{"id":3438,"date":"2014-07-19T11:11:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T15:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=3438"},"modified":"2014-07-19T11:13:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T15:13:19","slug":"saturday-five-71914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/19\/saturday-five-71914\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday five, 7\/19\/14."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Busy week here between travel and a few major events. Here&#8217;s my ESPN content from the last seven days:<\/p>\n<p>* My ranking of <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1nAdeM0>the top 50 prospects in the minor leagues<\/a>.<br \/>\n* On <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1u2rGWw>the Astros failing to come to terms with Brady Aiken or Jacob Nix<\/a>.<br \/>\n* My recap\/analysis of the players in the Futures Game, <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1rjIfsy>part one<\/a> and <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1mDN2EI>part two<\/a>.<br \/>\n* This week&#8217;s <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1jFopHZ>Klawchat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s links&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s a <a href=http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/magazine-28369829>surfeit of sulfur<\/a> in the world, but don&#8217;t worry &#8211; eventually we&#8217;re going to need it for fertilizer.<\/li>\n<li>Worthy longread on a career in food and food writing, from a woman who rose <a href=http:\/\/thebillfold.com\/2014\/06\/from-recipe-tester-to-anthony-bourdains-assistant\/>from Botanical Gardens intern to be Anthony Bourdain&#8217;s assistant<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I love this song &#8211; &#8220;<a href=http:\/\/www.spin.com\/articles\/snakehips-sinead-harnett-days-with-you-premiere\/>Days With You<\/a>,&#8221; by Snakehips with Sinead Harnett. <\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve argued for years pitchers about to see their careers end should try the screwball, and now Bruce Schoenfield has written a piece in the <i>NY Times<\/i> <a href=http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/07\/13\/magazine\/the-mystery-of-the-vanishing-screwball.html?rref=sports&#038;module=ArrowsNav&#038;contentCollection=Golf&#038;action=click&#038;region=FixedRight&#038;pgtype=article&#038;_r=0>saying the same thing<\/a>, but much more convincingly.<\/li>\n<li>Ancient civilizations didn&#8217;t have toothpaste, but they may have <a href=http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thesalt\/2014\/07\/16\/331677512\/this-dirty-little-weed-may-have-cleaned-up-ancient-teeth>chewed on a weed called purple nutsedge<\/a> for the same reason.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And a bonus link: one of the chefs I follow on Twitter (probably Tom Colicchio but I&#8217;m not sure) posted a link to <a href=http:\/\/www.exo.co\/>exo<\/a>, a company that makes nutrition bars using cricket flour &#8211; yes, cleaned, dried, ground-up bugs. While my immediate reaction was to be very weirded-out, that&#8217;s probably not rational, no more so than people who eat common cuts of meat (as I do) but refuse to eat offal (much of which I do eat and enjoy). So, would you eat a protein bar made of finely milled crickets?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Busy week here between travel and a few major events. Here&#8217;s my ESPN content from the last seven days: * My ranking of the top 50 prospects in the minor leagues. * On the Astros failing to come to terms with Brady Aiken or Jacob Nix. * My recap\/analysis of the players in the Futures [&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":[49,846,190,660],"class_list":["post-3438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-baseball","tag-food","tag-links","tag-saturday-five","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438","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=3438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3440,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions\/3440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}