tigerfan88

The team leaderboard is the dumbest thing in sports. It’s wild that’s the thing the Yasir and the Saudis are so dead set on keeping that they’re spending billions on it and refusing any sort of merger or co-existence agreement that doesn’t keep team golf front and center.

And it’s the single dumbest thing about LIV that even their biggest “fans” forget to pretend that they care about the team results like 90% of the time

Over 50% of the U.S. workforce are white collar workers, including the vast majority of high earners.

Let’s take at face value the idea that blue collar tradesmen aren’t replaceable by AI (I find it hard to believe that all white collar workers will be replaceable with AI but the powers that be won’t be able to figure out how to build a robot that can snake a drain or repair a Ford, but separate subject). Almost everything that “blue collar” workers do is paid for by the discretionary income of white collar workers.

Name a “trade.” If you go far enough down the path of where the demand comes from that makes supplying said trade viable, it’s going to be largely the discretionary income of white collar workers.

The idea that you could take 75% of the disposable income out of the country’s economy and society not collapse in spectacular fashion for everyone is laughable.

Either all these CEOs are lying through their teeth or our government and powers that be are asleep at the wheel in a way that will judge them to be the biggest frickups in human history

I thought George had basically confirmed that in broad strokes that was his ending? I.e Dany goes full French Revolution Reign of Terror/Jon kills her, Bran is ultimate king was all official ending from George. It’s why he said he won’t ever finish the books, bc we know the ending.

It was just that we lost a lot of the build up that made those out comes make sense.

Going to have to do it all ourselves. Feels like this is the start of the classic City spring run

It was always about holding on until Havertz was back. He’s been our best non-defensive player when healthy since early 2024.

Speaking of Havertz, another reminder that people thought he was as a complete waste of $60m until about late January/February of his first year when things started to click. Lot of short memories because there’s another $60m signing who struggled early that is rounding into form in late January early February of his first year…

He also was never that good of a ball striker. He just putted and chipped his mind off for three years. Over time that just isn’t sustainable and he got reeled in by guys who are better and more consistent ball strikers

Game was a microcosm of the season and Arteta’s approach. He will not be bullied by pundits and opposing coaches into losing control of the game.

Chelsea needed to beat us, not the other way around, and Arteta and the team held by that all game even as Chelsea tried everything to make us forget that fact and press for the win so they could hit us on the counter.

We held the proverbial high ground, just like we do in almost every game and in all four competitions. Stay the course, play our game, and don’t give in.

Speaking of Gooch, the Athletic did the math on how last year would’ve shaped out if LIV had gotten these points.

Niemann and Rahm make huge jumps, from outside top 100 to inside the top 20. But Gooch, who finished 6 in LIVs standings, would still have been outside the top 100 in OWGR.

Well the Tour’s official statement on Reed said he isn’t eligible to get equity until 2030. So that part at least has already been refuted

lol I think the statement from LIV makes it clear they lost this round.

If you’re McKibbin or Smylie or Le Sasso this doesn’t change anything. Had any of them gone on a Niemann like tear and won 4 LIV events they would have qualified for majors under current systems, just like Niemann did.

What LIV wants is all their guys who finish mid-table on average, basically their top 25-30 guys, to be eligible for majors which this doesn’t come close to doing