Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
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Oct 9, 2026
Luke RussertHOST
Best-selling author and journalist Michael Lewis will be here.
Luke RussertHOST
Moneyball, what's up? And Simone and Eugene just dropped a new episode of Clock It.
Luke RussertHOST
This week, they welcome a very special guest, our own Michael Steele.
Luke RussertHOST
Tough booking.
Molly Jong-FastHOST
It is so preposterous.
Molly Jong-FastHOST
[upbeat music] Michael Lewis is the author of many, many books, including Moneyball, The Undoing Project, and his latest, Blockers: Rebels in the Deep State.
Molly Jong-FastHOST
Welcome, welcome, Michael Lewis.
Michael LewisGUEST
Molly, good to see you.
Michael SmerconishHOST
It's a phenomenal list.
Michael SmerconishHOST
Liars Poker, The Money Culture, Pacific Rift, Losers, The New New Thing, Next, Moneyball, Coach, The Blindside, Home Game, The Big Short, Boomerang, Flash Boys, The Undoing Project, The Fifth Risk, The Premonition, Going Infinite, Who Is Government, and now...
Michael SmerconishHOST
Blockers, all books by Michael Lewis, and he joins me now.
Michael SmerconishHOST
Michael, thank you for coming back to the program.
Jacob GoldsteinHOST
You probably know Michael Lewis is one of the greatest nonfiction writers around.
Jacob GoldsteinHOST
He wrote Liar's Poker, Moneyball, The Big Short, among many others.
Jacob GoldsteinHOST
The new book is called Blockers.
Jacob GoldsteinHOST
It's about a handful of civil servants who dedicated their careers to government work until the Department of Government Efficiency, aka DOGE, came along.
Eric TopolHOST
Since 2019, this is the fifth book, and four of them are about the US government.
Eric TopolHOST
Did you ever think you're gonna move from Moneyball and undoing and all these other places, new, new thing, to the government?
Michael LewisGUEST
No. A-and I, it-it's, it's, I, I don- what I can't predict is what's gonna trigger my interest, and, um, what happened-- Donald Trump is what happened.
Michael LewisGUEST
I mean, it, that, it was...
30 MINS LATER
Eric TopolHOST
Yeah
Michael LewisGUEST
... and you see, you know...
Michael LewisGUEST
I remember when I wrote Moneyball, that's ages ago, and which is-- and I was an art history major.
Michael LewisGUEST
I'm not a scientist, but I get the difference between scientific thinking and the scientific method and how we most of us go through our lives.
Jacob GoldsteinHOST
You probably know Michael Lewis is one of the greatest nonfiction writers around.
Jacob GoldsteinHOST
He wrote Liar's Poker, Moneyball, The Big Short, among many others.
Jacob GoldsteinHOST
The new book is called Blockers.
Jacob GoldsteinHOST
It's about a handful of civil servants who dedicated their careers to government work until the Department of Government Efficiency, a.k.a. DOGE, came along.
Brendan LloydGUEST
That's a book that I really enjoyed.
Brendan LloydGUEST
The reason I even read that book was I love Moneyball by Michael Lewis.
Brendan LloydGUEST
Those books have a lot in common, and Moneyball is a great story.
Brendan LloydGUEST
Michael Lewis is a great writer.
Brendan LloydGUEST
Moneyball is a good read for sports fans too, but it's a business book at the end of the day.
Scott MacDonaldHOST
We went full circle back to the planning and the KPIs, so this has been a lot of fun.
Brendan LloydGUEST
This was great.
SamHOST
Hey, welcome back to Seven Minute Books.
SamHOST
I'm Sam, and today we're talking about Moneyball by Michael Lewis, the story of how the Oakland A's found a way to win with a payroll that was basically couch change in baseball terms.
SamHOST
Sophie, I have to ask you, what made you want to revisit this one?
SophieHOST
Hey there, Sam.
Ted DintersmithGUEST
Before we dump on statistics, which is easy to do because mostly the way it's taught does highlight the boring aspect.
Ted DintersmithGUEST
But I start my statistics chapter with a huge thank you to Bill James in baseball from Moneyball
Hank GreenHOST
and
Ted DintersmithGUEST
Michael Lewis and the film, which created this explosion of alternative, out-of-the-box, interesting statistics.
Mark JohnsonHOST
I don't know if you've actually heard of Michael Lewis.
Mark JohnsonHOST
He wrote Moneyball and others.
Mark JohnsonHOST
He wrote a book called Playing to Win about the sports industrial complex.
Mark JohnsonHOST
it's available on audible and just kind of how it grew and all the money that went behind it and and it started with apps right that people could pay do micropayments or micropayments but they get split their payments over 12 months right to make it more uh affordable for them but also the scheduling piece the interactive piece uh i would assume that's kind of what game changer does correct
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