>> caught by billy bean in skrfl! can you believe it? >> reporter: and a slugger at the plate. >> billy bean! grand slam. >> reporter: after a lucrative career on the tigers, dodgers and padres, he quit his dream job at just 31 years old, leaving millions unearned because he didn't thimpk the sport was ready for an active player who was gay. >> i went away for a long time. the fact that i'm sort of back in baseball after 15 years for the same reason i left it and come full circle is -- that moment is not lost on me. >> reporter: now the mlb front office and bud selig have drafted him because of it. this summer naming him mlb's first ambassador of inclusion. >> we want the people who play our game wish to be. >> reporter: be marvels at how the league and america has evolved since he first suited up. he suffered for years, tearing the seams of his professional and personal world apart. >> i was not comfortable with the reality of my sexual orientation and i needed help with that, but i couldn't put the two lives togethe

do you feel badly for billy beane?seball is over for me. >> seth: yeah. >> i pay no attention whatsoever. >> seth: yeah. [ applause ] >> it's horrible. i used to just like baseball. and now i like the a's. and it's not as rich an experience. but i'm stuck with it. >> seth: and you were going to write a sequel to "moneyball." is this correct? you had one planned? >> i sold it as two books. and the idea, actually "moneyball" was just the excuse to write the second book. and the idea for the book was, they got interested in the first place, they were drafting these kids out of college in 2002, based on stats, rather than what they looked like. and i thought, "i want to know what happens to them." so i followed them through the minor leagues for years and years and decided i'll wait until the last career from that draft is over and then i'm going to write that book. but yes, i'm writing another baseball book. [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: oh, that's really exciting because it is one of the best. and i hope billy beane s

when people say baseball and billy bean. >> not money ball. >> two different billy beans who were biggning champion of "up against the clock." i look on the board and saw zero. >> they are won or lost in the third round. you proved it today. what do you know now, jonathan, that you didn't know when the week began. >> it's a little phony, because i did know this when the week began. nonetheless, it gives me a chance to plug that it was announced by amazon that the show i'm an executive producer of which is called alpha house, stars john goodman and wanda sykes and mark consuelos, it's going to be binged release on october 24th. the entire second season. >> this is the members of congress that live together. >> i should mention that. four republican senators who live in a man cave on capitol hill. the show was created by gary trudeau of doonsbury fame. we recently completed the second season. all ten episodes of season two will be available on october 24th. if you sub skrip to amazon prime. now the season concludes with awe gay marriage. >> all right. a little tease there. >> how about

billy bean told reporters if he had to do it over again he'd still trade sespidas. y may be the only person on the planet that believes this is true. scary question is what do a's do now? trade everybody? but how? >> that is one thing we've been to the post season three years in a row. there are guys that are important to this club house that will be back. so we have, high hopes for next year. >> things should be interesting for 49ers this sunday return of alex smith. chiefs coming off of a route and smith razor sharp for 248 yards. niners coach today asked about not having to face the qb. >> they know alex did great. happy for success. >> he's done great things to help me. nothing but respect for him. >> great job and normally gets the ball out fast. just we've got to play our defense. play every day. >> raiders raiders players had nothing but praise. >> a good man lost his job. everyone has to take responsibility for that. you know? we needed to play better. you know? he's a good coach. now we have to move forward. i look forward to playing under him now. it's one

>> and a slugger at the plate. >> billy beane! grand slam!t just 31 years old, leaving millions unearned because he didn't think the world was ready for an active player that was gay. >> i went away for a long time, and the fact i'm sort of back in baseball after 15 years for the same reason i left it and come full circle, that moment is not lost on me. >> now the mlb front office and bud selig have drafted him because of it, this summer naming him mlb's first ambassador of inclusion. >> we want the people who make a living in our game to be who they wish to be. >> how america has evolved since he first suited up, he suffered in silence for years, his secret tearing the seams of his professional and personal worlds apart. >> i was not comfortable with the reality of my sexual orientation and i needed help with that, but i couldn't put the two lives together. the reason i walked away, i had a partner who passed away while i was on the padres, died in the emergency room at 7:00 a.m. in the morning and i had a 1:00 game that day that i played in

but billy bean and haiti have a movie done in your life you can take some chances of people read the ack and say something but it sure looks like billy mess with the wrong chemistry there. game over tigers oreo baltimore fans going crazy their 48,000. rego up for 2 in the eighth inning, got pereira the detroit tigers goes deep now 43 detroit back within a run baltimore break says it with nelson cruz delivering the goods here and then come see it right and landry, through as baltimore goes on to a blockage would now for 12 the three baltimore they lead the best of 51 of when you play seven games you lose one no big deal let us a 5 the get off on the wrong fork almost mandatory when game 2. >> : meanwhile goes on in the latest to stick up for jim harbaugh saying we love each other contact nick. airline >> : all the to know who the source as we get a source from that the we can talk about that until then definitely a deal. >> : caledon this walk-through somebody ripping former raider quarterback rich gannon on the flight of his old team. >> : but, if you got there bruce commitment to exc

, tune in for more exclusive interview for the league's newly appointed ambassador of inclusion billy bean for his personal story about waiting to come out after retiring from the major leagues. >> i was not comfortable with the reality of my sexual orientation and i needed help with that, but i couldn't put the two lives together. and i think that once i -- sharing my story, the reason i walked away, i had a partner who passed away while i was on the padres, died in the emergency room at 7:00 a.m. in the morning and i had a 1:00 game that day that i played in. >> you won't believe his story. now mlb has his back. he never thought he would be back. he's a mentor and pioneer and he's leading the way to help other athletes in sports. it is cool. you're going to want to hear that. we have the cooler for you. a check on the weather with bill. and bill karins might have to wear the orioles baseball cap. what do you think? oh, yeah. yes. let's hear it for bill karins and the orioles baseball cap. yeah, yeah, yeah. we're back after this. >>> the news that christopher reeve died of heart failure w

billy bean told reporters if he had to do it over again he'd still trade sespidas. y may be the only person on the planet that believes this is true. scary question is what do a's do now? trade everybody? but how? >> that is one thing we've been to the post season three years in a row. there are guys that are important to this club house that will be back. so we have, high hopes for next year. >> things should be interesting for 49ers this sunday return of alex smith. chiefs coming off of a route and smith razor sharp for 248 yards. niners coach today asked about not having to face the qb. >> they know alex did great. happy for success. >> he's done great things to help me. nothing but respect for him. >> great job and normally gets the ball out fast. just we've got to play our defense. play every day. >> raiders raiders players had nothing but praise. >> a good man lost his job. everyone has to take responsibility for that. you know? we needed to play better. you know? he's a good coach. now we have to move forward. i look forward to playing under him now. it's one

. >> miguel, hard to believe billy bean when we wouldn't have made the tradeoff with the sespades trade i guess you can because you don't want to deflate your team but it is hard to argue with they were cruising. that's the best record in baseball when they got rid of the guy for lester and the argument is that you would never trade an every day player for a guy that pitches every 5th day. bean has the confidence and can get away witted but he didn't win. >> michael, i will take all of harbaugh's strangeness over a guy that doesn't win. >> i think you are right. at the end of the day, if you are a fan, yes, if you are a media guy, yes, but if you own the team or you are somebody that has to deal with harbaugh every day, and you have a little pride in yourself, who knows, i don't know either but i'm just saying it is easy to say i'm a fan and i don't care what jim does because you are giving the guy five million dollars a year and you twitch every time you see him, as long as he wins, he is not going anywhere. >> i know where to find my nfl games for the baseball playoffs are the games o

. >> he is general manager, billy bean, told reporters if he had to do it all over again he would stillt? ! sorry. >> and now, without john lester the a's wouldn't have even made the playoffs. whatever. billy is one of the few people on the planet who believes this is true. anyway, after the epic collapse over the last few months and the extra inning loss what do they do now? they have to bolster the offense, i'm distressed. the manager, bob melvin is, is going to field the contender again. >> we have been to the post season three years in a row. and there are some guys here that are very important to this clubhouse on and off the field and a lot of those guys will be back, so we definitely have high hopes for next year. >> things should be interesting for the 49ers sunday in santa clara, the return of alex smith. left kansas city to the playoffs last year coming off a 41-14 route of patriots. alex, 20 of 26, three touchdowns, jim harbaugh talked about the qb. >> i know alex did the very best he could when he played here and he did great. very happy for his success. got room for success

. >> billy bean can't say that. >> reporter: actually is does matter. the other b., bruce boc actually bumped into him on the town here. he said he's confident in his boys, that they're ready for games one and two here at kauffman stadium. of course game three returning to at&t park friday. bob redell. >>> city librarians are showing support for their home teams during the world series as well. right now there's a spat developing on twitter. this morning the kansas city public library tweeted a quote that says, hey, sf public library, we have a book for you and posted a link to the novel "so you think you know baseball, a fan's guide to the official rules." sf librarians shot back with their own book recommendation. "the giants baseball experience." that came with this tweet, we're polite but fierce, get ready to cry some blue tears for the royals when the sf giants take the win tonight. so there. they should have tweeted the book out "sorry sore loser." >> the giants are leading 5-0 in game one. jeff ranieri with our forecast this week. >> we've got the world serie

a's general manager billy beane was an open target for making the deal.o regrets he says on the damon bruce show. >> we don't make [ indiscernible ] in a perfect world, you would like to have both of them but we weren't going to get lester without cespedes. we are still talking about a .250 hitter. offense was heading south before that point. and, you know, we sent him to the club and there was only i think that one club actually had a worse offense in august than we did and we had, you know, the ball in jon's hand in the 8th inning of that one game play-off and given that trade- off i'd take it anytime. >> segue nfl. >>> last sunday hall of famer deion sanders said the 49ers players wanted jim harbaugh out as head coach! last night on cbs thursday night football pre-game show sanders reiterated his remarks. >> i have sources that wear football uniforms, coats, suits and ties. yes. and this is real. you talking about trent -- -- we know there's a rift between he and harbaugh. there's trickled down into the locker room. not only are my sources correct i ch

manager bob melvin just spoke with the media as well as a's gm billy bean. we will bring you that on abc 7 news at 5:00 and 6:00. >>> there is always next season for loyal a's fans like little olivia here. you can barely see her. among those gearing up for tonight's giants game, some pint-sized fans. this is chandler from napa. he was given a practice ball in his very first game and would not let it go. we want to see your team spirit. e-mail your fan photos at kgo-tv.com. >> i didn't realize they even had pacifiers with giants colors on them. they think of everything. >> that's right. >>> spencer christian outside, he thinks of everything as well. he's thinking about extreme heat. >> oh, i am, indeed. you think it was hot today, wait for the next two days. it will be quite a bit hotter in some places. live doppler 7 hd, we have sunny skies all across the bay area which is probably apparent to you already. let me move along and give you this view looking towards point rays under sunny skies. currently 75 degrees in san francisco. oakland 79. mid 80s in san c

. >> can you analyze hockey the way that billy beane analyze baseball? >> they say you can.ts, total points, plus minus rating, and more competent in the tricks -- metrics. rating looks at shots on goal, like the on-base percentage. then there is the fenwick rating which is shots attempted minus blocking shots. when you correlate that with new on the ice, you can get insights hopefully into line choices, special teams, quality of ships. things that allow the number crunchers to solve real-time problems. >> what about fighting? >> teams will be mining the data to see if fighting is an effective way to win games. >> neutralize the opposition. >> the argument was always it is the intangibles, the grid, entertainment value, but if you consider the la kings, who beat the rangers last year, a big physical team, for skilled lines. the bruins have a similar lineup. 21 out ofinished tied 30 teams when it came to fighting majors. that should tell you something. >> but they have size. >> go back to the number crunchers and find out how wayne gretzky would have done under these modern n

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