Bears' Scat Sunday

It only seems like End Times, with the Bears trading the first selection in the NFL draft to the Carolina Panthers for a bunch of picks and wide receiver D.J. Moore. One sports-talk radio station reportedly preempted regular programming to devote something like five hours to the move. Wait, there’s more. Over at the Tribune, the Munsters seeped into baseball coverage. Cubs’ beat writer Meghan Montemurro did a story Sunday on Mike Tauchman and Ryan Borucki, two area non-roster players trying to make the team. For reasons beyond me, Montemurro devoted seven paragraphs of her story on the Bears, five on what Tauchman and Borucki think of the team. The mind boggles. Did the baseball beat writer bring up the subject of football? Did both players do it on their own? Did the editor—assuming one actually exists—go over the copy and think that Bears’ talk added something to a baseball story? Do Cubs’ fans care what football team two non-roster invitees root for? Again, only in Chicago.