{"id":10329,"date":"2024-07-13T07:52:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=10329"},"modified":"2024-07-13T10:49:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T14:49:00","slug":"stick-to-baseball-7-13-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/13\/stick-to-baseball-7-13-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 7\/13\/24."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I posted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/5629426\/2024\/07\/11\/mlb-mock-draft-2024-prospects-travis-bazzana\/\">a third projection for Sunday\u2019s first round<\/a> of the MLB draft, and updated my Big Board of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/5622935\/2024\/07\/09\/mlb-draft-2024-top-100-prospects-final\/\">the top 100 prospects<\/a> in the draft class, both for subscribers to the Athletic. I also took your questions here in a <a href=\"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/11\/klawchat-7-11-24\/\">Klawchat<\/a> on Thursday. On Saturday, I\u2019ll have a new post with smaller scouting reports on about 20-25 more players in the draft class, guys whose names you might hear Sunday or Monday but who didn\u2019t make the cut for the top 100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Paste, I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/games\/board-games\/neotopia-is-a-mash-up-of-mechanics-done-better-in-other-board-games\">reviewed Neotopia<\/a>, a perfectly cromulent filler game for family play that didn\u2019t bring anything new to the tabletop. I do like the way the scoring forces players to think about balance throughout the game, though.<\/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: Gateway Church founder Robert Morris <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/robert-morris-gateway-church-lawyer-letters-cindy-clemishire-rcna160661\">blamed his 12-year-old victim for the sexual abuse he inflicted on her<\/a>. And so did Morris\u2019s wife, according to the victim, Cindy Clemishere, who courageously came forward a month ago with the story, leading to Morris\u2019s abdication and the resignations of four other Church leaders. No drag queens, no trans people, just a pastor and the leaders of a giant, tax-exempt religious organization.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Texas Monthly<\/em> exposed how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/news-politics\/texas-senate-sexual-harassment\/\">the Texas Senate has buried sexual harassment claims against its members and senior staffers<\/a> even after it revised its policies to supposedly address the issue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Also in Texas \u2013 what a great government they have down there! \u2013 the state has spent years siphoning public funds to so-called \u201cpregnancy crisis centers,\u201d usually religious groups that try to convince pregnant women not to have abortions, but there\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/texas-funding-anti-abortion-crisis-pregnancy-centers\">no evidence it has had any effect at all<\/a>, aside from violating the principle of separation of church and state.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Vaccine denialist and antisemite Robert F. Kennedy Jr. helped spawn a measles outbreak in Samoa that killed several children. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2024\/07\/how-rfk-jr-falsely-denied-his-connection-to-a-deadly-measles-outbreak-in-samoa\/\">He\u2019s denying that, too<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Vaccines save lives. We need <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-024-02224-9\">new strategies to increase vaccine uptake<\/a> and counter bullshit from bad actors like RFK Jr.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/07\/11\/opinion\/editorials\/donald-trump-2024-unfit.html\">Donald Trump is Unfit to Lead: He Is Dangerous in Word, Deed, and Action.<\/a> The <em>NY Times<\/em> editorial page belatedly gets the point. Biden may not be fit to be President. Trump is a threat to our democracy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Trump is also lying to the press and public by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/07\/11\/opinion\/editorials\/donald-trump-2024-unfit.html\">saying he doesn\u2019t know about Project 2025<\/a>. We\u2019ll see if <em>Inquirer<\/em> columnist Will Bunch\u2019s belief that Project 2025 is poison for Trump\u2019s candidacy is valid.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bellingcat.com\/news\/2024\/07\/09\/russian-missile-identified-in-kyiv-childrens-hospital-attack\/\">A Russian Kh-101 cruise missile struck a children\u2019s hospital<\/a> in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, killing at least two children. Trump has said he would encourage Russia to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/02\/10\/politics\/trump-russia-nato\/index.html\">do whatever the hell they want<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It doesn\u2019t matter what Trump says or does, though. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebulwark.com\/p\/trump-supporters-poll-shot-fifth-avenue\">His supporters don\u2019t waver<\/a>. If they think an action is bad, and Trump does it, they <em>change their opinion of the action<\/em>. If that\u2019s not cultlike behavior, well, I don\u2019t have a better word for it \u2013 and the media needs to cover his campaign accordingly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A former student of the Kyrene School District in southeast Phoenix is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoenixnewtimes.com\/news\/ahwatukee-school-sued-by-former-student-over-antisemitic-bullying-19383540\">suing the district for failing to address a long string of antisemitic bullying incidents<\/a> that already resulted in a citation from the U.S. Department of Education.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Meanwhile, Arizona\u2019s public schools chief <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoenixnewtimes.com\/news\/arizona-public-schools-chief-partners-with-right-wing-propagandist-18145397\">is trying to push the right-wing PragerU materials into classrooms<\/a>, promoting the misinformation group\u2019s content on the department website, by claiming that teachers have only been presenting the \u201cextreme left side\u201d in classrooms. I\u2019m very glad I didn\u2019t raise my daughter there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/the-face-on-mars-and-other-cases-of-cosmic-pareidolia\/\">Our brains are wired to see patterns \u2013 even when they aren\u2019t there<\/a>. Which, coincidentally, is the theme of <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/3rA66bbH02PvLPvzBzmE0y?si=5d5e1d0387904c81\">a single released last month by Mercury Rev<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Voters in Jackson County, Missouri, resoundingly rejected a sales tax hike to use taxpayer funds for stadium projects for the privately-owned Chiefs and Royals just three months ago, so, of course, the owners are just going <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fieldofschemes.com\/2024\/07\/09\/21632\/three-months-after-losing-sales-tax-referendum-royals-and-chiefs-owners-ready-another-one-this-time-with-gun-to-voters-heads\/\">to try to put it up for another vote<\/a> and threaten to move the teams out of state.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Many species of tropical frogs are endangered because of a fungus that causes the disease chytridiomycosis; it turns out the fungus is heat-sensitive and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-024-02198-8\">a sort of \u2018sauna\u2019 can help kill the fungus and save the frogs<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Plaid Hat Games <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/plaidhatgames\/wandering-galaxy-a-crossroads-game\">introduced a Kickstarter for Wandering Galaxy<\/a>, a board game set in the Crossroads universe.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted a third projection for Sunday\u2019s first round of the MLB draft, and updated my Big Board of the top 100 prospects in the draft class, both for subscribers to the Athletic. I also took your questions here in a Klawchat on Thursday. On Saturday, I\u2019ll have a new post with smaller scouting reports [&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":[566,1083,113,190,961,971,1400,766,799,1401,870,477,1399,1335,807],"class_list":["post-10329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arizona","tag-board-game-news","tag-environment","tag-links","tag-longreads","tag-metoo","tag-neuroscience","tag-religion","tag-science","tag-stadium-scams","tag-stick-to-baseball","tag-texas","tag-trump","tag-ukraine","tag-vaccines","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10329","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=10329"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10331,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10329\/revisions\/10331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}