Another night drinking with the scouts at the Barleymoe
Tonight Elijah Craig is joined by Jim Beam, Johnnie Walker and Jack Daniels
Elijah: Tonight is the 57th rule 5 draft for our league. I asked you guys to look through the history of the draft and give me some insight as to what will happen tonight.
Jack: Elijah, in last ten years half the drafts went 5 rounds. Only one went 10 rounds and the shortest was season 54, which only went 3 rounds.
Jim: No player selected in the rule 5 draft has made the Hall of Fame yet, maybe tonight-who knows.
Johnny: A couple players have made 4 All star games; Phil Combs and Alton Howard. Combs was drafted in season 9 and Howard in season 14.
Jack: One interesting guy was Steve Beer. He was picked in season 27 in the fifth round and played 15 years in the big leagues.
Johnny: We never had a guy named Steve Beer, what are you talking about?
Jim: You now how he gets when he drinking. I bet he is thinking of Esteban Cerveza.
Jack: Yes that is the guy. He had 766 pitching appearances in his career.
Elijah: Anything else you guys noticed about the rule 5 draft?
Jim: It seems like a good place to acquire gold glovers, Billy Ray Goulet had 7 gold gloves after he was drafted in season 34 by Milton in the third round.
Johnny: I noticed that Milton really works the rule 5 draft. Takes a lot of players and keeps them around for several seasons.
Elijah: Well boys what do you see happening tonight?
Jack: Typical rule 5. A couple of special guys and a whole bunch of role players. The uber is here Elijah it time for to go.
