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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

The Night Homer Simpson Beat The Olympics and Bill Cosby: The Making Of “Homer At The Bat”

20 years ago, this past Sunday…

Steve Sax, who retired three years after “Homer at the Bat” and did time as a financial adviser before becoming a life coach and motivational speaker, acknowledges a sizable debt to the show. (The writing staff’s early preference for second base was Chicago’s Ryne Sandberg.) “Sometimes, fans would yell, ‘Hey, how’s Homer?’” Sax told me. “I know they weren’t talking about me hitting home runs, but it was a lot better than the stuff I used to hear.”

Weekly Journalist_ Posted: February 21, 2012 at 10:55 AM | 1 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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1. RoyalsRetro (AG#1F) Posted: February 21, 2012 at 02:00 PM (#4065536)

SIMPSONS DID IT! SIMPSONS DID IT!

I mean, Mark S. did it! Mark S. did it!

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