This is a really great movie--if you know nothing about baseball. If you do know a thing or two about baseball, it's still good, but there's a real mountain to climb in trying to separate the fact from the fiction, to ignore all the stuff that the movie ignores and take it for what it is--which is a highly fictionalized, very narrowly focused version of what happened with the 2002 Athletics. It is, perhaps, a tribute to the skill of the filmmakers that even a very involved fan can see beyond those limitations and still find a very enjoyable movie. Your personal history will decide how you perceive these two-plus hours of cinema. For this viewer, it was like a double play turn at second: the second baseman may have been off the bag, but the "neighborhood play" gets him the call. Posted .
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