One of the biggest things I miss from our old site was the mock drafts that used to run every Friday. Those were fantastic time wasters, and a good one was a virtual guarantee that you were going to be far from productive at work, as your day instead degenerated into arguments with strangers over who would be the best Saturday cartoon character to have sex with, (and now we all know how that would go), or some other equally inane topic, all of which were still more important than that TPS report deadline your boss was yelling about. Good times.

Well, it’s been long enough. Especially after that hiatus I took when we couldn’t log on and comment because of some issue involving the server, the Russians, Keebler elves, or something. Anyway, that’s resolved, and big thanks to Internet Dad and everyone else who worked tirelessly and without pay to provide our continuing free entertainment. Anyway, after a discussion in the back channels yours truly is bringing it back, with some slight rule changes. The old site had 4-5 main contributors, one of whom may not have been real. So they’d do 2-3 rounds themselves, then kick it to the kommentariat to draft whatever was left over. You can do that when you’ve only taken 10-15 of whatever topic was up for drafting. We, however, are a much more connected group when it comes to the writin’ and draftin’ of things, so if we did that we’d easily take out 30-50 before we threw the bedraggled leftovers to our beloved readership. That’s no fun. So these drafts, which I expect to last as long as I remember to do them, (2-3 weeks), will just leap right into it.

Also, for content and alliteration reasons, we’ve moved the draft to Monday mornings, so get ready to kill your productivity right from the start.

Yours in the comments, first come, first served. For now, please wait 10 picks or 30 minutes before making another one. That will be revised up or down depending on how much participation we get, which I hope will be a lot.

So, I kind of forgot about this until after midnight this morning, so sorry this is late, but I wasn’t getting back out of bed to throw something up. Are we still not doing phrasing anymore? Anyway, it’s here now, and as an additional treat, it’s from the unfortunately fertile imagination of our good friend Scotcnnaut: Draft the sporting event whose outcome you could change. The example he gave had something to do with hock…EE? which I gather is something canucks do to keep themselves amused while waiting for the fish to bite during ice-fishing tournaments.

Since this is late, I’ll go first: 2004 American League Championship Series. David Ortiz pops out after Dave Roberts was thrown out trying to steal second.

Yours in the comments.