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[Indiana Fever @IndianaFever]

talk to 'em CC.

[Indiana Fever @IndianaFever]

Caitlin Clark is officially the first player in WNBA history to record multiple games of 30+ points and 10+ assists 🔥

Stats from Friday's game against the Mystics have been corrected, so she finished the game with 32 points & 10 assists 👏

[correlation @nosyone4]

MHA STEAL TO LEXIE TO CAITLIN FOR THREEEEE ITS SHOWTIME

[Indiana Fever @IndianaFever]

Caitlin Clark splitting FOUR defenders to find Monique Billings for two is tonight's @StateFarm Assist of the Game 😮‍💨

[Clark Report @CClarkReport]

CAITLIN CLARK FROM THE PARKING LOT

[Hodgetwins @hodgetwins]

The jokes write themselves 🤣 @catturd2

[Jason Whitlock @jasonwhitlock]

I think we have to go a step farther and call for a boycott until Stephanie White and Amber Cox are fired. Don't go to games.

[Marcus Lemonis @marcuslemonis]

Here we go…. @BedBathBeyond @ContainerStore $bbby

[Jason Whitlock @jasonwhitlock]

From Deandre Ayton and these high school prom videos displaying the flash and flamboyance of black people, to the Winthrop University commencement videos of these black guys dancing ridiculously. Choosing to celebrate “Black culture” is doing more harm than good.

[Jason Whitlock @jasonwhitlock]

“White people in particular who talk about civil rights or race always feel like they need to make some concessions… in making those concessions, you’re actually feeding into the enemy you’re trying to defeat.” - @chadojackson on Matt Walsh’s MLK documentary.

[Paul Branham @BoilerPaulie]

Allow me to translate this letter from eBay for those who don’t speak legalese:

Ryan,

We got your unsolicited offer to buy eBay for $125/share (half cash, half stock) supported by your 5% economic interest in eBay.

Our board, backed by the usual crew of bankers and lawyers who get paid either way, “thoroughly reviewed” it.

We’re rejecting it. Not because the math doesn’t work. Not because the highly confident letter from TD Securities for up to $20B on top of your $9B+ cash pile is fake. None of that.

We’re rejecting it because your entire approach to running a company is an existential threat to how we like to operate here.

Here are the reasons we feel this way, and the things we considered before paying consultants to write this:

1) We’d rather keep milking eBay as a “standalone” cash cow than let you turn it into something bigger and better.

2) Sure, you’ve got real financing lined up and you “know people” with deep pockets, but we’re going to call it “uncertain” anyway so we don’t have to engage.

3) Your plan would actually force real long-term growth and profitability changes we’d rather not be held accountable for.

4) The debt we pretended you can’t even obtain, the operational integration and focus on seller satisfaction, and most importantly, putting someone like you in charge of the combined entity all sound like a nightmare for our current leadership structure because all of us would have zero job security.

5) The valuation math only looks bad if you ignore the 46% premium you’re offering our shareholders and the upside from fixing eBay the way you fixed GameStop, which we are choosing to do and hoping nobody notices.

6) And I hope we buried the lede far enough here: Your governance and executive incentives are completely incompatible with ours. You and your board take zero cash, no salary, no bonuses, no golden parachutes. You buy shares with your own money and only get paid if shareholders win. We, on the other hand, like our nice, reliable annual payouts regardless of whether the stock is flat or the company is just coasting. We’re not about to hand over our golden goose to a guy who eats only what he kills.

Look, eBay is “strong” and “resilient” in the way every entrenched public company says it is while handing out eight-figure checks and perks to the C-suite. We’ve done the usual incremental stuff: tweaked the marketplace a bit, returned some capital, and we’d like to keep doing that without any cowboy from GameStop coming in and demanding actual skin-in-the-game accountability. Can you just leave us alone?

Our team remains focused on protecting the current regime and delivering “value”… mostly to ourselves and our consultants.

Thanks, but no thanks,

Paul S. Pressler
Chairman of the Board, eBay
(And proud beneficiary of the status quo)

[Salvatore Linteum @PhantomBlack699]

This is a comment left on the recent Ryan Cohen YouTube interview.

The general public will see Ryan Cohen's eBay acquistion as genius, not a joke very very soon.

[Believe @created_in_Him]

https://t.co/ekgPNhEinT

[Ryan Cohen @ryancohen]

you’d think with 2.4 billion in marketing spend, they could login to X

[Ryan Cohen @ryancohen]

I have been suspended from eBay