{"id":3296,"date":"2014-04-05T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=3296"},"modified":"2014-04-05T17:16:24","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T21:16:24","slug":"saturday-five-4514","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/05\/saturday-five-4514\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday five, 4\/5\/14."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My content from ESPN.com this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/QNhJuw>Trenton-New Hampshire notes<\/a>, including Aaron Sanchez and Bryan Mitchell.<\/li>\n<li>My list of <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1j5hc09>the six most prospect-laden minor league teams<\/a> this year.<\/li>\n<li><a href=http:\/\/insider.espn.go.com\/blog\/keith-law\/post\/_\/id\/2208\/assignments-for-laws-top-prospects>Opening Day assignments for all 300 prospects<\/a> the organizational top ten rankings, compiled by Chris Crawford.<\/li>\n<li>This week&#8217;s <a href=http:\/\/espn.go.com\/sportsnation\/chat\/_\/id\/50332>Klawchat<\/a>.\n<li>My post from last week on <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1mBkuvL>Carlos Rodon<\/a> and other draft prospects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And the links &#8230; by the way, feel free to post or otherwise send (Twitter, FB, etc) links you think might be candidates for this section in a future week. I&#8217;m always looking for good reading material.<\/p>\n<p>* From the <i>BMJ<\/i> (formerly the <i>British Medical Journal<\/i>), a study on how certain anti-anxiety drugs, including benzodiazepines, <a href=http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/348\/bmj.g1996>increase the risk of patient death<\/a>, uncovered when researchers examined those patients over long periods.<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/recipes\/1016177\/cornmeal-waffles-with-banana-bourbon-syrup.html>Cornmeal waffles with bourbon-banana syrup<\/a>. Haven&#8217;t tried these yet, but, I mean, waffles and bananas and booze? I&#8217;m in.<\/p>\n<p>* From the <i>LA Times<\/i>, Michael Hiltzik on <a href=http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/hiltzik\/la-fi-mh-gay-marriage-20140404,0,7985087.story#axzz2y2yEPMsX>why Brendan Eich&#8217;s ouster from Mozilla was justified<\/a> &#8211; or, at least, why his First Amendment rights are irrelevant to this discussion.<\/p>\n<p>* &#8220;Libertarian&#8221; is probably the best one-word description of my political beliefs, but the satirical piece <a href=http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/shouts\/2014\/03\/libertarian-police-department.html>Libertarian Police Department<\/a> hits the mark square-on.<\/p>\n<p>* And one you may already have seen, but if not, and you have the stomach for it, read Sports on Earth&#8217;s profile of <a href=http:\/\/www.sportsonearth.com\/article\/70575174\/how-chad-curtis-went-from-hero-to-convict-for-sexual-misconduct>Chad Curtis, convicted sexual predator<\/a>. Is he a sociopath? A narcissist? I found his victim-blaming, right on through his attempts to manipulate the jury and then the writer here, terrifying.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be at Wilmington&#8217;s home opener on Tuesday, and probably the 10:30 am game (full of screaming kids) on Wednesday as well, so I hope to see many of you there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My content from ESPN.com this week: Trenton-New Hampshire notes, including Aaron Sanchez and Bryan Mitchell. My list of the six most prospect-laden minor league teams this year. Opening Day assignments for all 300 prospects the organizational top ten rankings, compiled by Chris Crawford. This week&#8217;s Klawchat. My post from last week on Carlos Rodon and [&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-3296","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\/3296","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=3296"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3299,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions\/3299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}