{"id":646,"date":"2007-05-03T09:12:03","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T14:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/2007\/05\/03\/the-patrick-awards\/"},"modified":"2007-05-03T09:12:03","modified_gmt":"2007-05-03T14:12:03","slug":"the-patrick-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/the-patrick-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"The Patrick Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While surfing the &#8216;net for interesting reads on Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne, I came across a post by Jeff Matthews, whose blog is &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/jeffmatthewsisnotmakingthisup.blogspot.com\/\">Jeff Matthews Is Not Making This Up<\/a>.&#8221; Jeff came up with the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/jeffmatthewsisnotmakingthisup.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/patrick-awards-part-1.html\">Patrick Awards<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The awards are given to those corporate executives who make the strangest comments on earnings conference calls. They&#8217;re done in honor of Patrick Byrne, who has been known to say some bizarre things on conference calls. (And the word &#8220;bizarre&#8221; is being very polite.)<\/p>\n<p>Jeff says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lest you think I am making that up, Byrne.s commentaries have involved dead cows on the highway conspiring to delay his company&#8217;s projects, dead Popes conspiring to slow his company&#8217;s sales growth, and even unidentified .Sith Lords. conspiring to ruin his company.s credibility among investors.as if Byrne needed help in that regard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jeff gives the following awards (but you&#8217;ll have to go to his blog to see who the winners are):<\/p>\n<p>* The Did He Really Ask That? Award<br \/>\n* The Most Cringe-Making Analyst Question Award<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While surfing the &#8216;net for interesting reads on Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne, I came across a post by Jeff Matthews, whose blog is &#8220;Jeff Matthews Is Not Making This Up.&#8221; Jeff came up with the &#8220;Patrick Awards.&#8221; The awards are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud-news-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-aq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}