{"id":3661,"date":"2014-11-08T10:38:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T15:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=3661"},"modified":"2014-11-08T16:11:36","modified_gmt":"2014-11-08T21:11:36","slug":"saturday-five-11814","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/08\/saturday-five-11814\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday five, 11\/8\/14."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still on vacation, enjoying Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade with the family and getting some reading time in too, but all the stuff I filed for ESPN before leaving is going up:<\/p>\n<p>* My <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/10hOeF6>top 50 free agent rankings, with scouting reports<\/a> on each.<br \/>\n* My offseason buyers&#8217; guides to:<br \/>\n  &rarr; <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1x7R7mR>Starting pitchers<\/a><br \/>\n  &rarr; <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1u0kWXy>Relief pitchers<\/a><br \/>\n  &rarr; <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1tE8RWH>Outfielders<\/a><br \/>\n  &rarr; <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1seQALO>Corner infielders<\/a><br \/>\n  &rarr; <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/10Ilztl>Middle infielders<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The guide to catchers will go up Sunday, and on Monday my NL ROY ballot column will go up after the winner is announced.<\/p>\n<p>And now, the links&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/medical\/disease\/flushot.asp>Did a Johns Hopkins scientist write a journal article saying that the flu shot is dangerous<\/a>? Of course not, but some idiots are still repeating that drivel.<\/li>\n<li><a href=http:\/\/www.seriouseats.com\/2014\/11\/the-truth-about-cast-iron.html>The truth about cast-iron skillets<\/a>. Mythbusting from Serious Eats.<\/li>\n<li>A good explanation of the difference between <a href=http:\/\/blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com\/bella\/2014\/10\/fair_versus_direct_trade_-_what_does_it_all_mean.php>fair trade and direct trade in coffee<\/a>, featuring one of my favorite local roasters, Phoenix&#8217;s Cartel Coffee Lab. Related: <a href=http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2012\/11\/the-case-for-drinking-as-much-coffee-as-you-like\/265693\/?single_page=true>The case for drinking as much coffee as you like<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A <i>New York Times<\/i> piece on <a href=http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/11\/05\/dining\/doughnuts-in-new-york-city-from-carpe-donut-nyc-to-pies-n-thighs.html?_r=0>great donuts in New York City<\/a>. A real public service, I say.<\/li>\n<li><a href=http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2014\/11\/why-kids-sext\/380798\/>Why kids sext<\/a>, from <i>The Atlantic<\/i>. I&#8217;m a few years away from worrying about this crap, I think.<\/li>\n<li><a href=http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thesalt\/2014\/11\/03\/361140794\/a-non-gmo-way-to-get-more-tastier-tomatoes>A non-GMO way to get tastier tomatoes<\/a>. Genetic modification is one way, just not the only way. Meanwhile, that rumor some moron shared on your facebook page about <a href=http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/food\/tainted\/gmobeedeaths.asp>GMO corn killing 37 million bees in Canada<\/a>? Bogus. They were probably killed by neonics, a kind of pesticide we need to consider banning.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still on vacation, enjoying Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade with the family and getting some reading time in too, but all the stuff I filed for ESPN before leaving is going up: * My top 50 free agent rankings, with scouting reports on each. * My offseason buyers&#8217; guides to: &rarr; Starting pitchers &rarr; Relief [&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-3661","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\/3661","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=3661"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3668,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3661\/revisions\/3668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}