This Sunday Fox aired the 500th – yes, five-zero-zero – episode of its flagship program, “The Simpsons”. Once one of the greatest shows on television, the show has had it’s ups and downs since the turn of the century, but it’s still going strong ratings-wise. To celebrate the remarkable occasion, I’ve pulled out an old favorite from the Wezen-Ball archives. The post doesn’t quite analyze the single-greatest “Simpsons” episode ever – sadly, Hank Scorpio bought Homer the Denver Broncos and not, say, the Chicago Cubs for helping him take over the East Coast – but it does analyze the single-greatest baseball-themed Simpsons episode ever.
So – how good would a 1992 baseball fan have considered the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant team of ringers to have been? …
J.J. squared off the 1992 Sox against the Power-Plant last year.