The Far-Reaching Influence of 'Moneyball'
What if there was a systematic method to develop the best baseball team? Eight years ago, Michael Lewis's book "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game" exposed how Billy Beane, general manager of...
View ArticleMovie Date: Moneyball
In this week's Movie Date podcast, Kristen, Rafer, join a baseball-loving guest in discussing stats movie "Moneyball," starring Brad Pitt. Can a movie about baseball statistics be remotely interesting?...
View ArticleCardinals Investigated for Hacking Astros
Deflategate, meet hackgate.News of the latest big-league sports scandal broke on Tuesday when the FBI announced that it is investigating whether St. Louis Cardinals officials hacked into the computer...
View ArticleOpinion: Can Santorum Beat Romney? The Answer is in Moneyball
The second anniversary of the Citizens United decision ignited a firestorm of activism. The astonishing ad buys of the newly constituted Super PACs make the most jaded political observers do a double...
View ArticleSlate: The Culture Gabfest, Great Granola Showdown Edition
In this week's Culture Gabfest, Slate’s June Thomas joins the discussion to parse the massive success of the Anglophile hit Downtown Abbey. Next, Gabfesters debate whether Moneyball hits a home run or...
View ArticleMusic’s Moneyball; The Sound Of Museums; Blind Date With Isabel Leonard
In This Episode: If you’ve been keeping an eye on the art scene in New York, you may have noticed that there’s a lot of music in the city’s museums. We look at how institutions from The Whitney to the...
View ArticleThe Next Wave of Sports Analytics
The difference between winning or losing a game can come down to fractions of a second. Ben Shields, from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and Jessica Gelman, of the Kraft Sports Group, discuss how...
View ArticleHail Mary? Cleveland Browns Hire Mets' Moneyball Guru
It's been a big week in sports, with the NFL playoffs set to open this weekend and the announcement of the Baseball Hall of Fame's Class of 2016. But a front office move involving an executive from the...
View ArticleThe Men Who Started A Thinking Revolution
Season 6, Episode 29On this week's episode of Freakonomics Radio: Stephen J. Dubner interviews Michael Lewis about the two men who created behavioral economics, redefining how humans think and changing...
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