Moneyball (2011)

Ken Medlock: Grady Fuson

Quotes 

• [after an argument about Billy's statistical approach to baseball instead of trusting his scouts] 

  Billy Beane : I'm not gonna fire you, Grady.

  Grady Fuson : Fuck you, Billy.

  Billy Beane : Now I will.

• Billy Beane : Guys, you're just talking. Talking, "la-la-la-la", like this is business as usual. It's not.

  Grady Fuson : We're trying to solve the problem here, Billy.

  Billy Beane : Not like this you're not. You're not even looking at the problem.

  Grady Fuson : We're very aware of the problem. I mean...

  Billy Beane : Okay, good. What's the problem?

  Grady Fuson : Look, Billy, we all understand what the problem is. We have to...

  Billy Beane : Okay, good. What's the problem?

  Grady Fuson : The problem is we have to replace three key players in our lineup.

  Billy Beane : Nope. What's the problem?

  Pittaro : Same as it's ever been. We've gotta replace these guys with what we have existing.

  Billy Beane : Nope. What's the problem, Barry?

  Scout Barry : We need 38 home runs, 120 RBIs and 47 doubles to replace.

  Billy Beane : Ehh!

  [imitates buzzer] 

  Billy Beane : The problem we're trying to solve is that there are rich teams and there are poor teams. Then there's fifty feet of crap, and then there's us. It's an unfair game. And now we've been gutted. We're like organ donors for the rich. Boston's taken our kidneys, Yankees have taken our heart. And you guys just sit around talking the same old "good body" nonsense like we're selling jeans. Like we're looking for Fabio. We've got to think differently. We are the last dog at the bowl. You see what happens to the runt of the litter? He dies.

• Billy Beane : [during a meeting with his scouts]  If we try to play like the Yankees in here, we will lose to the Yankees out there.

  Grady Fuson : Boy, that sounds like fortune-cookie wisdom to me, Billy.

  Billy Beane : No, that's just logic.

• Grady Fuson : Artie, who do you like?

  Scout Artie : I like Perez. He's got a classy swing; its a real clean stroke.

  Scout Barry : He can't hit a curve ball.

  Scout Artie : Yeah, there's some work to be done, I'll admit that.

  Scout Barry : Yeah, there is.

  Scout Artie : But he is noticeable.

  Matt Keough : And an ugly girlfriend.

  Scout Barry : What does that mean?

  Matt Keough : Ugly girlfriend means no confidence.

  Scout Barry : OK.

  [Beane buries his head in hands out of frustration with the conversation] 

  John Poloni : Now you guys are full of it. Artie's right. This guy's got an attitude and an attitude is good. I mean it's the kind of guy who walks into a room and his dick has already been there for two minutes.

  Phil Pote : He passes the eye candy test. He's got the looks. He's great at playing the part. He just needs to get some playing time.

  Matt Keough : I'm just saying his girlfriend is a 6 at best.

• Grady Fuson : Who's that?

  Billy Beane : That's Pete.

  Grady Fuson : Does Pete really need to be here?

  Billy Beane : Yes, he does.

• Billy Beane : Guys, you're still trying to replace Giambi. I told you we can't do it, and we can't do it. Now, what we might be able to do is re-create him. Re-create him in the aggregate.

  Grady Fuson : The what?

  Billy Beane : Giambi's on-base percentage was .477. Damon's on-base, .324. And Olmedo's was .291. Add that up, and you get...

  [snapping his fingers and pointing at Pete] 

  Peter Brand : Do you want me to speak?

  Billy Beane : When I point at you, yeah.

  Peter Brand : 1.092.

  Billy Beane : [snapping]  Divided by three.

  Peter Brand : .364.

  Billy Beane : That's what we're looking for. Three ballplayers... three ballplayers whose average OBP is...

  [snapping] 

  Peter Brand : .364.

• Grady Fuson : [to Billy]  We'll be lucky to get 60 games out of him. Why do you like him?

  [Billy points to Pete] 

  Peter Brand : Because he gets on base.

• Grady Fuson : Major League Baseball thinks the way I think. You're not gonna win. And I'll give you a nickel's worth of free advice. You're never gonna get another job after this catastrophic season you're about to set us all up for. You'll have to explain to your kid why you're working at Dick's Sporting Goods.

• Grady Fuson : Major League Baseball and its fans, they're gonna be more than happy to throw you and Google Boy under the bus if you keep doing what you're doing. You don't put a team together with a computer.

  Billy Beane : No?

  Grady Fuson : No. Baseball isn't just numbers. It's not science. If it was, anybody could do what we're doing, but they can't. They don't know what we know. They don't have our experience and our intuition.

  Billy Beane : Okay.

  Grady Fuson : Okay. You got a kid in there that's got a degree in economics from Yale. You got a scout here with You're listening to the wrong one. Now, there are intangibles that only baseball people understand. You're discounting what scouts have done for 150 years? Even yourself?

  Billy Beane : Adapt or die.