A Chicago Bears’ Owner’s Surprising Side Gig & A Caleb Williams Check-in

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🗓️ 19 August 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Today, as the Little League World Series brings youth sports front and center, ESPN’s Courtney Cronin explains how George McCaskey, a scion of the legendary Halas family who owns the Chicago Bears, became a community fixture in youth sports as an umpire. Plus, Courtney’s been watching the Bears closely this preseason and tells us whether or not they’ve found their dream team with the rookie duo of quarterback Caleb Williams and wide receiver Rome Odunze. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Clinton, I know our daily listeners can't see my setup, but I'm currently in my mother's basement,
0:07.5	where every great podcast starts.
0:10.3	And I know as a baseball guy, you will appreciate all of the sports junk behind me.
0:16.1	Courtney Cronin covers the Chicago Bears for E-SPN, and last week I got a virtual tour of her memorabilia collection.
0:26.7	This was we ordered this out of a catalog.
0:29.9	Oh, you remember what those were back in the day.
0:32.6	Is that a commemorative plate?
0:35.2	To commemorate 2,131 consecutive games.
0:39.2	Okay.
0:40.2	I've got my foul ball, be alert for foul balls at Riggly Sign.
0:44.6	That's a good one.
0:45.1	It's got the cub on it if those for the listening audience
0:49.1	there is a bear tracking to its left.
0:51.2	Was that a glove? Yes, it's got its gloves.
0:54.0	They have these as you were like come out onto like the lower concourse area
0:58.0	so don't get beaned with a foul ball.
1:00.0	Right.
1:01.0	And then my first autograph I ever received a Joe Girardi signed Cubby Bear, which we got at a meet and
1:08.1	greet at a grocery store. And Sammy Sosa,
1:12.5	Sosa, a signed baseball.
1:15.0	Wow.
1:16.0	So I just think you would appreciate all of the...
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