Column: It’s hard to keep a hiring search secret in Chicago — just ask the Bears fan who shot the video of Ryan Poles at O’Hare. ‘(Bleep), that’s George McCaskey.’

“When I’m somewhere when I don’t want to be recognized and someone recognizes me, I have a couple standard lines I go to,” he said. “I usually always say, ‘Oh, no, that’s not me, but I guess I kind of look like him. I get that a lot.’ Or I say, ‘Theo Epstein? Who’s that?’