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Simpson's episode 8F13 - Homer at the Bat featured a number of major league baseball players. Though this episode debuted in 1992, the players chosen as ringers for the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant softball team went on to have (for the most part) exceptional careers, a couple of them are still playing.

The 2007 8F13 - Homer at the Bat Update:

C - Mike Scioscia A quality ballpllayer in his day, he could speak Spanish so more often than not ended up catching when Fernando Valenzuela was pitching for the Dodgers. He now manages the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (the team's offical name).

1B - Don Mattingly I don't understand why Mattingly isn't in the Hall of Fame, but he may soon be manager of the Yankees.

2B - Steve Sax He wasn't the Yankees player who accidentaly hit Keith Olberan's mother with an errant throw, as I reported last year, that was Chuck Knoblauch. Sax did have Knoblauch-esque throwing difficulties, though. A good player, but not HOF material.

3B - Wade Boggs HOFer for who played for the Red Sox and Yankees. He played for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays for about 15 minutes (well, probably longer than that) and the club threw a boatload of money at him so he'd wear a D-Rays hat in his bust in Cooperstown. Luckily, the Hall stepped in and disallowed that...

SS - Ozzie Smith The best defensive shortstop of all time and an HOFer, he did not fall off the face of the earth like in the episode,but has done a fair amount of TV.

LF - Jose Canseco A hero in the epsisode, saving a woaman and all her belongings from a burning house, but a hero in real life? Maybe. His book about steroid use in baseball prompted many to take a closer look at the problem. He's still an asshole, though...

CF - Ken Griffey, Jr. He'll be an HOFer after he retires. He's having a bit of a resurgence this year after moving to RF. Soon he's be the fifth player to reach 600 career homeruns, the fourth to do so without cheating.

RF - Daryl Strawberry Poor bastard has screwed up his life so bad, I don't want to talk about it. He was really good in the episode, though.

P - Roger Clemens Fourty-four years old,350 career wins, if he's ever retire, he'd get into the HOF. But he won't retire, he keeps playing half season for whoever pays him the most money. It pains me to say this, but he's worth it. He still won't turn the Yankees season around.

If this episode is ever on, watch it.

BOJ

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