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Emotional Reactions to Moneyball

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Brett Alan Dewing
Jan 26, 2012
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I don't pretend to understand baseball, economics, or statistics.  Nor do I care much about them, as a result.  And so it was a foregone conclusion that I wouldn't like Moneyball, a film very much about all of those things.  I was prepared for this.

What I wasn't prepared for was the gut reaction I had to the film.  It made me angry and anxious, clenche…

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