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That's kind of an odd takeaway, that it's the insurance companies colluding to avoid paying doctors. They are colluding to help keep YOUR out of pocket costs down too. The provider have been able to charge amounts for services in the united states that are double and triple what the ame would be elsewhere. And that goes into the salaries of the providers.

http://deadspin.com/bill-simmons-isnt-too-...fail-1788556607 Pretty brutal read. The Ringer is in a tailspin the past few months. Something has just been off about it. One - it was totally safe. Without Wesley Morris and others their culture reporting just devolved into "the ringer take" on the obvious hot button issue of day. Mays is fine, but he's not Barnwell. There's no Zach Lowe. And Netwerk can only do so much. That and why can't simmons just do a damn mailbag? Simmons 5-6 years ago was really good. But even reading his tweets now he's like a wounded puppy, that knows he kind of lost touch with the pop culture pulse and just keeps piping on about wrestling and deflategate.

Going to post actual NYTimes article because it was pretty good: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/us/alt-r...trump.html?_r=0

Felt so good going into the year with AJ Green, Alshon, Sammy Watkins and Larry Fitzgerald. Spent my auction money on that group. Now it's down to Larry and need Sterling Shephard to be good. sigh.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Nov 21, 2016 -> 12:07 AM) The face we are 3-1 on this roadtrip is amazing. We were without Doug and Rondo the first two games then Doug and Wade tonight. We desperately need a vet big man though, Portis just isn't cutting it out there Yeah we've had starts before where it looked like offense was acceptable/good only to run into rude awakening on this trip. Though the improved defense has been better sign.

Brutal last three minutes of this game

Are we really reading article comments as some sort of evidence of anything?

Actually I gotta say that is a meaningful difference.

Overall continue to be very impressed by bulls, this 3pt shot Wade, dominant Jimmy and especially Robin Lopez are "leap" improvements over last year. But one thing I think we say will be our killer this year is this switching on defense.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Nov 19, 2016 -> 11:59 PM) Terrible call. Home cooking. Seriously awful.

Man. Still don't like Rondo. Not sure Hoiberg does either.

I do feel like a guy like Jones could get more from "close" team at deadline. But his injury history makes me want to move him now.

He should maybe win office somewhere.

I'm sold, let's go all-in.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Nov 18, 2016 -> 12:53 PM) Judging by how quiet things have been, seems like we're struggling to find trade partners for any of our players. It's November 18th!

Macklemore is when your middle school history teacher creates a rap about the civil war to connect with the youth. "I bet you think the civil war was boring, well let me tell you somethin that happened 4 score-and" *kids drop heads in hands*

I forgot about Dallas McPherson. That name deserved to succeed.

If sox want position players there is always chance for a 3rd team in deal.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Nov 18, 2016 -> 07:24 AM) Sooo assuming Springer and Reddick hold down the corners and McCann and Gattis share DH and Gurriel being paid to likely play third with other options able to play 1B, where does Bregman fit? They should really step on the necks of the AL West and trade for Sale. Gotta say, this is where the "Cubs effect" is going to hurt the sox. I would bet the Astros just roll with it. They also have AJ Reed who didn't show much in majors but could be a piece to trade.

QUOTE (Ezio Auditore @ Nov 18, 2016 -> 08:27 AM) I f***ing despise Breitbart and anyone associated with it. Just reading the headlines is enough. Reading the comments makes me want to fight people, literally. It's crazy when the new breitbart makes the old breitbart look like it's nicer cousin, when the old breitbart ruined some great Americans careers for no reason other than sport.

Well, I guess we'll take Aaron Sanchez. Edit: well hey that farm isn't bad. Lots of youth though, would be severe wildcards but would love to have two guerreros in system.

Astros loading up good for us to put pressure on others.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Nov 17, 2016 -> 04:23 PM) I truly believe Hahn and Kenny have an opportunity to do things right. People think of the Cubs "tanking", well the Cubs didn't have pieces like Sale / Q / Eaton (plus to a lesser extent Jones / Frazier / Robertson / Abreu / Melky) when they started the tanking whom they could move to significantly boost their farm system. Shark was really the only guy that they had and they clearly took advantage of that (and of course they did get lucky with Arrieta). So for those who say, well they spent more internationally or via free agency, well us having a better starting point to potentially inject the roster with talent is a major plus in the White Sox favor. Totally agree. As for rest, really need sox scouting to come through. In July, had we traded sale for Sanchez + from yankees, we would have thought a weaker return than boston packages. But then he hits 20 hrs in 2 months. Sox need to hit if they go any lower than top guys to get a higher return of quantity.

It will be stages of grief. It will be exciting at first, it could be disappointing at first, but sad will come last. Appreciate the hell out of what he's done and the .gifs of him with a wipeout slider hitting the batter while they swing for strike 3. But, we are where we are.

If these were really scenarios I'd do boston 1 with 3-4 wildcards.