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The Dugout: Oakland Athletics Spring Training 2010

The AL West continues to prove itself a bizarre and uninhabitable place as the Dugout's 2010 Spring Training event skips Oakland completely and heads straight into Hollywood. Billy Beane and the book "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, or How I Learned to Stop Working Out and Love the Balm" are being made into a...

A's Show Signs Of Life, but Is It Sign of Bright Future in Oakland?

OAKLAND -- The A's rebuilding plan may appear to be progressing quickly with the team's hot streak, but don't expect GM Billy Beane to make any big splashes on marquee players this winter to fill out the picture. He tried that last winter. Didn't work. Only after the A's got rid of Matt Holliday, Jason Giambi and Orlando...

Jason Giambi Released by Oakland

After signing a free agent deal with the Oakland A's prior to the start of the 2009 season, Jason Giambi has endured a rough season. It just got a bit worse, as Giambi has been released by the A's. He had been on the disabled list with a quad injury since June 20, before which he had compiled a league-worst -- among...

The 'Moneyball' Movie Is On Again

Weeks after the dramatic last-minute shelving of the Moneyball movie, Sony Pictures has unshelved it. The movie is back on again, this time with Aaron Sorkin writing the screenplay. Brad Pitt is still expected to play Billy Beane.That probably means we'll get all sorts of great scenes with Beane and Paul DePodesta talking...

Here's Your 'Moneyball' Movie Script, Sex Scene Included

Although the big movie studios have all balked at putting the best-selling baseball book 'Moneyball' on the silver screen, one of the versions of a screenplay for the movie has surfaced on Hollywood Elsewhere. (EDIT: The link to the actual script seems to have been removed.)I just finished reading through the whole thing...

BillyBeane News From the Web

05/22/12 Scouring the Oakland Coliseum for a Decent Meal Source: East Bay Express - Emeryville CA A couple weeks ago I headed over to the Coliseum to catch an A's game, taking advantage of the $2 ticket deal they have on Wednesdays.
05/21/12 The Lies of Moneyball and Online Advertising Source: Portfolio.com T here's been many an article positing a parallel between Moneyball and online advertising.
05/18/12 SF Giants, Oakland A's limp into Bay Bridge series... Source: The San Francisco Examiner - San Francisco CA The Bay Bridge Series, which starts tonight at AT&T Park, will determine which of the teams is better at this point, but nothing more.
05/18/12 Billy Beane's Newest Rendition of the Oakland... Source: Bleacher Report Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane continues to build mediocre teams that aren't good enough to contend for the playoffs but aren't bad enough to put the team in position to pick at the top of the draft.
05/17/12 Ian Herbert: Fenway have identified their Billy Beane Source: The Independent - London - UK In so many ways, he fits the criteria which Fenway Sports Group has laid out for a manager, and the name of his club happens to be quoted regularly by one of the sportsmen to whom John W Henry ascribes great value â the "Moneyball" king Billy Beane, whom he tried and failed to sign at the Boston Red Sox. Wigan are to the Premier League what Beane's Oakland As are to baseball, Beane is fond of saying.