There is no Lyft IPO (yet), so the headline is worded a little strangely. There's another realm where this kind of grammatical construction is apparently commo

There is no Lyft IPO (yet), so the headline is worded a little strangely. There's another realm where this kind of grammatical construction is apparently common, though: sports. There's a so-called "sports subjunctive" / "baseball conditional" statement. See http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004521.html http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004521.h... and http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3808 http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3808 for another way this usage has spread a little bit elsewhere.