Fake News?

Fake News?

Here’s a collection of headlines from the Tribune’s sports section heralding some of the Bears’ draft choices: The Top Dawg/Pace upholds Bears’ tradition, picks dynamic LB/ Smith may be perfect fit; Lighting A Fire—Explosive Memphis WR gives Trubisky new target to supercharge offense; Smith on Smith: ‘Relentless …leader’/Bears’ 1^st –round pick brings heart, maturity to defense of future.  Future?  The Bears have generated headlines like this at draft time for as long as I can remember.  Mike Hull or Rufus Mayes, anyone?

I sit here pretty much dumbfounded that people believe the hype teams and media-enablers put out there.  Here’s your conspiracy to bring down America, folks, and it has precious little to do with National Anthem protests.  No, the NFL along with its broadcast partners and dead-tree journalism hangers-on want you to suspend your sense of disbelief to become willing football zombies at the beck and call of the powers that be.

Baseball’s saving grace is I haven’t come across a single word mentioning the upcoming draft, and you would think it’s a pretty big thing for those rebuilding White Sox.  Oh, it is, and draft analysis will be forthcoming, all in the fullness of time, say, those two or three weeks before the draft in mid-June. 

My heart goes out to those zombies shuffling aimlessly one day to the next, until camp opens come July.  But, take heart, zombies, if you can.  In less than ninety days, your lives will have meaning again, provided you believe the headlines you’ve been fed.