Jon from Brooklyn baseball brought up an interesting discussion at the bar on Saturday night. Say instead of separate sports with distinct teams, the professional sporting ranks were operated like his summer camp, where kids were split into teams at the beginning of summer and had to compete against each other (always in the same teams) in a variety of sports.

For the purposes of debate, narrow it down to the four “majors” in the US: football, baseball, basketball and hockey. So say for some reason the NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL (and all international leagues) crumble, and you’re named a GM in the new all-encompassing super-league. The ping-pong balls fall your way and you get the top overall draft pick. Who do you take?

Lebron James seems like the obvious call, but a) we have no idea if he can ice skate or hit a baseball and b) then you’d have to have him on your team. Also, how valuable are the most specialized skills — pitching, for example — when they only pertain to 1/4 of the activities?

Oh, and I guess you’re going to have to split that up somehow. Let’s say these teams play four football games, 40 baseball games, 20 basketball games and 20 hockey games — essentially 1/4 of each league’s season — but they’re weighted so that the outcomes in each sport count evenly. So the schedule’d be something like: Baseball, basketball, baseball, hockey, baseball, basketball, baseball, hockey, baseball, football, baseball, basketball, baseball, hockey, baseball, basketball, baseball, hockey, baseball, basketball, hockey. Repeat.

Current players only, or else we all want Bo Jackson.