Did you know that the MLB draft used be conducted entirely over the phone? No cameras. No handshakes with the commissioner. No hordes of people on the internet pretending that they’ve ever seen any of these guys play an inning baseball.
In light of the fact that the vast majority of players drafted over the next two days won’t have any impact on their teams for years — if they ever do at all — the old way of doing things over the phone was, in a way, more honest. But the televised draft is obviously more fun.