Mark Mulder was one of the stars of the “Moneyball” Oakland A’s back in 2002. But, until last night, he had never seen “Moneyball,” the movie that depicted that team and that season. Well, mostly did. If you watched it you’d get the impression that team was all castoffs and old men and didn’t have an amazing young pitching staff, but never you mind.
Anyway, Mulder started off:
Since @kimberlybhudson husband doesn’t believe I haven’t watched Moneyball yet, I’ll watch tonight finally and give my opinion on it later.
— Mark Mulder (@markmulder20) July 3, 2014
And had several fun observations, some of the debunking variety, many of which I wondered about the first time I saw the movie too:
No. We never paid for drinks from a machine in clubhouse.
— Mark Mulder (@markmulder20) July 3, 2014
No. Paul DePodesta didn’t sit back with the players
— Mark Mulder (@markmulder20) July 3, 2014
Go read the rest of his tweets here. Overall: he liked the movie. And seemed to do what a lot of people who watched the movie were unable to do: accept that movies sometimes fictionalize real life events for dramatic purposes and not get too hung up on it.
