Ty Masciarelli

“The power to be in control of your own life is a BIG DEAL”

[Ty Masciarelli @TyMas5]

@Espngreeny It’s been awful for 40 years for the most part…who cares, as long as the magic of last year can continue, they play in Wisconsin for all I care!

[Ty Masciarelli @TyMas5]

Put the Belmont back on @WTOV9 !!

[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.

[Ty Masciarelli @TyMas5]

@espn @EspnTOP

[Ty Masciarelli @TyMas5]

Hard ass coaches produce hard ass players…..soft coaches produce soft players

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Tom Izzo shares an uncomfortable truth about earning your spot.

"You play real good, you start. You don't play as good, you work your way back in."

"That's the American way - except America has gotten soft."

You don't get what you want in life - you get what you earn.

It starts with showing up and earning it every single day.

No shortcuts...Just hard work.
(🎥@CBBonFOX )

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Tom Izzo shares an uncomfortable truth about earning your spot.

"You play real good, you start. You don't play as good, you work your way back in."

"That's the American way - except America has gotten soft."

You don't get what you want in life - you get what you earn.

It starts with showing up and earning it every single day.

No shortcuts...Just hard work.
(🎥@CBBonFOX )

[Dan Zaksheske @RealDanZak]

Incredible take from Charles Barkley on Tom Izzo:

"The media, who don't know anything about sports, say 'Why is he yelling his players?' That's called coaching... if parents & friends get mad because you're getting yelled at, get better parents & better friends."

[Ty Masciarelli @TyMas5]

I said this for 25 years….

“A bunch of people want to be a QB until you get to be the QB….”

[Chase Daniel @ChaseDaniel]

I had an OC tell me this today about evaluating QBs in the draft

“When I’m trying to find THE guy… I ask two questions — was he born to be a QB, or was he made to be one?”

Nothing has resonated more…Everyone’s chasing the guy who was born to do it.

There’s 2 in this class…

[Chase Daniel @ChaseDaniel]

I had an OC tell me this today about evaluating QBs in the draft

“When I’m trying to find THE guy… I ask two questions — was he born to be a QB, or was he made to be one?”

Nothing has resonated more…Everyone’s chasing the guy who was born to do it.

There’s 2 in this class…

[Ty Masciarelli @TyMas5]

@RepMcGovern He would snap you in half lol

[Ty Masciarelli @TyMas5]

@RepJeffries Of course

[Ty Masciarelli @TyMas5]

The USA hockey player today got 3 of all or part of his teeth broken/knocked out of his mouth today and stayed in the game and later won the game for the USA….if that’s not a lesson on what toughness and resilience is to teach your kids, I don’t know what else is….

[Ty Masciarelli @TyMas5]

@RachelKryshak Bye loser(s)

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[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

LeBron is still flopping like a dead fish after all these years. Commitment to being the greatest flop artist of all time is almost worthy respecting. MJ would never…

[Ty Masciarelli @TyMas5]

@SandoNFL @AndrewSiciliano Save it (didnt read after 2 lines). What a joke. Let people who know the game (ex players and coaches) vote on any HOFs, not writers who most only wish they ever put on a uniform.

[Ty Masciarelli @TyMas5]

8 time SB champion Bill Belichick not making the HOF? Why because sportswriters who THINK they know the game are mad because of Deflategate and Spygate? LOL….

Let people who know the game (ex players and coaches) vote on HOFs.

[Ty Masciarelli @TyMas5]

@NFL_DovKleiman Face of what? Lol.

[Ty Masciarelli @TyMas5]

@jasonwhitlock Steelers 🤡🤡

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@Steelersdepot Wtf

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