The preacher asked her
And she said I do
The preacher asked me
And she said yes he does too
And the preacher said
I pronounce you 99 to life
Son she's no lady she's your wife

- Lyle Lovett, "She's No Lady"

The marriage of Dodger general manager Paul DePodesta and scouting director Logan White has gotten much attention this week - at The Bench Coach, 6-4-2, Baseball Musings, The Futility Infielder and Baseball Primer for starters.

Because others have written so much, my main reason for posting on this today is because I love Lovett's song and the opportunity to quote it. Beyond that, all I'm going to do is point to my Dodger draft coverage from June 3. I was fairly apoplectic that the Dodgers continued to use top draft picks on high school players instead of college players. Today, I look at those postings and think:

1) White does seem to have bagged some good prospects in recent drafts.

2) Was White smart to run counter to the trend of focusing on college players, figuring that as teams shied away from them, there would be better picks for him to make?

3) Or, did White just get lucky - and is the risk of drafting high school players, especially pitchers, as much as it ever was?

Two different draft philosophies can't work side-by-side, but if they can be melded into a stronger third approach, then so much the better. The story of the June 2004 draft will be the type of player the Dodgers draft.