“Scott Hatteburg.” “Who?” “Exactly. Sounds like an Oakland A already.” Underrated part of the script right there LOL 😂

The only scene better: "I've never played first base". "Its not that hard, tell him Wash". "Its incredibly hard." LOL.

“Billy that doesn’t look right” “No look you gotta carry the one” “Ah.” What a wholesome old man 😂

I remember in little league my coach gave us a similar pep talk where he emphasized how you can win every game without ever hitting a home run, triple, or even double, and that all we need to focus on is getting somebody, ANYBODY, to home plate. I'll never forget when he said "A walk with bases full is exactly the same amount of points as a home run with bases empty."

The acting is so good all around here. Feels like we're snooping on a real meeting in a documentary or something.

I like the old guy who understood their place at the table. He’s a man of honor.

The fact that the head scout is played by an actual baseball player and coach who hates Billy Beane irl is genius. Such a good casting decision.

The fact that this revolutionary change in baseball scouting has brought 7 more professional seasons for an almost finished Scott Hatteburg is so heart-warming.

"Does Pete need to be here" "Yes he does" Nothing better than validation.

"Do I care if it's a walk or a hit?... Pete?" "You do not." Best moment.

"Check your reports or I'm gonna point at Pete." My favorite line in the movie.

That old schooler at the end of this scene who humbles everyone by explaining the roles of everyone in the room, the “we make suggestions” guy……. There aren’t enough people like him anymore.

"Why are you still going out with her, after everything she's done to you??" ...Because she gets on base

"Check your notes or I'm going to point at Pete..." LOL. I love this line!

Easily one of Brad Pitts best performances. He nails this character out of the ballpark, pardon the pun.

One of the reasons I love this scene and watch over and over, is that besides Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill, no one else looks like a Hollywood actor, like they were picked right out of the Oakland A scouting staff. Makes the whole scene especially authentic.

The older guy with the hearing aid nailed it. GM doesn't answer to the scouts. He's the man. He answers to the owner and God

For anyone curious as to how they did, these are the OBPs in 2002 for the 3 players mentioned in the clip: Je.Giambi: .390 Justice: .376 Hatteberg: .374

The fact that no one thought of this before 2002 is the most mind boggling thing ever.

The atmosphere in this scene feels so unbelievably realistic. Its masterfully done

“We are card counters, at the blackjack table, and we’re gonna turn the odds on the casino.” I loved this line.

"Lucky to get 60 games out of him". Justice played 118 games that season. Avg 266. OBP (which was all they cared about) 376 (just 2 tenths of a point below his career average). So they got almost twice as many games as this character predicts with an OBP consistent with some of his best years. To the extent that the baseball establishment predicted Justice was a long way from performing at his peak level... they were wrong. By emphasizing his ability to stretch out the at-bat and draw walks, Justice ended his career with one of his strongest seasons. His ratio of walks to strikeouts for his final season was one of the best of his career.

My heart would swell with pride if an old man respected me enough to accept I had the decision. That level of respect from one's elder is a truly epic moment.

This movie is a fine example of how you don't need huge, insane, budgets, explosions, and special effects to make a good movie. And the only big "star" you have is Pitt - and he was one of the producers. Character-driven. Well-acted. Well-directed. Everything comes together here. Goes to show that talent wins. Another good example is The Big Short - also one of Pitt's smaller films.

I watched this movie as someone who knows absolutely nothing about Baseball (no, I still have no clue. I come from a cricketing nation.) and was completely blown away by it. The Baseball, to me, was just the glue that held the movie together. Incredible acting, magnificent pacing, and brilliant writing. Jonah Hill really went against character and showed the world how good an actor he is. This movie got very little love when it was first released. I also loved the fact that there was no forced romantic subplot or weird twist. Just high drama about picking the right players and winning games by playing the system better than anyone else.

"We make suggestions, he makes decisions" One of the best lines I've ever heard and it completely sums up being a leader.

I love how this scene really feels like dudes in a room talking, not just actors in a room acting. It was so well done…

In 2002 Justice played in 118 games & his OBP was .376 Hatteberg OBP .374 & his BA was .280 Jeremy Giambi OBP .390 Eric Chávez hit 31-HR 109-RBI Miguel Tejada hit 34-HR 131-RBI Jermaine Dye hit 24-HR 86-RBI Barry Zito went 24-5 Tim Hudson 15-9 Mark Mulder 19-7 Record was 103-59 finished 1st AL west Lost in AL division series vs Minnesota Twins (3-2) Heck of season!!!

I loved this scene. A bunch of real retired scouts came back to do the scene with Pitt. "I don't like him. He got an ugly gf. Means no confidence on the field." 😂

That old man who had brads back is the real OG. TELL EM WHOSE BOSS

I like that a lot of what the scouts said did come back to Billy eventually, 1) Giambi's attitude WAS bad for the team 2) Hatteburgs home run. Because he wasn't brought to the team to hit game winning home runs, he was brought on to get a base hit or a walk. Baseball is unpredictable, the most beautiful thing about baseball is that a man that was probably about to retire as a free agent with a messed up elbow hits a walk off home run to cap off the biggest winning streak in a century. On a team he shouldn't have been on playing a position he doesnt know. That's what baseball is. You can become a hero with just one very loud crack.

The atmosphere in this scene feels so unbelievably realistic. Its masterfully done. That subtle quiet "You gotta carry the one" .

My favorite line of this movie: *pointing to the notes with his stats* “If he’s a good hitter why doesn’t he hit good?”

Scott Hatteburg. Who? Star Lord man. The legendary outlaw.

I think the reason I like BP in the role so much, is he doesn't over act anything. This feels real. This doesn't feel like a movie scene, I feel like a fly on the wall as I watch this. Great scene, great movie.

I love the camera work in this. It's like somebody was taping an actual strategy session, in and out of focus, heads bobbing in and out of the shot, camera moving back and forth between the people talking. So realistic.

The guy who plays brady is incredibly underrated in this film. He literally matches Pitt and Hill's acting and almost owns the scene in my opinion. he displays annoyance and jealousy so damn well. My brother and I often quote, "That sounds like fortune cookie wisdom to me billy."

This movie holds up. Billy Beane didn’t perfect this nerd formula for baseball but he was certainly on to something. This is how the game is managed now.

If you really notice the subtlety in this scene, every time the scouts mention what's wrong with the player, they are mentioning size, age, attitude, injury history, defensive ability. None of these things are relevant to who they are replacing (Giambi). Giambi was a DH/1b, that position requires the least amount of athletic ability of any position on the field and they rarely have to throw during a play. So Hatteburg and Jeremy Giambi could hold that position down for a fraction of the price. They were saying David Justice's legs won't last, he was going to be nothing more than a DH, he would get 4 at-bats against right handed pitchers during a game, and never have to play the field. But they were so entrenched with finding "baseball players" when all they needed was to replace the production.

I appreciate the oldest looking guy among all those old guys telling everybody to cool it and let Billy make the decisions. He might not get it but he gets it.

I love the line "That's Pete". Definitely a reference to the earlier scene when Billy asks him "who the hell are you?" and he just keeps answering "I'm Pete"

That subtle quiet "You gotta carry the one" 😆🤣

The way the marker cover flips after Billy spits it on the desk always kills me 🤣

This scene in my opinion this scene is the best acting of Jonah Hill's career. He says just 4 words yet he owns this entire scene. The writing is excellent and collapses into 4 words the essence of the entire film. Hill is both the hammer and the nail that makes it work. What 4 words do you remember about Moneyball? He gets on base. Overall Pitt and Hill have what critics call chemistry and Hill who I am not a fan of both matches and compliments Pitt in this film.

This was the point where baseball scouting went from being guesswork with the odds shifted a little by experience and intelligent guesswork, to a rigorous, scientific process. There were two people in the room who knew where things were going (strictly speaking, one who knew because he is the one who came up with the process, and one who was hoping it would work, because he would be fired if it didn't). While the rest of the attendees were present for the start of the final phase of their careers, and not many seemed to realise it.

"Boston wants to cut him and no one wants to pick him up." "That is good for us, he is cheap." The other coaches uses emotion, but Pitt uses logic

'you got to carry the one' is my favourite line is this film

Such a fantastic scene, because of the varying personalities in the room. Also, it was important for the older scout to inform everyone in the room who the boss really was...nice ! 👍

Just appreciate that despite these guys being old thinkers, they have an absolutely Amazing FULL analysis of every single player mentioned. There wasn't a player you could throw on the board that they didn't have knowledge and an extensive background on. And to top it all off, it was Pete who discovered an overlooked and tremendous portion of that analysis that could be used in their favor despite the heaping amounts of cons and negatives with each player.

"We make suggestions, he makes decisions". One of my favorite lines.

“We make suggestions, he makes decisions”. The wise old man gets it, the GM is the man and doesn’t have to yield to the scouts.

“recreate him in the aggregate” “in the what?”

"...and we need people that can play" Wow, riveting philosophy.

Ron Washington finally got. A ring after 40+ yrs in baseball, so glad for him.

Underrated facet of this scene: that Billy writes every player in sharpie and then throws the magnet at the board irreverently.

“Old man Justice?!” Bruh everyone in that room is probably twice the age of Justice with the exception of Pete.

I'm Norwegian and don't have a clue about baseball, but I still think this is a really good movie.

"Whooo?.." "Exactly. Sounds like an Oakland A already" The best line from this

"When I point you...yah" gotta love pete and billy's chemistry😂

That old man at the end who understands his place, and all the scouts' place, is the GOAT

As a connoisseur of Brad Pitt throwing things this movie ranks right up with Fight Club

“Scott Hattaberg? Who?” “Exactly, sounds like an Oakland A already” 😂

An excellent film. I was not a Pitt fan until I watched this movie. This part could not have been played any better by anyone.

All the scouts in this scene are fantastic. And the way it's shot. If I didn't recognize the faces of some of these guys I'd swear this was a docco.

I went to MCHS with Billy Beane, class of 1980. Nice guy. He enters class reunions charisma first.

Scout: Billy he's got a clubbed hand and is missing both of his legs. Why do you want him? Billy: Guys look at the report or I'm going to point at Pete. All the Scouts: ...He gets on base Billy: He gets on base!

I love the way that when Billy (Pitt) is writing Hatteburg on the magnetic strip, the camera flashes over the guy at the end of the table. For a split second the focus adjusts and you can see behind him a yellow strip that says “Pratt. C” on it. Now, I don’t know anything about baseball, so this C. Pratt could be an Oakland A’s player, but the fact that Chris Pratt is playing Scott Hatteburg is really fucking cool. Even if it wasn’t intentional, I absolutely love it.

Every time I rewatch this movie, it just gets better and better! It’s now one of my favorite baseball movies.

3:03 - 3:06 is probably one of the funniest things I've ever heard in a movie.

Baseball is meaningless to me and I love this entire film. This scene right here is amazing

The subtleties of good acting are flawless. It's the little things that allow you to forget you're watching a movie. I've been in board meeting (telecommunications) and the pacing and beat of this scene was spot on. "That's Pete" 'Yes he does" while removing the marking top and spitting it out. No one overly talking trying to create unnecessary banter. The undertones of change to their new lives. PERFECT scene.

Glad someone knew what baseball is really about. 1) heart to play the game. 2) get on base. I pitched in college and beyond a little. In summer leagues I batted 3rd, was usually second in home runs and possibly first in getting on base. I'd sneak in on batting practice in college until the coach yelled at me to 'get the hell out of there!' In college I batted a grand total of twice. I hit two doubles. Both times I stood on second and just glared at the coach. 🤷🤷🤷

What I like about this movie is that we can clearly notice Sorkin's dialogue, but the performances actually make it sound realistic. Not that I don't like his usual impossibly fast conversations, but it's nice too see his characters talking like real people for a change.

"THIS is NOT a discussion" "...what are we discussing?" "Barry, not a discussion" 😂

This whole scene, the back and forth, pure poetry!

Moneyball: The story of how the best rotation in baseball, an MVP at shortstop, a gold glove third baseman, and Scott Hatteburg made it to the wild card round.

The greatest example of editing you will EVER see! This is a lesson on change and how everyone reacts to it. It's all of us in that room. The overriding theme in this scene is how everyone was focusing on physical attributes" "thick around the waist", "legs are gone", "bat speed", "unrepairable nerve damage." This scene is brilliant!

David Justice sure can get on base. 70 walks and only 66 strikeouts for the A's in his last mlb season. 903 BB and 999 SO with a .378 OBP for his career.

Love the way he bites the cover of the marker and spits it out. Never noticed that.

So many good ones in the movie, but this is definitely one of the best scenes. Good job at setting the tone & backs up the decision to recruit Pete.

So apparent when a movie is crafted instead of just thrown together with a lot of special effects and attractive people. This was just one great scene in a great movie.

"Does Pete really need to be here?" Yeah. I'm the GM. It's my meeting. So yeah, if I want him, he needs to be here.

I actually love the line: you gotta carry the one

This is such an effective scene and they cast all the small parts well. I recognize some of these actors from other movies, but if you told me 2/3 of them were actual baseball scouts, I'd believe you.

Love the contrast in this scene between the old way of thinking which takes into account unimportant factors (pitching motion, off-field, looks, etc.) and the new analytics-driven thinking, but the issue raised about one of the guys only being able to play 60 games seems to be totally legitimate. Without knowing to much about baseball analytics, it seems that someone's value-added is more or less directly proportional to the number of games they play in, which seems like something analytics should definitely care about. Can't get on base if you're not playing

Such an underrated film with a deceptive premise. It fit the subject matter perfectly, as fans and non-fans alike were shown, step-by-step, the evolution of an entire sport.

So many underrated parts about this movie, but my god did they nail the casting of all of these guys at the table

When you really think about it, it’s actually funny how all those guys were so flabbergasted at a gm wanted a guy who gets on base for his baseball team.

3:08 as he mentions Scott Hatteberg and camera pans you can see "Pratt C" in gold name plate on the whiteboard behind the coach.

I love the part in the beginning before Brad Pitt starts talking. You can see him thinking in my head, "am I really going to do this $hit...? Yep, let's do it..."

Cinimaticaly, this is a great scene. It displays the friction between a new idea and an established way of doing things. I've seen scenarios like this play out before. I also think there is a demonstration of a lack of leadership on the part of the Billy Bean character that I have seen play out this way in real life too. I'm talking about the way the Bean character starts implementing the new strategy without, apparently, introducing the new ideas to his team of scouts. He set up this unnecessary conflict. Leaders sometimes do this for several reasons. First, to keep the rest of the team on the wrong foot. When they look out of step the leader looks like the only one with a clue, and thus, indispensable and valuable. Second, when things go right there is no need to share the credit. Third, when things go wrong you can blame a team, or members of it, that did not buy into the program. It makes it easier to replace parts of the team that the leader may have wanted to replace from the beginning. A stronger leader would have educated the team on the new strategy. He would have given them ample time and resources to learn about it and think it over. He could have addressed their concerns before the time to make the roster. You see the Bean character acknowledge this on the scene where he discusses with the Art Howe character that Howe wasn't playing Hatteberg on 1st base. Bean acknowledges that he should have informed Howe about the strategy from the beginning.

I remember watching this for a class assignment in college. This was a great film.

One of my favorite books ever- it's more about thinking differently and changing your historic behaviors than it is about baseball. The movie definitely took some liberties with the facts for entertainment purposes, but it does need to be pointed out that all three of the players mentioned in this scene ended up with OBP's over .364..... exactly as predicted. Hatteberg had a .374 OBP, Giambi was at .390 and Justice came in at .376.

1:58 is what my bosses say about me during meetings

"That doesn't look right -- that doesn't come out right." "You've got to carry the 1..." I always love hearing the small background and side conversations in a movie.

It's funny because "Scott Hattiesburg, who?" Also defined Chris Pratt at the time. Now...We know who Chris Pratt is. This movie was the first to make me really recognize Chris as an actor.

The oldest guy in the room was the only one to point out what they’re actually there for, props to him for having that wisdom!

“Scott Hatteberg” “WHO?” “Exactly. He sounds like an Oakland A already” I love that line

If you don't love this movie I can't imagine why, love me some baseball. Even more love for BP, he is the man. Laid back, cool and doesn't care what anybody thinks. They couldn't have found a better person to play this role. I have watched this movie numerous times, and it still catches my attention every time.

"guys check the reports or I'm going to point at Pete." that threat gets me back to this scene every time XD