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That may be true. My question is, what is the pay after normalizing to a typical private sector arrangement, ie. 40 hour week + time and a half overtime, 50 week year, in order to get an apples to apples comparison. Because every time this topic comes up people segment into 2 camps - one that says teachers work 3 days a week for 8 and a half months and the unions who say they work 8 days a week for 62 weeks/year. Some quick napkin math, you can tell me how far off base I am with my assumptions: Your typical day is 6:30-4:00. Assume you're a typical teacher. In most jobs that's base 9 hours base pay (1/2 hour unpaid lunch), plus time and a half for the 1 hour overtime. 9.5 hours/day paid. You work a "couple" hours on the weekend. I'm not sure how literal to read that. I'll assume that means 4 hours on the weekend. All overtime pay, so 6 hours paid for that. Now to figure out the school year. I don't know where you work, I won't ask. I grew up in the Osseo school district, I think its a typical enough district. Their calendar is here. School year runs Sept 3-June 5. During the summer there are 7 days staff training and 4 days for Open House before the start of school. So before accounting for holidays, the work year is 42 weeks + 1 day. Holidays in District 279 during the school year (not including staff training days, Labor Day, or Memorial Day): Christmas: 8 days Spring break 5 days MLK, Presidents Day, and other random holidays: 8 days. Assume that the typical teacher will work half-time during the holidays. Instead of 21 days, 10.5 days of holiday during the year. So the actual work year then is 40 weeks, 1.5 days, where each week is 53.5 paid hours paid (after overtime) and the 1.5 days equates to 14.25 hours paid (after overtime). Total paid hours then after including time and a half for overtime is 2154.25 hours / year. According to this, average 1st year k-12 teacher salary in MN was $33,009 for the 2010-2011 year. Average teacher salary in MN was $53,680 for the same year. Assume no COLA increases since that year. The apples to apples, hourly wage then, works out thusly: First year teachers: $15.32 / hour Average teacher: $24.92 / hour Is that a fair estimation?

An 8 hour workday for many (maybe most) of us is actually 8.5. With a 1/2 hour unpaid lunch and two 15 minute breaks (I believe this is law in MN). Some employers will let you lump together the breaks to take an hour for lunch. All that's to say, that if you start at 6:30 and leave at 4 then you're working 1 hour longer than the rest of us, not 1.5 hours. So, 1 hour per day per week for what, 40 weeks per year? That's 40 additional hours. An extra work week. I'm not sure if by "couple" of hours on the weekend you meant two, or more. Let's say 4 hours. That's 4*40 = 160 hours. 4 work weeks. So that's 45 weeks of work per year. And that's before subtracting holidays that only affect schools like MLK day, the entire week of Christmas, and whatever else there is. edit: I'm dumb. 1 extra hour per day equates to 5 additional weeks. So if your numbers are accurate or typical then we're talking about a 49 week year which narrows the gap quite a bit (before looking at holidays).

I like C.K. and will eat up his material happily. Even C.K. said his peak was 2007 though. He has said every dirty word and commented on the most taboo things already. What C.K. is now, is a middle aged craftsman who mostly tells jokes about his kids and airplane travel. What OTOHis more creative and layered than any standup act I've ever seen. It feels like high art but isn't pretentious at all, oh and its funny. Hilarious actually. Its a live routine but he tell at least one joke specifically for the Netflix/at-home audience ("video editors"). The amount of detail is just awesome.

Gotta love that attitude. http://www.twincities.com/ci_22459734/minnesota-twins-humbled-brian-dozier-eager-second-chance

And that's a depth Pelfrey's pitch didn't have, at least not consistently. His 4.6 inches of average rise was more than anyone else on your list. Fangraphs calls it a slider, I assume because of the 6.1 mph differential off his fastball. Brooksbaseball calls it a cutter, probably because of the lack of depth. Its pretty borderline IMO.

The cutter/slider distinction is pretty semantic. http://fastballs.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/typical_spin_deflection2.jpg?w=510&h=388 I believe Pitchf/x calls Peflrey's pitch a slider instead of a cutter because its quite a bit slower than his 4 seem. But its a pretty straight pitch, most people would call it a cutter. In fact its pretty much the straightest pitch of anyone on Thrylos' list. [TABLE=width: 500] [TABLE=width: 325] Name Team SL-X (pfx) SL-Z (pfx) Matt Harvey Mets[TD=align: right]1 [TD=align: right]3.7[/TD] Anibal Sanchez Tigers[TD=align: right]3.2[/TD] [TD=align: right]0.7[/TD] Madison Bumgarner Giants[TD=align: right]0.4[/TD] [TD=align: right]4[/TD] Francisco Liriano Pirates[TD=align: right]0.2[/TD] [TD=align: right]2.2[/TD] Mat Latos Reds[TD=align: right]2.7[/TD] [TD=align: right]1.3[/TD] Justin Verlander Tigers[TD=align: right]2.4[/TD] [TD=align: right]2.4[/TD] Homer Bailey Reds[TD=align: right]0.3[/TD] [TD=align: right]2.1[/TD] John Lackey Red Sox[TD=align: right]3.3[/TD] [TD=align: right]1.2[/TD] Lance Lynn Cardinals[TD=align: right]0.1[/TD] [TD=align: right]1.5[/TD] Matt Cain Giants[TD=align: right]1.2[/TD] [TD=align: right]2.2[/TD] Yovani Gallardo Brewers[TD=align: right]3[/TD] [TD=align: right]3.2[/TD] Mike Pelfrey Twins[TD=align: right]0.8[/TD] [TD=align: right]4.6[/TD] [/TABLE] [/TD] [/TD] [TD] [/TABLE]

If a guy is good enough to start but is pushed into the pen, its likely he'll put up better k% and velocities (see "rule of 17"). That is the ideal scenario IMO. The Cardinals do this practically every year.

Considering Jose Mijares is still without a job, I can't imagine there would be a tuen of demand for Duensing's services.

This one is especially unofficial. July 30, 2013, Miguel Cabrera re-injures hip defending Prince Fielder in clubhouse scuffle after Prince found out his wife was cheating on him with Avisail Garcia.

Bo Burnham is the greatest standup comedian currently. Discuss.

I guess I wasn't been paying attention, evidently Mastro had a piece of "fixation hardware" put into his left ankle last spring, and then taken out in October. Hope he's better, I kind of liked what I saw in 2012.

Sometimes I wonder if we are talking about the same guy because the Worley I saw last year didn't appear to have any kind of future in Major League baseball. JMO

Doogie tweeting today that the draft pick is a sticking point.

I haven't given up on Hicks, but he does make me scratch my head. Look at his last year. 1. Starting CF (Span) traded to Nats 2. Backup CF (Revere) traded to Phils 3. Great Spring Training, starting job on the Twins 4. Strikeouts, dejection, struggle 5. Demotion to minors. 6. New CF (Pressley) acquired midseason 7. No Sept callup, Pressley treading water 8. Buxton ranked No. 1 top prospect in baseball 9. "Hey Aaron we still really like you. Want to play some Winter Ball and maybe hit the ground running next spring? "Nah I'm good."

Bert's saying its not okay to steal signs and relay them to countrymen on the opposing team, which is what Tejada (and ARod) were accused of doing while on defense. Big difference.

I want Hammer and Arcia in the lineup everyday. After that, play platoons/matchups. If we're not going to upgrade CF, SS, C or 3B then the corner OF needs to hit. Defense should be a secondary consideration IMO.

I think my man-crush on Mauer has just gotten a little bigger

Well here's the at-bat http://wapc.mlb.com/play/?content_id=6944905&c_id=mlb

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/don-mattingly-says-cardinals-tried-cheat-stealing-signs-164928704--mlb.html That's their problem.

I heard when it comes time to deflate the Metrodome they are going to bring in Gary Anderson to attempt a 38 yard field goal. -Barreiro's joke

Yeah those weren't very hard were they.

@RB which of these pitches are strikes and which are balls

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I don't know how many wins Doumit gained/lost but I do think people underestimate the impact and ripple effect of losing or gaining strikes. Think about how different an at-bat becomes if you go 1-2 instead of 2-1 for example. Having the advantage in the count is absolutely critical.

OK so overall, some regression is likely, but probably not completely falling off a cliff.