Oakland, California

However, the next article I’m going to talk about gives us the exact locations where the quake hit California areas. This article named, “The California Quake: “I Don’t Want to Die in Here”: Disaster Areas…” This article was written and published in the New York Times in 1989, which is a while from the actual event. This article clearly describes 7 counties that affected by…

If everything is a text, then let’s analyze people and their sports teams. Why do people like the teams they do, and what makes them like them so much, that they stay loyal to one day till the day they die? The superstitions that people follow every week, or every season, is because those people are die-hard fans of that team. People sacrifice so much to be able to watch their teams every season. Some people like sports teams because of who their parents like. When a kid watches their first…

Moneyball The 2011 motion picture Moneyball is based upon the Oakland Athletics 2002 baseball season. The movie opens with a quote by Mickey Mantle, “It’s unbelievable how much you don’t know about the game you’ve been playing all your life” (as cited in De Luca, Horovitz, Pitt, & Miller, 2011). His words set the tone for movie as it focuses on the management side of baseball and the relationships of those involved with building a team. Faced with the lowest budget in the industry, Billy…

In the movie Moneyball, a drama from 2011 directed by Bennett Miller, it explains a struggle that the main character Billy Beane which is a general manager for the Oakland A’s encounters when choosing players for his team. Beane’s first problem is that he doesn’t have enough money to afford good players for his team, like for comparison the Yankees a team loaded with money. So him and Pete, a young man who knows numbers and stats are determined to find affordable players that are good enough to…

Moneyball, based on Michael Lewis’ 2003 book, details the struggle of the Oakland Athletics, a major baseball team. The Oakland A’s overcome some seemingly impossible obstacles with the help of their general manager, Billy Beane (Brad Pitt), by applying a new innovative statistical analysis, known as sabermetrics. Sabermetrics is the empirical analysis of baseball, or the use of statistical analysis to question the traditional measures of baseball (Birnbaum). The underlying theme of this movie…

When faced with the lowest income in the Major League, Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane had to think outside the box. Teaming up with an Ivy League graduate named Peter Brand, the two changed the way the league drafts and looks at their recruits. Beane looks for underrated and undervalued players labeled as broken in order to replace the three star players he could not afford. The A’s look for combinations of players at a cheap price that can get the job done and not three new and…

Company, 2011. Print), American author and journalist Michael Lewis artistically blends business and sports together in a story focused on finding the secret of being successful in baseball. Lewis tells the story of how the Major League Baseball team Oakland A’s, under the management of former player Billy Beane succeeded in transforming not only their own organization into a cost-efficient winning machine but revolutionized Major League Baseball as a whole. Despite a complete lack of knowledge…

Hills is home to two very different colleges, Oakland University and Rochester College. When the two meet it is much like the U of M versus MSU during football season. The RC versus OU hockey matches, known as the Battle of the Jug, is one of the biggest hockey series of the season. The Battle for the Jug is one of the few series of games that the city divides and one team comes out victorious. Rochester Hills is home to two very different colleges. Oakland University (OU), a public institution,…

“It is only recently that we have understood traumatic brain injuries, the helmets that we are using today were not designed to protect the brain, they are designed to protect the skull fracture”(University Study). People everywhere around the world are receiving concussions everyday for everyday activities or participating in a sport. A concussion is a temporary unconsciousness caused by a blow to the head. The term is also used loosely of the aftereffects such as confusion or temporary…

Carlos Ruiz has a value, the front office of ball clubs are tasked with finding out how much that is exactly. Until the years of the Oakland Athletics, under the general management of Billy Beane, sabermetrics had been regarded as an absurd way of placing value on players and a flawed system to predict wins based on runs produced. However, in 2002, the Oakland A’s won 20 consecutive games and advanced to the ALDS, all while the team only had 39,722,689 dollars to spend on players in free…