Yeah, I was going to say that this is the solution that would take place within .00003 seconds of any type of ratio law. Suddenly, Burger King would set up shell corporations that employed all of the store workers and subcontracted them back to the corporate entity, while Burger King, Inc. would employ only corporate…

I appreciate the sentiment here, but your proposal ignores the fact that there are different business models in play. The CEO of Wal-Mart or McDonalds isn’t substantially less important than the CEO of Microsoft, but the simple fact is that the average employee at McDonalds is ALWAYS going to make significantly less…

Not only has Rey had sex, but she is the greatest lover in the galaxy because ... Mary Sue.

The University of Pittsburgh Panthers = employed Kevin Stallings, pay $9 million to get rid of him when he fails

It’s also possible that this incident — from 2011 — negatively colored Cuban’s perception of sexual harassment claims. If he had to go through baseless accusations himself, is it a surprise if he was perhaps cynical of accusations involving people in his organization?

We’re getting to the point that Mike Pence’s policy on being around women might need to be the defacto for everyone.

Exactly. 99% of women wear jeans that defy the laws of physics in such that they shouldn’t be able to fit them on their own bodies, let alone allow enough room for man’s hand. Unless Mark Cuban has ninja sex hands, this story seems unlikely.

FWIW, Ryan Shazier ran a 4.38 at Ohio State’s pro day.

It’s usually slightly under 40% (~.395). You have to go back 5 years (to coincidentally, the Astros) since a MLB team has finished with a sub-.350 winning percentage.

The best team in baseball in 2018 will win around 60% of their games. The worst team in baseball in 2018 will lose around 60% of their games.

Basketball has to be the worst sport for a bad team. In MLB, the worst team will finish winning slightly less than 40% of their games. In the NBA, just two seasons ago, the worst team won 12% of its games. Even if the Marlins are bad, you can almost guarantee they’re still going to win 2-3 games most weeks. In the…

I might be able to get behind that for something like football or baseball ... “normal” sports that Americans watch regularly. I don’t need someone to tell me a diving catch is great, or a curve ball was particularly nasty. But, frankly, I need more for the Olympics. I know nothing about skiing. I don’t know the…

*They’ve boned since winning gold, with medals around their necks.

The headline says that the key to leading the NFL in tackling is to stop eating Wendy’s. It doesn’t reference Brown. If we polled the NFL’s tackling leader from each of the last 20 years whether or not they ever eat at Wendy’s, I am certain the percentage who have eaten at Wendy’s is greater than 0%. Therefore, not…

Reporters DO report. But sometimes they make mistakes. Sometimes their judgement is off. There is no harm in professionals discussing the merits of a particular piece of writing.

Part of the issue is that they asked a rhetorical question and answered it as if it was a self-help story. I wonder if Wendy’s would have objected as much if the headline read Brown gives up Wendy’s on way to becoming NFL’s leading tackler.

I’ve worked in corporate public relations for 20 years. There are many instances where a news outlet wrote a crappy headline and they changed it after I gave them a call and convinced the editor it was a crappy headline ... even when we WEREN’T advertisers. I would chalk this up as much to “this was a dumb headline”…

Exactly. The original headline was sensational and shitty. It shouldn’t have existed in the first place. This isn’t like ESPN pulled a story about how Wendy’s has been funding strippers for OSU’s football team, following pressure from the advertiser. They wrote a dumb and misleading headline, the company called them…

Keep in mind that includes benefits and I would assume other employment-related costs (such as facilities). For some companies a headcount’s benefits/ancillary costs can be 50% of salary. And when you factor in a handful of senior leadership that makes close to or more than $1 million, the average employee is probably…

I love the idea of allowing the Olympics to be operated with the same level of quality and professionalism as the county fair.