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QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Jan 5, 2014 -> 09:06 PM) Im not heaping praise on whatever caused a fairly routine minimally invasive surgery to kill someone. What I would commend is a family and medical professionals who agreed that this individuals life is over and spending any effort to preserve it is foolish. What's done is done, this corpse isn't going to spring up and go for a walk. And about the most basic reaction of a human being should also be to at least take a moment and note some sympathy for the difficult decision that the family is faced with.

Gotta get the Falcons to the playoffs first.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 5, 2014 -> 08:56 PM) Closing our business tomorrow, told the employees to stay home. If CPS is actually closing the schools, you know the weather is really bad, no point in f***ing around. I-94 is closed from the Illinois border to Michigan City and I-65 is closed down to Lafayette.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jan 5, 2014 -> 08:54 PM) Terri Schiavo (The portions of their family who wanted her life support maintained have issued a statement supporting keeping this patient on life support as well).

Even when they lose to the Packers in the NFC Championship (again)?

The sad thing is, I probably would have agreed with the concept that she should be allowed to die but you make it into the most insanely repulsive concept possible. You make it sound like you'd celebrate.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Jan 5, 2014 -> 08:13 PM) Vegatative state and brain dead are two very different things. Not that I agree with the idea that people should have to be kept alive by machines BCUZ THAS WUT JESUS SEZ 2 DO. Honestly, I think the plug she be pulled on anyone who stands zero medical chance of a recovery that included regaining meaningful consciousness. Why keep people alive like that? If my Mom (god help me if this f***ing happened) was going to be a vegetable just drooling on herself everyone in our family would universally agree to pull the plug. You don't leave some one laying there just waiting to go through the formality of officially dying at that point. Not that they'd even have any concept of "waiting" or anything else. None of that even applies here though. This girl is dead as a doornail. There's no life left. A vegetative state is accurately described as dead also based on the standard of "there's no life left", the higher functions are all gone, the only difference I see is in the level of automatic responses that the brain can continue doing. The obvious question to ask in reply is "why should you be the person to decide whether someone should be kept alive in those states?" Whether or not I agree with you, it's quite obvious that people would disagree on this matter.

The Denver Broncos have played 4 games against the 3 teams remaining in the AFC playoffs. They were 12-0 against every other team in football. They were 1-3 against the Chargers, Colts, and Patriots.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Jan 5, 2014 -> 08:00 PM) I think the family pretty clearly wants to keep the kid on life support. The real issue, as I understand it, is the dead girl wont survive the trip to somewhere else without an operation to insert a feeding tube. The hospital doesn't do medical operations on dead people, so the body is stuck there. The hospital is also not a morgue, and I'm guessing the hospital really wants rid of a dead body clogging up resources for the living. I can't help but compare this to the case in 2007 where there was a person who had been in a persistent vegetative state for years, had their former spouse wanting them removed from life support and stating those were her wishes, and had an entire political party step in to oppose removing life support.

Can't wait until he's 2-0 against the Bears next year.

QUOTE (Paulstar @ Jan 5, 2014 -> 07:43 PM) I wouldn't. Honestly, I might be in the minority here, but I'd rather trade Quintana than both Johnson and Danish. It'd be risky no doubt considering Quintana has been such a good pitcher. But deep down I still question how good Quintana actually is. I'm 50/50 on Quintana and he is one of those guys who you would either look like a genius or a dumbass if you traded now. Based on the fact that they traded Santiago already, I'm going to bet that this coaching staff is very, very high on Quintana, and if this pitching coach says he can keep it up or get better...I wouldn't consider trading him for a catcher.

QUOTE (zenryan @ Jan 5, 2014 -> 07:45 PM) geez, Harbaugh waits to 3 seconds to call TO in these conditions. I would've called it around 7-8 in case of a bad/dropped snap. What's more likely, a botched snap or a kickoff return for a TD? Speaking as a Buffalo Bills fan I worry more about the latter. They already had one return stopped by the Kicker this game.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jan 5, 2014 -> 06:13 PM) OK, maybe not the most caring way he could have phrased that question, but really, who IS paying for that? if it is on the public dime, at what point do we accept medical diagnosis that she is indeed dead and beyond recovery? I think the right answer is probably that the hospital is paying for it but they're doing so because they're compelled by law to pay for it up until a certain point. The family appeared to be an African American family from near Oakland and gave no impression that they're independently wealthy, so the hospital is probably paying for it as part of one of the cases we talk about where hospitals are compelled to admit and pay for anyone who shows up at an ER and can't simply let people die. In the case where either an insurance company can pay or the family can pay, then those groups could continue paying for care as long as they'd want or as long as they're under contract to do so. If they were insured, my guess is that the insurance company would be involved in the legal process regarding removing life support. As far as I can tell the court case has been the hospital against the family, with the family not wanting the hospital to keep the body on life support. That mostly likely tells me that the hospital is the one footing the bill due to a legal compulsion to do so without the permission of the family to remove that support.

And that wasn't bad.

QUOTE (flavum @ Jan 5, 2014 -> 07:06 PM) Jerry Coleman, Padres announcer, died. Too bad. http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/01/...as-passed-away/ I have never laughed as hard at a quote from a broadcaster as I did from a quote by him. Only from reading it.

The Packers simply do not plan to deal with Kaepernick's running coming into games.

Castro talk given its own thread since it's already thread-length.

You know what? This is worthy of popping into it's own thread. I'm going to move those posts in here.

QUOTE (StRoostifer @ Jan 5, 2014 -> 04:43 PM) No problem, i was curious myself. The info didnt come up on the BR mobile site ( im on a tab) so i had to check the full site to find out. The Sox would have plenty of time to evaluate Castro then decide on trying to extend him. I'm just curious what it would take to get him. I know I asked a few weeks back and I think witesox figured It would take Q to get a deal done which makes sense. Not sure I would do that deal, kinda riding the fence. I'm not trading Quintana now that Santiago has been moved unless the return is ridiculous and I can't imagine what it would take to get me interested.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jan 5, 2014 -> 02:22 PM) I really want to see a Manning/Luck AFC Championship game. That would be epic. I'm not sure I want to listen to the announcers in that game.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jan 5, 2014 -> 02:12 PM) OT but not deserving of a thread, how come I can't see my sent messages even though I know I've sent a few today? I believe there's a box you need to check to tell the software to save copies of sent messages.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jan 5, 2014 -> 01:42 PM) Don't particularly care for the Chargers, but want to see the Colts play NE next week instead of DEN, so go Chargers! Nothing wrong with cheering for the best matchup.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Jan 5, 2014 -> 12:30 PM) My bad. I tried looking up a bunch of ways to read it for free, but they didn't work. I seriously considered buying a one-month membership just to read it, but then realized I could ask an Insider. No one would mind if you asked someone to send it to you as a private message.

Brandon Marshall and Ditka were just on ESPN together. They were asked "Cubs or White Sox" among other things. Ditka took the Cubs...we got Marshall!

Need to go to Austin Texas....