Joey Klecka

Part of #AlaskaTwitter. Chicago sportz fan. Race fan at heart.
🏈 #BearDown ⚾ #FlyTheW 🏁 #24ever

[Grant Dahlstrom @GrantDahlstrom]

Man, this last month plus for the Cubs has just been the most confusing, mind-boggling, and frustrating stretch of baseball I think I’ve ever seen.

It’s awful. And it’s every single night.

I think a season like this with this team is proof they need a franchise reset. #Cubs

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

I’ve been thinking a lot about the extraordinary outbursts of the President of the United States against female journalists... well, actually against journalists in general and journalism. But it feels like he saves his most childlike behavior and irrational language for female reporters, calling them all kinds of names that kids in kindergarten are given times out for. It’s stunning to me to witness such behavior from any leader, any CEO, any person of influence or importance. I’ve never witnessed someone like this raging, this weekend with @meetthepress host @kwelkernbc, just last week in the Oval Office with @cnn’s @kaitlancollins, calling women stupid or piggy, telling them to “smile”, calling them darling, demeaning their credibility. Every good man should denounce this behavior. Every person should be able to stand up for their colleagues and say “No more.”

Imagine this man screaming like this at your daughter, your wife, your sister, your mother... would you stand for it? No, you wouldn’t! And neither should any of us. It’s unacceptable and undignified. Period. End of story.

[Congressman Robert Garcia @RepRobertGarcia]

If you think California is taking a while to count votes, wait until you hear how long the Trump Administration is taking to release the Epstein files…

[Joey Klecka @Kleckinator]

@jcoker1 1. Wood Bros
2. Junior Johnson
3. Jack Roush
Darkhorse guess would be Carl Keifkaker.

[Joey Klecka @Kleckinator]

Cubs wasted a brilliant effort by Assad. I’m sorry, Javier, this team just ain’t worth their salt right now.

[Alex Patt @chifanpatt2]

You just went 2-4 on a homestand when you had the tying run on second with nobody out and lost THREE TIMES!!!!

Against two sub-.500 teams.

[Silvy @WaddleandSilvy]

7 runs all series.
SEVEN.
And 3 didn’t mean a thing on Friday.

Wasted Assad.
9 games behind the Brewers in the loss column.
4 weeks ago, the #Cubs were
15 over. They’re 2 over now.

[Joey Klecka @Kleckinator]

I was thinking of this exact moment too. RIP Dale and Rowdy.

[Showbizcecinc @Nascarguy1811]

history repats itself

[Showbizcecinc @Nascarguy1811]

history repats itself

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

Trump today claimed he “didn’t promise anything” about NO NEW WARS.

So here’s a second compilation showing FIFTY times during his campaign where he PROMISED exactly that.

[NASCAR @NASCAR]

63 for KB.

[Carson Wolf @TheWrigleyWire]

Ben Brown’s MLB ranks since joining the rotation:

1.44 ERA - 5th
1.89 FIP - 4th
0.77 WHIP - 4th
.147 BAA - 2nd
0 HR Allowed - T-1st
1.2 fWAR - 4th

It’s hard to overstate just how important Ben Brown has been for the Cubs this season.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump has a meltdown and ends the interview

Welker: Just to be very clear, there's no evidence of what you're saying.

Trump: There’s a lot of evidence. There’s tremendous evidence. There’s nothing but evidence. The election was rigged. And it’s happening again in California. They’re cheating.

Welker: Do you have evidence?

Trump: All I have to do is look.

Welker: That’s not evidence. The local officials acknowledge they are slow

Trump: They’re crooked. Just like you’re crooked. You’re either crooked or stupid.

[TheFrenchie @ML3democrats]

Remember when they said Zelensky desecrated the sanctity of the White House by not wearing a suit

[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.

[Joey Klecka @Kleckinator]

It’s astounding how quickly this Cubs team has gone from best in the league to an utter embarrassment. Can’t beat anyone.

[Chicago Cubs @Cubs]

FINAL: Giants 18, Cubs 3.

[Bill Koester @Billy_dk_89]

So many in Illinois who constantly bitch about taxes/Pritzker/Democrats/Chicago are upset they won’t give taxpayer money to billionaire NFL owners.

So many in Indiana who badmouth Illinois for the same reasons seem pretty jazzed about paying taxes for a new stadium.

#bears

[Mark Potash @MarkPotash]

This is the part where dad actually starts turning the car around, before the kids in a desperate panic promise to behave — and dad turns back again to head toward the restaurant.

[Motorsport @Motorsport]

Three years ago today, Kyle Busch took the checkered flag and gave us a bow in what would be his final NASCAR Cup Series win. 🏁

[OBVIOUS SHIRTS® @obvious_shirts]

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