Article: Will Cyberball be the wave of the future, or crash when baseball matters most?

The Boston Red Sox this season hired statistics interpretation superstar Bill James as their "Senior Baseball Operations Adviser" to help with personnel moves and strategy.

If it works out _ and Boston is off to a 4-2 start _ the sports world might never be the same.

I mean, if the Red Sox become this year's Angels, every baseball manager _ not to mention every NFL, NBA and NHL head coach _ may soon be replaced by a nerd with a supercomputer laptop.

We take you now to October 2005 . . . [ ] [ ] [ ]

Oblivious to 41,500 screaming fans inside Pacific Bell Park, New York Yankees first-year manager I.M. Smart takes measure of the situation.

A bespectacled computer programming genius from ...

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