{"id":3408,"date":"2014-06-22T12:32:05","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T16:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=3408"},"modified":"2014-06-22T14:32:02","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T18:32:02","slug":"weekend-five-62214","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/22\/weekend-five-62214\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend five, 6\/22\/14."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s all my ESPN content from the last week:<\/p>\n<p>* Updated Sunday afternoon: My report on <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1mboS3G>Dylan Bundy and Marcos Molina<\/a> from Saturday night&#8217;s Aberdeen-Brooklyn game.<br \/>\n* A very quick note on <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1qq5RLD>Cuban defector Yasmani Tom&aacute;s<\/a>.<br \/>\n* <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/SW3XG7>Scouting notes from the California-Carolina Leagues All-Star Game<\/a>, held in my backyard this year in Wilmington.<br \/>\n* <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1kSYIxL>Notes on Yankees\/Orioles AA prospects<\/a>, including lefties Manny Banuelos and Eddie Rodriguez.<br \/>\n* More notes, this time on <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1lBAKvs>the Ike Davis trade, some Lakewood\/Hickory prospects, and Daniel Carbonell<\/a>.<br \/>\n* This week&#8217;s <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1icTvXb>Klawchat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And now, the links&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2013\/07\/03\/dining\/science-builds-a-better-pie.html?_r=1&#038;>Science builds a better pie<\/a>. We have the technology people. Let&#8217;s put it to good use. Hat tip to Chris Sprow for this one.<\/li>\n<li><a href=http:\/\/grantland.com\/features\/diplomacy-the-board-game-of-the-alpha-nerds\/?utm_source=digg&#038;utm_medium=email>Diplomacy: the board game of alpha nerds<\/a>. Silly title aside, this is the best piece I&#8217;ve read on Grantland. It&#8217;s a good topic, it&#8217;s well-researched, it&#8217;s well-written, and I learned a few things too.<\/li>\n<li><a href=http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2014\/06\/19\/1308169\/-One-unvaccinated-child-was-patient-zero-of-a-measles-epidemic>Two idiot parents were responsible for a 2011 measles epidemic<\/a>. Well, that&#8217;s not quite the title DailyKos used, but I like mine better.<\/li>\n<li><a href=http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thesalt\/2014\/06\/19\/323656819\/cut-your-cake-and-keep-it-fresh-too>There&#8217;s a better way to cut cake<\/a>. Of course, the best way is to just make pie instead, but this will suffice. The guy in the video, Alex Bellos, also wrote a fun book on math called <i><a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/rpbmkz>Here&#8217;s Looking at Euclid<\/a><\/i>.<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;re interested in more info on the prefrontal cortex issue <a href=https:\/\/twitter.com\/keithlaw\/status\/480734214355046401>I mentioned on Twitter<\/a> this morning, this BBC piece from last fall explains when asking \u201c<a href=http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/magazine-24173194>is 25 the new cutoff point for adulthood?<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s all my ESPN content from the last week: * Updated Sunday afternoon: My report on Dylan Bundy and Marcos Molina from Saturday night&#8217;s Aberdeen-Brooklyn game. * A very quick note on Cuban defector Yasmani Tom&aacute;s. * Scouting notes from the California-Carolina Leagues All-Star Game, held in my backyard this year in Wilmington. * Notes [&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":[190,238,660],"class_list":["post-3408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links","tag-pie","tag-saturday-five","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3408","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=3408"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3411,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3408\/revisions\/3411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}