I know I am showing my age here using Monty Hall instead of Howie Mandel, but it really doesn't matter if I use Howie or Monty or Bob Rohrman.  The point is, Jerry Angelo needs to take what's behind curtain number one.

Angelo has been offered the sixth overall pick in the draft for Linebacker Lance Briggs.  Anyone with any sanity knows that Briggs does not want to play for the Bears anymore and that his agent, the smarmy Drew Rosenhaus, will hold the Bears hostage until Angelo does something.

Even if somehow Briggs would return to the team, based on his comments in the papers and in the national media, his relationship with his teammates has got to be strained.  Even though Brian Urlacher is a highly paid player, his working class mentality will not easily forgive some of Briggs' comments including the one where Briggs says he "wants to be the man like Urlacher."

Rosenhaus has a long history of coaching players against their current team to force a trade.  He helped turn Jevon Walker against Bret Favre until the Packers traded him to the Broncos for a second round pick.  Packer GM Ted Thompson's was forced to trade Walker for less than market value on draft day just to rid himself of the problem.

Angelo has an opportunity to make this go away.  Certainly he's worried that if a star player demands an extension or a trade in the future, this sets a dangerous precedent.  But he already set the precedent with the trade of Thomas Jones to the Jets earlier this winter.

Lance Briggs is a talented player, but the combination of his inflated ego and his ill advised manipulation by Rosenhaus have made his future with the Bears untenable.  Jerry, pull the trigger before you have to accept less.  Please.

Lightning Round:

• The White Sox continue on their road to ruin.  Brian Anderson, who should have been sent to the minors will stay with the big club in a backup role.  This move has Kenny Williams and not Ozzie Guillen written all over it.  I don't know about you, but I would prefer Anderson getting boucoup at bats in Charlotte so he's got some PT under his belt when Darren Erstad breaks down before Memorial Day.
• Toby Hall wants to be back by May.  AL base stealers salivate.
• Just so you think I am not judging the White Sox too harshly, here are two baseball power rankings one from Fox and one from SportsLine.  I know these things don't mean anything in the real world, but it does demonstrate that this is a fourth place team.
• Baseball's Bob DuPoy tells congress that the Extra innings is available to the public, if the public wants to ditch their cable for direct TV.  It is obvious that MLB's intention is to stand in the schoolhouse door with a gun to protect their new partner.  Have you no decency, sir?
• No matter what happens, Billy Donovan is in for a huge pay day.
  
• Billy Packer, a man who does not watch tape or own a computer is getting ready to call his 33rd final four.  The only way to get rid of Billy would be to add Tony Kornheiser to the booth.
• Joe Theismann says that switching to college after following the NFL for 33 years is like having to learn an entirely new profession.  At least someone offered you a job, you whiner.
• Today's coach's kid gone wild brought to you by Sindey Lowe, Jr.
• Did I not tell you Fred Thompson has a real chance of winning if he ran?  The righties love him and America watches him on TV.  Sounds similar to another guy who, at one point, no one thought would win.
  
• Napoleon complex is a myth.   And anyway, it's not your height, it's something else.
  
• In our effort to audition for the writing staff of Boston Legal, David E. Kelley can't pass these up.  One about a gun wielding judge and the other about a guy getting off because the government had the wrong statute in the plea agreement.  The latter has Denny Crane written all over it.
• America still hasn't learned that you need to wait at least a year after the rollout to upgrade your operating system.  Right now, Vista has more bugs in it than an anthill.
• Paper or paper?
• You marriage is never over until the fat lady sings.