Okay it is the last week in March, which means Opening Day is just a week away, which means the awesomest part of the year has begun. We're a little baseball crazy in our house these days, which is to say that Sammy and I are a little baseball crazy these days and Liza and Emma roll their eyes at us a lot.

If the world was going to have a fantasy music draft, here would be my sleeper picks. (Not in order, I'd go into a total meltdown if I had to rank these.)

Erykah Badu
Pizzicato Five
Cheap Trick
X
Bersuit Vergabarat
Henry Threadgill
Chuck Berry
Cabruera
The Zombies
Ann Peebles
Thin Lizzy
Gilberto Gil
L.L. Cool J
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Fela Kuti
Little Richard
Heart
Isaac Hayes
Virginia Rodrigues
Jefferson Airplane
Cafe Tacuba
King Sunny Adé
James Moody
A.R. Rahman
El Gran Silencio
MC Lyte
Los Fabulosos Cadillacs
Whale
The Boo Radleys
Ella Fitzgerald
The Four Tops
Blue Öyster Cult
Jimmy Castor Bunch
The Blake Babies
Joyce
Eurythmics
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
Electric Light Orchestra
Yellow Sisters
Peter Tosh
Himesh Reshammiya
Los Tigres del Norte
Macy Gray
Eek-A-Mouse
Super Furry Animals
Yolanda Pérez
ABC
Bo Diddley
Violent Femmes