Everywhere I go I end up learning something new or gaining a different viewpoint for old topics. Last night my husband and I had a lovely evening out. We went to see Moneyball. Great story. Great actors. I highly recommend it for an entertaining evening, but it was not the enjoyment of the plot and characters that I came away with. It was something I learned in one of the very last scenes of the movie:
Henry, Red Sox owner, offers Beane twelve million dollars to leave Oakland and come to Boston and be his general manager. Bean looks at him and says, but I lost the game. Why would you offer me this? Henry says to him, with the “can’t see the forest for the trees” reasoning, “You didn’t lose the game. You revolutionized baseball. The first one to break through the wall always takes a bloodbath.”
Wow. How true. The first one to go where none has gone before has to break through (what in my mind is a big green wall – Red Sox fan) and when you burst through, you bruise and bleed, but you’re through. Everyone after you simply walks through the hole.
Hmmm….lots of situations suddenly come to mind…..
And so, as another day goes by, enough wisdom for today – the Patriot game just started, and….I have written.
Haven’t seen the movie, but I did hear the NPR interview with Brad Pitt who stars in the movie. Sounds like a fascinating story. How did this guy who had little education, learn so much about statistics? There is hope for those of us who are still clueless when it comes to math. 🙂
I want to see that movie. I instead say The Dolphin Movie with two adorable twin boys. It was actually a good movie.