{"id":11255,"date":"2026-06-13T10:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T14:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=11255"},"modified":"2026-06-13T10:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T14:43:09","slug":"stick-to-baseball-6-13-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/13\/stick-to-baseball-6-13-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 6\/13\/26."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7345752\/2026\/06\/10\/mlb-mock-draft-2026-vahn-lackey-tyler-bell-roch-cholowsky\/\">second mock draft of 2026<\/a> went up this week, with a new name at #1. I also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7346103\/2026\/06\/10\/mlb-draft-live-chat-keith-law-june-10\/\">held a Q&amp;A<\/a> on Wednesday to discuss it. Last Sunday, I posted a scouting notebook on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7338615\/2026\/06\/07\/mlb-prospect-scouting-theo-gillen-miguel-sime\/\">Theo Gillen, Miguel Sime Jr., and other Rays &amp; Nationals prospects<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I sent out a new epistle of <a href=\"https:\/\/keithlaw.kit.com\/\">my free email newsletter<\/a> this week. You can find me on <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/keithlaw.bsky.social\">Bluesky<\/a> for text-based commentary and links, and <a href=\"https:\/\/tiktok.com\/@keith_law\">TikTok<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/mrkeithlaw\">Instagram<\/a> for short videos, mostly on baseball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I appeared on The Fan LA on Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/thefanla\/podcasts\/2a577e5f8d0a984fac5370876f792d10\/episodes\/hour_2_keith_law_dives_deep_in-8444302\">to talk about the Dodgers\u2019 farm system<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And now, the links\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Longreads first: Longtime vaccine denier and supplement peddler Joseph Mercola \u2013 who has taken up other anti-science positions like claiming aspartame is behind all sorts of health problems \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/vitamin-k-shot-joseph-mercola-reversal-babies?utm_source=bluesky&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=propublica-bsky\">quickly changed his tune on vitamin K shots after ProPublica asked him for comment<\/a> on why he\u2019d made false claims about these lifesaving injections for infants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>WIRED<\/em> (reprinted on KFF Health News) explored <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/public-health\/utah-measles-outbreak-vaccines-preventable-diseases-doctors-strained-new-normal\/\">the devastation caused by vaccine denialism in Utah<\/a>, where a measles epidemic has sickened many infants too young to be vaccinated and strained hospitals unprepared for a highly contagious disease that had been eradicated from the Western hemisphere. We all pay the cost for these grifters and the idiots who follow them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The <em>Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/07\/magazine\/scott-pelley-interview.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share\">spoke to Scott Pelley on his ouster from <em>60 Minutes<\/em><\/a> and the self-immolation of CBS News under Bari \u201cFree Speech\u201d Weiss.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In a related story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.status.news\/p\/daniel-dale-cnn-fact-check-missing\">noted Trump-lie debunker Daniel Dale hasn\u2019t appeared on CNN in three months<\/a>. I\u2019m sure that had nothing to do with the Justice Department\u2019s review of the Paramount-Warner Brothers merger.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>The Guardian<\/em> looks at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/jun\/06\/david-sullivan-how-did-the-pornographer-rise-so-high-in-modern-football\">the rise and fall of West Ham United owner David Sullivan<\/a>, asking how someone who made his fortune in pornography reached the pinnacle of English football.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Republican Senator Jim Justice of West Virginia owns an empire of coal-mining companies. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/trump-jim-justice-doj-southern-coal-investigation-west-virginia\">The Trump Administration closed investigations into potential criminal violations by Justice\u2019s firms<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Auburn University\u2019s board of trustees <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/governance\/trustees-regents\/2026\/06\/05\/auburn-board-takes-curricular-control-dissolves-senate\">dissolved the faculty senate and took control of curricula<\/a> to comply with a law that doesn\u2019t apply to the school.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41562-026-02474-9\">Conservative Americans have higher mortality rates and worse health outcomes than liberals<\/a> because of \u2018ideological divides,\u2019 which is a polite way to refer to science denial.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In the <em>LA Times<\/em>, Michael Hiltzik writes that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/story\/2026-06-11\/the-right-wing-attack-on-science-reaches-a-nadir\">the right\u2019s war on science has reached a new low, and could go lower<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Avelo sucks to begin with, but now <a href=\"https:\/\/viewfromthewing.com\/avelo-airlines-ceo-insists-cities-give-him-part-ownership-of-their-airports-and-pay-him-to-fly-there\/\">the CEO is demanding that regional airports give him equity<\/a> in exchange for the airline flying there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>China is producing more solar energy than it can use. <em>The Financial Times<\/em> notes that it is \u201cmadness\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/b6cac184-75a4-47ab-94c5-5eb8c92cd407\">to waste this surplus<\/a>. Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/solar-generates-energy-coal-us-1st-time-report\/story?id=133783328\">U.S. solar energy output has passed coal for the first time<\/a>, despite a federal government openly hostile to green energy. Imagine what might happen if we had people in charge who accept scientific facts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasobserver.org\/brandon-herrera-gun-youtube-uvalde-congress\/\">Gun-rights extremist Brandon Herrera is likely to end up representing Uvalde in Congress<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>San Carlos Lake in Arizona is now closed to visitors after drought and a water release from a dam upriver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/08\/san-carlos-lake-arizona-fish-kill\">killed all of its fish<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A 21-year-old Seattle man who was recently playing basketball for his junior college team was arrested <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/law-justice\/bellevue-human-trafficking-charges-teens-forced-into-onlyfans-content-mill\/?utm_source=marketingcloud&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=TSA_060926170843+Police+say+teens+forced+into+OnlyFans+content+mill_6_9_2026&amp;utm_term=Former%20Subscriber\">for running an abusive pornography content mill<\/a>, kidnapping, threatening, and beating girls to get them to produce pornography for OnlyFans and similar sites.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A good use of artificial intelligence: Mathematicians used an internal model from OpenAI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/mathematicians-puzzled-over-a-famous-problem-for-80-years-now-theyve-used-ai-to-identify-a-clever-solution-180988889\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=ten_tabs&amp;utm_campaign=&amp;position=7&amp;category=fascinating_stories&amp;scheduled_corpus_item_id=0b932ea8-c3f2-4805-bdcd-5649eb9fc534&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.smithsonianmag.com%2Fsmart-news%2Fmathematicians-puzzled-over-a-famous-problem-for-80-years-now-theyve-used-ai-to-identify-a-clever-solution-180988889%2F\">to find a better solution to Paul Erd\u00f6s\u2019 planar unit distance problem<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I enjoyed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/paul-stanley-kiss-best-songs.html?utm_medium=s1&amp;utm_campaign=vulture&amp;utm_source=bluesky\">this Vulture interview with KISS\u2019 Paul Stanley<\/a>, who never directly answers the interviewer\u2019s questions but gives insightful comments on just about every one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>AVClub\u2019s Sam Barsanti writes that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/doctor-who-canceled-bbc-russell-t-davies-christmas-special\">it might be for the best that Doctor Who is on hiatus<\/a> after the BBC sacked Russel T. Davies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dire Wolf has a Kickstarter going for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/direwolfdigital\/war-of-the-dragon-the-wheel-of-time\">a board game based on Robert Jordan\u2019s <em>The Wheel of Time<\/em> series<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My second mock draft of 2026 went up this week, with a new name at #1. I also held a Q&amp;A on Wednesday to discuss it. Last Sunday, I posted a scouting notebook on Theo Gillen, Miguel Sime Jr., and other Rays &amp; Nationals prospects. 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