His Vibrations

It’s a good thing Bears’ GM Ryan Pace avoids the media as much as he does.  Otherwise, Pace would be caught saying even more stuff like he did to reporters a day before the NFL draft:  “I really like our locker room right now.  I really like the vibe right now in that locker room with the guys that we have here, it feels good [as James Brown would say], and I want to continue to build on that vibe and add to that excitement.”  I wasn’t aware a 3-13 team generated that much excitement.

Then again, Pace may be crazy like a genius; after all, he did talk himself into the job; granted, it was the McCaskeys, but still, Pace had to be pretty good at blowing the right kind of smoke at that esteemed legacy family.  Maybe that’s what he was doing with reporters, talking gibberish to keep everyone off balance.  Then, he could shock them all by taking a quarterback with the second pick in the draft, and draft an NCAA Division-II tight end in the second round.  Maybe it’s impolite of me to point out that the Bears drafting quarterbacks is a lot like the White Sox developing their own catchers:  it just don’t happen, folks.  Sherm Lollar, Carlton Fisk and A.J. Pierzynski are all prove of that.

But it’s the Bears and Chicago, where the quarterback—Mitch Trubisky of North Carolina, with all of 13 starts in college to his credit—makes page 1 of the Tribune on a Saturday.  Casey Stengel talked gibber, too, and he won all the time.  Maybe Ryan Pace is Stengell reincarnated.  Just remember the Old Professor managed the 40-120 Mets, too.