{"id":3447,"date":"2014-07-26T10:48:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T14:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=3447"},"modified":"2014-07-26T10:50:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T14:50:12","slug":"saturday-five-72614","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/26\/saturday-five-72614\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday five, 7\/26\/14."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My content at ESPN.com over the last seven days&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>* My analysis of <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1u6e78y>the Huston Street trade<\/a><br \/>\n* My analysis of <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/headleyawn>the Chase Headley trade<\/a><br \/>\n* My (very brief) analysis of <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1nmKBH3>the Kendrys Morales trade<\/a><br \/>\n* This week&#8217;s <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1rt1q3W>Klawchat<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I <a href=http:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/articles\/2014\/07\/boardgame-review-splendor.html>reviewed the outstanding new boardgame Splendor<\/a> for <em>Paste<\/em>, giving the Spiel des Jahres nominee a grade of 9\/10. It&#8217;s also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00IZEUFIA\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B00IZEUFIA&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=meadowpartyco-20&#038;linkId=D45XU2DS2FZETJ4M\">back in stock at amazon for $35<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=meadowpartyco-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B00IZEUFIA\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, after some insane pricing earlier in the week when the award was announced. My daughter loves this game and grasped the basic strategy very quickly.<\/p>\n<p>And now, this week&#8217;s links &#8211; a few more than five, as I came across too many things worth passing along&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nobody had a better take this week on the joke of a punishment wife-beater Ray Rice received from the NFL than <a href=https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6fc_AnLaBew>Keith Olbermann<\/a> did.\n<li><a href=http:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/society\/health\/the-little-girl-who-may-hold-the-secret-to-aging\/?utm_source=digg&#038;utm_medium=email>The little girl who may hold the secret to aging<\/a>. She&#8217;s five years old with the body of an infant, but is her whole life just to be a test subject for scientists?<\/li>\n<li><a href=http:\/\/m.washingtonpost.com\/world\/middle_east\/baseball-in-iran-is-more-like-the-bad-news-bears-than-the-major-leagues\/2014\/07\/16\/767f8752-3ea8-4b96-9198-e44136771a25_story.html>On the nascent baseball culture in Iran<\/a>. I love the idea of sport as diplomacy, although I fear it makes for better headlines than understanding.<\/li>\n<li><a href=http:\/\/grist.org\/news\/nestle-doesnt-want-you-to-know-how-much-water-its-bottling-from-the-california-desert\/>Nestl&eacute; is bottling huge quantities of water from the California desert<\/a>. Not that anyone&#8217;s inclined to stop them.<\/li>\n<li><a href=http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2013\/04\/29\/draft-no-4>John McPhee on writing<\/a>, part of <em>The New Yorker<\/em>&#8216;s now-free archives. Warning: There&#8217;s a fair amount of rambling here for a piece on writing.<\/li>\n<li><a href=http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/2014\/06\/how-to-spend-the-first-10-minutes-of-your-day\/>How to spend the first ten minutes of your day<\/a>, from <em>Harvard Business Review<\/em>. I use several of these tips, from a morning to-do list to tackling some more daunting tasks earlier in the day &#8211; but I also try to knock off a few quick items in the first hour, because there&#8217;s a quick psychological payoff from crossing off a few things on the list.<\/li>\n<li>R.J. Anderson with a good piece on <a href=http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/2014\/08\/01\/big-data-about-change-how-baseball-teams-evaluate-player-defense-260972.html>Big Data coming to baseball<\/a>. His piece is ostensibly about defense, but the real message here is how critical data management, from building and maintaining a data warehouse to developing tools to access and query it quickly, has become to baseball operations &#8211; which supports David Murphy&#8217;s excellent column for philly.com on how <a href=http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/sports\/phillies\/20140724_Phils_need_a_modern_baseball_president.html>the Phillies need to revamp their organization<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>And finally, an audio clip from the BBC: This week&#8217;s <a href=http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p023276g>World Have Your Say<\/a> discusses balance and media bias in the coverage of the Israel\/Gaza conflict, which is great until they invite three guests who claim the media are biased, all three of whom sound like tin-foil hat lunatics and\/or teenagers who just read Howard Zinn for the first time and think they have the world figured out. The one guest who claimed there&#8217;s an anti-Israel bias was the worst, however, with frequent invocations of the <a href=http:\/\/www.fallacyfiles.org\/guiltbya.html>guilt by association<\/a> fallacy when discussing al-Jazeera.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My content at ESPN.com over the last seven days&#8230; * My analysis of the Huston Street trade * My analysis of the Chase Headley trade * My (very brief) analysis of the Kendrys Morales trade * This week&#8217;s Klawchat I reviewed the outstanding new boardgame Splendor for Paste, giving the Spiel des Jahres nominee a [&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":[49,60,190,660],"class_list":["post-3447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-baseball","tag-boardgames","tag-links","tag-saturday-five","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447","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=3447"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3450,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions\/3450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}