{"id":3286,"date":"2014-03-29T00:25:24","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T04:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=3286"},"modified":"2014-03-29T17:25:21","modified_gmt":"2014-03-29T21:25:21","slug":"saturday-five-32914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/29\/saturday-five-32914\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday five, 3\/29\/14."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My ESPN content from this past week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1gami6G>predictions column for 2014<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>On <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1fvPCoO>Mike Trout&#8217;s contract<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>On <a href=http:\/\/insider.espn.go.com\/blog\/keith-law\/post?id=2124>Miguel Cabrera&#8217;s contract<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>On <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1hxWZwl>prep arms Touki Toussaint and Foster Griffin<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>On <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/ORw5J7>&#8220;divisive&#8221; fantasy players<\/a> for 2014.<\/li>\n<li>My last spring training dispatch, on <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1jncApq>Matt Wisler and Neftali Feliz<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There will be a Carlos Rodon blog post at some point on Saturday as well. EDIT: <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1mBkuvL>Here&#8217;s the Rodon post<\/a>, plus notes on Trea Turner and more prep bats from the NHSI.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s five links of note&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thesalt\/2014\/03\/18\/290922850\/chocolate-turns-into-heart-helpers-by-gut-bacteria>Intestinal flora are why dark chocolate is good for you<\/a>. Not why it&#8217;s delicious, though.<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2014\/03\/22\/big-brother-is-watching-you-eat>Big Brother is watching you eat<\/a>.  I don&#8217;t want the government in my kitchen any more than I want it in my bedroom. <\/p>\n<p>* <a href=http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/magazine-26734465>There&#8217;s a polio outbreak in Syria<\/a>, and it might spread. By the way, you know who else hates vaccines, along with the ignorati here who think they cause autism? The Taliban and and Boko Haram. I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;d welcome Jay Cutler with open arms.<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/italy\/10719505\/Italy-angered-by-foreigners-mafia-themed-food.html>Italy angered by foreigners&#8217; mafia-themed food<\/a>. It sounds funny, but it&#8217;s not, really. It&#8217;s a lot like my arguments about Native American-themed team nicknames &#8211; you&#8217;re playing on negative stereotypes that offend the people in question.<\/p>\n<p>* From last July, <a href=http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/morganbrennan\/2013\/07\/24\/how-will-bankruptcy-impact-detroits-housing-market\/>how Detroit&#8217;s bankruptcy might impact its housing market<\/a>, which I came across while writing the Cabrera reaction piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My ESPN content from this past week: My predictions column for 2014. On Mike Trout&#8217;s contract. On Miguel Cabrera&#8217;s contract. On prep arms Touki Toussaint and Foster Griffin. On &#8220;divisive&#8221; fantasy players for 2014. My last spring training dispatch, on Matt Wisler and Neftali Feliz. There will be a Carlos Rodon blog post at some [&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":[190,660],"class_list":["post-3286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links","tag-saturday-five","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286","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=3286"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3292,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions\/3292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}