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Why Moneyball Matters

One of the great things about movies is they can make an experience that only a select group have and make it universal. Moneyball, while a good movie on a number of fronts, became great because it was able to capture the experience of watching baseball.

Baseball isn’t really an exciting game, except for a few select moments. What it is, especially late in the season, is a suspenseful game. To an invested viewer, the wait between pitches becomes excruciating, and each pitch represents an individual battle. If you’re ahead, every ball feels like a tiptoe closer to the ledge. If you’re behind, every out represents your finite number of chances slipping away. Moneyball uses your standard cinematic tricks to pump up the suspense behind its in-game moments (slow motion! backstories! cherrypicking the most exciting moments!), but in doing so gives the average viewer an experience closer to that which a die-hard fan has than any scene from a real game ever could.

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