Jake

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Apr 16, 2015 -> 01:54 PM) I'm having a difficult time buying that the government has any business telling me what my health care plan has to cover. If I choose to risk not having something covered, what business is that of anybody else? Even if a person wanted to, they would have a hard time grasping what is and isn't covered. The vast majority just aren't going to go through what is necessary to get the best possible handle on things. More convincing to me, though, is that the entire field of behavioral economics is basically designed to tell us why the government has a justifiable role in the health market. People are terrible at judging individual risk, even when the odds are laid out plainly in front of them. Even when they judge their risk correctly, they tend to make the wrong bet anyway. Personal health is incredibly difficult to judge pre-emptively. People won't get it right. Non-behavioral economics would simply suggest that the private healthcare market is alarmingly inefficient in comparison to largely public-controlled health systems around the globe. Here are a couple charts measuring total (public+private) healthcare spending per capita on the x-axis and estimated years of life lost per 100,000 people. The first is for men, the second is for women. It's insane that we spend at least 8x as much as Mexico on healthcare and collectively have gained nothing in terms of loss of life for women. And this isn't like many other sorts of choices people might make that include risk. When you buy spotty insurance, you've put yourself in a position where if any of a certain set of things happen to you, you're automatically either going bankrupt or going to die before you otherwise would (so in this set of choices, if they let you take enough debt to go bankrupt, you've benefited!). The stakes are really high. Remember, upwards of 65% of bankruptcies in the USA are driven by medical debt. Of those with medical debt-induced bankruptcy, 75% have insurance. Between 800k and 1.5 million people file for bankruptcy every year.

The logic that occupation of a territory prevents terrorism is the exact reason that occupation of a territory causes terrorism

QUOTE (Jake @ Apr 16, 2015 -> 10:17 PM) The main injury worries have been for guys that have been Bulls their entire careers - Rose, Noah, Gibson chief among them. My point with this is that this fact makes it difficult to say whether we have crap medical staff, a front office that keeps choosing injury-prone players, or a coach that gets the guys hurt - or some combo of the three.

I'd at least wait until it's clear who he should replace, for now

The main injury worries have been for guys that have been Bulls their entire careers - Rose, Noah, Gibson chief among them.

It's just impossible to know how these players would have fared on different teams, especially when we have witnessed basically none of the medical care they've received.

I vote Greg takes over

The Spurs run of dominance must speak to the lack of talent in the West

QUOTE (greg775 @ Apr 13, 2015 -> 03:04 PM) How come so many former Sox position players do well when we get rid of them? Rios, DeAza, Semien, etc. Makes me wonder why nobody will pick up Viciedo. Is he still on the market after Toronto cut him? p.s. Phegley is 4-for-9 this season. My guess is it has more to do with selective memory than anything else. The guy who was no good for us and then we get rid of is easily forgotten if he doesn't do anything else the rest of his career

I hear your son is really more into basketball and he'll be selling the site upon your imminent death. /jokes

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 11, 2015 -> 02:56 PM) You could have someone call pitches from dugout... Mark Parent did that quite a bit, especially in the first year of RV et al. I didn't think it went well and I'm not a fan of it in general. QUOTE (GreenSox @ Apr 12, 2015 -> 10:16 AM) Coop is going to have a couple of challenges this year. the one that will be coming soon is turning Noesi or Danks into a bullpen pitcher. I would lean toward Danks (although we need a righty in the pen more) because he just can't seem to go beyond 5 IP effectively in the last couple of years. He hasn't had a lot of talent to work with. Guys like Veal and Cleto throw hard and strike guys out, but just haven't got the control or command Problem with Noesi is he struggles the most in the first inning, I shudder to think how bad it would be if he only threw first innings.

QUOTE (Vance Law @ Apr 7, 2015 -> 08:13 PM) Alexei's fault. He screened him. If Micah had known in advance that Alexei was going to screen him and miss the ball, perhaps he would have changed into hockey goalie mode just to keep it in the infield, but in the split second he's positioning himself to try to make the out. I don't understand how Alexei can screen him when he's coming from a different direction--that is, unless Micah was out of position, which he did seem to be--and it looks like Alexei was verbally called off the ball, which it didn't seem clear he could get to in the first place.

I assumed it was intentional as retaliation for the showboating from Moustakas as he went around the bases

Micah definitely had nothing to gain by playing in AAA, that's for sure!

QUOTE (farmteam @ Apr 4, 2015 -> 01:57 AM) Professional schools are somewhat different from Ph.D programs, but for law school an applicant's LSAT score is the most important factor. Not sure about med school. Yeah, my impression is that test scores are rather important for law school in particular and to a lesser extent, med school. Of course, as you climb the ladder of reputation, the differentiating factors get blurrier.

Well, as you've learned, grad programs in most fields tend not to care much about things like test scores as long as they aren't alarmingly bad. There are better indicators of whether you'll be successful, like those other things you mentioned. Anyway, welcome to the club! Also, just get a bunch of credit cards and you don't have to be poor. /green

If it makes you feel better, they aren't really that good on paper

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Apr 1, 2015 -> 02:50 PM) If it's not the Bulls then Go Warriors, such a blast to watch. I've always enjoyed watching the Clips, but GS is pretty fun too. Not very hateable either.

In the context of an article that is all about how Buehrle doesn't like hazing, I don't see how that "f*** you" comment to the person who hazed him could be considered friendly

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Mar 27, 2015 -> 03:10 PM) You can afford to take a guy that isn't up soon though with the starting pitching depth that the Sox have. These things have a way of disappearing in a hot hurry

FWIW, both Davidson errors occurred on the same play. Booted it and then threw it away.

Bummer. He had a shot at starting the year in MLB getting starts in the 5th slot

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Mar 25, 2015 -> 12:35 PM) I think it's a lot of nonsense really. We have this expectation that players all have to be great friends, otherwise there are problems. I don't think that's reality. There have been some weird comments that probably should have stayed private instead of on social media. That's about it. Well nobody thought that until the superfriends hooked up together and we all started saying that players buddying up was the future of the NBA. Remember how our douchebag star player ruined our chances to get good players by not being friends with them?

Two thoughts stood out to me after reading. First, what a decision to make. Especially when you hear him say that he didn't hate life in Cuba. It was humble, but it was obviously all he knew and he wasn't unhappy to be there. Then leaving his son behind. So tough of a call. Even deciding whether to bring your parents, fiance, etc. I just can't fathom making those kinds of hard choices. Second, I am worried about the way he is being portrayed. He's too good. If he's not as amazing of a person as he's being portrayed, any character flaw that pops up will become news. Yasiel Puig shows up to a game drunk? Oh well, that's quite a story, hopefully he gets over it. Jose Abreu gets in a fight with a teammate? We've been duped!

I don't really see us busting our ass to make room for Matt Albers. Brantly and Cleto are obvious candidates to get chopped if they aren't making the team, which it seems they won't.