mrhockey123

I Think Icahn: Time for Yahoo's Yang to Play Chicken?

good read, Tim.
As you point out, I would be pretty shocked if stuck with 33 or 31.

As I've been saying for the last few days, you'd get a "bride price" if you go to the alter willingly, but if you turn it into a shotgun wedding, you take what you can get - unless you want a bullet to the brain!

the one thing I like about Ichan (and the thing that Yang should like) is that Ichan has basically come and offered to play "bad cop"

It's like "miracle on ice" where the USA's coach pretty much decided to be completely harsh to the entire team so they all united to hate him...but they used that motivation to win.

My point is, if Ichan plays bad cop, Ballmer doesn't have to. Ballmer would tick off all the Yahoo employees who might bolt. With iChan, both sides come out innocent, Ichan takes the blame (he's not one to garner a reputation as a cuddly teddy bear so he doesn't care) and we end up maximizing yahoo shareholder value, and Microsoft gets what it originally wanted.