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QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Sep 24, 2013 -> 05:00 PM) Same surgery as Flowers. Recovery will be 2-6 months depending on what they find out what is wrong. If they found something like a labrum, it could potentially be much longer than that. FWIW, both Flowers and Keppinger missed time/DH'd in Spring Training due to shoulder pain.

We changed managers and didn't make the playoffs. Now we'll change players, and if that doesn't work, we'll start changing the manager again.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Sep 24, 2013 -> 04:05 PM) Largest collective yawn in Soxtalk history? You must not remember the departure and return and departure of Angel Sanchez

LOL, that's about as Ozzie-ish as I've ever seen from Robin. He usually has a much better way of wording a player's failures.

Yeah, we certainly haven't seen the worst of the Broncos, but IMO they are by far the favorite to win the SB. Seattle is nice, but Peyton is just otherwordly.

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 24, 2013 -> 09:09 AM) Anyone with HTC One notice you can only charge your phone with their charger that came with the phone? Super annoying, I bought a generic usb charger for work, forgot to charge my phone last night and it's just freaking out. It needs a higher amperage/wattage charger to work optimally. If you know to look for it, they aren't much/any more expensive. I bought a very nice one for my car for 12 bucks. Look for at least 1A on the charger, 2A works as well.

Huntingdon's is nasty. You can test for it, but the vast, vast majority of people who have that 50% chance choose not to test. Kind of crazy, but I definitely see the logic in it.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 23, 2013 -> 01:36 PM) http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/...family-of-four/ http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/09/23...macare-article/ http://www.middleclasspoliticaleconomist.c...diocy-from.html

I'd like to switch to a carrier that rewards me for buying a phone outright (T-Mobile) but without being very dicey with service (T-Mobile)

I've honestly never had a problem with ATT service. I mean that to the extent that I've never had to really deal with their customer service because I haven't had problems. I don't remember calls dropping to any significant extent and I almost always have service as I travel around the midwest/south.

Injury was weird. Not like Melton's where it was an innocent movement and it didn't look like an injury. It was a completely benign movement and the thing just went wiggly. Very weird.

Hope you enjoy your time away from the city. It isn't for everyone, and it is always going to be tough to love your home if you haven't tried somewhere else. I've done the opposite, gone from the rural to city. Love it, though there are certainly things about home I miss. Now it's about the city being in the right place geographically...I miss winter so much

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 22, 2013 -> 10:31 PM) I'm not going by advanced stats, just the eye test, and want to say that I don't understand why many of you are so high on Santiago. I think Q is a much much much better starting pitching prospect. I'm sick of us trotting stiffs out there in the lefthanded relief role and why not just make Santiago an EFFECTIVE lefty reliever the rest of his career? The Royals switched on Hochevar and he helped that team a lot. Why don't we do that with Santiago. I believe Q has earned the starting slot but Hector could be a bullpen guy for years to come. If we are ever going to start contending again, we'll need some lefty relievers that can, uh, get people out. Hector does not profile to be a good lefty reliever. First of all, he has a significantly higher walk rate as a reliever than as a starter. He has remarked that he simply struggles getting loose on short notice. Secondly, Hector's weakness is getting lefties out. As a reliever, we would be bringing him in against lefties. He has struggled to make his curveball into a usable pitch and this is what would make him a left-handed reliever. Beyond that, he's been successful as a starter. He's not super consistent and has some things to work on, but he is very talented and is just not a guy you give up on. He has top of the rotation potential. We see him get by with a fastball alone at at times; imagine if he starts to really utilize his offspeed arsenal as he gets more experience and a full season as a starter? And Luke Hochevar was a dreadful starter. He threw almost 700 innings in which his best season was a 4.68 ERA. He just wasn't very good and proved it over a very long time period. If we give Hector four seasons as a starter and he struggles to keep his ERA below 5, I'll be all for shoving him in the bullpen.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Sep 22, 2013 -> 10:47 PM) I have hopes that the defense will improve. It's the offense I was unsure of and they're doing fine. Well, offense went dormant for a while - that didn't make things easier for the D either

The run for first down where Cutler f***ed up the DB is the marquee play of the game IMO.

Cutler is becoming an absolute winner

You don't trade Q or Santiago to make room for Rienzo. You trade to get an equally proficient offensive player because you know you have a competent pitcher to replace Q/Santiago, but don't have a competent hitter at virtually any position.

May have seen the last of Melton as a Bear

Looking like absolute s***. Good coaching by Pitt as well

Was choosing between Carolina DEF and NYG DEF. Picked Carolina. Yeeeuss

s***, Pittsburgh is practically in Ohio!

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 22, 2013 -> 10:46 AM) When society as a whole is paying for it, there is still a finite supply. If it takes 25% of the available supply to keep him healthy, and that same 25% can keep 100 other people health, who gets the care? Do you tell the 100 people that they can't get what they need because his care is so extreme and expensive that he has used it all up? Because it will happen. There is only so much money, time and facilities to go around, and those may be shrinking as less people decide to become doctors. For one, more people are deciding to become doctors by every measure. More apply, more enroll, more matriculate. Your market-based approach doesn't make sense because there isn't a finite supply of healthcare in the American context. We have the resources to care for everyone for as much as they need. This is evidenced by the fact that we spend more per person on healthcare than anywhere else in the world. Letting the free markets run wild has, of course, led to a horrifying inefficiency in our expenditures...but we could start to take care of that too. If you're really worried about doctors...we could also start to prioritize our education spending and make the process of becoming a doctor (or college educated in general) much less expensive. I was shocked when I applied to a Canadian college and was offered a $12k/year scholarship; I thought this was a complete non-starter, I'd never be able to afford it. Woops! That actually covers all costs for an international student at a top-rated university! And yes, that even includes housing. The best part is that if I decide to go there (why oh why did I decide to study American politics? It appears Canadians don't give a s*** about my specialty) I also get in on that free healthcare. Why should Canada do better than us on this stuff? They're not even the only ones...we're pretty much the worst in the Western world. Ideology is holding us back from everyone having a better, healthier, happier life.

This is why so many countries with the means don't like to leave healthcare to the markets. The markets don't have morals, for better and for worse. A greater overall economic good can be achieved by stringing kids like this along, allowing them to die if he strains things too much. Only public policy interventions can prevent the injustice that is leaving healthcare (which should be seen as an inalienable right) to market conditions. Of course, even in the most benign of circumstances, the cornerstone of market philosophy is that our desire for a thing is measured by how much we're willing to pay for it. So, in market theory, this young man doesn't want life enough as evidenced by his not paying for it.

LOL, I'm confused Do you really think the only appeal of living in Chicago is evading death and/or working at McDonald's? There's one very simple advantage to living in a city staring you in the face: why do you think we are all gathered here on Soxtalk.com?

The Tigers are about to be in some deep s*** salary-wise. If they somehow got Cano, that would be a tacit admission that Scherzer, VMart, AJax, and possibly even Miguel are on the way out once they need to get paid.