This seems like a good decision

As reported in the NYT, Steven Soderbergh (?) and Brad Pitt (?!) were all set to film a movie based on the book "Moneyball", which tells the story of how A's GM Billy Beane used innovative statistical analysis to create a team, using a limited payroll, that could lose in the first round of the playoffs every year.

Apparently some executive at Sony actually put down the drugs for a little while and realized this movie makes no sense, and it was shelved after $10M+ of pre-production.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/business/media/02moneyball.html

Go Mariners!