We want to do a show on Chris Chelios' boat

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2:27Get the job done right the first time and joining us now. Bed MGM, Ambassador Chris Jellios, Bed MGM, make it legendary. Gamling problem called 1-800 Gamble. Good morning Chris. How are you? Good. Love that Pearl Jam intro. Nice. Just for you. Yes. Thank you. Waking you up this morning. I Chris, so we made our season predictions a little bit earlier in the show. How good do you think the Bears will be this year in terms of record? And what do you think happens in the season opener Sunday at Carolina? Well, after last year, your expectations are pretty high. Winning those close games right at the end. Really great year. Exciting took a step forward for sure. I guess the big question is the defense. Everybody keeps trying to count them out, but they had a pretty good year last year. But I'm going with Bears. You know that. I'll never bet against them. And Williams hopefully takes that next step.

3:27I love the coach playing in simple in that the whole three tight. And I've been whining about throwing them all a commit. Well, now you've got two more targets. Make it easier on Caleb. Just seems like that tight ends usually a bigger than who's covering them. And they find a way to get open and they always seem to make the big place in all these big games. So hopefully, you know, that seems to be the case this year. And they at least their offense, hopefully explosion and continues to improve. Kelly, last time we talked to you, we were having a conversation about the young stars and the advice you would give them here in the city with Caleb Williams and PCA. But since that last time we talked, you know, you had Caleb and all the young guys pulling up to watch PCA at Riggly. How cool is that? And also did you ever do anything like that pull up on somebody else and go to another game with with some of the young stars when you were here? Yeah, I mean, we were close with the bulls obviously and then that run MJ and that group of guys didn't the 90s.

4:29So we hung around a lot. You know, with the white socks, the cubs now that my age, obviously that's not going to happen. But it's cool to socialize with those guys and especially when things are going well, we got two baseball teams look like they're playoff bound and all the excitement for the bears black hawks. You know, this is a year, hopefully they become a playoff contender and you know, as you mentioned, a lot of possible candidates to be MVPs and it's you know, Pete Crow has been great to watch, you know, watching him mature. Connabadard is going to be the same. Caleb, that's remains to be seen. You know, this year's a lot of pressure on him. But yeah, we're lucky we have those marquee players and hopefully lead us to that promise land that we can win championships and Stanley Cubs and enjoy it. So Chris, we know you root for both sides of town, cubs and white socks and but maybe identify with the south side a little bit more. What was your reaction when you saw the renderings if you saw them of the potential white socks ballpark in the south loop called the rail yards downtown off by canal street.

5:38Well, I love the fact that I can pull my boat right up to it. That's going to be great. How's that for selfish reason? It's great. No, but watching them I drop and down the river we go down the China town pass by it, you know, two, three days a week and it's a for me. I love the location. I don't have a problem with rate field. I really don't. The area I'd like to see it become more of an entertainment district like a lot of these cities are doing is almost like building Las Vegas and picking spots and then building around it and making it a fun place to go earlier. And that's not the case over by by rate field. You know, there's not much to go on, but wriggly. You know, it's second and none when it comes to entertainment around the fields and what the rickets have done. But yeah, it remains to be seen. I can never pronounce they've just in the new part of the white. I saw it. I saw him the other day. He's in a lot of games with his kids. It looks like he's got big ideas and that's that's going to be interesting to see if they could pull it off. It doesn't look like there's a whole lot of room, but you know on the river.

6:42I'd much rather see him utilize that space, you know, by own McCormick there, whether it's going to be the bears or the white socks. It's such a beautiful lake front and it seems like they got plenty of property to pull something out there. It's almost time to do that. Hockey man. How excited are you about that? And with another year of growth for this black Hawks team. What are your actual kind of standards for this group and expectations before Bidard gets back on the ice? Yeah, well, since Bidard's been there two years ago, they've taken steps in the right direction. Their points have increased with coach Blaschill. Again, I feel like they have to get off the good start. Get some confidence if they're going to try and you know get into playoffs. I was there yesterday at the rank. It's great to see Caner back in the black hockey uniform. That's going to be exciting. They've added some toughness. They got some young kids, some size. I think that's what they've lacked. A little bit too much is one thing is never a good thing. So it's going to be interesting. You know, again, they got the gold tender and night. I think they got the right guy there and that's a great start.

7:44So like I said, I really think a quick starter, a good start is going to be so important to these guys. And then when Bidard does get back, it looks like he's going to be back sooner than later. He's been skating. No sense rushing him obviously. It's going to be a long year. So hopefully when he gets healthy, we're going to see some amazing hockey with, you know, Caner, Bidard, the front L. So yeah, I'm looking forward to it and see if it's one of these big these step up. Byarm is going to be the key. You know, it's a good power play guy. That was a great acquisition too. Great stuff, Charlie. We appreciate your time and enjoy the weekend. All right guys, you too. Take care. Chris Chalios, but MGM ambassador joining us here, giving us his predictions and also just recollections of when he used to run around with the bulls. Can we could get an invite on the boat? I mean, that's the one thing I took away from talking to Charlie. He can just pull up his boat anyway. I'm thinking remote, right? Like a live alive Wednesday morning and paint and show someone's a more on the boat. All right. I think we can do that. Dustin, anybody can send it on you, but I don't think that he wants to get up at 5.30 in the morning.

8:53Can we be honest there? I don't think that Charlie wants to get someone to charter the boat for. I'm guessing that boat's got a bedroom on it. He can stay asleep. Wake up whenever he wants. Captain the boat as well or somebody captain the boat for these are questions for next week. Yeah, we'll try to do that. Hey, all right. Almost here. Are you ready? Just grabbing my shoes. That's what you said 10 minutes ago. I just wrapped the video call, uploading this giant file on my tablet, looking at my watch group bananas with the group chat, and of course still lining up tonight's playlist on my phone. All at once? Yep, story of my life. That's why I switched to D-Mobile. They have the fastest 5G network. Okay, multi-tasker. I see you. Honestly, I never imagined I could do all this at once. It's awesome. Say no more. I'm totally switching. My post is taking way too long to upload. That's a sign you've got to get T-Mobile. So many reasons to join T-Mobile. Find yours at T-Mobile.com.

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