'With the first pick of the 2007 First-Year Players Draft ...'
It's 2 a.m. Perfect time for a late-night snack of bacon and pineapple-orange-banana juice. It's also the perfect time to get back to blogging.
I'm going to label myself as a real baseball nerd here, but I've spent the past couple days keeping up with the MLB draft both on TV and online. It's the first year the draft has ever been aired on TV, mainly because there usually just isn't enough interest. It's difficult for even baseball fans to get excited. First off, the draft is 50 rounds long. With 30 teams picking, that's up to 1,500 names called in a two day period. Compare this to the NFL when just over 200 will go, or basketball when around 60 will be drafted. And in the other sports, even the casual fan will know about the top players being drafted. You'd be hard pressed to find and NBA fan this year who doesn't know the names Greg Oden or Kevin Durant. Most NFL fans knew JaMarcus Russell hailed from LSU. But before yesterday, I would wager a guess than 95 percent of baseball fans didn't know who David Price is, much less that he played for Vanderbilt. Now, he's only the first overall player selected in this year's baseball draft by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. I'd bet that even after yesterday, 70 percent of baseball fans still don't know who he is. And why should they right now? Even the best prospects out of this draft won't sniff the major leagues for a couple of years. Realistically, teams are looking at 3 to 5 years of development before these prospects are ready to help out the major league team. It's just hard to get excited about the 2011 season yet. Unless, of course, you're a Ranger fan, when that's probably all you've got to look forward to for the next couple years.
The main thing worth noting after watching the first round of this draft on TV: Commissioner Bud Selig seemed very confused.
He'd come wandering out from behind the curtain up to the podium every 5 minutes to announce each pick looking like he wasn't quite sure where he was or what he was doing. His announcements of each player drafted were more like questions, like he had just heard of some of the players and some of the teams. But I won't bash Bud too much more. He gets plenty of that from everyone else around the league. I did realize something else about Bud though. He's got a long lost brother, from a fairly weighty gene pool.
It's none other than the brilliant astrophysicist Stephen Hawking. That's not meant as a slight to either one of them, but the resemblance is uncanny. But don't just take my word for it, or even just the pictures above.
I'll never be able to read A Brief History of Time the same ever again.
I'm going to label myself as a real baseball nerd here, but I've spent the past couple days keeping up with the MLB draft both on TV and online. It's the first year the draft has ever been aired on TV, mainly because there usually just isn't enough interest. It's difficult for even baseball fans to get excited. First off, the draft is 50 rounds long. With 30 teams picking, that's up to 1,500 names called in a two day period. Compare this to the NFL when just over 200 will go, or basketball when around 60 will be drafted. And in the other sports, even the casual fan will know about the top players being drafted. You'd be hard pressed to find and NBA fan this year who doesn't know the names Greg Oden or Kevin Durant. Most NFL fans knew JaMarcus Russell hailed from LSU. But before yesterday, I would wager a guess than 95 percent of baseball fans didn't know who David Price is, much less that he played for Vanderbilt. Now, he's only the first overall player selected in this year's baseball draft by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. I'd bet that even after yesterday, 70 percent of baseball fans still don't know who he is. And why should they right now? Even the best prospects out of this draft won't sniff the major leagues for a couple of years. Realistically, teams are looking at 3 to 5 years of development before these prospects are ready to help out the major league team. It's just hard to get excited about the 2011 season yet. Unless, of course, you're a Ranger fan, when that's probably all you've got to look forward to for the next couple years.
The main thing worth noting after watching the first round of this draft on TV: Commissioner Bud Selig seemed very confused.
He'd come wandering out from behind the curtain up to the podium every 5 minutes to announce each pick looking like he wasn't quite sure where he was or what he was doing. His announcements of each player drafted were more like questions, like he had just heard of some of the players and some of the teams. But I won't bash Bud too much more. He gets plenty of that from everyone else around the league. I did realize something else about Bud though. He's got a long lost brother, from a fairly weighty gene pool.
It's none other than the brilliant astrophysicist Stephen Hawking. That's not meant as a slight to either one of them, but the resemblance is uncanny. But don't just take my word for it, or even just the pictures above.
I'll never be able to read A Brief History of Time the same ever again.
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