Monday Morning Mock Draft: You’re Money’s No Good Here

Guten Tag, drones.

Today’s topic comes courtesy of the WEEI’s ‘Jones & Keefe Show,’ which runs from 10-2 weekdays and is a welcome relief from the morning show, which is just mouth breathing bullshit.  The other day I was running some errands and they started to have a discussion about something a listener had sent them, asking who would be their Mt. Rushmore of non-Hall of Famers who would never have to buy a drink in Boston.  As soon as I heard that I thought “holy shit, that’s a great draft topic!  My work for this weekend is done.”

Then I went and bought chocolate chip cookies.

So this week you are drafting NON Hall of Famers who will never have to pay for a drink in a town where they accomplished some tremendous, or at least notable, athletic event that left the locals forever in their debt.

The only example I heard before going in for the cookies was Dave Roberts, who stole a base for the Red Sox in 2004 that apparently led to something good for Boston, but I forget what it was exactly.

Probably nothing.

I had originally thought to limit this to the Big Four sports, (baseball, basketball, football, hockey), but then I figured we could have more options if we expanded it to any sport that has a Hall of Fame.  So if the sport has a Hall of Fame, and your pick isn’t in it, or if still active isn’t likely to get into it, they are eligible to be selected.

I will add here that if someone is in the college Hall of Fame for their particular sport, but not in their pro sport, they are still eligible for selection in their professional sport, but not for anything they might have done in college.

If someone is on a Hall of Fame trajectory, (Aaron Judge, for example), they are not eligible.  I say this mostly so we can pick fights in the comments.

With the first pick, I will take UConn’s Braylon Mullins, who recently did this

against Duke, sending UConn on the the Final Four and, just as importantly to anyone not enrolled in or an alumnus of Duke, sending Duke home.

Duke was up by 19 at one point, I add for no reason whatsoever.

Braylon will never have to buy a drink himself in Storrs, Hartford, Connecticut, New England, any Big East city, and likely most college towns not in Raleigh, and probably not in 2/3 of the college bars in that town.  Mullins is not in the College Basketball of Fame and, since he’s highly unlikely to play more than 2 years of college ball, seems unlikely to ever get in.

The rest of you are on the clock.