Mark Grote

You're just kicking Chicago out of your life, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

Hey, man, when we talk about filling the hole, that's addiction stuff.

That's stuff that I learned going through what I went through.

We're all trying to fill our soul.

There's a hole in our soul that we're trying to fill that people use things to... And Jordan uses... We know this about him.

He's addicted to competition.

Yeah, and he has to fill that until he doesn't.

You know?

Yeah.

I mean, I think we should paraphrase it right now.

He doesn't believe in the goat thing.

It was another great answer.

He gave credit to those that came before him.

So it was another very mature, very acceptable answer, even if he is the goat.

And although Nico Horner handled the questions about potentially being traded over the last year and change very professionally when asked here on The Score, when asked by other reporters out of Wrigley Field, tells me he hated that.

He hated the idea of not having control.

And no player, every player would love a no-trade clause in Major League Baseball.

But it's pretty cool that it was important to him.

to be here in Chicago to be one of us he's earning bears very quickly by the way for his desires to be here and it's such a unique situation I was very curious to see what a guy in the modern era who does not have slug would get in this era but

36 home runs in six plus years.