Once again, the greatest day event on a Browns fan's calendar has come and gone. The 2011 draft is over and what we are left with is the possibility that this time everything will work out. This time the Browns got it right. This time all will be right with the world come September.

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Do you realize what kind of monumental roll the April Indians have to be on to knock the Browns draft off the top page of The Weekend Wrap? It’s an “18-8 best-record-in-baseball, 12 in a row at home” kind of roll that’s required and that’s exactly what that roster full of ‘Joos Dats’ and ‘Willy Everpanouts’ has done. In fact, after Sunday their winning percentage in May is even better than their winning percentage in April and the leave a 13-game home winning streak in the rear view as they head out west (again) to face the A’s and the Angels (again).

But I have draft thoughts for you too in ‘The Wrap’.

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People who have a definite favorite sport will always try to validate how their choice of sport's playoff is better than the others. Even though, since I stopped playing hockey regularly, baseball has become my favorite, I simply cannot appreciate any sport's playoff more than hockey. Part of the reason is that I do not have a hometown team for the NHL playoffs and that helps me remain more impartial and be able to enjoy all the games rather than the ones that are relevant to me. Like any other NE Ohio hockey fan, I have teams I pull for. To be honest, come playoff time, I pull for every game to go to overtime. Entering the seminfinals, there have been nine consecutive nights of playoff action featuring a playoff game. In Webster's Dictionary, this is defined as awesome.

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Spring has sprung,
the Cavs are done,
the Tribe’s on the warpath,
and the Browns need a ton.

Alfred Lord Tennyson once famously wrote, “In the spring, a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.” But that was before Major League Baseball, the NFL and the NBA.

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