{"id":10280,"date":"2024-05-25T11:55:47","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T15:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=10280"},"modified":"2024-05-25T11:55:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T15:55:48","slug":"stick-to-baseball-5-25-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/25\/stick-to-baseball-5-25-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 5\/25\/24."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One new post this week for subscribers to The Athletic, my ranking of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/5508698\/2024\/05\/22\/mlb-draft-2024-top-100-prospects\/\">the top 100 prospects in this year\u2019s MLB Draft class<\/a>. The Vance Honeycutt defenders have logged on, but they always seem to log back off when I explain why they\u2019re too high on their guy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ll be back on Stadium, in studio again, but on Tuesday this week due to the holiday and some travel on my end. <em>Diamond Dreams<\/em> airs at 2 pm ET, and I\u2019ll likely do one segment as usual on <em>Unpacked<\/em> around 2:40. Both shows re-air often during the week, usually twice a day as far as I\u2019ve been able to tell. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.watchstadium.com\/where-to-watch\">You can watch via the app<\/a> or with certain subscriptions to Youtube, Fubo, Roku, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I sent out a new edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/keithlaw.substack.com\/\">my free email newsletter<\/a> this week, talking about my longtime hobby of playing the guitar and how beneficial I find it even though I\u2019m usually playing for nobody but myself, as well as a little note on the adult I have successfully created after 18 years of hard work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now, the links\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>ProPublica has the story of how a scientist within 3M showed decades ago that perfluorooctanesulfonic acid, known as PFAS, was a \u201cforever chemical\u201d that stayed in our bodies and the environment, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-inside-story\">but the company lied to her and the public about its effects<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Writing in the <em>Boston Review<\/em>, UCLA History Professor Robin D.G. Kelley exposes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonreview.net\/articles\/uclas-unholy-alliance\/\">how the university stood by while peaceful pro-Palestine protesters were assaulted by white supremacists and so-called Zionists<\/a>, along with outside agitators, and then charged the <em>students<\/em> with crimes. He also claims that UCLA Chancellor Gene Block has presided over a culture of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim sentiment while stifling any speech, including in the classroom, that might be considered derogatory of Israel. Block testified in a sham hearing before Congress, where Rep. Ilhan Omar (D) pointed out that he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2024-05-23\/ucla-gene-block-antisemitism-hearing-live-updates\">chose not to act to prevent the violence<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Some new data has changed cosmologists\u2019 views on <a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/starts-with-a-bang\/physicists-question-fate-universe\/\">the nature of dark energy and the eventual fate of the universe<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>NBC\u2019s Brandy Zarozny goes inside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/nicole-shanahan-rfk-jr-vice-president-beliefs-rcna153535\">the truly broken worldview of Nicole Shanahan<\/a>, the VP candidate on RFK Jr.\u2019s quixotic Presidential campaign.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Nature<\/em> looks at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-024-01468-9\">the growing problem of harassment of scientists and how institutions are ill-equipped or unwilling to fight it<\/a>. One solution I don\u2019t see employed enough: Threats of physical violence are illegal in the United States, usually as federal crimes. Put resources into tracking those people down and prosecuting them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A panel of experts on international law published an op-ed in the <em>Financial Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/aa2089c5-6388-437d-bf5c-9268f3a788ce\">supporting the ICC\u2019s decision to pursue charges against Israel and Hamas for war crimes<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>From March, this video from Rabbi Daniel Bogard looks at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@ravbogard\/video\/7345570931672091947\">why American Jews feel connected to Israel<\/a>; it\u2019s part one of a very informative series on American Jewish culture and identity at a time when that has become incorrectly equated with Zionism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Will Bunch writes that in the war on our democracy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/opinion\/commentary\/texas-abbott-pardon-murderer-blm-protester-20240519.html\">we\u2019ve already lost Texas<\/a>. Marc Elias goes further, pointing out that we have no excuse when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracydocket.com\/opinion\/when-trump-attacks-our-elections-we-will-have-no-excuse\/\">Trump has warned for years that he wants to take our democracy down<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) claims that she \u201csupport(s) babies, moms, and families,\u201d but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/kristi-noem-south-dakota-parents-children-pregnancy-abortion\">ProPublica details just how much she has denied support to those same groups<\/a> \u2013 while, of course, killing her dog for not being the goodest boy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>OpenAI\u2019s brazen appropriation of Scarlett Johanssen\u2019s vocal likeness \u201cgave away the game\u201d on AI, according to <em>The Atlantic<\/em>\u2019s Charlie Wetzel: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2024\/05\/openai-scarlett-johansson-sky\/678446\/\">AI advocates will do whatever the hell they want, and we can\u2019t stop them<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Thousands of kids were prescribed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/infectiousdisease\/covid19\/110055\">the utterly useless and often harmful HCQ and ivermectin for COVID-19 infections<\/a>, with Arkansas and Oklahoma doctors leading the way.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>International negotiations on a treaty to try to prevent the next pandemic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/24\/health\/pandemic-treaty-vaccines.html\">broke down due to nationalist and anti-science sentiments<\/a>. The World Health Organization\u2019s Global Health Law director argued that \u201cDonald Trump is in the room\u201d and if Trump wins he\u2019d likely \u201ctorpedo\u201d any future negotiations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Police in Fontana, California, used \u201cpsychological torture\u201d to get a man who reported his father missing to confess to stabbing and killing him \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbsun.com\/2024\/05\/23\/fontana-pays-nearly-900000-for-psychological-torture-inflicted-by-police-to-get-false-confession\/\">except his father was still alive and unharmed<\/a>. The city will now direct nearly $900,000 of taxpayer money to Thomas Perez, Jr., for the pain and distress inflicted on him, during which police also told him they were killing his dog and led him to try to hang himself in custody. What I don\u2019t see is whether any of these officers were fired or even disciplined.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A public safety officer at the College of Staten Island has been <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/college-staten-island-suspends-officer-told-pro-palestinian\/14867818\/\">suspended for saying on camera \u201cI support killing all you guys\u201d to pro-Palestinian protesters<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Theresa Claiborne, the first Black woman to fly in the U.S. Air Force, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/travel\/theresa-claiborne-first-black-woman-air-force-pilot-retirement\/index.html\">retired this week from her job as a pilot for United Airlines<\/a>. Note her comments on how children would react to seeing her in uniform in airports. Representation matters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Two board game crowdfunding efforts of note: <a href=\"gamefound.com\/en\/projects\/quined-games\/stupor-mundi\">Stupor Mundi<\/a>, the newest title from the designer of Darwin\u2019s Journey and Newton, funded in about four hours; it looks like it might be a little lighter in weight than Nestore Mangone\u2019s previous releases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>And Feudum, a 2018 game with a listed weight on Boardgamegeek of 4.58 out of 5 (!), has a <a href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/boardgame\/163839\/feudum\">crowdfunding page for a new edition<\/a> that is over $300K raised. I actually hadn\u2019t heard of this game, probably because anything of that weight and a playing time over two hours is of little to no interest to me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One new post this week for subscribers to The Athletic, my ranking of the top 100 prospects in this year\u2019s MLB Draft class. The Vance Honeycutt defenders have logged on, but they always seem to log back off when I explain why they\u2019re too high on their guy. I\u2019ll be back on Stadium, in studio [&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":[1083,113,1387,1109,190,961,568,776,1197,1013,870,477,807],"class_list":["post-10280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-board-game-news","tag-environment","tag-gaza","tag-israel","tag-links","tag-longreads","tag-new-york","tag-physics","tag-police","tag-south-dakota","tag-stick-to-baseball","tag-texas","tag-vaccines","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10280","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=10280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10281,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10280\/revisions\/10281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}