Forget Cooperstown, Springfield is calling

August 5, 2010

The father of sabermetrics, Bill James, will play himself on an episode of The Simpsons this fall, according to the OnTheRedCarpet website.

I’m guessing he’ll be on for all of three minutes, but Big League Stew, a Yahoo sports blog, has some suggestions on how to beef up the “role.”

• As a favor to Mr. Burns and Smithers, James optimizes the lineup for the plant’s softball team (although to James, lineups are irrelevant). Mike Scioscia (long-since recovered from his tragic illness) is also scheduled make his triumphant return to the show (really), so perhaps he and James will be paired in the same episode.

• James has a heart-to-heart with Apu about the Hall of Fame viability of Keith Hernandez, who played the “Ny Mets,” Apu’s favorite squadron.

• James is called upon to measure just how much gigantism padded Ken Griffey’s career statistics.

• Using sabermetrics, James finds a mate for Comic Book Guy (in a twist, it turns out to be James).

• Moe the Bartender mistakenly forces James, at gunpoint, to help him prepare for fantasy football season.

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