Dick Leno

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[Dick Leno @DickLeno]

@JoshReynolds24 Just admit Embiid’s MVP is one of the biggest robberies we have seen… Can’t even dispute it was proven when it mattered and Jokic was better during regular season when the award is based on

[Dick Leno @DickLeno]

@Herrojuku @310jayare @JWeinbachNBA He was literally the 6th in all nba votes this year what are we doing🤣

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@JakeWally I mean I wouldn’t say no cool moments but they definitely waxed everyone

[Jared Carrabis @Jared_Carrabis]

We live in a world where the third Wild Card team in the AL has a losing record and the Red Sox won’t even sniff a playoff spot. Fire literally everybody. I cannot express to you how much I hate this team.

[Dick Leno @DickLeno]

@pfwpaul @MIAA033 Absolute joke…

[Dick Leno @DickLeno]

@pesky_podcast Fire EVERYBODY involved - we are the worst team in baseball and the leagues biggest laughing stock. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

[Steve Perrault @Steve_Perrault]

The Sox are 27-38. Roman and Crochet have been gone forever. The Citgo sign is an empty triangle. Everything is awful.

[Dick Leno @DickLeno]

@tkyles39 @Boston4Sports Doing a good job of getting reps to the guys who weren’t around the last weeks to get them up to speed

[MalikDubNation🦉🧊 @MalikDubNation]

Bizzare, mis à part Spike Lee je n'ai vu aucune de ces stars quand Frank Ntilikina et Emmanuel Mudiay se battait pour être titulaire au poste 1 🥸

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

This is Noah Shannon, model citizen, slated to be Hawkeye senior defensive captain 2023. He had guilt pangs for having bet $10 on the Iowa Women's Basketball team in the 2023 NCAA tournament. The only bet he ever made. He turned himself in to coaches for the transgression who forwarded it to the NCAA.

They ruled him inelligible for the entire season, effectively ending his career. If the NCAA allows someone else to play after making thousands of bets, including many on his own team, I am going to fucking riot

[Kevin Clark @bykevinclark]

As disastrous a ruling as there has ever been in modern sports. The pathway is now clear: gamble as much as you like, including on your own team and hope you are--or get--good enough that you can lawyer up down the line. A much bigger disaster than anything with NIL or portal.

[Touc @toucansam46]

History will be very kind to Jayson Tatum. My only hope is someday people have to answer for the deliberate and highly coordinated media assault on his career since day one.

[Rob ☘️ @robknowsball_]

Brunson winning FMVP would confirm that NBA media collectively had an agenda against Tatum in 24’

[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.

[Vik von Lustig 🇺🇸 @realcountlustig]

This is very weird. I have been assured by euros that there is no heat like European heat

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@tylermilliken_ What

[ThienemanSZN🇳🇱 @ThienemanSZN]

$400 Million on the Obama library but can’t spend anything on infrastructure for the Bears great job politicians 👍

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@ChicagosMayor @ChicagoMPO Fuck you - worthless cunt

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@rose_fol Shut up retard

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@ChicagoBears @NFLonFOX Blame Illinois

[Dick Leno @DickLeno]

@tha_buffalo @AdamSchefter Not the owners fault the city is a joke