MLB DRAFT
The Major League Baseball first-year player draft is this June 7th and 8th. Rob Neyer of ESPN.com writes an article on why the MLB draft won't ever become the media circus that the NBA and NFL drafts are (full article here).

One point that Neyer doesn't make and that I think is the most important thing is that nobody really knows who the hell the guys being drafted are. Even hardcore baseball fans would struggle to name five players that will be drafted in the first round, what do you think the average or casual baseball fan would know about the players in the draft?

Another point that Neyer doesn't make is that each team has 50 draft picks. Nobody can even remember who their team takes even if they wanted to. I bet almost every GM can't memorize all of the 50 draft picks made each year.

The MLB draft is exciting when you read the scouting reports of the players your team has drafted and how they project as Major Leaguers, but it's not a draft that you think "boy I hope _____ falls to my team" because even avid baseball fans don't know anybody in the draft this year probably with the exception of Jered Weaver.