“I mean, you’re already up 20 … and then for him to do it, it was kind of like ‘Come on. Chill out. Now you’re trying to embarrass us.’”

It makes sense that companies aren’t itching to increase the bargaining leverage of their employees, but it doesn’t make it good.

Shit, if anything, 37% is pretty low for half a mil in income!

I don’t think it’s that hot of a take to say that he already is.

It’s simultaneously tremendous faith in your offense and a tremendous lack of faith in your defense.

For a team low on cap space that wants to compete this year, that’s $16 million they can’t spend on players that could help them.

There’s less emphasis on seeding in the knockout rounds of these tournaments. In the round of 16 (first knockout round), every matchup is a group winner versus the runner-up from a different group.

I haven’t seen anyone saying that Uber doesn’t have the right to do what they did with Greyball, just that it’s ethically questionable. It neatly dovetails with their general strategy of ignoring rules they don’t want to follow and doing everything they can to fight the actual enforcement of rules they aren’t…

Yeah, Ter Stegen made so many incredible saves that game. He had to, with the formation Barca was playing.

That’s literally exactly what Tom is proposing here, and why Breer’s article is so dumb and useless.

They had to make the game different than they originally envisioned, but that doesn’t mean it ended up worse.

In this context, a person who succeeds at Uber by constantly undermining their coworkers and direct superiors will not only likely not succeed at a company with a less fucked working environment, they’ll probably make things actively worse for the company.

Sorry, you’re thinking of the rematch in the semi-finals.

Yeah, it was clearly a compromise and not ideal, but I think it was still the best option available.

Don’t be rude, he clearly went into a coma sometime in early 2013 and just now woke up.

I don’t understand it either, but apparently people will watch terrible exhibition games in the middle of December.

Yeah, as much as I want to agree with OP’s point, ESPN (and most other media companies, really) seems to have a lot better luck turning former athletes into tolerable TV personalities than former print/radio media people.

I (apparently) get Fox Soccer Plus with Playstation Vue and have been spending the last couple Saturday nights staying up watching AFL games that start at 12:30 AM eastern.

I don’t think he’s talking about the riders here, but more the VC investors and upper level management of Uber.

Somebody who goes out of their way to email a car enthusiast blog seems a lot more likely to take the advice seriously than random people you know asking you because they “know you like cars.”