{"id":4132,"date":"2015-06-20T11:33:36","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T15:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=4132"},"modified":"2015-06-20T11:33:36","modified_gmt":"2015-06-20T15:33:36","slug":"saturday-five-62015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/20\/saturday-five-62015\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday five, 6\/20\/15."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote three new Insider pieces this week: an <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1L6PsqW>updated top ten pro prospects ranking<\/a>, a look at where <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1Gt5zMj>thirteen 2015 first-rounders rank in their new orgs<\/a>, and a scouting piece on <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1Bju67L>Jesse Biddle, JP Crawford, and Aaron Judge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be back at Lakewood tonight to see Yoan Moncada and Rafael Devers again, with a post going up tomorrow or Monday on those guys.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t had a chance to review it yet, but I&#8217;m enjoying the new Of Monsters &#038; Men album <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00UMTA23O\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B00UMTA23O&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=meadowpartyco-20&#038;linkId=JI3FLORKTTQTWP5W\">Beneath The Skin<\/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=B00UMTA23O\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/i>; it&#8217;s a big change from their poppier debut, shifting to better showcase Nanna Brynd&iacute;s Hilmarsd&oacute;ttir&#8217;s voice.<\/p>\n<p>And now, this week&#8217;s links&#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/saturdayfive.png\" alt=\"saturdayfive\" width=\"74\" height=\"43\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3812\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A great longread on <a href=http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/maxseddon\/azerbaijan-pulls-out-the-stops-european-games#.qm20Bm8XJ>Azerbaijan hosting the \u201cEuropean Games,\u201d<\/a>, focusing on the authoritarian regime&#8217;s corrupt history and misguided attempts to ingratiate itself to Europe. I do wish the piece had discussed the ongoing conflict with Armenia (also guilty of its share of crimes) over Nagorno-Karabakh, which is a massive failure for those who position themselves as international peacemakers. Something like 200,000 people have lived in a rogue state or under the \u201cwrong\u201d national authorities for over a decade.<\/li>\n<li>How vaccine deniers are <a href=http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/06\/antivaxxers-influencing-legislation\/>using social media to fight pro-vaccine legislation<\/a>. The solution is simple: Make your pro-vaccine voice heard. Tell your state and federal legislators that you support mandatory vaccination for all schoolchildren who don&#8217;t have medical exemptions. End all philosophical and religious exemptions and you&#8217;ll see measles re-eradicated in the U.S. in no time.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s a raw fish eaten in rural Thailand that <a href=http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/health-33095945>gives people liver cancer<\/a>. The cause is a parasite called a liver fluke that lays eggs in the human liver, yet educating residents has been a big challenge for health officials.<\/li>\n<li><a href=http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-33154074>Does killing jihadist leaders work?<\/a> That&#8217;s the linchpin of our country&#8217;s current strategy against terrorism, and there&#8217;s a legitimate debate (with, I think, no clear answer) whether it&#8217;s effective enough.<\/li>\n<li>I didn&#8217;t agree with the majority of you in the recent case of the Maryland \u201cfree range\u201d parents scolded for letting their kids walk home a moderate distance from a playground, but I am guessing we can all agree that the Florida case of parents losing their kids for a month <a href=http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/11\/11-year-old-boy-played-in-his-yard-cps-t#comment_5363004>for letting their 11-year-old son play in his own yard<\/a> is a terrifying governmental overreach. The busybody who called the authorities here should face charges, not the parents.<\/li>\n<li>An op ed in the <i>Guardian<\/i> from a former prisoner discussing <a href=http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2015\/jun\/12\/prisons-menstrual-pads-humiliate-women-violate-rights?CMP=share_btn_tw>US prisons withholding menstrual supplies<\/a>, often by pricing them above what indigent prisoners can afford. Sanitary supplies are a basic human right, not a luxury to be purchased by the well-to-do.<\/li>\n<li>The <i>Guardian<\/i> was one of several publications to <a href=http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/jun\/18\/charleston-church-victims-profiles>profile the victims of the Charleston massacre<\/a>, an important step given how much ink is dedicated to the perpetrators in these attacks. Jamil Smith&#8217;s essay in the <i>New Republic<\/i> on <a href=http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/122074\/no-quarter-no-sanctuary-no-succor>the particular violation of these murders happening in a church<\/a> was the best piece I read all week on the subject. Meanwhile, it&#8217;s high time that South Carolina <a href=http:\/\/petitions.moveon.org\/sign\/remove-the-confederate-3>remove the Confederate flag<\/a> from all government buildings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote three new Insider pieces this week: an updated top ten pro prospects ranking, a look at where thirteen 2015 first-rounders rank in their new orgs, and a scouting piece on Jesse Biddle, JP Crawford, and Aaron Judge. I&#8217;ll be back at Lakewood tonight to see Yoan Moncada and Rafael Devers again, with 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":[131,190,660,807],"class_list":["post-4132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-food-safety","tag-links","tag-saturday-five","tag-vaccines","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132","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=4132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4134,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132\/revisions\/4134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}