Fun with books

Thanks to Sarah who tagged me for this fun task. =o)

The rules:Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more. (No cheating!)
Find Page 123.
Find the first 5 sentences.
Post the next 3 sentences.
Tag 5 people.

From Moneyball by Michael Lewis (A really interesting book if you enjoy baseball. There is a little bit of foul, no pun intended, language in it though.)

"When, in 2001, for the second year in a row, they lost to the Yankees in the fifth and deciding game of the play-offs, the Oakland front office was certain that theirs had been the better team and that it was the Yankees who had gotten lucky--and that the Yankees front office knew it. And that some fraction of the $120 million the Yankees had paid Jason Giambi after the 2001 play-offs to lure him away from the Oakland A's was to prevent him from ever again playing for the Oakland A's.
At any rate, by the beginning of the 2002 season, the Oakland A's, by winning so much with so little, had become something of an embarassment to Bud Selig and, by extension, Major League Baseball.

I tag Heather, Janice, Jenny, Beth, and Leah Z. (It can be your non-Ben post. =o))