{"id":10822,"date":"2025-05-31T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=10822"},"modified":"2025-05-30T23:11:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T03:11:18","slug":"stick-to-baseball-5-31-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/31\/stick-to-baseball-5-31-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 5\/31\/25."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For subscribers to The Athletic this week, I re-ranked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6385849\/2025\/05\/29\/mlb-top-50-prospects-2025-roman-anthony\/\">the top 50 prospects still in the minors<\/a>, updating the list to reflect various graduations and some of the new information from the small sample of 2025 so far. I also did <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6389429\/2025\/05\/29\/keith-law-mlb-prospects-live-chat-may-29\/\">a Q&amp;A<\/a> on the site to answer questions about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m due for another newsletter but got a little caught up with the top 50; <a href=\"https:\/\/keithlaw.substack.com\/\">you can subscribe here<\/a> for whenever I send the next one out, hopefully over the weekend.<\/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: The <em>Seattle Times<\/em> does a deep dive (pun intended) on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/climate-lab\/how-we-pushed-columbia-river-salmon-pnw-hydropower\/\">how humans have pushed the Columbia River to its limit<\/a> through overfishing, hydroelectric power projects, irrigation projects, and mismanagement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A sheriff\u2019s deputy in King County, Washington, has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/law-justice\/king-county-sheriffs-deputy-charged-with-rape-sexual-misconduct\/\">arrested and charged with raping a teenaged girl in the department\u2019s Police Explorer program<\/a> \u2013 at least the second such incident I\u2019ve read about in a program of that sort, along with another cop in Massachusetts who <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/police-officer-staged-suicide-pregnant-e33b5b2135f2a408723070fa3b813174\">killed the girl he raped<\/a> and staged it as a suicide.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A Mississippi man left his citizenship hearing only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mississippifreepress.org\/ice-arrests-mississippi-father-at-his-citizenship-hearing-threatening-deportation\/\">to have ICE arrest him and threaten to deport him<\/a>. Kasper Eriksen is a Danish national, married to an American woman with four kids and another on the way. He\u2019s still in custody, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/danish-dad-of-4s-family-living-in-rv-after-his-ice-arrest-at-citizenship-interview\/\">the family has no money coming in<\/a> because he\u2019s their sole source of income. Abolish ICE.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Utah Republicans ordered a study on gender-affirming care for trans youth, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2025\/05\/utah-transgender-youth-affirming-care-ban\/\">it says they\u2019re all full of shit and should leave trans kids alone<\/a>. Of course, the same politicians are lining up to dismiss the study.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Elon Musk\u2019s legacy in Washington is \u201cdisease, starvation, and death,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/30\/opinion\/elon-musk-doge-usaid.html\">writes Michelle Goldberg<\/a> (accurately) in <em>The New York Times<\/em>. Musk\u2019s decision to unilaterally shut down USAID programs has killed thousands, and may end up killing many more, around the globe.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Trump\u2019s crypto scam \u2013 I mean, that\u2019s redundant, all crypto is a scam \u2013 is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/opinion\/trump-cryptocurrency-scandal-corruption-billions-20250529.html\">a $4 billion self-enrichment scheme<\/a>, explains the <em>Philly Inquirer<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Trump pardoned a tax cheat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/27\/us\/politics\/trump-pardon-paul-walczak-tax-crimes.html\">after the man\u2019s mother paid the $1 million<\/a> to attend one of Trump\u2019s fund-raising dinners. I\u2019ve said this before, but this is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2025\/05\/trump-golden-age-corruption\/682935\/\">the most corrupt Presidency in the history of our country<\/a> and nobody is doing anything to stop it. Well, Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alsobrooks.senate.gov\/press-releases\/alsobrooks-wants-to-outlaw-trumps-crypto-scam\/\">is trying<\/a>, at least.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Sen. Jodi Ernst (R-Iowa), who is up for re-election next year, responded to a constituent\u2019s question about SNAP and Medicaid cuts by saying \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/republican-sen-joni-ernst-defends-proposed-medicaid-cuts-are-going-die-rcna209972\">we\u2019re all going to die<\/a>.\u201d This clip should appear in every Iowa Democrat\u2019s campaign ad from now until November 2026, regardless of what office they\u2019re running for.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A Texas cop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/a-texas-cop-searched-license-plate-cameras-nationwide-for-a-woman-who-got-an-abortion\/\">searched national license-plate cameras to track a woman<\/a> who he said \u201cself-administered\u201d an abortion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ohio State Rep. Rodney Creech (R) was accused by his own daughter of sexually abusing her, yet his Republican colleagues \u2013 who knew of the investigation \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/local\/local-gop-leader-backed-state-rep-after-calling-sexual-misconduct-claim-disgusting\/MZ2NSLBWDBBLZIN3K2LHNUG6HQ\/\">backed him for re-election last November<\/a>. Let me repeat that: Ohio Republicans backed a candidate who may have molested his own daughter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>As a man who often eats alone in restaurants, I loved this <em>Times<\/em> piece on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/26\/opinion\/women-eating-dining-alone.html\">how weird people get when women dine alone<\/a>. Some of it was familiar to me, but of course much of this never happens to me because I\u2019m a man. People in restaurants or bars who serve me or sit next to me often just assume I\u2019m traveling for work. Clearly that is not the assumption people make about women. Also, eating alone can be a wonderfully restorative experience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Zohran Mamdani\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/news\/2025\/05\/29\/zohran-mamdani-releases-new-ad-as-poll-numbers-provide-boost\">poll numbers are rising<\/a> and he appears now to only trail <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/news\/politics\/cuomo-scandal-cost-legal-defense-taxypayer-money-comptroller-report\/6179688\/\">the $60 million man<\/a> Andrew Cuomo \u2013 who resigned as Governor after multiple women came forward to say he sexually harassed them in the race to be NYC\u2019s next Mayor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In <em>The Harvard Crimson<\/em>, Yona Sperling-Miller \u201927 offers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/2025\/5\/27\/sperling-milner-linda-mcmahon-harvard-wwe\/\">to fight our A-1 Secretary of Education Linda McMahon in a televised cage match<\/a>, with the winner getting the $2.7 billion in federal grants that the Administration is threatening to cancel. This wonderful piece is simply titled, \u201cCome at Me, Bro.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This short excerpt from Marcus du Sautoy\u2019s new book <em>Blueprints: How Mathematics Shapes Creativity<\/em> on <a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/mini-philosophy\/from-messiaen-to-radiohead-how-great-music-uses-prime-numbers\/\">how prime numbers have helped create some memorable pieces of music<\/a> made me add the book to my wishlist \u2026 although it\u2019s not out until September.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>25<sup>th<\/sup> Century Games has a new Kickstarter up for two space-themed games, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/chadelkins\/star-gazers-and-observatory\">Observatory and Star Gazers<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Only two days remain in the Restoration Games Kickstarter for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/restorationgames\/battle-monsters-godzilla-x-kong\">Battle Monsters: Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah<\/a>, a remake\/update of the 1992 game Battle Masters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For subscribers to The Athletic this week, I re-ranked the top 50 prospects still in the minors, updating the list to reflect various graduations and some of the new information from the small sample of 2025 so far. 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