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Charles Curtis

A hilarious Moneyball meme has completely taken over Twitter

Just because Moneyball came out in 2011 doesn’t mean that we can’t have a hilarious new meme out of the classic sports movie.

It’s something that I’ve seen all over Twitter in recent weeks: A still of Brad Pitt (as Billy Beane) and Jonah Hill (playing Peter Brand). Hill is pointing to his board of stats, and declaring: “Billy, this is …”

It follows with an intro about a player, followed by, “his defect is …” just like we saw in the movie.

It is, as you’d imagine, quite hilarious. And it’s grown to go beyond baseball, as you’ll see below. Check out the memes:

Here's the original scene

Here come the memes

It's extended to other sports

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