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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 6, 2013 -> 07:37 AM) Webb picked up like 8 mph on his fastball when he switched to relieving. He was throwing low 90's at best as a starter and hitting 100 as a reliever. When a guy does that, you keep him in relief. Shouldn't Sale be in the pen then? He threw harder out of the pen, most pitcher do when they don't need to worry about 5-7 innings of work.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Dec 7, 2013 -> 01:49 PM) I also want A-Rods money to remain on the Yankees books. They've benefited from him, why should they be exempt from punishment of his downfall? Because it's not their job to police the sport. Players and teams will always cheat to get an advantage. Not every team or player but many will especially when this much money is involved. That's why the commisioner's office and the union need to work together for the "good of the game."

QUOTE (Jake @ Dec 7, 2013 -> 11:33 AM) Andro hardly did anything and was legal at the time. I would guess that McGwire was using actual steroids and had the Andro around as a distraction as if to say "I got huge like this legally" Part of the murkyness early for him was that weight lifting in baseball really didn't get going until the mid-80's. Until then weight lifting was considered wrong for players because it caused them to lose flexibility. This is also when steriods started to appear as well. So some of the difficulty was what is the benefits of weights and what was PEDS.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 7, 2013 -> 11:25 AM) That "Locker room culture/everyone does it" aspect plays in there also. When McGwire's bottle of Andro was found in his locker by a reporter, the big complaint from baseball people was violating the privacy in the locker room, not the guy having a PED sitting in his locker. It's one reason why I hold Frank and the 03 White Sox in such high regard...for actually being willing to do the right thing despite that no-snitching culture. Totaly agree. Most of the Sox were clean and were trying to skew the tests to create enough positives to make testing mandatory. Although some (an RF who remsins nameless) did it because he was using PEDs.

QUOTE (Middle Buffalo @ Dec 5, 2013 -> 05:50 PM) I doubt it took 10-12 years in an athletic environment for athletes, trainers, and medical professionals to figure out PEDs were rampant in the clubhouses. If someone at my job, your job, any job is up to something, word spreads pretty quickly. That could be affairs, drug use, alcoholism - you name it. People like to talk. There were 10-12 years of teams and reporters ignoring the information available. The fans were a little slower to catch on because the fans were fed improved technology, smaller ballparks, tighter winding of the baseballs, etc. Propaganda in other words. That said, count me among those who think ARod is a victim of a witch hunt, and a part of me wants to see him get off just to stick it to the Yankees and MLB. And I'm not an ARod fan. And I'm one of the old school fans who loves baseball a little less because PEDs ruined the stats that I grew up memorizing. When I was working in the league in the late 80's and early 90's there wasn't really much proof. We all suspected but never saw anyone do anything. It was hidden pretty well. The worst case I ever saw was in football. This was when I first recognized the "steriod body"When I was with the Packers in 88 or 89 they drafted Tony Manadarich. The first day he was in camp he just looked different and you could tell something wasn't right. He got busted twice in training camp, at the time drug results were not made public. He was just too blatant with it. He went from 320 lbs. to about 285 early in the season. This case is what really made sports aware of the problem and really peaked my interest in the phenomenon of PEDs

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Nov 14, 2013 -> 02:01 PM) I would say they're crazy to spend it on Ellsbury when they have Almora coming up in 1 1/2 years. Now there's no guarantee that he's going to be an All-Star (we heard the same things about Brett Jackson 3-4 years ago), but it would be irresponsible to spend hundreds of millions until you know exactly what you have in Baez, Bryant and Soler, and what positions they eventually end up in (Baez could be at 2B or SS, Bryant at 3B/LF/RF, etc.) They would be stupid to trade Castro at his lowest possible value unless they feel he's completely uncoachable. They would be stupid to offer Mr. Notre Dame a long-term deal and pay him like a front-line ace. The one thing the Cubs really don't have is pitching. If they believe they will be contending in 3 years, it may be worth giving him the 4-5 year deal. They will need to spend money on pitching at some point. Stick with the devil you know, maybe.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Nov 25, 2013 -> 02:28 PM) Meh. If it's possible to get back on the court, you don't say it's impossible. If everything goes swimmingly, he's ready for that Pacers game. The tear is not a minor one. It is a significant tear. I don't really think there is much chance of him returning before 6 months. At that point, it becomes "why take the chance."

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Nov 25, 2013 -> 02:27 PM) I don't think it's as much as you think. Bernstein had a tweet earlier today that they'll get like 11 million back. They're still paying out a ton of money. Not that i'm complaining, Rose brought the Bulls back to the national conversation for the first time in a decade. Just a crazy amount of money for one real playoff run. About 25%-30% is a pretty good guesstimate when it comes to contracts that big. The amount you can insure varies on how large the contract is. That's why a said a good portion.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Nov 25, 2013 -> 02:13 PM) In that hospital bed today, Rose made $48,309 from the Bulls and $50,881 from Adidas. He made $99,190! Today! Rose chose to sit out well-past when doctors cleared him, skipped out on his teammates who fought all season for him last year, and skipped out on the playoffs. He then proclaimed he made the right call. Guess what? He didn't. Why is he already out for the season now? Players can come back in four months from this injury. The Bulls play the Indiana Pacers on March 24th. That's four months from now. Nope - better give this KID FROM CHICAGO another free year of $99,190 per day to do nothing but work out in the gym. The Bulls play 12 games beyond the four month period that is plausible for a player to return from a repaired meniscus. That doesn't even include the playoffs, which you know this tired-ass team is going to make because the East sucks so hard. But nope. Not going to happen. We must continue babying Derrick Rose. Take another one off, bud, no big deal. This is injury is a 8 week minimum healing then it's what a month to rehab and a month to get in shape? It's the 4 months depending on the extent of the tear it can be much longer. With the fiasco and bad publicity from last year, I'm not surprised the Bulls just ended any speculation now. If it progresses faster, great. But now you won't have everyone constantly asking questions for the next 6 months. Plus if they end his season now it saves alot of money in paying him salary as the insurance will kick in.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Nov 25, 2013 -> 11:13 AM) Bulls have paid Rose 42 million for about 50 games the last three years. The insurance has paid a good portion of that. The Bulls are getting good use out of their premiums.

QUOTE (Jake @ Nov 23, 2013 -> 05:28 PM) Can't wait for ptatc to swoop in and correct me, because I'm sure I have some things wrong Nope, you were pretty much spot on.

QUOTE (Brian @ Nov 23, 2013 -> 05:23 PM) Sorry. I'll change it... Don't....do...it......

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Nov 23, 2013 -> 05:08 PM) No way. If you can repair it I would. In my own experience I wish I would have gotten a second opinion. I have always had pain since they snipped it. With the techniques today you always repair it if you can. Studies have shown that the most you remove the more unstable it is. Cadaver studies have shown that the menisci have as much to do with the stability of the knee as the ACL,PCL, MCL and LCL. Back in the day before arthroscopy (I'm showing my age) they used to take out the entire meniscus and the knee was very unstable and these patients are now on their second or third knee replacements.

QUOTE (Jake @ Nov 23, 2013 -> 04:51 PM) Basically, the question here is whether they will do a "cleanup" or "repair" Neither is ideal, but we'd probably prefer a repair. Cleanup is usually a fairly quick recovery, but that means they deemed part of the meniscus irreparable and cut it out. It doesn't grow back. You'll have less of it forever. If you have a very little tear, it's not a big deal. Repair is much longer because you want the meniscus to actually heal at the site of the tear, so you stitch it together and basically just wait for it to heal. This is what they did with Westbrook, even though it was supposedly a relatively minor tear. The doc in the interview mentioned that he assumed it would be a repair based on the team saying he would be out "indefinitely" -- this entails multiple months of recovery. It is hard to image the severity of the injury, so post-surgery will be a very informative moment. The key is where the tear is located as you said. The mensicus is avascular except for the out third or so. When they do a repair they need to cut a line down from the outer third to channel blood to the area to allow it to heal. This is why the healing process take so long. Tissue healing normal takes 6-8 weeks. This is 8 weeks or greater if it's a significant tear. It depends on how long the tear is, how far from the perimeter it is and even if it an undersurface vs. a surface tear. But 8 weeks minimum is a good time frame to start. The reason the lateral mensicus is trickier is that it is attached only on the ends of the C shape. It needs to be highly mobile to support the knee rotation yet it needs to be firm enough to add stability to the knee. The medial is attached all the way along the border fo the C so it is easier to repair as you just tie everything down.

QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Nov 21, 2013 -> 01:59 PM) This is an interesting topic. I'm an avid reader, and there have been plenty of times I've found a character to be desirable. I'm sure I'm missing some, but a couple would be: Esperanza Diaz from Harlan Coben's Myron Bolitar series - Athletic, smart mouth, former female pro wrestler Maggie O'Dell from Alex Kava's series - Attractive dark-haired Irish FBI agent Oddly enough, Victoria McQueen from Joe Hill's NOS4A2 - Feisty woman who might or might not be crazy who takes on The Gasmask Man and Charles Manx I like the idea of writing a book with some women of my choice, too. I'd include Jennifer Lawrence, Megan Boone, Olivia Munn, and maybe Sarah Shahi. I like that or Remi Fargo from the Clive Cussler Series.

Newton vs TB and Revis or Flacco vs the Jets. I've got T. Smith for a Flex.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Nov 15, 2013 -> 07:47 AM) The limited platooning is the most serious issue IMO. While Robin has to get better in this area, Hahn also has to provide him with the necessary players. Getting a left-handed hitting catcher would be a great start. Also, the Sunday lineup comment was spot-on, although that may apply more to Guillen than Robin. The platoon stats is misleading. It's not that Oakland platooned positions more, it's that they had the L vs. R advantage more often with the set lineup. This is a function of the players. The two players with the most at bats were switch hitters. This means the had the L vs. R platoon 100% of the time. Also the rest of the positions were evenly split between LH and RH. Robin did not have this advantage with available players. He had very very LH to put in a starting lineup.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Oct 30, 2013 -> 03:13 PM) Bell for sure. Torrey will have to deal with Joe Haden so I'd go with Tate and hope the Bucs don't put Revis on him all game. I was thinking tate for wr as well but some of the "experts" had smith ranked higher. Bell should have a good day but bennett might be good with McKown arm. Thanks for the help

I need to play two of the following: Leveon Bell, Torrey Smith, Matellus Bennett, Golden Tate. I need a wr and flex in a ppr league.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 21, 2013 -> 01:18 PM) This seems incongruous with other trends. The lack of doctors problem, and the drive to cut medical costs by having non-Doctoral medical professionals do a larger bulk of the load, as examples. Those trends, I think, will win out in the long run over lower reimbursement levels for physical therapy. I could be wrong of course, but that is my view. I read a great pilot program and study, as an example, some 15 years ago. Not PT, but on the topic of balancing which types of professionals do what work. In a rural area in the mountainous west, they decided to try an alternative to expensive clinics to serve spares and spread out communities for basic medical needs. The basic idea was, the only medical professionals in these areas are often the fire/rescue volunteers - EMT's and Paramedics. So they trained some of them on things like immunizations, some limited medication scripting, therapeutic techniques, etc. And they delivered much of the care in person, in their homes. The results were dramatically increased general health, for relatively low costs, because ovehead was so low. This sort of out-of-the-box thinking could benefit medical costs as a whole. This type of program generally works, i think. It most other counties if you have a minor injuries such as a sprained ankle you don't go to the expensive physician. You go directly to the "physio" (PT) who in most cases is better trained in orthopedics than most GP physicians. This saves a great deal of time and money for the system. In many states this type of direct access is legal but underutilized due to the public perceptions of physician's as "gate keepers" of all medicine.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Oct 20, 2013 -> 09:15 AM) Love that trade if you're in a ppr league. And that's really lame that it won't be finalized until Monday, your commissioner can't just put it through? For some reason the trades after weds go through after the games for the week are done. So it's actually finalized tomorrow. The starting moreno instead of gore didn't go so well however I still won so it didn't matter. I think the brown for gore trade will help in the long run.

QUOTE (Jake @ Oct 20, 2013 -> 12:15 AM) Now they're saying nothing has been decided re:Gronk. Normally I'd say it's a Belichik smoke screen, but who knows with this fiasco I'm at lacrosse practice. I need to watch this. I had him in my starting lineup. Finally made my trade for a WR last night. It was gore for antonio brown. The guy wanted gore instead of moreno. I think it is actually better as gore has been more consistent but doesn't score as much. Unfortunately, I didn't realize the trade won't be final until Monday.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Oct 19, 2013 -> 02:40 PM) Mike Leake also comes to mind, but I don't think there's ever been a hitter to do so. The Sox don't really need a pitcher to come straight out of the draft, unless Rondon drops to us and they wanna use him as a LH bullpen arm. Guys like John Olerud and Dave winfield didn't even go to the minors, if my old mind is still working.

Gore vs. Ten or moreno vs. Ind? Im really stuck on this one.

An interesting topic came up today at our advisory board meeting with local clinician's. The popularity of the physical therapy field is always ties to insurance reimbursement. The clinician's as a group said that over the last 3 months there has been a reduction in reimbursement across the board. Earlier in the year there were 10 jobs for every PT. Now, the clinics are getting 10 applicants for every opening as they dry up. Everyone is holding their breaths to see how all of this unfolds and are really cutting back.