{"id":11251,"date":"2026-06-06T10:01:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T14:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=11251"},"modified":"2026-06-06T10:01:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T14:01:25","slug":"stick-to-baseball-6-6-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/06\/stick-to-baseball-6-6-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 6\/6\/26."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quirky timing this week led to just one post for subscribers to the Athletic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7320298\/2026\/05\/31\/mlb-scouting-gage-wood-eli-willits-gavin-fien\/\">a scouting notebook on Gage Wood, Gavin Fien, Eli Willits, and some other Nats\/Orioles prospects<\/a>. I\u2019ve got at least two already on the docket for this upcoming week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I appeared on the Rates &amp; Barrels podcast to talk about my top 50 prospects, which you can get on <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/prospect-rankings-update-w-keith-law\/id1486883874?i=1000770832399\">Apple<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Dz38yf4y-gM?si=wqm1IMpWjdaHS1Qr\">Youtube<\/a>, or directly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/podcast\/15-rates-and-barrels\/episode-1074\/\">on our site<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/keithlaw.kit.com\/\">My free email newsletter<\/a> is still free and still infrequent. I also posted a new video about hitting 20 years as a full-time baseball writer to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mrkeithlaw\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"tiktok.com\/@keith_law\">TikTok<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Longreads first: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/old-apostolic-lutheran-church-generational-sexual-abuse\">Old Apostolic Lutheran Church leaders have ignored child sex abuse within its ranks for generations<\/a>, and refused to report these crimes to the police, according to a new report from ProPublica. Church teachings also tell victims that they can\u2019t speak about the crimes against them once the abuser has been \u201cforgiven.\u201d Excuse me if I find it impossible to distinguish this from a cult.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Companies that \u201cdonated\u201d to Trump\u2019s ballroom boondoggle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/06\/04\/donors-won-50b-contracts-after-giving-trump-ballroom-project-report-says\/\">subsequently took home over $50 billion in government contracts<\/a>, according to a report in the <em>Washington Post<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The <em>New Yorker<\/em> exposes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2025\/04\/21\/starved-in-jail\">how private prisons increase their profits by starving inmates<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>TechCrunch writer and Bluesky board member Mike Masnick writes about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liberalism.org\/p\/enshittification-despotification-and-the-open-internet\">how decentralization is one way to combat the enshittification<\/a> that has ruined the major tech services over the last fiteen years, notably social media.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In their annual report on the use of sexual violence in war zones, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/world\/israeli-and-russian-forces-added-to-un-blacklist-for-sexual-violence-in-conflict-zones\">the United Nations listed Israeli forces, both armed and security, along with Hamas and Russia<\/a>, documenting at least nine cases of Gazans raped by IDF or Israeli prison security members.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/211391\/one-in-sixteen-pardoned-january-6-rioters-arrested-again\">One in sixteen pardoned J6 insurrectionists have been arrested again for new crimes<\/a>, including child molestation and homicide.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Scientific American<\/em> revisits <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/the-riemann-hypothesis-is-a-million-dollar-math-problem-hardly-anyone-is-trying-to-solve\/?utm_source=Klaviyo&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=TIS_060326&amp;utm_term=why%20has%20no%20one%20come%20close%20to%20solving%20it&amp;_kx=yp-F0_X_8o9QVdY5N9M9qvBCBFnJ2kdOA-qbX8ew4Cw.WEer5A\">the unsolved Riemann Hypothesis<\/a>, one of the Millennium Prize problems that would net the person or team who solves it $1 million, but which isn\u2019t a major research focus because its solution may not have many practical applications \u2013 it\u2019s just interesting. There\u2019s a great book about the hypothesis called <em>Prime Obsession<\/em>, which <a href=\"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/16\/prime-obsession\/\">I reviewed back in 2010<\/a>.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/education\/chapel-hill-high-school-yearbook-leaves-out-students-disabilities-may-2026\/\">The Chapel Hill High School yearbook omitted twelve graduating students with disabilities<\/a>. The school claims it wasn\u2019t intentional. Uh-huh.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A devastating flesh-eating parasite called a screwworm that regularly devastated U.S. cattle farms until the 1960s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2026\/06\/03\/new-world-screwworm-texas-reported-case\/\">has reappeared in Texas<\/a>, just in time for an Administration that has slashed budgets for food safety and epidemic prevention.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/02\/well\/children-vaccines-illnesses.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nFA.4EwB.Ncbcz8tKvt1W\">Vaccine denialism is leading to more cases of preventable diseases in hospitals<\/a>, which threatens to further their spread, while doctors are also seeing idiot adults refusing tetanus shots.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In the department of what the actual fuck: The Minnesota Republican Party <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/moment-of-silence-for-chauvin-at-gop-state-convention-sparks-blowback\/601851605\">held a moment of silence for convicted murderer Derek Chauvin<\/a> at its state convention.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher of <em>The New York Times<\/em>, gave a speech that <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/biz\/news\/new-york-times-ai-companies-choices-unnecessary-harm-1236763934\/\">criticized AI companies for their willful ignorance of copyrights<\/a> and the likely impacts on the journalism industry, even as the Times Guild, the union that represents the paper\u2019s journalists, has said the <em>Times <\/em>has<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/media-platforms\/journalism\/new-york-times-union-ai-policies-woefully-inadequate\/\">insufficient guardrails around AI use<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>From the great Jamelle Bouie: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/03\/opinion\/project-2025-2029-democrats.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nVA.Ljch.XWUlt8kVgJEt&amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share\">America Broke Something When It Gave Trump a Second Chance<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Druid City Games has <a href=\"https:\/\/gamefound.com\/en\/projects\/druid-city-games\/bloodstone?fbclid=IwZnRzaASLtJ5leHRuA2FlbQExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkCjY2Mjg1NjgzNzkAAR7KA9ximU8uXoxqpKuTkovock0Q_owEOdZDQT_H1HiZbxUJ2T7dfbpw4iB80A_aem_SSxdb8F02U9vLumgB5JuQg&amp;utm_id=97757_v0_s00_e0_tv2_a1dennhaw6him9\">a Gamefound crowdfunding page up for Bloodstone<\/a>, an \u201cepic dice combat game\u201d for 1-5 players.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quirky timing this week led to just one post for subscribers to the Athletic, a scouting notebook on Gage Wood, Gavin Fien, Eli Willits, and some other Nats\/Orioles prospects. I\u2019ve got at least two already on the docket for this upcoming week. 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