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Go in Odyssey Sports Station. The score! Spiegel and Holmes. Okay, here we go sports fans. Afternoons on the score. The score!
Is my face straight? Okay. All right. Keep a straight face here. The Bears belong in the city of Chicago.
The passage of Senate Bill 27 would mark the most meaningful step forward in our stadium planning efforts to date. We are committed to finishing the remaining site-specific necessary due diligence to support our vision to build a world-class stadium near the Wolf Lake area in Hammond, Indiana. We appreciate the leadership shown by Governor Braun, Speaker Houston, Senator Mishler, and members of the Indiana General Assembly in establishing this critical framework and path forward to deliver a premier venue for all Chicagoland and a destination for Bears fans and visitors from across the globe. We value our partnership and look forward to continuing to build our working relationship together.
Warren chose not to be in that meeting. We had eight people in that discussion involving the legislators, involving the governor's office, involving the bears and their representatives. And so, again, lots of progress, but a surprise this morning to wake up and see that statement.
What are Indiana's plans for attracting the Bears to Hammond?
Spiegel and Holmes, afternoons on the score. There is a battle to get the Bears in the business that will come along with the Bears, whether it's in Arlington Heights or a magical stadium pops up in the city, or they move into the region of Northwest Indiana. The governor of Indiana, Mike Braun, joins us now here on the score. Governor, thanks so much for joining us. What's the importance from your point of view of what happened today? I think it was one that you wouldn't have heard their statement or ours, along with the legislation enabling it, if it didn't have a lot of kind of planning and discussion before it. I ran a business for 37 years and been involved in real estate, and it takes a lot of planning when you're going to do something like this.
And we've been working on it from the time that they got the message that, The state of Illinois, the legislature, the city of Chicago, and Governor Pritzker were not really interested. So they got a look at what it would be like in a business-friendly state that has a lot of attributes to bring any business here. And that's kind of been the foundation that was in play that got to a threshold point just over the last day or two. Governor, do you believe that the business-friendly stadium deals that so rarely happen, that you are proposing, that they still make financial sense for the taxpayers? Well, they do here because there's skin in the game that the Bears are putting in that's significant. All that gets calculated in terms of ancillary economic benefits.
And we've got something that we did not too long ago with the Colts. And that's worked out wonderfully for the city of Indianapolis. And, you know, the region is slightly less in population itself than Indy. So it's the second biggest concentration of population in our state and It's not the first rodeo with it, and that's worked out pretty good across the board. What's the next step here? Because trying to figure out, if you're a Bears fan and you're listening to or reading the statement from the Bears or you're listening to Governor Pritzker or listening to you, trying to figure out how this is going to evolve is worth noting. So from your perspective, what would be the logical next step? So I think from the statement that you heard today –
And the fact that we had legislation that coincided, I think that was kind of the honest broker, the good faith of both parties getting to a place where they were comfortable. And it's not like there was plenty of time to flesh something out on the part of the governor, the city, and the legislature. And I think it's just at the point where down to some due diligence and Dotting some I's and crossing some T's that keeps moving forward without a lot of time probably involved of getting to where we see some concrete results. This is not a closed deal.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:13
2
What are Indiana's plans for attracting the Bears to Hammond?
1:13–16:41
3
How is the Cubs' spring training shaping up this year?
16:41–16:57
4
How does Nico Hoerner feel about the Cubs' team dynamics this season?
16:57–19:21
5
What are the implications of the Bears' recent legislative moves?
19:21–20:04
6
How does the spring training atmosphere affect player performance?
20:04–22:02
7
What challenges do the Bears face regarding their salary cap?
22:02–22:13
8
What strategies are the Bears considering for roster management?
22:13–1:03:06
Speakers
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