{"id":11366,"date":"2026-09-05T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=11366"},"modified":"2026-09-04T16:41:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T20:41:02","slug":"stick-to-baseball-9-5-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/05\/stick-to-baseball-9-5-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 9\/5\/26."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over on the Athletic this week, I looked at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7557311\/2026\/09\/03\/prospect-projections-september-callups-walker-jenkins-lazaro-montes-ethan-salas\/\">nine September(ish) callups of note<\/a>; posted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7554520\/2026\/09\/02\/mlb-prospect-scouting-landon-harmon-jarlin-susana-joseph-dzierwa\/\">a minor-league scouting notebook<\/a> on Jarlin Susana, Joseph Dzierwa, and other O\u2019s and Nats prospects; and posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7554168\/2026\/09\/01\/mlb-draft-2027-prospect-scouting-perfect-game-under-armour\/\">draft scouting notebook<\/a> covering both the PG All-American and Under Armour games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I sent out a new issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/keithlaw.kit.com\/\">my free email newsletter<\/a> this week. For socials, I\u2019m still mostly on <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/keithlaw.bsky.social\">Bluesky<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/mrkeithlaw\">Instagram<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/tiktok.com\/@keith_law\">TikTok<\/a>, and posted a new video to the latter two sites this week about the top three prospects recalled in the last week.<\/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: <em>Texas Monthly<\/em> goes very long on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/interactive\/rio-grande-water-wars\/\">the war over the Rio Grande River\u2019s water<\/a>, with the potential for taps to run dry as early as next year. This is Pulitzer-worthy material.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>ProPublica exposes how Texas AG and Senate candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/ken-paxton-senate-financial-disclosures-ethics-law\">Ken Paxton (R) may be violating federal ethics laws<\/a>. It also sounds like he may be committing mortgage fraud, too?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Semafor exposes the rise of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/09\/02\/2026\/paid-actors-ai-writing-how-a-new-kind-of-video-business-cashed-in-on-americas-divided-politics\">paid actors using AI scripts in unlabeled and often misleading videos<\/a> that push outrage bait, often targeted at specific Democratic politicians and candidates, across social media.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Trump Administration continues to weaponize the IRS to attack its enemies, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/09\/03\/business\/economy\/trump-irs-college-nonprofits.html\">threatening to revoke the tax-exempt status of six universities if they don\u2019t bend the knee to his whites-first policies<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>ICE gave a 20-year-old Haitian immigrant and Wright State student, here legally, an ankle monitor. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/springfield-ohio-haitian-student-dies-suicide-ice-mandates-ankle-monit-rcna595552\">He killed himself a few days later<\/a>. I\u2019m unclear whose interests were served here.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Texas Monthly<\/em> also has the scoop on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/news-politics\/texas-christian-university-blocked-the-newspaper-thats-covered-it-for-over-a-century\/\">TCU revoking the <em>Star-Telegram<\/em>\u2019s media credentials<\/a> for (checks notes) reporting on something that happened in TCU\u2019s locker room. I didn\u2019t know frogs were that petty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dan Ariely, the best-selling author of <em>Predictably Irrational<\/em> and the inspiration for the network procedural <em>Irrational<\/em>, is facing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dukechronicle.com\/article\/duke-university-professor-dan-ariely-accused-of-additional-research-fraud-fabrication-tampering-epstein-data-colada-replication-20260902\">a new round of allegations of research fraud<\/a> after a review of the data used for a major 2002 paper on procrastination found evidence of fabrication.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A Yale study estimates that <a href=\"https:\/\/ysph.yale.edu\/news-article\/universal-health-coverage-could-save-one-trillion-dollars-and-114000-lives-every-year\/\">universal health care in the United States would save 114,000 lives and $1 trillion every year<\/a>. So why is the mere suggestion of it supposed to be some sort of political poison?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>NPR asks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/09\/04\/g-s1-141468\/child-marriage-united-states-india-global?utm_term=nprnews&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=bsky.app&amp;utm_campaign=npr\">what happened to the U.S. campaign to end child marriage<\/a>? The answer is \u201cRepublicans.\u201d And, more specifically, evangelical Christianity\u2019s hold on the party.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The University of Wisconsin-Madison <a href=\"https:\/\/madison.com\/news\/local\/education\/university\/article_f33d32bf-77f3-4951-a13e-789441d93762.html\">forced out a professor who (allegedly) slept with and harassed some of his students<\/a>, so of course <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statepress.com\/article\/2026\/09\/asu-hires-dietram-scheufele\">Arizona State welcomed him with open arms<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A German court has found that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/german-court-rules-ai-music-firm-suno-broke-copyright-rules-2026-07-31\/\">the AI music software Suno is basically a big plagiarism engine<\/a>, and now Jason Isbell and other U.S. musicians have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/09\/01\/arts\/music\/jason-isbell-suno-ai-lawsuit.html\">filed a suit of their own<\/a>, this time charging Suno with unlicensed imitation of their voices rather than straight copyright infringement. And now the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/music\/a-i-artificial-intelligence\/suno-accused-of-copying-sk8er-boi-and-life-is-a-highway-in-new-suit\">is suing Suno too<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Bari Weiss\u2019 CBS News pushed out a story that appeared to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.status.news\/p\/cbs-news-el-sayed-bari-weiss-9-11?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\">tie Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed to the 9\/11 attacks<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>California\u2019s legislature passed a bill designed to support \u2013 or even save \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rebuildlocalnews.org\/california-legislature-passes-nations-largest-proposed-investment-in-community-news\/\">community news outlets through public investment<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The police chief in Senatobia, Mississippi, where an officer shot and killed a 1-year-old while pursuing a woman suspected of shoplifting, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/02\/mississippi-police-chief-fired\">has been fired<\/a>. Harold Vanderford had also used racist slurs about Black people in text messages, and tried to resign before he was fired. Maybe Arizona State will hire him?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cj6482r6yl4o\">Israeli settlers murdered two Palestinian teenagers in the West Bank<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The widow of a U.S. airman killed in Trump\u2019s illegal war on Iran had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/news\/2026\/09\/02\/john-alex-klinner-wife-death-benefits\/\">to go to social media to get death benefits<\/a> because, in her words, the military claimed it wasn\u2019t a war, so she wasn\u2019t entitled to the benefits that accrue to the surviving spouse when a soldier is killed during a war. &nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The United States was the only nation to vote against a UN resolution to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/ce30vp55dnlo\">change its official map to one that reflects Africa&#8217;s true size<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over on the Athletic this week, I looked at nine September(ish) callups of note; posted a minor-league scouting notebook on Jarlin Susana, Joseph Dzierwa, and other O\u2019s and Nats prospects; and posted a draft scouting notebook covering both the PG All-American and Under Armour games. I sent out a new issue of my free email [&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":[566,1429,1080,828,113,137,939,1109,190,961,971,1173,1364,870,477,940],"class_list":["post-11366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arizona","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-california","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-frauds","tag-harvard","tag-israel","tag-links","tag-longreads","tag-metoo","tag-michigan","tag-palestine","tag-stick-to-baseball","tag-texas","tag-the-swamp","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11366","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=11366"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11371,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11366\/revisions\/11371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}