Tyler Ashcraft

Just your average roofing contractor and dad that squeezes in golf as much as possible. 12 handicap that loves to travel to top courses and play average ⛳️

[Football Analysis @FBallAnalysisYT]

Just an incredible comment here

[Tyler Ashcraft @Crafty__5]

Give me B and I’m about to go on the best month long golf trip possible stateside.

[Midwest vs. The Rest @midwestern_ope]

You have a month long vacation in the Midwest this summer. You can’t leave the zone you pick. Where are you going?

[ARROW @phresh_arrow]

Imagine making $70-80k a year in the $5
footlong era.

[Jeff D. Lowe @JeffDLowe]

Alexi Lalas just called James Corden a “fucking wanker” on live TV and the reactions were incredible. Hero moment for him, IMO. #FIFAWorldCup

[NUCLR GOLF @NUCLRGOLF]

🚨🇺🇸✅ #WATCH — Miles Russell has qualified for the U.S. Open with Tiger Woods’ son Charlie on the bag.

@TWlegion

[Phil Sadler @phildabuckets]

If you’re upset about this you are the worst person imaginable

[Larry @Tom & Marty's @tomandmartys]

This is Sam Burns. Statistically speaking he is one of the best putters on Tour. His defect is that on the back 9 on Sundays while in contention, he becomes the worst putter on Tour.

[Hip-Hop JJ Redick @HipHopJJRedick]

How we have responded to longevity from athletes:

Vince Carter: WOW AMAZING

Tom Brady: WOW AMAZING

Alex Ovechkin: WOW AMAZING

Nolan Ryan: WOW AMAZING

Robert Parish: WOW AMAZING

LeBron James: LONGEVITY DOESN’T MATTER!!!

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Chicago lost the Bears this week. A team that's been in the city since 1921.

They didn't lose them to a bigger market or a better deal. The Bears decided they'd rather be a tenant in Indiana than deal with Illinois for one more year.

Think about how badly you have to run a place for that to be the smart move.

They lost them for two reasons.

The people running Illinois would rather villainize a builder than keep one. And they're bad at their jobs.

In 2021 the Bears spent $197M on the old Arlington Park racetrack.

Before they could break ground, Cook County valued the empty lot at $192M (Bears said $60M). They were salivating at the chance to extort a building that didn't even exist yet.

That fight dragged on for years.

The Bears were ready to put $2B into the stadium. All they wanted was a promise the county wouldn't reassess them into oblivion, plus $855M for infrastructure everyone uses. Roads, transit, utilities. A $3B project, two thirds of it private money pouring into Illinois.

Springfield had since 2021 to get this done. They dragged it to the final night of session, passed it through the Senate at 3:39AM, and the House went home without voting.

So now it's all gone.

The funniest part? This started because Cook County tried to grab the tax early. They knew a built stadium would pay $53M a year. Now they get under $4M on a vacant lot. No jobs, no buildout, no new anything.

Congrats on fighting for scraps and losing the whole prize.

Pritzker: they're "an $8.5B valued business" that doesn't need propping up.

But be smart for a second. Almost every NFL city throws in public money for a stadium. Not charity. The return is real. Tourism, hotels, restaurants, jobs, game days, property tax on a huge development. The math works.

Indiana did the math. While Illinois sat on it for years, Indiana passed a bill in months, put up $1B, and took the team.

And the Bears took a worse deal to get there. In Illinois they were going to own their stadium. In Indiana they rent it from the state. A team that wanted to build its own home gave up ownership just to escape Chicago.

Nobody won but Indiana. The Bears lost their stadium. Illinois lost the team, the $2B, and $53M a year in taxes.

Pritzker after they left: "I wasn't willing to give up billions of dollars of taxpayer money to give it to a billionaire-owned family or team."

There it is. "Billionaire-owned."

That's how Democrats talk about any business right before they run it out of town. Call them a billionaire, act like you're saving working families, take a victory lap while the tax base drives across the state line.

Meanwhile they're running the whole state into the ground. And you already know how this ends. You're living in it.

Pensions are $143B in the hole, worst in the country and not close. You pay $6,285 a year in property taxes, double the $2,969 national average, for a city that's $1.15B in the red. The mayor called its finances "the point of no return."

When you run things this badly, you sell what's left.

They leased the parking meters for 75 years to Morgan Stanley and a sovereign wealth fund in Abu Dhabi. Took $1.15B and burned through it in two years. The investors already made it all back, with 58 years left to collect.

Sold the Skyway. Sold the downtown garages. Every asset that made money, gone for one check.

But a fixed property tax rate for a team that's been here 106 years? That's "propping up billionaires."

Companies are leaving. Boeing for Virginia. Caterpillar for Texas. Citadel for Miami. In 2023 alone Illinois lost 56,000 people and $6B in income to other states. The ones who left earned a third more than the ones who moved in.

Indiana didn't outbid anyone. AAA credit, 16 years straight. A $676M surplus. Fourth-lowest debt per person in the country. They just weren't a disaster.

Illinois could have collected $53M a year. It chose zero. Ignore all the bad management but make sure to stick it to those evil, pesky billionaires.

[Justin Macmahan @JustinMacmahan]

Good reminder that the argument for LeBron is that he’s better in every statistical measure and was completely dominant for twice as many seasons. The argument for Jordan is that his team managed to lose before the Finals every time they weren’t going to win. Riveting debate!

[Patrick McDonald @pmcdonaldCBS]

Russell Henley has made north of $50 million on the PGA Tour, and yet no one would recognize him if he stepped into a restaurant. Dream life.

[scogolfs @scogolfs]

On the edge of Lake Michigan.

Arcadia Bluffs Golf Club in Arcadia, MI

[Andy Beshear @AndyBeshearKY]

Thomas Massie and I don’t agree on much.

But billionaires and special interest groups spent $35 million in Kentucky to unseat one conservative congressman — all because he stood up to Trump.

It’s everything that's wrong with our politics today.

[Caleb Hammer @sircalebhammer]

Oh, so Chelsea Handler is just offended on behalf of people who are not offended.

Why do we still listen to those types of people?

[Sean Strickland @SStricklandMMA]

It has nothing to do with Thomas Massie losing, It has everything to do with a foreign government and it's supporters lobbying 30 million to protect its interest of a foreign government.

This isnt America first. Im more committed to never vote for an aipac candidate again.

[scott pianowski @scott_pianowski]

Then history erased all memory of them so Moneyball could live.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 JUST IN — Thomas Massie concedes the race:

“I would've come out sooner, but I had to call my opponent and concede.”

“And it took a while to find Ed Gallrein in Tel Aviv.”

That line is going to detonate across Washington.

Massie just turned his concession speech into a missile aimed directly at the flood of outside money and foreign policy influence that consumed this race.

The most expensive House primary in U.S. history ends with one final message:

This wasn’t just Kentucky voting.

This was the political establishment making an example out of someone who refused to fall in line.

[Cynus @cy1nus]

Are the songs okay

[KenHeLive @KenHeLive]

LeBron’s impact is you watched that game last night and IMMEDIATELY thought of LeBron James. Lmao y’all don’t even realize he’s just as big as Jordan cause you’re mistaking being polarizing for being less relevant when he’s damn near all you think about.

[Lex @LexDiamonds__]

You might’ve just created a Basketball theory principle bro. LeBron Theory might actually have to be something front offices use so they don’t get stuck being teams who have the appearance of being a contender because of their superstar but really a 4 to 6 seed.