{"id":363,"date":"2006-10-13T23:12:47","date_gmt":"2006-10-14T03:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?page_id=363"},"modified":"2024-09-23T14:42:37","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T18:42:37","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/about-2\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I&#8217;m Keith Law, Senior Baseball Writer at The Athletic, which I joined in January of 2020 after spending thirteen and a half years at ESPN. This site is for my own miscellaneous thoughts and ramblings that don&#8217;t fit at The Athletic, including thoughts on food, literature, boardgames, and other media.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining ESPN.com in June of 2006, I spent just over four years as the Special Assistant to the GM of the Toronto Blue Jays, and prior to that had written for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseballprospectus.com\">Baseball Prospectus<\/a>. I graduated from Harvard College in 1994, and received an MBA from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon in 1999, earning Beta Gamma Sigma honors at the latter. I live in Delaware, having fled New England after one winter too many, spending a few years in between living in Chandler, Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve reviewed board games for <i>Paste<\/i> magazine since 2013, all of which can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/author\/keith-law\">via this index page<\/a>. I&#8217;ve also written about gaming for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/author\/Keith%20Law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vulture<\/a> and for <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/2kgdP19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ars Technica<\/a>; about a variety of topics for <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/authors\/12129\/Keith-Law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mental floss<\/a>; and even once <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbcamerica.com\/shows\/orphan-black\/blog\/2017\/06\/espns-keith-laws-orphan-black-clone-draft-2017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ranked the <em>Orphan Black<\/em> clones<\/a> for BBC America.<\/p>\n<p>I also have <a href=\"https:\/\/keithlaw.substack.com\/\">a free email newsletter<\/a> to which you can subscribe. On social media, I&#8217;m on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KeithLawWriter\/\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/keithlaw.bsky.social\">Bluesky<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@mrkeithlaw\">Threads<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mrkeithlaw\/\">Instagram<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/spoutible.com\/keithlaw\">Spoutible<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Any\/all of the links on this website may be affiliate links of which I receive a small commission from sales of certain items, including Amazon Associates and the affiliate programs of iTunes, Bookshop, and Target, but the price is the same for you. (As an\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Amazon<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Associate<\/span>, I earn from qualifying purchases.)<\/p>\n<p>I receive many review copies of board games from publishers, and I review those for Paste and sometimes here as well. I do not accept payment from publishers other promotional considerations.<\/p>\n<p>All written content on this site is \u00a9 Keith Law, 2006-present, unless otherwise noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I&#8217;m Keith Law, Senior Baseball Writer at The Athletic, which I joined in January of 2020 after spending thirteen and a half years at ESPN. This site is for my own miscellaneous thoughts and ramblings that don&#8217;t fit at The Athletic, including thoughts on food, literature, boardgames, and other media. Before joining ESPN.com in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-363","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10398,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/363\/revisions\/10398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}