Sammy Sprinkler

Jace’s Dad. WeAreMarshall ⚾️ “Enjoy where you are with who you're with” ✡️

[Sammy Sprinkler @samfinfer3]

Welp….

[Sammy Sprinkler @samfinfer3]

@SleeperMariners When he comes out I feel confident we are going to lose

[Goofies Of Chicago @Chicago_Goofies]

Fuck Brandon Johnson, and fuck JB Pritzker. Have a nice weekend, everyone.

[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.

[Ari Hoffman @thehoffather]

Katie Wilson is only turning on the Stadium District cameras, which means she only cares about the World Cup and not the rest Seattle, y'know, the people who actually live here

[Sammy Sprinkler @samfinfer3]

Legend

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Happy 48th Birthday to the scream queen, Justin Long!

[Ryan Divish @RyanDivish]

Luis Castillo will start tomorrow in Sacramento. Bryce Miler will follow in the piggyback.

[Sammy Sprinkler @samfinfer3]

@Mariners Dan Wilson is asleep at the wheel. These guys have absolutely no life in that dugout

[Sammy Sprinkler @samfinfer3]

This offense isn’t gonna cut it fellas

[Sammy Sprinkler @samfinfer3]

There’s no way they actually think Luke Raley could possibly be worse than this

[Dave “Softy” Mahler @Softykjr]

Down to .091 vs LH Now..3 K's today...

[Sammy Sprinkler @samfinfer3]

@Softykjr Shocked we haven’t managed to score yet with this juggernaut of a lineup we threw out there

[Sammy Sprinkler @samfinfer3]

They are laughing at the fanbase right now. This has to be a joke

[Seattle Mariners @Mariners]

Vic’s back!

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

CBS News said there was no evidence of fraud.

The NYT said the Somali community was being targeted

CNN said there was "little evidence."

Tim Walz said it was “white supremacy” to expose fraud

Today: $90M busted and 15 charged.

IT WAS ALL FRAUD AND THEY KNEW.

[Sammy Sprinkler @samfinfer3]

Seems like there were a lot of bitter jury members! #survivor50

[Andy Bailey @AndrewDBailey]

The ones this obvious need to result in suspensions. The problem would go away within weeks.

[Sammy Sprinkler @samfinfer3]

I thought there wasn’t any fraud? 🤔

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Minneapolis day care owner featured in Nick Shirley’s viral fraud video federally charged in an alleged $4.6 million fraud scheme.

[Sammy Sprinkler @samfinfer3]

@CorbinSmithNFL I nominate Ichiro to be the new manager

[Sammy Sprinkler @samfinfer3]

It’s weird how the entire fanbase is on the same page about this but the organization can’t get out of its own way

[Seattle Mariners ON Tap @MarinersONTap]

I am officially done with right v. left analytics and 'expected value'.

Rob Refsynder SHOULD NOT come into the game for any reason. He just doesn't have it anymore.

He will now also have to bat, probably v. a righty later in the game.

Leave Raley in, let him get more than 6 at-bats this year v. lefties. At least you will have him in at the end of the game.

[Sammy Sprinkler @samfinfer3]

We just pinch hit for our best hitter in the 5th inning with the bases loaded for a guy hitting .108. Fire everyone I am so serious this can’t keep happening

[Sammy Sprinkler @samfinfer3]

I’m tired

[Sammy Sprinkler @samfinfer3]

Feels like every time the Mariners get a lead their pitchers immediately give it up the next inning

[Sammy Sprinkler @samfinfer3]

Feels like every time the Mariners get a lead their pitchers immediately give it up the next inning