Darek Drobny

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Saving LA - Phase III

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

Honest question. What percentage of Knicks celebrity fans would also show up in Laker gear for Laker celebrity row if the Lakers were in the Finals? I think it’s over 50%

[Evan Sidery @esidery]

A source with the Bears texted @AdamSchefter the following on them leaving Chicago for Indiana:

“Illinois F’d it up. The politics are unbelievable in that state. Totally dysfunctional.”

The Bears are lining up a move across Indiana state lines due to a lack of bill progress.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

New Yorkers going back to their $5k/month apartment after spending $10k to watch their team lose in the Finals

[Ben Devine @Chicago_NFL]

The plans and design renderings as well as the economic studies for the Arlington Heights stadium have been on the Chicago Bears website since September 2025. They were just taken down over the weekend:👇

https://t.co/okKO66sgyC

[Jersey Jerry @Jerrythekid21]

Touring house in Hammond this weekend #businesswise

[Cody Delmendo @cody__cubs]

Every millennial Bulls fan in their 30s was quoting every Stacey King catch phrase during the Rose era. Most of us barely remember the Jordan era so a lot of our Bulls fandom lies with that time period. RIP to a legend who helped make being a Bulls fan fun during some of my favorite years.

[JPD🐻⬇️ @BeardownMF]

I can’t even imagine watching a Bulls game without Stacey on the call

[Chicago Bulls @chicagobulls]

We are devastated by the passing of 3x NBA Champion and beloved broadcaster Stacey King.

[Darek Drobny @D_Drobz]

Greatest Bulls commentator of all time. RIP

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

Stacey King has passed away at 59 years old. A three-time NBA champion with the Chicago Bulls across eight NBA seasons after being the No. 6 pick in the 1989 draft, and a beloved broadcaster for the team in his post-playing career.

[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.

[Vince Langman @LangmanVince]

🚨 After 105 years the Chicago Bears are moving to Republican run Indiana because of the incompetent, DEI, Democrat mayor of Chicago and clueless, Democrat Governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker!

Elections have consequences Illinois!

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Chicago Democrats Just FUMBLED an Entire NFL Team to Indiana.

100 Years of History Gone. Running a City This Badly Isn’t an Accident.

Indiana is getting a brand new Bears stadium.

And Chicago gets to keep its crime, its taxes, and its $400M taxpayer funded Obama DEI trash can nobody asked for.

This is what decades of Democrat mismanagement does.

Businesses leave.
Teams leave.
People leave.

They'll blame everyone but themselves.

Indiana wins. Chicago loses. Again.

[Herd w/Colin Cowherd @TheHerd]

"States compete against each other all the time... Soldier Field's in south Chicago. They're gonna move down to Hammond, Indiana. It's right across the border, it's not a big deal."

@colincowherd reacts to news that the Chicago Bears are potentially moving to Indiana

[Vince Langman @LangmanVince]

The Chicago Bears managed to stay in Chicago despite the 1929 Great Depression, WWII, and the 2008 financial crisis, but they couldn't survive two incompetent Democratic leaders in Illinois and now they are moving next door to the Republican run red state of Indiana!

[Darren Bailey @DarrenBaileyIL]

Imagine being the governor who lost the Chicago Bears.

[Ray Donovan @RayDonovanII]

.@ChicagosMayor @GovPritzker the men who lost the @ChicagoBears

[Ben Devine @Chicago_NFL]

For those who want Kevin Warren fired, here’s the reality:

He just brokered the best stadium deal in modern sports history. He will be in massive demand and this will be a huge benefit to him wherever he goes next.

That’s the reality!

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

*CHICAGO BEARS TO DEPART ILLINOIS FOR INDIANA AFTER 100 YEARS

[Greg Price @greg_price11]

JB Pritzker wants to be President of the United States, yet is such an incompetent buffoon that he's about to be known as the Illinois Governor who lost the Chicago Bears to Indiana.