Jeopardy James Said His Dream Is To Work In A Major League Baseball Front Office. So Why Hasn't Anybody Hired Him Yet?

First off, I’ll come clean and admit I don’t know if that is definitely Big Brain James’ Twitter account or not. But he’s tweeted a couple of personal stories that only James would know unless the person running that account is making them all up, which would make them a total weirdo. But until Twitter gives him or another James account a checkmark, we are operating that this is James.

Anyway, regardless of if that is James or not, Major League Baseball teams should be running to James’ inbox to offer positions in their front offices. Ever since Moneyball made hiring nerds the cool thing to do for big league teams, the people in those front offices started to look more like the 2nd floor at Barstool HQ than a bunch of scouts wearing years of life on the road on their faces as well as former baseball players and your typical executive riff raff. If you hear a 20-something year old Ivy League grad got hired for a prominent position in your favorite baseball team’s front office, you wouldn’t even bat an eyelash. If anything you’d probably be happy because they are embracing a lot of stats none of us understand or have even heard of yet. Sabermetrics for days, analytics for weeks.

So if that’s the case, why wouldn’t a Major League team hire a guy that is bodybagging people in a competitive field with not only his brain but his ability to find edges unlike anything we’ve ever seen before. That’s what Moneyball was all about anyway, right? Finding competitive advantages to stay ahead of the market and then change course once the rest of baseball caught up. His ability to get almost every question right sure as shit doesn’t hurt. But there have been plenty of those types of Jeopardy contestants in the past. What separates James is he has the brains and guts of a professional gambler that lives in Vegas. It’s gotten to the point where I don’t think he even cares about money. He just wants to cause as much destruction as possible. An endless night on Jeopardy that causes the 7:00 (or 7:30 depending on your local listings) to be an event you know is over before it even begins. Remind you of anyone?

JK, James wouldn’t go out like a goddamn chump right as he was 2 feet away from completing his goal. But he would pick the Daily Double on the first move of the game and then get it wrong on purpose just to show he does not give a FUCK.

Luckily for James, that didn’t cost him in a game that came down to Final Jeopardy where Brad put up a number only 7 other contestant have surpassed.

See this face?

If you don’t think James is going to punish whoever the other two contestants are tonight for that close call, you haven’t been paying attention. And if you don’t think that kind of competitiveness and brain could help an MLB front office figure out what the next big trend in baseball will be before all the other supercomputer brains in opposing front offices, you are just flat out dumb. Which is probably why the Mets won’t hire him. But I hope someone does, just not another team in the NL East.