Green Bay — My least appealing assignment each year is doing the mock draft.
It didn't used to be that way. In my first two decades chasing after the Green Bay Packers, I tossed some lucky darts and enjoyed some success nailing the team's first-round draft choice.
Then the unfathomable Ted Thompson took over as general manager in 2005, and I've been wrong basically ever since.
Nine times Thompson has stood pat and exercised the Packers' scheduled selection. The late Detroit Tigers broadcaster Ernie Harwell used to say of a batter that took a called strike three, "He stood there like the house by the side of the road.