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QUOTE (daa84 @ Jul 25, 2017 -> 04:14 PM) Doesn't have to with nobody on Too true

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Jul 25, 2017 -> 04:09 PM) Avi is going to finish below 290 isn't he. Would still be a good year for him.

QUOTE (Sox-35th @ Jul 25, 2017 -> 03:55 PM) The NFL will just pour more money into the heads up program, which tries to focus on concussions, completely missing the point. Concussions are one aspect they can control to an extent. They've also put rules in for testing for opiates and PEDs. the testing doesn't go far enough but again it's fighting against a union for regulations just like baseball.

QUOTE (Yoda @ Jul 25, 2017 -> 01:52 PM) Are the injuries getting the best of Rodon? 2 years ago when he first pitched against the Cubs at Wrigley he was awesome. I was in attendance and he threw 8 shutout innings. I said when they drafted him that his poor follow through would lead to constant control and command issues. Unfortunately, he hasn't learned yet.

QUOTE (ChiSox59 @ Jul 25, 2017 -> 09:43 AM) Dumbest thing in the world. But it got the Cubs millions of followers as they came home from school and watched the games on WGN nationwide.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 25, 2017 -> 03:23 PM) Huh on the bolded? This study is saying "110 of 111". So that quote is saying there are examples outside this study where it isn't present, and yet you just said it can be as high as 92% elsewhere? Your statements against this disagree with each other. They do. that is the point. Don't take one study of case reports and have a newspaper report it like it's the only source. It's a single low quality study. Many other studies will disagree with it. It's the nature of medical research. Read the link I posted, sorry forgot it in the original post. It is more of the common view of current research. No one really knows the true incidence because: 1) they still really don't have an accurate way to diagnose it, 2) it is, like all medical issues, multi-factorial 3) concussions are a factor but not even be the primary factor.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 25, 2017 -> 12:43 PM) The NFL didn't "find out" anything from that report today, I'm sure they have known for a long time. It's tough for the NFL to have this info made public. Don't just get sucked in by the media hype of the issue. Some studies have found incidence of CTE in non-pro football players as high as 92%. Here are a couple of quotes from the suntimes article even: "Some players do not have evidence of this disease despite long playing years,” she noted." "It’s also uncertain if some players’ lifestyle habits — alcohol, drugs, steroids, diet — might somehow contribute, McKee said." Some studies are starting to link abuse of steroids or opiates to the issue as well because most of the brains studied are from the 60's, 70's and early 80's. here is a link to a systematic review which is a much more rigorous study than the case reports that suntimes article is based upon. edit: forgot the link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4324991/

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Jul 21, 2017 -> 12:17 PM) After reading Longenhagen's writeup on O'Neill this doesn't seem as bad, I don't think anyone else but MLB.com considers him anything close to a top 30 prospect, and I think with this trade it's clear the Mariners don't either. Plus pitching, especially LHP is always more valuable then hitting. One for one it's not a bad trade. O'neill's stats really don't bear any superstar potential.

I've been in Germany and Austria for a few week and all he** breaks loose with trades! Hahn and KW are really putting themselves out there with both trades. They both included trading established MLB pitching for prospects who haven't played AA ball yet (the primary pieces). especially the Quintana trade where they gave up a TOR pitcher for the A ball player. They got excellent prospects but none as advanced as the Sale or Eaton trades.

QUOTE (IowaSoxFan @ Jun 28, 2017 -> 05:55 PM) Update from CBS Sports on 6/13: Tilson (foot) could embark on a rehab assignment in late June or early July, Colleen Kane of the Chicago Tribune reports. Tilson's comeback from a stress reaction in his foot has been long and arduous, but it seems like there's finally a light at the end of the tunnel. He's been participating in intrasquad games at extended spring training, so his rehab stint could be fairly short once he gets to that point. http://icbl.baseball.cbssports.com/players...yerpage/2046464 This is absolutely, a crazy long time for a stress fracture.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Jun 28, 2017 -> 12:09 PM) I'm too lazy to look but is this the dreaded "jones fracture" that Durant, Embiid and Caris Lavert all had? It was previously reported as a stress fracture. A Jones fracture is a true fracture in the 5th metatarsal on the outside if the foot.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 28, 2017 -> 12:20 PM) Been saying that all year, rather he show he can project to be a big league hitter and core piece going forward. If the worst case scenario was that he was a slugging DH, that's better than what we are seeing at this moment. I don't know. A catcher who has an OPS over 800 is valuable no matter how he gets the 800.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 27, 2017 -> 07:17 PM) Why don't you and BMags, the sages that you are, propose something that is more reasonable, so the rest of us can be enlightened. I don't think the Sox will back down from a high price and he won't be traded.

QUOTE (Hatchetman @ Jun 27, 2017 -> 06:16 PM) I believe Ivan Calderon had one, tried to play through it, eventually had the surgery and came back strong the next year. Whatever happens, I wish the best for Saladino: the guy is a ball player.

QUOTE (oldsox @ Jun 27, 2017 -> 05:13 PM) They can with surgery. One guy who came back from it is that real good shortstop who played for Braves and Dodgers ( can't place his name). Todd Helton came back and played a few more years. Both had their back problems in 2009. Surgery is the last option. It's much better to try conservative interventions first. Once the anatomy is altered with surgery it's a flip of the coin. Look at Crede for one on the downside.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 26, 2017 -> 07:00 PM) Just know this...you will soon be at an age where your friends are all getting married and knocking up their wives and raising families...you will hardly ever see them anymore anyways...and you'll end up talking to strangers on sports forums more than your own childhood friends....oh wait...that's me. I resemble this.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 26, 2017 -> 06:28 PM) https://mobile.twitter.com/scottmerkin/stat...459285956210688 What about Sheets? Nevermind. I see it the posts. i just didn't see it in the list at the top.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Jun 23, 2017 -> 11:57 AM) Most of his defensive problems are just a lack of fundamental preparation, especially to his left where he rounds way too many balls off instead of putting the bill of his cap over his bellybutton and the ball. That's very correctable with time and experience. Agreed. that's why the progression isn't linear and he just needs the time to continue to work on it. In relative baseball years, he is still a very inexperienced player.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Jun 25, 2017 -> 10:18 PM) That's not what I was referring to. To suggest that the ACA was "ramrodded" through congress is a complete and utter falsehood. One articles view as to why it was kept from congress for so long and then ramrodded through legislation: The reasons for all this were mostly political, this was supposed to be Obama's signature reform and his legacy. The Democrats weren't interested in negotiating with republicans because the had won big in the 2008 elections and this was also partly their victory legislation. The bill was also getting more and more unpopular as the "debate" went on and got uglier and it started becoming apparent that anyone who voted for the bill that wasn't in a totally safe district would face major challenges in reelection bids, especially for republicans, for supporting the bill, so passing fast there was hope that the public's short memory would forget the worst transgressions. The bill was also passed quickly because it has huge welfare spending in it in the form of medicaid expansions and premium subsidies, which once implemented would be nearly impossible to repeal. The spending in the bill was huge and it needed years of extra taxes being collected to build up a cash reserve in order for the bill to be rated as budget neutral. Now you may not think it was and others may not have but others thought so and still think so. Again when you only look at things from a single point of view, it really colors what you see. This is getting to be like Illinois politics so I'm going to bow out of this "discussion."

QUOTE (Reddy @ Jun 25, 2017 -> 08:29 PM) it's so weird how ptac is usually a good poster, but this stuff with the ACA is complete, fabricated lies. Not it's not. There is not a single thing that are lies. Every single one of them is from personal experience. I know they aren't lies because they are what I've seen in the clinic. Now as someone else just posted maybe the majority are currently stable but based on what we've seen I don't think you or anyone else could say that they wouldn't go the same way. You again are showing your complete and utter bias with painting everything with a broad brush. I said insurance companies were dropping ACA and some were closing. Those are not lies they are facts. Maybe the majority are doing well but what I said is still true.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jun 25, 2017 -> 05:31 PM) I mean, the Republicans drafted this bill in secrecy with Lobbyists, not democrats, and they are about to ram it through by any means possible. Hard to point fingers about agreements when that is happening I agree. I said it doesn't work when either side doesn't compromise.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 25, 2017 -> 03:24 PM) That is just the most intellectually lazy "both sides" nonsense. Republicans don't care about helping people with health care. Full stop. It has never been and never will be a policy priority for them. This bill isn't intended to help fix anything regarding healthcare. Saying "this probably won't work very well" 1) blithely ignores the tens of thousands of Americans it will kill a year and 2) assumes it's actually supposed to "work" as anything but cutting healthcare to fund tax cuts. Liberals are not guilty of conservatives wanting to deprive millions of healthcare for ideological reasons. Conservatives get to own their own policies 100%. This is the party of cheering on "let them die" aft their own debates. They don't give one s*** about poor people not having health care. Their is nothing to compromise with on that ideology because it's essential become a death cult that worships wealth. You're also ignoring that the ACA itself is a massive compromise and about the only realistic and most conservative way you can approach covering the millions of Americans it has added and maintaining a private market based system. The "extreme left" would, at a minimum, have had a public option. I disagree on both accounts. The ACA was not a compromise it was ramrodded through Congress just as this was is. Neither was a good compromise so I don't see either really working in the long run.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 25, 2017 -> 03:10 PM) To say that it wasn't working well is pushing it, when 75-80% were better off and maybe 20-25% were worse off. Trump admin actively tried to kill it, pulled publicity about sign ups this year...look at insurance industry quotes, invariablybthe uncertainty caused by threatening to not make required payments has "forced" them to withdraw from markets. They know they can use that leverage to improve their position (collectively）with this new repeal bill. Paying both sides against each other, but premiums and markets were actually stabilizing until just the last year or so. Growing costs slower than before, but still high than inflation. It was continually declining though. More and more insurance companies were dropping out and some even folded due to the funding issues. This was all prior to Trump being elected so you can't blame everything on him.

QUOTE (soxfan49 @ Jun 25, 2017 -> 01:34 PM) No, it's not part of it. Again they didn't trade Panarin for Reaves. Saad is talented as hell. He just happens to be a bigger guy Not sure Vegas would do it but getting Marc Methot wouldn't be a bad thing. He gave Crosby fits in the ECF And plays in front of the net.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 25, 2017 -> 12:12 PM) Republicans are trying to kill tens of thousands of Americans a year with this bill so they can give tax cuts to the rich. Spare me pearl clutching about civility. That's their political preference. That's what they're working hard to pass. They are not actually trying to solve any health care issues, just cut cut cut. They need to own the dead Americans they are striving for. It's not about civility. It's about coming up with agreements (not just on healthcare) that works for everyone. No policy set to one extreme liberal or conservative will be the best for everyone. Extremes on either side are rarely good. Of course this one is about cut, cut ,cut. The last one was far too expensive and really didn't work very well. So because there was no way any of the politicians were going to compromise it had to swing way to the other extreme. this probably isn't going to work very well either. but again when people aren't willing to work together, this is what you are going to get. And I mean the willingness to work together on both sides. conservative are as guilty on this as liberals. It just atmosphere of politics today.