Stick to baseball, 7/21/21.

For Insiders this week, I updated my ranking of the top 50 prospects in the minors and posted analyses of the Manny Machado trade and the Brad Hand/Francisco Mejia trade. I also held a Klawchat on Thursday.

My next game review for Paste will go up next week; this week I reviewed the app version of Istanbul, a great strategic game of pathfinding and set collection, here on the dish.

I’ll be at the Silver Unicorn Bookstore in Acton, Massachusetts, on July 28th at 1 pm to talk Smart Baseball and sign copies.

And now, the links…

Comments

  1. The history podcast The Dollop has a great story regarding Notre Dame fending off the KKK in South Bend.

    https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dollop-with-dave-anthony-and-gareth-reynolds/id643055307?mt=2&i=1000405056982

  2. Taking pleasure in the little things these days, I very much enjoyed the arugula/rocket (man) wordplay.

  3. And then you’ve got stories like this, where a candidate is not only proud to not be a scientist, but also proudly ignorant and dismissive of science and those who dare to agree with it.

    https://www.google.com/amp/www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/pennsylvania/capitol-ideas/mc-nws-pa-scott-wager-climate-change-activst-naive-20180720-story,amp.html

  4. My sincere condolences on the loss of Bailey. Best wishes to you and your family during this difficult time. I am not on Twitter, so I hope you don’t mind that I post this here.

    • Thanks, Glenn. My daughter was especially fond of Bailey – we adopted him when she was 5, and he was just a kitten – and she is devastated, but she’s enjoying all of the likes and condolence notes I’m getting from readers.

  5. That article from JAMA was spot on. I have a family member with advanced cancer that has been in the hospital for about 20 of the last 25 days & that is the biggest complaint, they just can’t get any rest. The issues he has are sodium levels, constipation, pain, etc..so why do they wake him up at 4:30 AM to take vitals that are always normal? & then have someone else come in around 6 AM to test the sodium? & then vitals again at 8:30 AM..then DR’s come in between 9-10 AM..then vitals again at 12:30 PM.

    You would think they would let someone who is sick get some rest, not constant interruptions. My gut says some of this is CYA stuff. In case something bad happened, the hospital can say they were monitoring things constantly.

    • I also have a family member in a similar situation and they say they never get more than 4 hours of sleep in the hospital because of all the people coming in and performing tests. They don’t get enough sleep and they aren’t getting good, deep sleep. This seems like something where a better solution could have big changes in the health of patients.

  6. As I understand it, a lot of those very high-dollar Amazon listings are there because sellers will change a book’s price to a very high number while they source additional copies, in order to avoid having the listing removed. At least, that was the reaction on /r/flipping when this story first broke. I dunno for sure, but that sounds plausible enough to me.

  7. I mean, the Amazon listings article – it’s just drugs right? Or money laundering? Or some other dark webby thing. Buy this book and oops, something slipped between two pages. I don’t know but that was my first reaction and that of any smart person I asked about it.