{"id":10952,"date":"2025-09-14T18:40:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T22:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=10952"},"modified":"2025-09-14T18:40:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T22:40:06","slug":"stick-to-baseball-9-14-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/14\/stick-to-baseball-9-14-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 9\/14\/25."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I had two articles for subscribers to The Athletic this week, my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6617098\/2025\/09\/11\/players-i-got-wrong-keith-law-2025-joe-ryan\/\">annual look at players I got wrong<\/a> (which, of course, generated a bunch of comments from people who said I was wrong about players who had a decent half-season) plus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6613357\/2025\/09\/10\/arizona-fall-league-2025-roster-previews-kevin-mcgonigle-sebastian-walcott\/\">a preview of the Arizona Fall League rosters<\/a> (which seem to have changed already since I got the preliminary ones, alas).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now, the links\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In <em>The Atlantic<\/em> \u2013 not my employer \u2013 Charlie Warzel writes that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2025\/09\/jeffrey-epstein-birthday-book-conspiracy-theories\/684157\/\">the Epstein birthday book is \u201ca nightmare\u201d<\/a> and shows that the conspiracy theorists were at least partly right. It appears many, many of Epstein\u2019s friends knew of his crimes against children and joked about it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The <em>Times<\/em> ran an editorial by Ezra Klein with the headline that Charlie Kirk was \u201cpracticing politics the right way.\u201d Here are some rejoinders to Klein\u2019s take from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/charlie-kirk-was-not-practicing-politics-the-right-way\/\">404 Media<\/a>, from <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2025\/09\/charlie-kirk-legacy-ezra-klein-2020-election-trump-turning-point\/\">Mother Jones\u2019 David Corn<\/a><\/em>, from <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/politics\/charlie-kirk-assassination-maga\/\">The Nation\u2019s Elizabeth Spiers<\/a><\/em>, and from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/13\/opinion\/charlie-kirk-assassination.html\">the <em>Times\u2019 <\/em>Jamelle Bouie<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Zeteo posted <a href=\"https:\/\/zeteo.com\/p\/charlie-kirk-in-his-own-words\">a story with 17 quotes from Kirk, with sources<\/a>, but no additional commentary.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Also from <em>Mother Jones<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2025\/09\/charlie-kirk-killing-assassination-reactions-right-wing-grief-outrage-retribution\/\">right-wing provocateurs immediately called for retribution against the left<\/a>, including violence, after Kirk\u2019s death, before any details about his alleged killer emerged.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/right-wing-activists-are-targeting-people-for-allegedly-celebrating-charlie-kirks-death\/\">They were also targeting and doxing people they thought were celebrating Kirk\u2019s murder<\/a>, including getting many people fired, including <a href=\"https:\/\/abc3340.com\/news\/nation-world\/2-more-fired-in-middle-tennessee-for-online-comments-after-charlie-kirk-shooting\">a professor at Austin Peay University<\/a> who allegedly just posted a quote from Kirk.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A child in the Los Angeles area contracted measles as an infant, before they were old enough to receive the first dose of the MMR vaccine, some years ago, and <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/child-dies-measles-related-complication-la-county-public-health-officials-say\/17794893\/\">died this month of the side effect known as SSPE<\/a>, which can show up a decade after the measles infection and causes dementia, dystonia, and eventually cardiac or respiratory arrest. I wonder if 1) this child was infected during the 2014-15 epidemic and 2) if they got it from an unvaccinated person, which seems almost certain.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/10\/us\/texas-professor-fired-gender-ideology.html\">Texas A&amp;M fired a professor and two administrators<\/a> after the professor distributed materials that indicated recognition that there are more than two genders (which there are), claiming they were complying with Texas law (that does not exist) and President Trump\u2019s executive order (which I don\u2019t think binds them to do anything).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A Tacoma man who went to the house of a QAnon follower to serve her an order to leave the foreclosed house where she was living <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/law-justice\/seattle-killing-of-qanon-follower-was-self-defense-prosecutor-finds\/?utm_source=marketingcloud&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=TSA_091125150326+No+charges+in+killing+of+QAnon+follower_9_11_2025&amp;utm_term=Active%20subscriber\">was cleared of wrongdoing<\/a> after she shot at him and he returned fire, killing her.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The disposable face masks we all used during COVID-19 \u2013 and some of us still use \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/sep\/08\/disposable-face-masks-covid-chemical-timebomb\">are leaching chemicals into the ground and oceans<\/a>, as there is still no real process in place to capture and recycle them. I did buy masks several times from <a href=\"https:\/\/shopvida.com\/?srsltid=AfmBOooNKSygAosErsuNcfJYJsyY4mijC3W-Y6cpbMmsmPSFVC982UhX\">a company called VIDA that will take them back for recycling<\/a>, although I don\u2019t know what they actually do with them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Massive protests in Nepal, including the burning of government buildings and the chase of a half-naked government minister into a river, led to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/09\/09\/nx-s1-5534953\/nepal-social-media-ban-protests\">the resignation of the Prime Minister<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c179qne0zw0o\">the appointment of Shushila Karki as the first woman<\/a> to lead the landlocked Asian nation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Israel continued its assault on Gaza City, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/09\/13\/g-s1-88654\/israel-gaza-hamas-hospital-32-dead\">striking a hospital and killing at least 12 children<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A rare happy story: A couple wondered for years who the awkward-looking guy in a bunch of their wedding photos was. They finally found him, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/sep\/12\/wedding-crasher-mystery-solved-four-years-bride-scotland\">the reason why he was in the pictures is wonderful<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I really enjoyed the tiny-box game Soda Jerk when I played it at Gen Con; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allplay.com\/board-games\/soda-jerk-vivo-launch\/?__s=adk2k9qsnxbehez8dceh\">pre-orders just went up at Allplay<\/a>. (I don\u2019t get any commission from this.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had two articles for subscribers to The Athletic this week, my annual look at players I got wrong (which, of course, generated a bunch of comments from people who said I was wrong about players who had a decent half-season) plus a preview of the Arizona Fall League rosters (which seem to have changed [&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":[1083,1185,113,959,1387,190,1315,870,807],"class_list":["post-10952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-board-game-news","tag-conspiracy-theories","tag-environment","tag-first-amendment","tag-gaza","tag-links","tag-measles","tag-stick-to-baseball","tag-vaccines","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10952","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=10952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10953,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10952\/revisions\/10953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}