Week 6 numbers

What do the number foretell this week. I had 5 wins in nine starts last week. There are only seven projected starts this week.

Those HR numbers just jumped. Even with Tino hitting 6, looks like everyone else stepped up as well. And I guess with all those HR, I didn’t have as many baserunners trying to steal. 4 SB for the week is not very good, especially since a couple of other teams had 15 and 13 , respectively.

HR – 18; LA 8.2; PTS 10
R – 48; LA 35.5; PTS 10
RBI – 56; LA 33.6; PTS 10
AVG – 0.272; LAA 0.260; PTS 9
SB – 4; LA 5.7; PTS 9
W – 5; LA 3.2; PTS 9.5
S – 3; LA 2.1; PTS 3
K – 55; LA 36.8; PTS 8
ERA – 2.98; LAA 4.07; PTS 9
WHIP – 1.23; LAA 1.35; PTS 8

Week 6 Roster Review

No one on DL that I know of, although Ken Harvey is not playing much with his stiff back. Tino Martinez is going HR crazy, 6 in one week. Hermanson picked up three saves for the week. Kenny Rogers has had a pretty good week starting. And I can’t believe that Randy didn’t get any strikeouts in his last game.

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: 7 22 21 .281 0
WK: 1 3 2 .111 0
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Josh Bard Cle C2 FS-AS: 1 2 3 .192 0
WK: 0 1 1 .167 0
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Tino Martinez NYY 1B FS-AS: 12 25 29 .286 1
WK: 6 10 15 .391 0
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Joe Crede CWS 3B FS-AS: 3 15 15 .270 0
WK: 0 1 3 .261 0
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Ken Harvey KC CI AS: 0 1 1 .130 0
WK: 0 0 0 .000 0
FS: 1 3 5 .220 0
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Juan Uribe CWS 2B FS-AS: 4 16 18 .275 1
WK: 1 4 2 .269 0
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Derek Jeter NYY SS FS-AS: 4 30 18 .327 5
WK: 2 6 5 .423 1
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Julio Lugo TB MI FS-AS: 1 16 17 .262 9
WK: 1 3 3 .174 0
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Manny Ramirez Bos OF1 FS-AS: 10 24 34 .248 1
WK: 3 4 7 .238 0
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Gary Sheffield NYY OF2 FS-AS: 6 25 29 .318 6
WK: 2 5 5 .261 2
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Aaron Rowand CWS OF3 FS-AS: 3 19 13 .258 5
WK: 0 1 4 .308 1
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Torii Hunter Min OF4 FS-AS: 4 19 20 .252 11
WK: 0 1 3 .235 0
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Shannon Stewart Min OF5 FS-AS: 4 24 17 .281 3
WK: 2 7 5 .320 0
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Frank Catalanotto Tor DH FS-AS: 1 14 10 .290 0
WK: 0 2 1 .312 0

TOTALS 60 262 254 .2771 43
OFF PTS 10.0 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: 4 0 50 3.77 1.047
WK: 2 0 7 3.86 1.214
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Bartolo Colon LAA P2 FS-AS: 4 0 39 2.91 1.177
WK: 0 0 3 3.60 2.200
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Kevin Millwood Cle P3 FS-AS: 1 0 40 3.54 1.303
WK: 1 0 12 1.64 0.818
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Kenny Rogers Tex P4 FS-AS: 4 0 22 1.49 1.196
WK: 1 0 2 0.00 0.667
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Kyle Lohse Min P5 FS-AS: 2 0 17 5.65 1.360
WK: 0 0 0 4.50 1.000
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Gil Meche Sea P6 FS-AS: 3 0 26 5.25 1.375
WK: 1 0 7 4.97 1.421
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Dustin Hermanson CWS P7 AS: 0 6 5 0.00 0.656
WK: 0 3 1 0.00 0.273
FS: 0 8 12 0.00 0.764
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Damaso Marte CWS P8 FS-AS: 2 2 16 1.93 1.714
WK: 0 0 1 0.00 7.500
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Gustavo Chacin Tor P9 FS-AS: 4 0 26 3.35 1.283
WK: 0 0 1 7.71 2.143

TOTALS 24 8 245 3.45 1.241
OFF PTS 9.5 3.0 8.0 9.0 8.0

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Justin Speier Tor P7 AS: 0 0 4 7.04 1.435

Rain

Looks like threee of my starts were cut short today by rain. Unfortunately each of the starters had given up 2 runs by the time the rains came and they had only gotten in 2, 3 and 5 innings before the delay. Not good for the ERA.

86???

This is getting strange. I picked up points in ERA and WHIP because other teams dropped down. (that’s the problem with pitching, they are so much more likely to have a negative effect than a positive one.)

Colon’s start got rained out so he will start a doubleheader today. The hitters went 9/47 (.191) but no one made a charge in average last night.

83.5

Looks like Lohse isn’t starting tonight, meaing I have only 9 projected starts for the week. The Twins are sitting Lohse so the rest of the rotation stays in synch. Looks like Lohse’s stiff shoulder is going to be an ongoing problem. Between Colon starting tonight and the rest of the weekend, I have 6 starts coming up, with only two of my pitchers going head-to-head. We’ll see how they do.

Only had 17 At-Bats last night, and 2 hits (.118 avg). It was a travelling day for most teams.

Wherefore Art Thou, Smart Homes?

Column from PC Magazine: Wherefore Art Thou, Smart Homes?

I once had high hopes of creating a ‘smart’ house. I have a bunch of X10 remotely controlled light switches and plug-ins and IR motion detectors and remote camera monitoring modules. I even got some software to control them all.

And it didn’t provide a very satisfactory environment, for two reasons. First, when you are walking from room to room, it is easier to turn the lights on and off as you walk by the switch rather than trying to find the remote control that isn’t where you usually leave it. Second, I am trying to migrate to compact flourescent lighting and the X10 modules don’t work with flourescents.

So all my remote lighting control is down to my being able to turn the lights in the TV room on and off from my chair.

The remote camera is still up in the barn to monitor the horses, but the only time you want to monitor them is when it is too dark to see anything and those cameras weren’t very good anyway. You could tell if there as a horse in frame and if it was standing or laying down. I don’t think you could tell which horse it was.

I never found the need to try remote HVAC controls. We don’t have a zoned house and the thermostat is outside the bedroom door.

I can see that a ‘smart ‘ building is an energy efficient method for office buildings and other large structures that have energy zones. In the standard home, it seems like a lot of overkill.

Why do I need a tool to turn off all the lights in the house at one time. 99% of the time the only lights in the house to be turned off are the ones in the room I am in. We usually turnoff lights when we leave rooms and a final walkthrough the house in the evening catches any lingering lights.

So the upshot for ‘smart’ homes is they aren’t worth the time, money and effort unless you want to really geek out.

84

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.

Weird

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.

The Thoughts and Luminations of Jack Heneghan