Henry Melton

And I was like, you know, sure, of course.

And he's like, don't worry.

I'll come in in the morning before we have workouts and make sure I'm with the guys.

Yeah, I want to add on that.

I feel like, you know, I certainly wasn't planning on having that news break during the Bears game.

in the third or fourth quarter of the Bears game on a Saturday night.

You never quite know when deals are going to get done.

It's just been so great to see the city alive and talking about the Bears, and it's been an incredible run, and it's a great team to watch.

And when we talk about these leadership qualities and intangibles, and you mentioned the young core players on this team, how important with that stability can you kind of proceed knowing you have Pete Crowe, Matt Shaw, Kate Horton, and young players that are going to be kind of looking up to you as part of this deal?

Alex Omar from Univision Chicago Contacto Deportivo.

Bienvenido, Chicago.

Welcome to the city.

This weekend is obviously very special for Chicago Cubs fans, Cubs convention.

What are you most looking forward to for the convention going on this weekend?

I mean, there's a lot of buzz in town to see you in person.

Yeah, I mean, I think...

so many of the things i said about alex i would say about nico um great person great you know great player you know he leads by example and you know he's a guy that we we drafted we've developed we've extended and i know i think the world of nico so and then scott how would you describe your relationship with the cubs over the years with jed in particular kind of building a working relationship and what this moment means here bringing a big free agent to chicago

It's a good question.

It's something that we have been resistant to.

We've done some in the past.