeavours totalled £6,000 built part time over 2-years. Then I heard of this movie and Identified with it.

If anything it is more of a cautionary tale. This man is defeated before he has even stepped up to bat, he is broken, depressed and lost. Relying on the cheap emotional drug of a little girl singing to try and pull him out of that miasma for a few brief second before inevitably returning to it. A broken man cannot win any battle. But a man who is whole is never defeated, for his life is not invested into a single fight. He has diversified his portfolio across many places and most importantly has invested heavily in himself.

good job, really enjoyed this review

what true success is, same im looking for , im super scared after not having results i wanted in the mos important areas in my life its so meaingul this message thanks

Awesome video!

Here's what will blow your mind. I always thought it was an odd choice to have brad pitt play an old baseball executive. Fact is brad pitt is only two years younger than Beane. Meaning he was six years older than the 2002 version of Beane he was playing.

Great analysis.

They really don’t cover the fact they had Zito, Mulder, and Hudson. Easy to be good when you have a rotation that good and that deep.

Moral of the story…as long as MLB doesn’t have a cap, money CAN and WILL buy championships

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Thanks for calling me a loser at the end.

I love pitt ive never seen this movie

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The problem was, and is, that eventually, the people with money catch up to you.

True failure is deciding never to swing at all, eh? Gotta get walks somehow

So was 'failure' purposely misspelled as 'faliure' in the thumbnail?

I'm not a sports guy and it really was a strange experience watching this movie from my perspective, because of two factors: - The strange perspective of Billy, which I wasn't finding appealing, at all. This guy is brutal and treats players like cards in a trading game, which makes him immediately inhumane and moraly disgusting in my opinion. I don't have the individualistic and opportunistic mindset to understand such a character, in my worldview his attitude simply doesn't make sense (but sport is not my thing, so I don't get how you can call a team an "Oakland team" if you're trading players left and right with 12 other cities on the continent and half of your players aren't from Oakland: it's not a real team anymore, just a capitalistic patchwork wearing the city's name for the sake or marketing). - The cultural fact that I'm European and we absolutly don't share the baseball culture. Every emotional moment felt off, weird, badly performed in my opinion. And I think it's not true: Jonah Hill obviously is a great actor, and even though the directing was cold as ice, those scenes were not poorly performed. It's just my cultural bias, whenever this movie tried to sell me something emotional, I couldn't care less because it's about baseball. Which is a sport so uselessly complicated nobody seems to clearly understand and looks like, in my opinion, the most boring sport ever invented. I feel like I could fall asleep watching baseball. But the fact is I enjoyed the perspective of someone trying to figure out the science behind the art. The moment where managers went from "oh, we like him" to "those are the metrics we're looking for". It's like watching Isaac Newton abandonning the horoscope crap to figure out the laws of gravity, and this was beautiful. A strange and cold cinematic experience, but not a bad one. Your analysis helped me to patch up some things, thank you for this video.

Faliure

Seeing Bobby Kotick, the current CEO of Activision Blizzard, pulled me out of this movie. What a waste of a role.

Did you see the credits? Where it says you’re such a loser dad JAJDJSJHAJ

It's not a baseball movie. I know this because.... I don't like baseball, not even a little, and I LOVE this movie. No, this movie is about DATA and the future of our world. It's about how data analysis is going to be the driving force behind just about everything in our lives, for better or worse. Ultimately (and oddly), Moneyball is about AI and how it will be leveraged to analyze mountains of data to increase efficiency and allegedly improve our lives. I have my doubts.....

fyi : FAILURE is spelled F.A.I.L.U.R.E. NOT Faliure . BTW ... what is a FALIURE ?

This channel is flawed and clearly has an ulterior motive. Too many omissions throughout numerous vids.

"True failure is deciding not to swing at all" sorry mate, but not the best analogy there. One of the biggest parts of the whole moneyball concept was NOT swinging and taking the walk to get on base. I get the general gist though. Good on ya mate