Chris Kay

I would rather live in North Korea than watch another inning of Chicago Cubs baseball

This isn’t a good team who suddenly went cold. They are a bad team who got hot. This is who they are: a below average offense with zero pitching depth. Just like they were the last 3 years.

I talked a dad who told me he spent $10k a year on travel baseball between tourneys, travel, and gear for his son. He got a partial scholarship to D-2 school. If he had put the $10k in a mutual fund each year, he would have had about $190,000. The scholarship was $5k a year.

most millenial/zoomer angst can be distilled into "i did what i was supposed to do and i dont like where im at"

@Williamjkelly Oh I know. Just think it would have been a perfect follow up here. 🤣🤣 Love your work sir.

@ckay0777 I've asked him about his water bill numerous times.

STOP THE PRESSES! New video from Chicago Mayor Johnson's pressers. Chicago Mayor Johnson refused to answer my questions yesterday about waste, fraud, and abuse tied to his lavish Rome trip with an eight-person entourage — plus his personal police security. Instead of answers, I got ducking, dodging, staff interruptions, and the usual attempt to shut me down. So today, I gave him another chance. Johnson said the purpose of the trip was to deliver the Pope a Cubs hat. I told him Chicago taxpayers could save a lot of dough if he just mailed the cap. Then came the real question: who’s picking up the tab? Johnson says no taxpayer money is being used. But World Business Chicago is funding the trip — and World Business Chicago is funded by the City of Chicago. Johnson is also the chair. Then I asked if anybody doing business with City Hall is going with him to Rome. His answer? He said he didn’t have the guest list. C’mon. Does that sound straight to you? Chicago deserves answers from Mayor Johnson. Watch the full video.

not only are lance armstrong & sheryl crow the right age to be pete crow armstrong's parents but they also started dating right around the same timeframe that PCA was born. very confusing

When you finally appreciate all the work your dad did for you to grow up

Once you reach a certain level of consciousness it becomes impossible to tolerate working a job. It requires a deliberate self-numbing to endure the nonsense, performance, and office politics required to keep it. Your first taste of freedom will make you unemployable.

Story of my life. PTSD.

@FreightAlley Nah Craig, it’s just the weather 😂😂

SONAR truckload rejections hit a new cycle high. Now at 15.58%. Shippers that held out hope that capacity would soften are refused contract rate increases are going to learn about carrier's revenge.

@freadomtruck07 @FreightAlley You’re absolutely right. My issue is that there is not a manager to oversee/approve. No software to stop this. No systems in place or training to prevent this. A broker that old and that large has no guardrails in place? Shameful! At what point behavior kind this was allowed?

@ckay0777 @FreightAlley I've rarely met a sales rep at a big company that wouldn't put margins over everything

26% of all motor carriers with a safety rating from the FMCSA are considered "conditional." This is the group of carriers that represent the riskiest to load. The data is public, and it will be easy to prove that the broker had reason to suspect the carrier was unsafe (after all, the ratings are public). Remember in civil courts: Everything that can be used against you, will be used against you Smart brokers will avoid loading this group of carriers going forward, and as freight dries up for these carriers, they will go out of business. The Supreme Court ruling might result in the biggest capacity washout in history.

@ThomasP1976 @FreightAlley I’ve worked for 3 much smaller brokers at ALL three companies the (less superior) software wouldn’t even allow you to assign a conditional carrier. They knew all along top to bottom of that organization. Period. Full stop.

@ThomasP1976 @FreightAlley How a company with (probably) a $1 billion tech stack has a system that even ALLOWS reps to assign a conditional carrier is beyond me. Or (more likely) they have been all along. This along with the super ego thing looks bad for them.

@TMSuccessful Had a regular driver with an hour and ten minutes of detention this week. Paid him 2 full hours. Lost a whole $40 on the transaction (still made money on the load). Who cares? You think he wants to haul for me again or Marshall. This stuff is not hard.

So apparently this carrier simply requested detention because he arrived to a facility at 6 am and they told him he would not be offloaded until 1 pm, and he was put on the broker’s DNU list because of that. A little bit of an over-reaction from the broker’s side in my opinion. The reason carriers ask for detention is because these situations often result in them not being able to grab another load, or having to cancel a load they committed to. This happened on a Friday no less- I don’t know what type of equipment this driver operates but if it’s a flatbed, a 1 pm offload could mean losing the whole weekend.

college softball is wild because the players are either husky butch lesbians or absolutely gorgeous smokeshows and there’s no in between

Jim Thome has 612 career HRs and no one talks about it

If we can't be taxed on unrealized gains, why the fuck are we being taxed on the new increased valuation of our home without selling it? THAT'S UNREALIZED GAINS!

BREAKING: 8% of the criminals on ankle monitors in Cook County, Illinois are MISSING. They lost track of 243 criminals including 21 murderers and 13 attempted murderers. Insane