Jed Vance, PharmD. B.S

Doctor of Pharmacy, SIUE SOP ‘22. Father to Riley Jo&Parker Ann. Avid sports enthusiast. Da Bears. 🐻⬇️ Eureka College ‘18.

[Bearsszn @bearszn]

I’ve seen enough. Coby Bryant is leading the NFL in INTs this year 👀

[Jed Vance, PharmD. B.S @jedvance18]

@ErikLambert1 @r_saunders15 Warrens been after the same thing since they purchased Arlington Heights property. He has given IL and Chicago 3 years to work a deal and he finally over it and willing to go to Indiana.

[Jed Vance, PharmD. B.S @jedvance18]

@NotTDurden @yubidad @Houseofyogi Do more research

[Jed Vance, PharmD. B.S @jedvance18]

@yubidad @Houseofyogi And the times the bears aren’t playing at home they host concerts, final four games the Super Bowl, all while the surrounding development of hotels, sports bars etc all generate revenue as well.

[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.

[Jed Vance, PharmD. B.S @jedvance18]

@thairestgaming @ChiBearsMuse These are riddell mini helmets throw back collection. All teams doing it look it up

[Jed Vance, PharmD. B.S @jedvance18]

@CalebFC18 @SwiftyNetwork No those are riddel throwback mini helmets part of their collection

[Mason West @WestSportsPT]

Regarding Rome comments:

With many foot stress fractures, especially in high-level athletes, the body creates extra bone and scar tissue (sometimes referred to as callus formation) around the fracture site during healing. While that's a normal part of recovery, it can slightly alter the shape, stiffness, or mechanics of the foot. Now over time the foot CAN be reshaped close to, if not back to, it's original form but it is not guaranteed.

-The fracture has healed and he's able to play.
-He isn't necessarily dealing with ongoing pain.
-The structure of the foot is now a little different than it was pre-injury.
-Because of those changes, the way the foot moves, loads, and feels is different.
-Rather than waiting for it to feel exactly like it did before the fracture, he's accepted that this is his "new normal."

For football players, this is actually pretty common after significant foot stress fractures. The goal is often not to make the foot feel exactly like it did before the injury, but to restore enough strength, mobility, and load tolerance that the athlete can perform at a high level without symptoms or increased risk of reinjury. A player can be fully cleared and highly effective while still noticing that the injured foot feels different than the uninjured side.

#DaBears

[Dave @davebftv]

oh hell yeahhhh

[Jed Vance, PharmD. B.S @jedvance18]

@AdamHoge @CHGO_Bears He just got married bro

[Jed Vance, PharmD. B.S @jedvance18]

@HoosierEnquirer Kyle Busch?

[Jordan Schultz @Schultz_Report]

The #Bears’ schedule release, with Rome Odunze starring as Bob Ross, is super underrated — and legitimately hilarious! 😂🎨

(🎥 @ChicagoBears)

[Jed Vance, PharmD. B.S @jedvance18]

@Chicago_NFL Yeah bc the hit rate on a 5th is so high, more so waste of time or why not wait through camp?

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

California Rep Kevin Kiley says they have learned the $100 million dollar pacific palisades Fire Aid concert money was laundered to nonprofits

“What we have learned is absolutely beyond belief — Tens of thousands of people donated raising a hundred million dollars for what they was were told was direct relief for the victims. But now we've learned that this money didn't go to the victims at all. Instead, it went to nonprofits”

Here are some examples

- CA Native Vote Project: $100,000 for voter participation for Native Americans
- Community Organized Relief Effort (CORE): $250,000 for programs prioritizing undocumented immigrants
- Altadena Talks Foundation: $100,000 went to supported podcasts, including Toni Raines podcast
- NAACP Pasadena: $100,000 political advocacy
- Los Angeles Black Worker Center $550,000 to political advocacy organizations
- Center for Applied Ecological Remediation: $500,000 for fungus/microbe/plant soil remediation projects

Over $500,000 went to bonuses for nonprofit leaders and consultants

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

This may be the most articulate response I’ve ever heard to this question.

[Jed Vance, PharmD. B.S @jedvance18]

@jacobinfante24 Zah Frazier?

[Jed Vance, PharmD. B.S @jedvance18]

@BrianCostin False and it passed

[Jed Vance, PharmD. B.S @jedvance18]

Chicago go get this man

[Scott Barrett @ScottBarrettDFB]

Jeff Caldwell is inarguably the closest thing we've ever seen to Calvin Johnson based on athletic testing, and yet, he's supposed to go.... Round 5 or Round 6 in the Draft?

Pretty crazy

I know I'm the "athleticism doesn't matter for WRs" guy, but this is literally the most athletic WR ever (99.9 SPORQ)

[Steven Ellis @SEllisHockey]

WHAT