Stick to baseball, 10/5/24.

For subscribers to the Athletic, I ranked the top rookies on postseason rosters, based on their likely impact; my top pick looks pretty good so far. I also held a Q&A on the Athletic’s site on Friday, which was almost entirely baseball questions (unlike the typical Klawchat over here).

We’ve got two family birthdays this weekend, so it’s birthdaypalooza around here, but I’m hoping to do another issue of my free email newsletter once we get through Sunday.

And now, the links…

  • The Washington Post covered a rambling, incoherent Trump speech accurately, without “sanewashing” it. There have been a lot of clips this week of Trump appearing to forget where he was or what he was talking about. Too many media outlets continue to dance around this.
  • A new study of Scottish women found that those who received the HPV vaccine before age 14 had zero cases of cervical cancer. Yes, there is a vaccine your kids can get that may completely prevent several types of cancer, including cervical and anal cancers. There is so much misinformation about this vaccine online, and the cost of this will be human lives.
  • Board game news: To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the release of the first Dungeons & Dragons set, NPR asked readers to contribute their memories of playing the game. Here are five of their stories.
  • Rock Manor Games has a Gamefound campaign up for StarDriven: Gateway, a pickup-and-delivery game on a modular board. I’m friends with the publisher and got to try a prototype last week; we played the shortest version, and I think it needs the extra rounds, but I like the fact that there’s no conflict and that the economic aspects are easy to keep straight in your head.
  • Shem Phillips’s Garphill Games has a Kickstarter up for two new titles, Skara Brae and The Anarchy. Phillips is best known for his series of worker-placement games that started with Raiders of the North Sea. I don’t think Skara Brae has anything to do with The Bard’s Tale, though.

Comments

  1. You’re a racist. The worst thing that happened in the 1900s was the killing of 10 million Jews and you support that. Great baseball analysis but super racist.

    • Hi Nathan. That’s a pretty strong claim – I’d argue it’s defamatory. Can you please show me evidence to back up your claim that I support the Holocaust? Thanks.

    • Brian in NoVA

      The notion that the Holocaust immunizes Israel from any critiques for their behavior in the 2020’s is incredibly offensive to put it mildly. The Holocaust was awful and one of the worst events of the last 100 years. The way Israel has treated Palestinians is also awful. It’s not complicated, Nate.

    • Would really love to hear how two bullet points that essentially say “the US is a malign force in the Middle East” and “it’s bad to fire a Jewish professor for protected speech” constitutes racism against Jews.

  2. Wow, I did not have “board game about The Anarchy” on my bongo card for this year.

    Though I am not sure why I am surprised, as I actually played Kingmaker back in the day.

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