Someone had to do it. Hell, maybe someone already did it - I don't know because I didn't bother to check first. In any event, here's the All-Black Friday Team. Basically, it's anyone with "Black" in their name plus a couple of others. Some of them are real stretches, but that's what happens when you do these kinds of things; you get desperate to fill a position and the next thing you know, you're slotting a career shortstop at first base because he played six games there and you already have a shortstop and you're really desperate for a first baseman. That's not the case here, but I'm just saying that to illustrate how difficult this kind of work is. Really, you have no idea how hard it is to do one of these things. It's soul-sucking, blood-leeching, back-breaking work, but, as I said, somebody had to do it.

Player/Manager - Mickey "Black Mike" Cochrane

LHP - Bud Black

LHP - Chris Sale

RHP - Ewell Blackwell

RHP - Black Jack McDowell

RP - Joe Black

RP - Skipper Friday

C - Tim Blackwell

1B - John Black

2B - Black Jack Burdock

3B - Blackie O'Rourke

SS - Lena Blackburne

OF - Charlie Blackmon

OF - George Blackerby

OF - Ethan Blackaby seen below, hamming it up for the cameras in spring training