Then enjoy the trailer for Bavasiball:
[Bill Bavasi sitting around table of scouts]
Bavasi: There are good GMs, there are bad GMs, then there’s fifty feet of crap, then there’s me.
[Fan in Mariner hat trying to open newspaper vending machine. Fan 2 walks past him looking a his phone]
Fan 2: We just traded Asdrubal Cabrera for Eduardo Perez?
Fan: What?
Fan 2: Welcome to Seattle.
[Inside Howard Lincoln's office]
Bavasi: I need more money to sign past their prime sluggers.
Lincoln: Okay.
[Bill Bavasi sitting around table of scouts]
Scout: I like Shin-soo Choo.
Scout 2: He’s got a really high Wins Above Replacement.
Scout 3: Beautiful on-base percentage means good player.
[Bavasi mocking them with his hand]
Bavasi: You guys are talking the same old nonsense like we’re looking for 'Two Outs So What.' We’ve got to think differently.
[Bavasi is talking to Lee Pelekoudas in parking garage]
Pelekoudas: Your goal shouldn't be to buy wins, it should be to compete with the big market teams. In order to compete with the those teams, you need to trade prospects for middling to somewhat decent role players.
Bavasi: Who are you?
Pelekoudas: Lee Pelekoudas
Bavasi: First job?
Pelekoudas: You’d think so.
[Bavasi’s in front of a 2005 MLB Draft Board]
Bavasi: We’re going to shake things up. Why don’t you walk me through the board.
Pelekoudas: I believe there is a championship team that we can afford because well we have the third pick in the draft. However, let’s get the guys everyone else under values. They can join our island of washed-up toys.
[Bavasi and Mike Hargrove are inside Jeff Clement’s house]
Bavasi: We want you at catcher.
Clement: What about Braun, Tulowitzki, Zimmerman, McCutchen, Bruce, Ellsbury?
Bavasi: It’s not that hard to pass those guys up, tell him Grover.
Hargrove: It’s incredibly hard.
[Shots of Matt Clement striking out in a Rainiers uniform]
[Bavasi sitting around table of scouts]
Scout: He can’t hit.
Bavasi: But what can he do [snaps fingers at Pelekoudas]
Pelekoudas: You want me to speak?
Bavasi: When I point at you, yeah.
Pelekoudas: He can bounce back and forth between AAA and a major league bench until his options run out.
[Slow motion shot of Scott Spezio taking a called third strike]
Bavasi: We are card counters at the black jack table, taking very bad hunches, betting way too much on crappy hands, doubling down with a 10 and a 5, just getting killed by the casino.
[Bavasi standing behind home plate before game with a fan]
Fan: I’m heading out.
Bavasi: Wait, what?
Fan: I don’t watch the games.
Bavasi: Do you want me to text you the play by play.
Fan: Jesus, no!
[Shots of stadium flags, Bavasi throwing chairs, John McLaren lashing out at media]
Sports Talk Caller V/O: Billy Bavasi is trying to re-invent a system that was working for years. It’s an absolutely awful theory, and predictably it’s not working out.
[Bavasi sitting alone in an empty Safeco Field. Close up on his eyes. Camera pushes to back to reveal there is a game going on]
Sports Talk Caller 2 V/O: He’s proving himself right out of a job, right, I mean he has to be, right?
[Mike Hargove climbing in red truck]
[Chuck Armstrong taking to Bavasi]
Armstrong: In their minds drafting Josh Fields and trading away so much potential is threatening the game, it’s threatening the way that they do things.
[Bavasi at home with his daughter]
Daughter: Hey Daddy, do you think you’re going to draft Tim Lincecum?
Bavasi: What? Where did you hear that?
Daughter: The internet says he's the best pitcher available.
Bavasi: Don’t go on the internet, or watch TV, or talk to people who understand how to correctly evaluate talent.
[Scout and Bavasi in hallway]
Scout: You’re discounting what anyone with a brain and any baseball IQ has been doing for years. I know I phrased that like a question, but I’m actually telling you that's what you’re doing.
[Shot of toilet paper streaming on to field]
[Bavasi looking over edge of ferry boat rail]
Bavasi: What the hell am I doing?
Person: Taking a 100 win team and turning it into a 100 loss team, and doing it very fast.
[Shots of Mariners striking out, fans leaving in the fourth inning]
Niehaus: What is happening in Seattle? Seriously, what the hell is going on here?
Sportscaster: It defies everything we know about building a winning franchise.
FSNNW: They may be losing all the time, but they’re trying their hardest. What a great group of fellas.
[Dramatic shot of Ben Broussard hitting a seventh inning solo home run in a 7-1 game]
Bavasi V/O: If we win with this team it will change the game of baseball in an extremely shitty way.
BAVASIBALL
[Bavasi and Armstrong standing near the batting cage]
Armstrong: This better work or you’re fired…I’m just kidding you.
