Sun-sational Six (Preseason Edition)

While the standings will tell us one thing about how our teams our doing, we'll attempt to keep a more subjective eye on the power in the Sun Baseball League with the Sun-sational Six, a weekly tab on who's the biggest and baddest among the SBL.

Since no one has played any games yet, this really is The Barometer of the best and brightest among this season's teams. So without further ado, here's the Sun-sational Six after Tuesday's draft (no brownie points to the Inmates for hosting the draft).

1. The Moaners (who else?). Not exactly an upset here. Seeing as how they have been even more dominant than the real Yankees, I'm thinking maybe we should rename them the Bronx Moaners. That might have a different meaning in NYC, but for the SBL, the Moaners are BFD. Or as my 13-year-old daughter would say, "OMG!"

2. Damian United. We give a tip of the cap to some real gamers, who celebrated their second championship series run in 2010, but still seek their first title. Hey, it's tough to win a baseball title with a soccer nickname. Suck it, DU.

3. Abu Dubai Zeroes. Good thing this league ain't in Arizona or I doubt we'd even let these foreigners play, but there's little doubt that the Zeroes are an institutional power worthy of the upper-echelon of the SBL. They're kind of like the Moaners Light, both in substance and receding hair line.

4. Badgers. Hurts to give any credit to this Bay Area franchise, because let's face it: Andy ain't afraid to pluck some low-lying fruit on his team. The Badgers, despite a propensity to draft all that he sees from the A's and Giants, still manages to pound most of the SBL. Plus, now Andy is an author. That's got to get him a pass onto the Sun-sational list.

5. Godfather. You gotta give some props to the inventor of this glorious game. Plus, it's the spring. We can all hope Vic has a chance just like the Cubs. Chances are the Godfathers will flame off this list in a week or two, but it never hurts tug at our furlocks, as Ed Mauel would have said. Vic's probably starting to look like that guy, too. Hope he never talks like him, though.

6. Pope's Pontiffs. Not sure where this Vatican Madmen shit came from, but there's no denying anyone who can take Kendrys Morales with the 28th pick of the draft deserves to be on some list (probably not this one anymore at the beginning of next week.) But you have to give the guy credit. He was the only one in the draft room who could count to 300 and right on the button. Sweet.

-- Dan Evans, owner of the Cherry Valley Bombers