Ryan Johnston

Illinois State Redbirds. Michigan Wolverines. Chicago Cubs. Chicago Bears. Chicago Bulls

[Ryan Johnston @RyanJ2121]

@JomboyMedia The only reason he came off the bag was the glove impeding him… on a walk. That can’t be how the rule was intended to be enforced.

[Ryan Johnston @RyanJ2121]

@emondhinkFH05 💯

[Ryan Johnston @RyanJ2121]

What a joke. Growing in 2027??? You’re killing off the best conference tournament in the country. MVC should be embarrassed

[Missouri Valley Conference @MVCsports]

One Week.
One City.
One Championship Celebration.

Arch Madness is growing in 2027! 🏀

Read More: https://t.co/NtRyeCn1EL

#ArchMadness // #ItBeginsHere

[OptaSTATS @OptaSTATS]

There have been over 5 million total 18-game spans by players in MLB's modern era.

In none of them did a player have as many hits, doubles, triples, homers & steals as the @Cubs' Pete Crow-Armstrong over his last 18 games:

34 hits
5 doubles
2 triples
9 home runs
6 stolen bases

[NFL Films @NFLFilms]

This 🇺🇸

[USGA @USGA]

Our 2025 USGA champions are set to take on Shinnecock this week.

Brandon Holtz: U.S. Mid-Amateur
Padraig Harrington: U.S. Senior Open
J.J. Spaun: U.S. Open
Mason Howell: U.S. Amateur

Good luck, gentlemen!

[OBVIOUS SHIRTS® @obvious_shirts]

PCA haters are in shambles right now.

[Illinois State Athletics @ISURedbirds]

A year to remember🤩

📰 https://t.co/lY8MdvS5SR

[Ryan Johnston @RyanJ2121]

@zollotech When do you expect the public beta release?

[Tyler Gall @tygall_]

Illinois State men’s basketball is hiring Duquesne’s Julian Sullinger as an assistant coach, @JonRothstein reports.

#REDBIRDbasketball

[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.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

One of the most legendary calls of all time

Rest in Peace, Stacey King

[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.

[Alexis @TheNotoriousLEX]

Smoking the hardest hit ball of your career (114.6 EV) to a section chanting “overrated” might actually be more disrespectful than telling someone to suck your dick.

[The WARmonger @TheWARmonger_]

The PCA catch to end the game is another beauty.

Initial number is 5% catch probability from Statcast (that can change). His jump was 9.5 feet above average, that's elite, and he got up to 30.2 ft/sec in pursuit!

[Jomboy Media @JomboyMedia]

PCA answers “overrated” chants by blasting one into the Tarps Off section

[Chicago Cubs @Cubs]

TARPS OFF. BALL GONE.

[Brett Taylor @Brett_A_Taylor]

BFIB

[Brendan Miller @brendan_cubs]

Pete Crow-Bat-Flip

[Danny Parkins @DannyParkins]

Tomorrow is the biggest day of my broadcasting year.

24 hours for cancer research in honor of my brother Brad.

A 4 hour delay (this tweet from 35,000 feet) and an insane hoops game isn’t ideal for maximizing sleep.

Anyway, game on. Talk to ya 10am @thescorechicago