
I am a huge Aaron Sorkin fan so news that Moneyball was a sports movie with a hint of Aaron Sorkin was of natural interest to me.
loved the one line quips in the movie, very sorkin-esque, however the plot behind the movie, which is a true story is that of a general manager trying to run his franchise in a very particular way, not in the conventional manner, not in the way all the other franchises and all the other coaches are used to it running.
Sounds great doesn’t it, the problem is that not everyone is in tune with the song he’s trying to sing. His coach doesn’t believe in the players he’s signed to play in the position he wants them to play in and so the coach plays a team separate to what the general manager wants him to do.
In the movie, there’s a line ‘the first one through a brick wall always gets Bloody’. Trying to make changes are hard, but when doing so everyone needs to be on board, one of the hurdles was the coach and the general manager had completely different opinions on who was to play where, so in the end what did the general manager do, removed the hurdle. He traded the players the coach wanted to play and so he had to play the players the GM wanted. After talking to the players and explaining what he wanted to achieve they ALL had to play in a very particular way for them to succeed, they couldn’t play in the traditional manner and hope to compete, each member of the team had to their bit in order to succeed.
What was the result, They went on a 20 game winning streak. The biggest winning streak in the history of baseball in the US
As the movie states he didn’t win the last game of the season but what the GM did was change the way the game was played, the only way he could do that is get everyone on board and removed any hurdles in his way.
I urge you to watch moneyball, I thoroughly enjoyed, my favourite line in the movie was ”when your enemies are making mistakes, don’t interrupt them’ but I learnt that if you want to make a fundamental change and your belief is absolute then remove the hurdles and don’t let them stand in the way. Remember it could have all gone tragically wrong, he could have lost every game in the season, He was being laughed at by the seasoned and retired pros, he could have been ridiculed and lost his job, but because his belief was absolute, he changed the professional game.
regs
Ollie


