Talking in circles

Join us in the office as we discuss the latest sports news and views. This week's question: Is a draft better when you know who will go No. 1 or when you don't?

Matt Crossman: Drama isn't any good if it's pointless drama. Who cares if Alex Smith or that other guy goes first? Neither will play much, if at all, for whatever crappy team drafts him.

Steve Greenberg: Oh, come on. Of course it matters. I grew up a Bears fan in Chicago. They drafted Bobby Douglass right before I was born. They drafted Jim McMahon right before I started high school. They drafted Jim Harbaugh right before I left for college. Someday they'll draft the next Joe Montana, and shortly after I'll be dead.

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Crossman: What's your point?

Greenberg: I have no idea.

Crossman: Paul, there have been no hockey strike developments. Get off NHL.com, and come join us.

Paul Grant: You're such a rube. It's a lockout, man. You think the players like not getting paid?

Crossman: Yeah, I can see how much they don't like it because they've done so much to end it. Like, um ... that time they almost signed a contract.

Grant: These drafts are a bunch of hubbub about nothing. Can you guys remember-no cheating--who went first in any draft in 2000?

Crossman: It was that guy who played for that team named after an animal.

Greenberg: Do they have drafts in hockey?

Grant: Yeah, right now all the arenas are drafty.

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