Is this Bears stadium saga 'the worst story ever'? (Hour 2)

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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Sports

4.2 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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In the second hour, Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes shared their lengthy list of reasons why the Bears' never-ending stadium saga is the "worst story ever" in Chicago sports. After that, Cubs manager Craig Counsell joined the show to discuss his club’s continued struggles and the adjustments he has made in an attempt to get the team out of its rut.

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0:00.0	Broadcasting live from the Hyundai Studios, presented to you in part by your local Hyundai dealers.
0:05.2	This is Chicago's number one most listened to Sports Station.
0:08.5	1043 The Score is Chicago Sports.
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0:23.3	The score!
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0:30.7	Spiegel and Holmes.
0:31.9	Afternoons on the score.
0:35.3	Mayor Braden Johnson, now walking into our studio. The Bears have said a lot of things. What have they told you? Up until April, we were working out a term sheet. So no contact since April, though? No, not since April. All right, can Iowa intercept the Bears as they eye a possible move? Well, a group of state senators seem to think so. I'm a Chicago Bears fan, believe very much that they ought to be based in Illinois,
0:56.0	and I'm going to do everything I can without harming the taxpayers of the state of Illinois
1:01.0	in the process of making sure that we can do everything we can to keep them.
1:06.0	We're the largest landowner in Arlington Heights.
1:08.0	We own 326 acres.
1:09.0	Have you driven on that site outside of illinois it's like
1:12.1	what one road have you been to the suburbs here's the part that's actually pretty jacked up if you're a
1:16.9	bear's fan slag heap slag heap slag heap yeah slag heap yeah slag heap flag heap flag heap
1:22.3	all right just one more of that governor um do you see j b Pritzker as an adversary in this, and do you enjoy that?
1:31.3	No, I don't take pleasure in any one else's misery.
1:35.7	There is going to be an adjustment period.
1:38.1	People are going to have to be allowed some time to get used to it.
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