20 Things You Didn’t Know About Moneyball

3. Billy's Sipping At The End Of The Film Has A Secret Significance

The movie climaxes with the A's losing to the Minnesota Twins, after which Billy is called at home by the owner of the Boston Red Sox, John Henry, who upon appreciating the viability of sabermetrics, offers Billy the general manager job for the Red Sox, which he eventually turns down.

Moments before the phone rings, however, pay attention to the glass Billy is drinking from: he doesn't finish the liquid, leaving behind just a sip.

This wasn't in fact a coincidence: Miller intentionally captured the action as a metaphor for how Billy was just a "sip away" from winning the 2002 ALDS with the Athletics.