Comments on: Demetri Martin Talks Losing Role In Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Moneyball’

By: Tim Church

Tim Church — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 02:35:00 +0000

SO wishing less comics would jump to Netflix & Web stuff for their specials… Comedy Central (that gave him his own show for a stretch) could use him after they lost Stewart & tossed Wilmore’s show!

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 26 May 2017 22:47:00 +0000

Keith-
You know way better than to imply that MLB had something to do with the film not happening with Soderbergh. (think back to the early, early days of THE PLAYLIST.)
They were 3 days away from shooting- MLB had been onboard the entire time.
The decision to pull the plug was entirely made by Amy Pascal.

By: John W

John W — Fri, 26 May 2017 22:11:00 +0000

Damn Moneyball came out in 2011 which means the events he’s talking about occurred around 2009ish. He’s still carrying that with him? And Jonah Hill was nominated for an Oscar? For that?

That movie kills me because they make it seem like the Oakland A’s won a championship by applying their “moneyball” practices when in fact they didn’t and then they make it sound like the Boston Red Sox adopted their methods and went on to win a World Series when in fact the Red Sox had the second highest payroll in MLB behind the Yankees and it took a total collapse of the Yankees, who had a 3-0 ALCS series lead, for them to reach the WS and finally win their first title since the days of Ruth.