Chuck Wagner

@robreischel Amazing how fans say Brewers can't afford (insert player name) yet payroll was over $20M higher 4 years ago. If they raised payroll by 5% every year since 2022 they'd have $160M to spend this season. Current projection for 2026 is $108M. Team valuation up $500M since 2022.

@amyklobuchar Since when is spying on your replacement graceful? Oh and about that Russia collusion lie he helped spread before the election - graceful. It’s sad that a person like you becomes an elected senator.

A good day to remember what grace is all about.

@NUCLRGOLF leave it to the @USGA to ruin a good tournament

🌬️🏌️Expect absolute carnage at Shinnecock Hills this week #USOpen 🇺🇸

When Jimmy Carter purchased the teachers’ union’s endorsement in 1979 by establishing the Department of Education, the USA was #1 in education. 46 years and $4.1 trillion dollars later, the USA is #40. We are, however, #1 in cost per student.

@compliantvc You going to pay him back if he loses $200 billion the next day?

SpaceX stock is up $100 billion today In one day. And you're telling me Elon Musk can't pay a $100 billion annual wealth tax to the European Union? It's literally just one day of wages for him. Tax Elon Musk NOW.

@treavturner @Phillies Who is the joke now?foxsports.com/stories/mlb/wh…

@RoKhanna @BernieSanders Why don’t the two of you set a good example and donate 10% of your wealth to society. Big talkers you too buffoons are.

Musk is worth more than South Africa’s GDP. @BernieSanders and I proposed a 5% tax on people like him. In one year, it could fund: - free public college & trade school -$10/day childcare - Special-needs education nationwide Wealth inequality is the moral failure of our time.

@ewarren You are an idiot

Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire. This needs to be a wake up call.

Diamond Springs - Mike Devries (2002) Got in a sub-3 hour walk in this AM! The course stands as a pillar for what affordable public golf can be. Single cut fairways and tees, fantastic topography usage, defined strategic angles. So simple, but oh so effective! Must-play in W MI.

Woods and Nicklaus were great, but if I need someone to make a completely straight 10-foot putt on AstroTurf for my life I'm calling Bob Barker.

Cedric Maxwell on Pistol Pete Maravich and a rookie named Larry Bird: “We come to a timeout and Pete says ‘Larry, they’re double-teaming you. You can’t force up those kind of shots.’ Larry looks up and goes ‘If you were any damn good, they wouldn’t be double-teaming me.'”

@zerohedge Well about 40% of voters are Democrats. 😁

4 In 10 American Adults Report Having 'Mental Health' Problems zerohedge.com/medical/4-10-a…

They put the skyline on the cover and the entirety of Chicago got hit with the worst Madden curse of all time

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.

Happy 50th anniversary to the most insane 19 seconds in the history of the NBA Finals:

This is Todd “Let’s Roll” Beamer, who died heroically while trying to retake United Flight 93 from Al Qaeda terrorists on 9/11. His final resting place, is in Cranbury, NJ — where he was living with his wife and children before his murder. Cranbury is located in NJ-12, where the new Democratic nominee for Congress is Adam Hamawy. Hamawy was a close associate and translator to Omar Abdel-Rahman, aka the ‘Blind Sheikh,’ an arch terrorist convicted of masterminding multiple plots against targets in NYC — including the World Trade Center. Hamawy testified at Adbel-Rahman’s trial, as a defense witness. It has also been reported that Hamawy traveled to Bosnia to volunteer at an organization that was later unmasked as an Al Qaeda front group. One of Hamawy’s loudest and most high-profile supporters and endorsers has openly declared that America deserved the 9/11 attacks. Hamawy is now the prohibitive frontrunner to represent Todd Beamer’s district in the United States Congress.

@KayeSteinsapir K for the L

PREDICTION: Spencer Pratt does NOT advance past the primary. I’m very involved in the Palisades and know most people in our community. Even I’m surprised by how many have told me they aren’t voting for him. One neighbor said today that he wouldn’t vote for Pratt for Honorary Mayor (whose only duty is to appear in the 4th of July parade). lol. Nah, LA ain’t electing this 🤡. Sorry, MAGA!

@DaveRadcliffe_ @couldbelikemike But Mark Attanasio is cheaper than the late great Charles Comiskey so Brewers fans have that going for them.

@couldbelikemike Are you telling me he’s got Joey Ortiz and David Hamilton beat?

The question of “Can you name five shortstops better than Colson Montgomery” is getting harder to answer, friends. That’s neat.

@Brewers And you will trade him for prospects after 6 seasons or sooner if he holds out for a large contract.

Jacob Misiorowski just finished one of the most brilliant months you'll ever see: 🔵 0.23 ERA (1 ER) 🔵 38.1 IP 🔵 57 K 🔵 .109 AVG 🔵 0.52 WHIP

There are 18 schools in the BigTen. 17 of the schools have a baseball program. 1 does not. That’s the tweet. Shameful.

@NBond0910 Harlan gave long time USF donors the middle finger by changing the way the priority points was done. Arrogant personality. Hope he fails at every program he goes to.

Say what you will about Mark Harlan but he was also an awful athletic director at #USF too