I\u2019ve been traveling like mad lately; this is the first weekend I\u2019ve been home both Friday and Saturday nights since the Super Bowl. That\u2019s put a damper on any posting here, and of course makes me a little anxious about getting started again because doing so seems overwhelming. Some of the links below are as much as a month old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here are some of my most recent posts at the Athletic: I interviewed Bill White<\/a> on his career and the announcement that he\u2019s the latest Buck O\u2019Neil Award recipient; I wrote up a draft scouting notebook<\/a> on a bunch of mostly high school players I saw in mid- to late March, as well as USC lefty Mason Edwards; I did my annual predictions posts, including the full standings<\/a> and the player awards<\/a>; and I wrote up what I saw at the Arizona Breakout Games, including Brewers-A\u2019s<\/a>, White Sox-Dodgers<\/a> (with 27 walks), Mariners-Brewers<\/a>, Reds-Giants<\/a>, and Guardians-Angels<\/a> (plus some Rockies back fields notes). The record-setting heat in Arizona pushed some game times around, so I ended up seeing one fewer game than expected, missing Padres-Cubs from my original plan. I appeared on The Athletic Show<\/a> to kick off the MLB season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At AV Club, I reviewed the worker-placement game Skara Brae<\/a> (no relation to The Bard\u2019s Tale<\/em> series); the polyomino tile placement game Wispwood<\/a>; and the light set-collection game Sanibel<\/a>, from the designer of Wingspan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My newsletter<\/a> is next up on my to-do list, followed by a new music playlist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And now, the links\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019ve been traveling like mad lately; this is the first weekend I\u2019ve been home both Friday and Saturday nights since the Super Bowl. That\u2019s put a damper on any posting here, and of course makes me a little anxious about getting started again because doing so seems overwhelming. Some of the links below are as […]<\/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":[1429,1083,1511,1510,113,137,1406,1387,1456,1509,1109,190,961,1506,1438,907,870,477,940,807],"class_list":["post-11160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-board-game-news","tag-christianity","tag-crypto","tag-environment","tag-frauds","tag-gambling","tag-gaza","tag-immigration","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-links","tag-longreads","tag-mathematics","tag-scams","tag-social-media","tag-stick-to-baseball","tag-texas","tag-the-swamp","tag-vaccines","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160","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=11160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11161,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11160\/revisions\/11161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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