UPDATED- Brady Quinn & gripes about drafts on the tele-

Brady Quinn, formerly of the Notre Dame Irish, who, after spending 21 picks crying in the back room of the Radio City Music Hall, is picked at #22 by the Cleveland Browns. ESPN tells us with pictures, that Brady was a Cleveland fan as a kid. Thanks, for the knowledge, guys...

Oh yea, Tim Couch was supposed to be good too.

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A Follow-up and anal-lysis:

I think what appalled me about this media-mediated event was the extreme close-ups (XCUs) of Mr. Brady Quinn, who did not get picked for the first 20 picks. They made him a golden boy, predicted his being drafted in the first few picks, then tore him down right before our eyes, as they showed MORE XCUs of him half-tearing up, nervously chatting with his girlfriend, they put her name on the screen, and then finally narrated and showed his departing to a "non-media-accessible" back room, to wait for his being drafted, finally, at pick 21, some 2 hours later. This is what happens when a non-sports event is televised as sports. Maybe the MLB WAS right in not making their draft a big deal. Then again, baseball can't make a big deal picking players out of school when they'll have to navigate the slippery slopes of the minor leagues first, and 1st round picks disappear a few years down the road a lot of the time anyway.

Remember- Ty Griffin, Cubs 1st round pick in 1988? probably not, although he was an Olympic silver medalist with the 88 Seoul USA team. What about Kurt Ainsworth? 98 Olympics to 1999 #1 pick SF Giants (24th overall), to traded to the BAL Orioles (July 31, 2003: Traded by SF with Ryan Hannaman (who?) and Damian Moss (the no-control, crazy-sideburns, dto the Baltimore Orioles for Sidney Ponson). Another wasted talent by the Giants...

Another piece of Baseball "knowledge": Marvin Benard, the least-likely hyped draft pick: 50th Round! by the Giants in '92 (50x26 teams at the time= he was about the 1300th! pick overall, and at a tiny 5'10", he played a total of 8 yrs in the hallowed majors. This is why I can never rag on him, no matter what anyone else says. He stole home once in 1995, and he stands for all of us, who love baseball and always wanted to play, but for lack of talent or size...