Hey, if you had April 15th in your “what Monday will be the first that Horatio forgets to post a mock draft” come on down and collect your winnings.

I have no good excuse, I just straight up forgot.

So rather than rush one of the good ideas that other people have given me we’ll just go back to something sports-oriented.  I’ve been playing a lot of Immaculate Grid lately, which is a trivia game where you match players in a 3×3 grid, with each player having to meet two categories.  Generally it’s a player having to have played for two teams, but it could be someone who won a Silver Slugger and spent his entire career with one team, or hit 30+ home runs in a season and won a Gold Glove.

The bottom line is I’ve spent a lot of time playing baseball-related trivia lately and we might as well do something with that.

I realize baseball is heresy to some of you, and to that I say:  Too bad.  Baseball, despite what Rob Manfred would have you believe, (and likely thinks himself), baseball is not boring and is fact quite entertaining, so long as you have like an ounce of patience and don’t need large humans smashing into each other every 37 seconds in order to get an erection.

Also today is like 70 degrees, (Fahrenheit, as God Himself intended), and sunny here in CT, so it’s a baseball kind of day.  Certainly not a work day.

Your topic today is first-basemen.  Draft your favorite, or just someone who played at least one game, (I love the Immaculate Grid topic; you can get some deep cuts out of those), at first base.  And then let’s all just kick back and discuss how our Mondays are going.

With the first pick I’ll take my favorite all-time player, although I am not quite old enough to have ever seen him play.

He had an all-time career, only derailed by ALS.  Never forget that Cal Ripken only broke his record for consecutive games played because Ripken, Sr. was his manager, (Ripken had some seasons in there where 1 or 4 games off probably wouldn’t have hurt), and because everyone agreed, for some reason, that the games lost due to various strikes never actually existed.

The rest of you are on the (very belated) clock

Now go do that voodoo that you do so well!

(Sorry, the image won’t load because of a some sort of a server issue, or so the message I keep getting tells me.  Mondays, amirite?)