Back in the day, a friend of ours had what would come to be known in the parlance of today as a “man-crush” on Mark Grace. This friend had no other affiliation with the Cubs, and there was no real reason to explain why he enjoyed the baseball stylings of their handsome, singles-hitting first baseman. He didn’t even really try to explain it. He just liked Mark Grace. After watching the most recent NCAA hoops tournament, we felt the same way about Kevin Love. And so on draft night, while we had nothing personal against Ovinton J’Anthony Mayo (except for the fact that his suit looked two sizes too small and that his body copy of his Wikipedia page lists USC losses with the smaller score first), we pined for Love and we were eventually rewarded. Where is this taking us: to yet another commenter draft. This time, we’re dealing with players who are inexplicably loved, either by you or the general populace.

These are, after all, the doldrums of summer we’re veering toward. No more Euro 2008. Four days at the U.S. Women’s Open have come and gone. Wimbledon? Nah. NFL training camp is a ways off. Just baseball and idle chatter. So let’s get this draft going. Mark Grace and Kevin Love are off the board. The rest of the sporting world is fair game.

Fasola-link! Whenever Matt has nothin’, which he claims is the case today, he delivers some Muppets.

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