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QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Aug 20, 2009 -> 11:24 AM) ZERO is what you get Aha! Another faster than Jim post by Tex

you have any? Zzzzzzzz I guess I was asleep

Well well, I guess we should slow dfown for slow Jim

ultimately this will be a fantastic trhead

Sorry, I'll try harder.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Aug 19, 2009 -> 07:29 PM) You're right, there isn't. But there is a guarantee that any money some 17 year old high school catcher gets, the guy in the union won't be seeing. Isn't there also a case that any player's contract sets the table for other contracts. So if some untested draft picks makes X then the union boys could argue that is the new market price and push for X+5 or what not. Rookie contracts push the prices up for everyone.

QUOTE (SHIPPS @ Aug 20, 2009 -> 10:33 AM) Embarrassing fart moments. http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/lofiversion/...php?t24709.html actually there have been a few.

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Aug 20, 2009 -> 10:33 AM) Head cheese? http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?sh...p;#entry1733883

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Aug 20, 2009 -> 10:27 AM) The threat of zombies. zombies? yawn http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?sh...p;mode=threaded done that

What a difficult case. And genitalia will not be the only determination. That is what makes this so difficult.

From landing strips to toothbrushes; from music to last meals, we have covered a lot of subjects in my six years here. What's left?

QUOTE (brookfieldjim @ Aug 20, 2009 -> 10:10 AM) Long time reader, first time poster. I've really enjoyed reading this site over the last few years but felt I needed to comment on this post as I was thinking this very thing yesterday. As a fan of this team since 1982, it's really amazing to see how much this organization has changed in 27+ years. Welcome to Soxtalk, please don;t take two years before your second post.

In the 90s the Sox filled the void between the end of the Bulls season and the beginning of the Bears. Mercifully, that was a very short span.

SS, I think your question deserves a fuller response, because in the short term it would be a hurdle. Long term, perhaps not as much. I do believe for any new system to work, there needs to be some gate to keep people from making weekly visits to the Doctor. Currently it is the insurance companies and economics that keep people away. Also the time away from work and other responsibilities. I would like to see some sort of gate left intact. Perhaps it is a co-pay per visit. I'd even accept a sliding scale on that co-pay. Short term, I agree it will be an issue. I also believe, with providers receiving payments, we will see a boom in small clinics. I'd also like to see more Nurse and PA care for common ailments built into the system. That is one area that is underutilized with a better cost. I think there will be a slow down in the building of new emergency rooms as patients are moved to more appropriate treatment venues. I see here some of the clinics that offer free or low cost treatment. They are at capacity based on revenue not on physical size or available volunteers and doctors. They could expand without much effort just by receiving adequate funding for their operations. I am interested in how you envision the short term and long term affects.

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Aug 20, 2009 -> 09:28 AM) Parents with two kids in college at once are screwed these days, and I'll be there in a few years. Quit trying to resist. Enjoy the letters from school.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 20, 2009 -> 08:41 AM) You mean like not adding 50 million people to the system all at once? You mean adding 50 million payments to the system versus 50 million services without full payment. We do not agree on the actual number of people who will now visit Doctors who have not visited before. The impact will be IMHO, less than what you are quoting. IMHO there will be an increase of people visiting Doctors and a decrease in ER and Urgent Care visits. There will also be an increase in routine care and a decrease in care for more serious, and more labor intensive care, from waiting and allowing small problems to become big problems. I have tremendous faith in America opening the clinics and expanding Doctors offices once payments will follow these treatments. The uninsured are an anchor to expanding health care.

Oh, those days seem like a second ago.

For most of my history as a Sox fan, this is as good as it gets. This team will be in the race all the way, and I honestly can not ask for more than that. By late August for at least half of the last 30 years, it was time to think about the September call ups and next year. Hell, for at least a third of those year, in your heart you knew in May the team was going nowhere.

my daughter arrives at U of I today, my son at Texas State tomorrow. Damn, their mother is old.

jim, you know that isn't true.

http://ohellnawlblog.com/newohnblog/2009/0...nna-pay-for-it/ As always I am scanning the news looking to bring all the best news stories to my friends at Soxtalk. Unlike some posters here, I wouldn't hide this gem on my facebook wall ahem cough lostfan cough

Holy Cow! What the hell does that mean?

really?

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Aug 19, 2009 -> 10:38 PM) Oh, maybe let Gage work on the site and kill it. phuck that idea! I was thinking if you double post you are out, and then it would die from a lack of participation.