{"id":10146,"date":"2024-01-13T19:18:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T00:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=10146"},"modified":"2024-01-13T19:18:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T00:18:59","slug":"stick-to-baseball-1-13-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/13\/stick-to-baseball-1-13-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 1\/13\/24."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I had two posts this week for subscribers to The Athletic \u2013 a breakdown of <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/5196440\/2024\/01\/11\/cubs-dodgers-trade-analysis-michael-busch\/\">the Michael Busch trade for prospects<\/a> and another of <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/5191790\/2024\/01\/10\/shota-imanaga-chicago-cubs-acquisition-impact\/\">the Cubs signing Shota Imanaga<\/a>. Somehow, this brought the Matt Mervis stans back out off hiding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Paste, I published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/games\/board-games\/curry-favor-with-the-daimyo-in-the-excellent-board-game-the-white-castle\">a full review of the game The White Castle<\/a>, my top new game of 2023. Fries are extra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also sent out a fresh edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/keithlaw.substack.com\/\">my free email newsletter<\/a> earlier in the week. You should sign up, as I\u2019m posting less to Twitter these days, although you can also find me on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@mrkeithlaw\">Threads<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/keithlaw.bsky.social\">Bluesky<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/spoutible.com\/keithlaw\">Spoutible<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A light week for links, probably because I was on the phone so much working on prospect stuff that I was offline more than usual (at least twice because my eyes hurt from so much screen time)\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This fantastic episode of The Hidden Brain <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/how-to-believe-in-yourself\/id1028908750?i=1000638984858\">talks about persistence and uses R.A. Dickey<\/a> as one of its core examples \u2013 and gets his story right.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In Nyack, New York, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lohud.com\/story\/news\/education\/2024\/01\/12\/child-sex-abuse-accusations-in-nyack-school-surface-decades-later-threaten-baseball-coach-legacy\/72118256007\/?utm_source=pocket_saves\">sex abuse claims against a former high school baseball coach have resurfaced<\/a> in an attempt to get the name of the head coach (who is not the accused abuser) removed from the school\u2019s field. Several former players have accused assistant coach Peter Recla, who coached at Nyack High School in the late 1990s and early 2000s, of grooming and sexual abuse. <a href=\"https:\/\/hudsonvalley.news12.com\/nyack-school-district-settles-child-victims-act-sex-abuse-lawsuit\">The district settled a lawsuit with some of the victims in November<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Nigerian megachurch leader TB Joshua, who was not a drag queen, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-67749215\">tortured, raped, and abused many of his worshippers<\/a> until his death in 2021. A BBC investigation found cases of all of the above as well as forced abortions and cult-like control spanning twenty years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/florida-school-district-removes-dictionaries-sexual-content_n_659ef171e4b0e696b9109285\">Florida schools are pulling dictionaries and encyclopedias<\/a> from shelves because they may have \u201cobjectionable\u201d content like \u2026 facts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Following the lead of Iowa, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/jan\/13\/mississippi-child-school-food-program-welfare-state\">Mississippi has withdrawn from a free federal program providing funds to states to feed underprivileged schoolchildren over the summer<\/a>, part of a new Republican drive against the \u201cwelfare state.\u201d I don\u2019t understand why this is minor news, but a rat-shaped hole in Chicago gets coverage in national papers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/opinion\/msnbc-opinion\/trump-congress-election-deniers-report-rcna132862\">a third of the current Representatives and Senators are election deniers<\/a>. This just isn\u2019t compatible with democracy as a going concern. It\u2019s one or the other.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/2024\/1\/9\/24027094\/fast-food-prices-wages-mcdonalds\">Are fast-food prices really going up<\/a>, and if so, is it because of rising wages? It\u2019s not that simple, according to this story on Vox. Input prices have gone up substantially in the last few years as well. Also, the $18 Big Mac story that went viral was about a McDonald\u2019s at a rest stop with a captive audience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This <em>NY Times<\/em> story explains a new type of streaming fraud, where copycats <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/01\/13\/business\/music-streaming-fraud-spotify.html\">steal obscure artists\u2019 songs and repackage them under fake artist names<\/a>. What\u2019s interesting here is that Warner ended up distributing some of the bogus tracks.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Birmingham Children&#8217;s Hospital in England <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c2qyy0q77ywo\">is inundated with measles cases<\/a> because anti-vaxxers convinced enough parents not to vaccinate their children against the incredibly contagious and dangerous virus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Paste <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/music\/sprints\/fueled-by-horror-films-and-pints-sprints-make-music-to-defy-societys-expectations\">profiled SPRINTS<\/a> as the Irish punk band released their first full-length album <em>Letter to Self.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If you live in Ohio and are concerned about the recent anti-trans law passed by the state\u2019s heavily gerrymandered legislature over Gov. Mike DeWine (R)\u2019s veto, <a href=\"https:\/\/jessk.org\/blog\/things-you-can-do-right-now-for-ohio\">here are some things you can do to help the cause<\/a>. &nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had two posts this week for subscribers to The Athletic \u2013 a breakdown of the Michael Busch trade for prospects and another of the Cubs signing Shota Imanaga. Somehow, this brought the Matt Mervis stans back out off hiding. At Paste, I published a full review of the game The White Castle, my top [&hellip;]<\/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":[1312,1370,128,190,1059,852,1211,783,766,870,1239],"class_list":["post-10146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-book-banning","tag-election-denial","tag-florida","tag-links","tag-mississippi","tag-music","tag-ohio","tag-psychology","tag-religion","tag-stick-to-baseball","tag-trans-rights","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10146","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=10146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10147,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10146\/revisions\/10147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}