Josh Cote-Gaeta

UTampa '18 | ΛΧΑ Opinions are mine, not my employer's

[Josh Cote-Gaeta @Josh_Cote28]

Important life advice

[Waffle House @WaffleHouse]

Surround yourself with waffles, not negativity

[U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @USMNT]

IT'S AUSTON TRUSTY TO GIVE US THE LEAD RIGHT OFF THE BAT!!!!!!!

[Josh Cote-Gaeta @Josh_Cote28]

The Michael Jordan disrespect is unreal. MJ in the finals vs CR7 against Uzbekistan in a group stage game…..

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

GOAT things 😛🐐

[ESPN @espn]

BELIEVE IT! 🇺🇸

The United States wins their first two group stage matches at the World Cup for the first time since 1930 🙌

[Boston Bruins @NHLBruins]

To the rafters.

The #NHLBruins are proud to announce that during the upcoming 2026-27 season, the club will bestow its highest honor upon Patrice Bergeron by retiring his No. 37.

[U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @USMNT]

BALOGUN BRACE RIGHT BEFORE THE BREAK!!!!!!!!!!

[U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @USMNT]

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 32 YEARS, IT IS MATCHDAY ON HOME SOIL FOR THE U.S. MEN'S NATIONAL TEAM! 🇺🇸

[Dan Butters @DanButtersChi]

Three things stick out to me from @John_Kass piece on @susanamendoza10

“She loves her city and will fight for it.”

“She's a fighter, a scrapper. If she were a mamma grizzly, she'd be the stuff of trapper's nightmares.”

“Remember her famous 2017 confrontation of Chicago Democrat tough-guy John “Quarters” Boyle—a convicted felon and coalition enforcer after Boyle ran a redlight, rear-ending other drivers? Mendoza chased him down confronted him and called police.”

I think if Chicagoans want someone that will stand up for them, there is no better candidate.

[Bob Pockrass @bobpockrass]

Josh Berry says he won't be back with the Wood Brothers in the No. 21 car next year.

[WGN TV News @WGNNews]

On Chicago’s Southeast Side, the possibility of a new stadium just across the state line has fans and business owners excited about what it could mean for the area.

Full story: https://t.co/UVpCpbf4jb

[Tampa Baseball @UTampaBaseball]

🏆 11 National Championships.

🏆🏆🏆 Three Straight.

The winningest program in NCAA Division II baseball history just made more history.

#TampaBaseball ⚾️ | #StandAsOne 🛡️

[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.

[ABC 7 Chicago @ABC7Chicago]

Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza officially launched her campaign to become the next mayor of Chicago on Wednesday. https://t.co/mSS3QqwAy7

[Dirty Mo Media @DirtyMoMedia]

Forever Rowdy.🙏

This is the best of Kyle Busch on Dirty Mo Media.

Rest easy, 8.

[Rockstar Games @RockstarGames]

Grand Theft Auto VI is now set to release on May 26, 2026.

https://t.co/YgaIn1cYc8

[RCR @RCRracing]

Richard Childress Racing has elected to suspend use of the No. 8 and will run the No. 33 at Charlotte Motor Speedway and beyond. Kyle Busch was instrumental in the design of RCR’s stylized No. 8 and it has become synonymous with Kyle and an important symbol for his fans and the NASCAR industry. No one can carry it forward to the level that he did. The No. 8 is reserved and ready for Brexton Busch when he is ready to go NASCAR racing.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr. @DaleJr]

Kyle and I had a really challenging existence for many years. But we luckily took the time to figure out our differences and that was something he instigated with a conversation in his bus around how we each managed our racing teams. I was super eager for us to get on better terms. But it was he who made the effort for that to be possible. We did some media together also to laugh through some of the things we put each other through many years ago. Most recently we had even been discussing him running my Late Model at Wilkesboro this summer. He seemed extremely happy and we had planned to meet up next Thursday to get his seat to the shop. He laughed over the idea of his fans and JRM fans having to cheer in unison during that race.

Kyle was one of the greatest drivers in NASCAR history. No one can deny that. But he was also a father, a husband, brother, son, and a friend to many. My heart is broken for the Busch family. I will never be able to make sense of this loss but I am thankful that we had found a way to become friends.

[Aedan McHugh @AedanMcHugh]

“Because you never know when the last one is” hits wildly different now…

RIP to a legend and prayers for the whole Busch family. Just unbelievably sad