I was trying to work on a different topic but it wasn’t working to my exacting standards and seemed likely to age badly, so I had it step down from this week’s topic nomination and reached into my ‘Suggested Topics’ file cabinet and pulled one from frequent contributor Rikki-Tikki-Deadly.

This week we’re drafting brothers.  The only qualification necessary is that they be brothers.  It does not have to be a pair; if you want to draft all three of the Alous you go right ahead.  Want to draft however many of the Sullivans died in WWII?  Go right ahead.

There were 5 Sullivans and they all served on the same boat and the boat got sunk and that’s when the military supposedly started to keep siblings apart, although apparently they were supposed to start doing that several months before the Sullivans.  Also two of them survived but the Navy didn’t send any rescuers for days.  

Anyway, you could draft all five of them of you wanted.  Or any other brothers.  Adopted brothers are fine as well, but there does have to be a legal or blood connection.  Just because Hulk Hogan called a guy ‘Brutha’ once or twice does not make them brothers.

No sisters, I may need to use that topic for another draft.

I am also making the executive discussion to allow fictional brothers as being eligible for the draft, thereby expanding the pool.

With the first pick I’m going to go back in time a bit and take the DiMaggio brothers.

Joe’s one of the best ball players of all time, (and who knows, might have naked pictures of Marilyn Monroe), Dom was no slouch himself, and Vince was…well someone needs to make sure the other two stay hydrated.

Actually Vince was a lot better than I thought.  A two-time All-Star who could hit you a home run with some frequency, even if his batting average left a but to be desired, back when people cared about such thing.  Sorry about that Vince.

The rest of you are on the clock.