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The State of Chicago Sports: A Race To The Number One Pick
Sports Talk Chicago
Sports Talk Chicago
5.0 • 832 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
On today’s show, host Joey Christopoulos talks with Brendan Sugrue about the current state of Chicago sports, and how, for most franchises, it has been a race to acquire the number one overall pick.
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| 0:00.0 | My final one for you, and this is actually based on our conversation, which always makes me so happy that you come under the show. |
| 0:06.6 | It's like leading me right into it. |
| 0:09.2 | And this is the surprise one. |
| 0:10.5 | I did not tell you about this before the show. |
| 0:12.8 | Brendan Shagrew joining us here in Sports Talk, Chicago with Joey Christopoul. |
| 0:16.0 | Filling in for John Zagl. |
| 0:17.3 | My final one for you is I'm a big Chicago sports era guy. In my personal opinion, |
| 0:24.7 | I think we are coming off of one of the perhaps, if not the golden era, one of the best |
| 0:30.7 | eras that we have seen in Chicago sports, I think in the last 100 years at least. And we can play the history on it, comment and |
| 0:39.1 | question below on YouTube if you want to. But 2003, and it's not always in a 10 year interval, |
| 0:45.3 | right? So I'm not always trying to be this arbitrary even number 10 years. Sometimes they're |
| 0:49.1 | eight, sometimes they're 12. This last one was about 14 years from 2003, 2004-ish range to 2018, which culminated |
| 0:57.7 | with the Chicago Bears and the double doink. Ever since then, Brendan, in my opinion, |
| 1:02.5 | these last six years, we are in a drought. We are in a dark, cold, awful place of Chicago |
| 1:10.7 | sports, the likes of Chicago sports, |
| 1:11.8 | the likes of which that I don't think we've probably seen |
| 1:14.3 | since I believe probably the 98 to the 2002-2003 era. |
| 1:20.0 | My question for you is, do you see the light at the end of the tunnel? |
| 1:25.2 | Caleb, Connor Bedard, |
| 1:28.3 | Angel Reese, |
| 1:29.8 | the Chicago Cubs, |
| 1:31.6 | the White Sox milkshake, |
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