{"id":10010,"date":"2023-10-14T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=10010"},"modified":"2023-10-16T11:53:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T15:53:20","slug":"stick-to-baseball-10-14-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/14\/stick-to-baseball-10-14-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 10\/14\/23."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My one piece this week for subscribers to the Athletic this week was <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/4958013\/2023\/10\/13\/arizona-fall-league-jackson-jobe-tekoah-roby\/\">my first dispatch from the Arizona Fall League<\/a>, covering prospects from the Tigers, Cardinals, and Rockies. I\u2019ll have a longer wrap-up once my trip concludes on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now, the links\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Longreads first: ProPublica continues to lead the way in exposing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/we-dont-talk-about-leonard-leo-supreme-court-supermajority\">the role of Leonard Leo in creating the conservative super-majority on the Supreme Court<\/a> and packing federal courts with right-wing jurists, often of dubious credentials, and how he plans to push the country further towards a Christian theocracy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>New York<\/em>\u2019s Olivia Nuzzi followed the clown car of <a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/article\/2024-republican-presidential-candidates-against-donald-trump.html\">Republican candidates trying to run against the disgraced former President<\/a> \u2013 and, so far, failing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The richest man in Pennsylvania is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotlightpa.org\/news\/2023\/10\/pennsylvania-judicial-court-elections-jeff-yass-campaign-finance\/\">spending millions of dollars to support Republican candidates for judicial races<\/a>, most of it to support Carolyn Carluccio, a right-wing justice running for a seat on the state\u2019s Supreme Court.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Sports Illustrated<\/em>\u2019s Steve Rushin wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/mlb\/2023\/10\/10\/love-sports-perfectly-intertwined-sportswriter-jim-caple\">a lovely memoriam to sportswriter Jim Caple<\/a>, who died last week at age 61 of frontotemporal dementia. I did not know Jim well, and even argued with him at times about matters such as the value of the runs scored statistic for individual hitters, but I believe the outpouring of sadness from people in our industry who did know him well is a testament to his legacy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Several new instant-loan apps in India have targeted borrowers with threats of leaked nudes, harassment, and other forms of coercion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-india-66964510?\">that have led to multiple suicides<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I have taken a psyllium husk supplement every day for nearly 25 years now to help manage my stomach, as I was diagnosed with the meaningless term \u201cirritable bowel syndrome,\u201d which means that I don\u2019t actually have a GI disease or disorder but the doctors didn\u2019t want me to walk away empty-handed. Psyllium husk works wonders, and it\u2019s probably pretty good for my overall health anyway. Now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/17\/dining\/psyllium-husks.html\">it\u2019s a fad food<\/a> and if you fucking hippies and influencers create a shortage I will come for you all.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Target closed several Seattle stores, blaming crime for the decisions \u2013 but is that really <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/business\/as-seattle-targets-close-shoppers-question-if-crime-really-is-to-blame\/\">the reason for the failures of these Target mini-stores<\/a>?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Arkansas, befitting its status as a backwater state, gave prisoners with COVID-19 ivermectin without their knowledge or consent, so now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acluarkansas.org\/en\/press-releases\/aclu-arkansas-files-federal-lawsuit-behalf-incarcerated-individuals-given-ivermectin?fbclid=IwAR3FJ5xnujLf3bGXETKmfWilu7phhIFa0dFMoGvQ02tcwMmTKhzfsyODqlY\">the ACLU has filed suit on their behalf<\/a>. Just a reminder that ivermectin is completely ineffective against COVID-19 and comes with rather unpleasant side effects, no matter what the grifters on the interwebs told you.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mississippi was one of the only two states that disallowed religious exemptions to childhood vaccination requirements until a Republican judge struck down the state\u2019s rule, and <a href=\"https:\/\/mississippitoday.org\/2023\/10\/05\/religious-vaccine-exemptions-september\/\">this fall over 1800 such exemptions have been issued<\/a> \u2013 even though no major religion bans or forbids vaccines. This is all a con from parents who are ignorant, denialist, or just sheep going along with the Republican party\u2019s anti-science platform. We\u2019re likely to see some sort of outbreak there in the next few months, perhaps measles, as it\u2019s the most contagious of the vaccine-preventable diseases that affect humans.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Eric Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/eric-trump\/trump-doral-event-eric-trump-will-feature-ian-smith-hitler-promoting-antisemite-who\">hosted an overt anti-Semite who denies the Holocaust and once killed someone while driving drunk<\/a> at the Trump Doral Miami resort for a \u201cReawaken America\u201d event this week.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And some prominent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2023\/10\/08\/nick-fuentes-kyle-rittenhouse-jonathan-stickland\/\">Texas Republicans hosted Holocaust denier and white supremacist Nick Fuentes<\/a> at the headquarters of right-wing consulting firm Pale Horse Strategies.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Elon Musk is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2023\/10\/elon-musk-misinformation-israel-hamas-war\">actively promoting false information about the Israel-Hamas war<\/a>, even sharing a video that falsely claimed a reporter there was actually an actor. (By the way, I\u2019m avoiding any commentary on that conflict. I know I don\u2019t know anywhere near enough to say anything worthwhile beyond condemning any and all attacks on civilians.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Alex Norris is the creator of the web comic known simply as <em>Webcomic Name<\/em>, but after he signed a deal with Golden Bell Games to publish a board game using his creations, the publisher is trying to claim ownership of his intellectual property. There\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/alexnorrislegalfund\">a GoFundMe to support his legal case<\/a>, but I\u2019m also linking this so people know what Golden Bell \u2013 publishers of Unbroken, Dungeon Dice, and other titles \u2013 are all about.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My one piece this week for subscribers to the Athletic this week was my first dispatch from the Arizona Fall League, covering prospects from the Tigers, Cardinals, and Rockies. I\u2019ll have a longer wrap-up once my trip concludes on Saturday evening. And now, the links\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1162,160,956,190,961,1059,1115,1306,907,870,477,1113],"class_list":["post-10010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-coronavirus","tag-health","tag-india","tag-links","tag-longreads","tag-mississippi","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scotus","tag-social-media","tag-stick-to-baseball","tag-texas","tag-white-nationalism","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=10010"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10013,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10010\/revisions\/10013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}