Brad Biggs

We're talking to White Sox general manager Chris Goetz here in Moline Hawk.

Chris, when you get the first overall pick and you talked about how accelerated the path can be or has been lately in Major League Baseball, does that affect your mindset or your approach to this offseason in terms of free agency and or trades?

I know you addressed this at some point in Orlando, Chris, but when it comes to Luis Robert Jr., I wonder how you would characterize the interest in him around the league still and whether or not the Sox, if they have the right batch of prospects with the team that matches your needs or what you think this is worth, if the team would be willing to pay down some of that $20 million that is his salary next year.

Chris, I think it was confirmed in Orlando that the Red Sox called back and wondered about the availability of Kyle Teal.

How quickly did you hang up, or did you talk to them at all?

Mark, the Arlington Heights site would need an estimated $855 million in new construction, which would qualify as the infrastructure.

The other things that we have heard about reference would be the tax certainty that the Bears seek.

Can you help us understand, help Bears fans understand, what is the impediment with the Arlington Heights deal that makes the Bears have been unable to strike one?

Mark, I want to follow up at your implication.

Are you saying that Governor Pritzker's potential interest in running for president in 2028 is interfering or contributing to why he's not making a Bear Stadium project a higher priority?

Where do the bears go from here?

What's the next step after this story comes out and the letter is released?

But Mark, until the Bears identify a patch of land, a property to purchase, make an investment in northwest Indiana, why should we look at this as anything more than an attempt to establish leverage?

Because there is not an investment here.

There isn't even a...

parcel of land they've identified that we're aware of we have hammond as a possibility we have whiting as a possibility the east chicago bears has come up there they need to be more specifics don't there before this is to be taken that seriously no no not at all you've got legislation that's already been passed in the state of indiana correct i'm aware already passed legislation

Thank you, Mark, so much for the context.

Mark, the Arlington Heights site would need an estimated $855 million in new construction, which would qualify as the infrastructure.

The other things that we have heard about reference would be the tax certainty that the Bears seek.

Can you help us understand, help Bears fans understand, what is the impediment with the Arlington Heights deal that makes the Bears have been unable to strike one?