What Matters in Kansas – The evolution of creationism. By William Saletan
Let’s go back to the basics. The K-12 educational system should be teaching students the building blocks of learning what is taught in the state Universities. Do they teach Creationism or Intelligent Design in your State University? If so, fine, then teach it in K-12. If not, don’t.
This is starting to get scary. A more realistic value to strive for is in the low 70’s.
I did figure out what happened to the Shamu Scoring mixup. Shamu dropped a relief pitcher in the Monday moves and replaced him with a starter. But the commisioner didn’t enter the moves until Tuesday morning so I saw the pre move stat first and once the relief pitcher was dropped fromthe roster adn the starter was added, Shamu lost the save and added the starter’s win from Monday night.
Lots of groin injuries and slight sprains starting to crop up, buty they will play hurt. And these guys only have 20 more weeks to go.
I’m not sure what happened, but I now have 2 more points for those 2 wins instead of 2.5. And I had lost .5 points in saves since I didn’t have one and The Shamus did and we were now tied. For a net 2 point gain.
I just looked again and found that The Shamus are now now tied with me for wins since they got 2 last night, as well, and that they don’t have the save and I didn’t lose the .5 point for the tie. For a net gain of 2.
Somewhere in the past few hours, a statistician decided that the Shamus got a win instead of a save and corrected the numbers. Either that or my mind is completely shot.
Wow, two wins last night gave me 2.5 points. And Meche didn’t get blasted too badly. (3 runs in 6 innings)
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Team report for Rocky Coloradans
Owned by Jack Heneghan
Hitters Team HR R RBI AVG SB
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Javy Lopez Bal C1 FS-AS: 6 19 19 .324 0
WK: 2 4 7 .333 0
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Josh Bard Cle C2 FS-AS: 1 1 2 .200 0
WK: 1 1 2 .429 0
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Tino Martinez NYY 1B FS-AS: 6 15 14 .256 1
WK: 4 6 7 .333 0
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Joe Crede CWS 3B FS-AS: 3 14 12 .273 0
WK: 1 2 2 .176 0
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Ken Harvey KC CI AS: 0 1 1 .136 0
WK: 0 1 1 .136 0
FS: 1 3 5 .225 0
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Juan Uribe CWS 2B FS-AS: 3 12 16 .277 1
WK: 2 3 4 .250 0
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Derek Jeter NYY SS FS-AS: 2 24 13 .306 4
WK: 0 4 2 .200 1
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Julio Lugo TB MI FS-AS: 0 13 14 .278 9
WK: 0 5 3 .308 1
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Manny Ramirez Bos OF1 FS-AS: 7 20 27 .250 1
WK: 0 2 2 .118 0
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Gary Sheffield NYY OF2 FS-AS: 4 20 24 .328 4
WK: 1 5 6 .296 2
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Aaron Rowand CWS OF3 FS-AS: 3 18 9 .245 4
WK: 2 5 2 .294 1
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Torii Hunter Min OF4 FS-AS: 4 18 17 .255 11
WK: 0 2 0 .333 0
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Shannon Stewart Min OF5 FS-AS: 2 17 12 .273 3
WK: 0 4 3 .280 2
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Frank Catalanotto Tor DH FS-AS: 1 12 9 .286 0
WK: 0 3 0 .308 0
TOTALS 42 214 198 .2781 39
OFF PTS 7.0 10.0 10.0 9.0 9.0
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*Travis Lee TB CI AS: 0 10 9 .299 1
Pitchers Team W SV SO ERA WHIP
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Randy Johnson NYY P1 FS-AS: 2 0 43 3.74 0.992
WK: 0 0 0 0.00 0.000
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Bartolo Colon LAA P2 FS-AS: 4 0 36 2.83 1.070
WK: 0 0 6 2.00 0.889
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Kevin Millwood Cle P3 FS-AS: 0 0 28 4.10 1.446
WK: 0 0 6 5.40 2.400
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Kenny Rogers Tex P4 FS-AS: 3 0 20 1.79 1.301
WK: 2 0 9 0.00 1.067
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Kyle Lohse Min P5 FS-AS: 2 0 17 5.74 1.387
WK: 1 0 4 1.80 1.400
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Gil Meche Sea P6 FS-AS: 2 0 19 5.35 1.358
WK: 0 0 5 5.63 1.000
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Dustin Hermanson CWS P7 AS: 0 3 4 0.00 0.857
WK: 0 2 3 0.00 0.300
FS: 0 5 11 0.00 0.886
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Damaso Marte CWS P8 FS-AS: 2 2 15 2.02 1.425
WK: 0 1 1 0.00 1.286
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Gustavo Chacin Tor P9 FS-AS: 4 0 25 3.13 1.239
WK: 0 0 7 4.73 1.725
TOTALS 19 5 211 3.55 1.243
OFF PTS 7.5 3.0 10.0 8.0 8.0
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Justin Speier Tor P7 AS: 0 0 4 7.04 1.435
For the week my OF and Cs seem to be producing. The Infield had an off week, except for Tino. 4HR, that’s a lot.
For Pitching, Millwood and Chacin seemed to have off weeks. Unfortunately, Meche’s week wasn’t too off for him. Kenny Rogers had a very good week, with 2 wins and a 0.00 ERA. Not too shabby on the Ks and the WHIP either. And, of course, my Chicago Relief committee got 3 Saves with a 0.00 ERA.
An interesting week. I ended up with 81.5 points, even after losing a point in the SB race. I really didn’t think anyone would catch me, but with 13 SB in a week, the Rangers did. They have a total of 40 to my 39.
HR 13; LA 8.5; PTS 7:
R 47; LA 33.6; PTS 10:
RBI 41; LA 33; PTS 10:
AVG .264; LAA .252; PTS 9:
SB 7; LA 3.9; PTS 9:
W 3 LA 3.6 PTS 7.5:
S 3;LA 2.5; PTS 3:
K 41 LA 38.4 PTS 10:
ERA 2.66; LAA 3.53; PTS 8:
WHIP 1.28; LAA 1.22; PTS 8:
Pitching surprised me this week. 3 wins in 8 starts and 3 SAVES. I certainly wasn’t expecting the saves. For week 6, I have 10 projected starts with 9 possible Win situations. It is very rare that all my pitchers win all their starts in a given week, but when they start against each other I don’t plan on it at all.
Health-Care Costs Expected to Soar Over Next Decade
This article discusses some of the pending healthcare cost rises. From an est. $1.9 Trillion in 2005 to $3.6 Trillion in 2014.
I want to look at the per person costs for healthcare. For 2005, I will figure on a Population of 290 Million. For 2014, I will use 310 Million.
Using the numbers above, our health care costs average $6,552 per person in 2005, rising to $11,613 in 2014.
If we consider insurance as a shared risk pool, it would seem to me that for a $6552 a year everyone should should get into a health insurance plan. I will even give up $552 a year for as a deductible and say $6000 a year. For Elaine and myself, a mere $12,000 a year will cover us for healthcare; rising to $22000 a year in 2014. (I am going to a $613 deductible in 2014) .
Of course, this insurance pool needs to include EVERYONE, from newborn babe to deathbed pensioner. If we allow opt-in/opt-out options, then many sub-30 people will opt-out because “We are in the Pink of Health!” And a family with 8 kids and 2 parents will face an annual insurance bill of $60,000 with a $5520 deductible. Somehow, I don’t think that will be economically viable from the family’s point of view.
My numbers are a bit higher than the article’s. I think I am assuming a lower population number, but our costs per person are close. The upshot would appear to be that while a wage-earning individual faces a reasonable average payment, the gross family payments account equal or exceed the poverty level for a family of 3, or greater. (The single Poverty rate is greater than the $6,552 for a single healthcare share. The family of 2 Poverty rate is just just less than the $13,104 healthcare rate for two.) Something seems askew when the poverty rate doesn’t include health insurance costs.