Stick to baseball, 3/17/18.

My biggest news this week is that Smart Baseball is now out in paperback. This edition has a new afterword covering a few new developments from the 2017 season.

For Insiders this week, I had three posts from the Cactus League, covering:
Hunter Greene & prospects from four orgs (CIN, LAD, CWS, LAA)
Chris Paddack, Adrian Morejon, and other Padres & Rockies prospects
Mackenzie Gore and even more Padres prospects.

I also wrote about the Jake Arrieta contract. Due to spring travel, the next chat may not be until April, unless I get a rainout on the road somewhere.

Here on the dish, I wrote up a slew of new restaurants I tried in Arizona this month.

And now, the links…

Comments

  1. Thank you for finding the time to put these together. It’s not like you have anything else going on right now, right?

    I keep hoping that there will be a list that doesn’t include “Texas” in a less-than-flattering light. Unfortunately, we tend to deserve it.

  2. Keith, the link to your AZ Eats writeup goes to your Arrieta contract story FYI

  3. Hot taek – the woman at the nursing home WAS the victim of religious discrimination. The nursing home’s batshit insane policies allow you to get an exemption so long as you have a clergyperson who is just as science-illiterate as you are. By allowing those exceptions, but not this particular nurse’s, they most likely did indeed violate her First Amendment rights. The underlying problem, of course, is that faith-based exemptions exist at all. If they did not exist, she would have no leg to stand on.

    • A Salty Scientist

      The nursing home’s policies are indeed bad. They do not need to allow faith-based exemptions at all, and can argue that reasonable religious accommodation is not possible.

    • A Salty Scientist

      I should add though that I agree with the author’s premise that the DOJ would never have gotten involved if the plaintiff was non-Christian.

    • I would agree on that front – this administration has made it quite clear that they are only interested in protecting the interests of those groups that support them.