Yesterday afternoon, while perusing the Kentucky Derby comments and making my own pick to win, (can’t believe Emmitt Smith let me down like that), I noticed Dunstan suggesting, possibly without even knowing it, a draft of fictional animals.  Goddamn! I thought, that’s not only a great idea but it’s way better than the one I had.

Worst Songs To Get A  Lap Dance To, and I will be using that in the future and the first pick is The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald.  So just be prepared.

As to this topic the rules are easy, and should be obvious:  Is it an animal?  Is it fictional?  If you can answer yes to both of these questions, you can draft that fictional animal.  Now, anticipating a couple of issues it does not have to be a cartoon.  Lassie was a real collie, but the character wasn’t real.  You can draft Lassie.  You could also draft Old Yeller, but if you do that you may as well just wear a big “I’m a psychopath” sign around your neck.

Item the second:  it does not have to be a real animal the we would recognize on Earth.  We’re talking fictional animals here, so if you wanted to draft Gleep, that green and useless monkey the Wonder Twins had you could do that.  I have no idea why you’d want to, but you could.  If whatever it is is recognized as an animal wherever it comes from, you can draft it.

Item the third:  Your pick has to be something we recognize from pop culture.  You can’t just say “I want a horse with the head of a duck!” even if I did use that for the featured image.  Now, if that horse with the head of a duck has a name and has appeared in a work of fiction of any kind, go for it.  If you just have a need to have a horse with the head of a duck well, keep that shit to yourself, weirdo.

Dunstan came up with this pick, so I’m awarding him the first pick.  Of course, I also didn’t tell him about this like, ever, so I have to go by his comment and I will therefore award him:

Scooby Doo!  I believe Dunstan preferred him over Snoopy, as Scooby Doo was perceived as being better for team chemistry.  Probably true if somewhat unfair, since Snoopy clearly had issues with PTSD from his time as a WWI fighter pilot.

With the second pick I will take:

The Kraken.  The oceans are mine, plus I’m guessing he can get me pretty good seats to Stanley Cup play-off games.

The rest of you are on the clock.