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QUOTE (sircaffey @ Jun 26, 2010 -> 07:14 PM) Silva's stuff is pretty legit. The Cubs deserve some credit for the changes they made in his arm slot and his positioning on the rubber. He is a new pitcher.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 26, 2010 -> 02:51 PM) The EU approved one version a few years ago. The federal government in this country is planning to spend some $500 million to apply the technology and build manufacturing facilities for it in this country. Ah yes, the irony in that statement is great.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 26, 2010 -> 02:11 PM) Both Artest and Bradley have gone after the people in the crowd, that's one thing I can't remember Zambrano doing. I guess he just keeps it to the guys on his own team...

You could throw in the gold metal in olympic sports if you wanted to use the four year thing as a barometer. I think that would make the basketball gold the toughest of all, because the fewest countries have won it.

QUOTE (kev211 @ Jun 26, 2010 -> 01:41 PM) Not one post on how mature Lebron is for staying in Akron and not going on some huge tour. But there'd be a ton about how much of an ego he has if he turned this into a country wide tour. I don't think that the location is as much of a deal for Lebron. South Beach is great, but Lebron could live anywhere in the world right now and he chooses to live in Akron. Which I guess is more of an edge for staying in Cleveland, but at least it's not all about the beach and warm weather for Lebron. So everyone gets to call on him... Meh.

So really he hasn't been as bad as his numbers show... He's been worse.

QUOTE (justBLAZE @ Jun 26, 2010 -> 04:50 PM) Steve Nash, Dwight Howard and Dwayne Wade all in attendance according to Oney G. START THE RUMOR MILL!

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jun 26, 2010 -> 03:37 PM) He was told to leave the park by the manager and general manager so an incident with his teammates would be avoided It isn't like this is the first time this has happened.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 26, 2010 -> 01:59 PM) The other thing worth pointing out is that a lot of the "Significant medical contributions" the U.S. is making right now, especially in the pharmaceutical industry...is figuring out ways to sneak around patent rules, rather than focusing on newer generations of medicines. Or, you get things like ED treatments, which while useful, I'm not sure that every company needs to develop one. What would be really useful for mankind is not necessarily what is the most profitable. So you end up with billions spent on Cialis ads, while we're 20 years overdue in funding a new method for producing flu vaccine, for example. So where are the flu vaccines from the countries with socialized medicine?

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jun 26, 2010 -> 03:46 AM) Fun Fact: Players can tag up to balls hit into foul territory. It is actually a great time to do it...

QUOTE (GoodAsGould @ Jun 26, 2010 -> 03:09 AM) I think Zambrano is a bit of a loose cannon but he does not deserve to be categorized with Bradley and Artest... those 2 are just wack. Why?

QUOTE (docsox24 @ Jun 26, 2010 -> 09:01 AM) good news for all you Randy Williams haters, which is probably everyone on here... Threets will be up within a week Whew

QUOTE (Jenksy Cat @ Jun 25, 2010 -> 09:05 PM) And it isn't like we won 2 of those games anyway and lost 19 games to the Indians either...but yeah, keep using "bu bu but, he's bad in tie games you non-baseball knowing idiots!!!!" as an arugment. Its working. Neither is pretending like certian games mean less than others in a division that has obviously been as close as humanly possible over the past two seasons.

QUOTE (The Ginger Kid @ Jun 25, 2010 -> 08:56 PM) 146 pitches and he just hit 96 WOW!

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 25, 2010 -> 06:35 PM) You're not guaranteed the same volume of customers no matter what. Doctor A charge $100. Doctor B charges $100. Doctor A is much better than Doctor B, so he gets a hell of a lot more customers. He's also developed more efficient methods, and so his profits are higher and he makes more. Having the price fixed at a certain dollar amount doesn't mean you make the same amount of money no matter what and that competition vanishes. Honestly it will lead to more shutdowns than competition to improve product. Without a profit incentive, there will be less and less reason for places to stay open to fight for smaller amounts of money. It won't lead to innovation, it will lead to a shrinking capacity as money flows away from health care into more profitable areas.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 22, 2010 -> 04:25 PM) Link The attendence numbers there are misleading because of the addition to the ballpark a few years ago. I'll bet if you looked at % of seats filled, it is the lowest it has been for a while.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Jun 25, 2010 -> 06:14 PM) Hindsight is 20-20. This caught a lot of people with their pants down, myself included. I'm really, really happy that i was wrong. You could at least pull your pants up now...

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 25, 2010 -> 06:15 PM) Presumably people would still prefer to go to the better hospital. That's just it. There is no incentive to be "better". You make the same payments no matter what.

QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ Jun 25, 2010 -> 06:07 PM) yeah, no doubt, a smart combination of advanced stats and eyes have made it a lot of fun to follow baseball for me the last few years. posted this in the Cubs thread, but worth here also since it was in the game, Cubs suspended Z indefinitely. Aw, who is there to blow up in Cubs games now?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 25, 2010 -> 03:42 PM) In an ideal system, various hospitals and insurance companies would be setting up competitive systems where costs are kept down and innovation is fostered by competition between the organizations. That isn't the system we have right now, though. It's also not the system that the Republicans would want, and it's not the system I'd want, and it's not the system that is going to come out of the ACA (although I would argue that in some ways, it does step us closer). In a single payer system, this wouldn't happen. Prices would be fixed, and there would be no reason or incentive for neither care, nor cost, to reach any kind of optimal point.