Ryan

#DD20

[Mike @ChiSoxFanMike]

BACK TO BACK HOMERS OFF ONE OF THE BEST CLOSERS IN MLB WITH 2 OUTS IN THE 9TH

THIS WHITE SOX TEAM IS DIFFERENT

[MLB @MLB]

Braden Montgomery and Randal Grichuk go back-to-back!

@WhiteSox tie it in the bottom of the 9th! 😤

[Chicago White Sox @whitesox]

Right off the bat!

[Ryan @__TMTRyan__]

@WhiteSoxAl @ChiSoxFanMike Ohtani played two of the games so this means nothing

[Joe Binder @JoeBinder]

That crowd pop is crispy

A high-voltage South Side is the league’s worst nightmare

[Chicago White Sox @whitesox]

we up

[Sox On 35th @SoxOn35th]

Tristan Peters makes this a 7️⃣-run inning

The Rate is going absolutely BANANAS 🍌

[Ryan @__TMTRyan__]

@muabriannajay @rap3dbyr3ality @princesskaaayy1 The court said he was in fact not jumped at all and that the video is clear as day only 2 people involved and that’s Austin and karmelo so stop spreading lies

[AT @BaseballWRLD_]

This home run was the definition of cinema

MLB debut
Extra innings
Down to the last out
Off one of the best closers in the game
With the 80’s themed broadcast
Costas on the call (actual good call)
The fireworks in the background

Baseball.

[Chicago White Sox @whitesox]

What a welcome to The Show™️

[White Sox on CHSN @CHSN_WhiteSox]

BRADEN MONTGOMERY WALKS IT OFF IN HIS MLB DEBUT 🤯

[White Sox on CHSN @CHSN_WhiteSox]

COLSON MONTGOMERY CRUSHED THIS BALL 💪

[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.

[Ryan @__TMTRyan__]

🤣🤣🤣I know yall ain’t talking… the only reason you bozos got one to begin with was because hali tore his shit in game seven as he was starting to takeover the game

[PokeNation @Big12Pokes]

Rule 1. Play an injured team.

[White Sox on CHSN @CHSN_WhiteSox]

Miguel Vargas continues to RAKE 🔥

[White Sox on CHSN @CHSN_WhiteSox]

The White Sox have outscored opponents 34-9 on their 5-game win streak 🔥

[White Sox on CHSN @CHSN_WhiteSox]

‼️VARGAS WALKS IT OFF‼️

[Ryan @__TMTRyan__]

@rickys_account @LaamriRashad @LegionHoops @ShowCaseShabazz @Fullcourtpass 🤣🤣🤣🤣I knew the king wemby would send yall I had to I’m sorry man lmfao

[Ryan @__TMTRyan__]

@snipuh @seigfrio @Boyslowdownn @iluvrp10s Literally same it took me so long to just accept that we’ve lost that original style of call of duty and now they just on a path they can’t come back from

[Ryan @__TMTRyan__]

@snipuh @seigfrio @Boyslowdownn @iluvrp10s Haha your good fam, I just been a cod kid since I grew up so it’s hard not to defend it lmao but I’m not delusional like other cod fans I know the games in a horrible state it’s just hard for me to give it up since I grew up on it, but I’ve been on my cs grind lately