{"id":4807,"date":"2016-04-16T09:51:25","date_gmt":"2016-04-16T13:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=4807"},"modified":"2016-04-16T09:51:25","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T13:51:25","slug":"stick-to-baseball-41616","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/16\/stick-to-baseball-41616\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 4\/16\/16."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a few Insiders posts this week, starting with <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1S7UDtn\" target=\"_blank\">the top 50 draft prospects<\/a>, along with the list of <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1SbDFYO\" target=\"_blank\">the most prospect-laden minor league rosters<\/a>, and a scouting blog from games earlier this week on <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1SddsJv\" target=\"_blank\">Erick Fedde, Josh Staumont, Dansby Swanson, and Braxton Davidson<\/a>. I also held a <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1Sztdtw\" target=\"_blank\">Klawchat<\/a> on Wednesday to tie it into the draft rankings.<\/p>\n<p>And now, the links&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fusion looks into <a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\/story\/287592\/internet-mapping-glitch-kansas-farm\/\" target=\"_blank\">the shadowy world of &#8220;IP mapping,&#8221;<\/a>, and God help you if the companies that do this use your house as a default address for thousands or millions of IP addresses.<\/li>\n<li>This incredible four-year-old <em>New Yorker<\/em> profile of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2012\/08\/06\/marathon-man\" target=\"_blank\">a Michigan dentist who cheated at marathons<\/a> resurfaced this week as a link in a <em>NY Times<\/em> story about a triathlon competitor who also stands accused of fraud.<\/li>\n<li>How can NPR survive <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/cover_story\/2016\/04\/the_fight_for_the_future_of_npr_can_public_radio_survive_the_podcast_revolution.html\" target=\"_blank\">in a world shifting towards podcasting<\/a>? NPR&#8217;s core audience is aging, and they&#8217;re slow to adapt \u2026 but I&#8217;d still take their newscasts over any other single source in the United States for balance, thoroughness, and acknowledgement that there are more than five countries in the world.<\/li>\n<li>On the heels of last week&#8217;s longread about sugar vs fat in our diets, the director of the Cleveland Clinic&#8217;s Center for Functional Medicine <a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2016\/03\/04\/making-the-case-for-eating-fat\/?smid=tw-share&#038;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">describes his conversion from a low-fat diet to a &#8220;paleo-vegan&#8221; diet<\/a>, built primarily around plants but without skimping on fats, even some saturated ones.<\/li>\n<li>Yes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/obama-can-appoint-merrick-garland-to-the-supreme-court-if-the-senate-does-nothing\/2016\/04\/08\/4a696700-fcf1-11e5-886f-a037dba38301_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">of course President Obama can just appoint Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court<\/a>. I think that&#8217;s what the GOP is hoping he&#8217;ll do, so they can call him an autocrat and drum up support from their base. <\/li>\n<li>The BBC&#8217;s Trending column examines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/blogs-trending-35813994\" target=\"_blank\">the right-wing troll who encourages followers to dox her critics<\/a>. She&#8217;s married to an Illinois police officer, and claims she&#8217;s been harassed offline as well. The author describes this as one example of the &#8220;culture wars&#8221; online, and sure enough, a troll followed the publication of this article by creating a fake account designed to look like the author&#8217;s.<\/li>\n<li>A man <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/voices\/i-am-on-the-us-kill-list-this-is-what-it-feels-like-to-be-hunted-by-drones-a6980141.html\" target=\"_blank\">who claims to be on the U.S.&#8217;s &#8220;kill list&#8221; for drone attacks<\/a> describes what it&#8217;s like to be hunted, and how many innocent people have died in four failed attempts to kill him. Drone attacks are too palatable \u2013 as long as none of &#8220;our&#8221; people die, it&#8217;s all good, right?<\/li>\n<li>Brigham Young University treats sexual assault victims <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/news\/3770084-155\/byu-students-say-victims-of-sexual?fullpage=1\" target=\"_blank\">as criminals themselves, subjecting them to &#8220;honor code&#8221; investigations<\/a>, with expulsion \u2013 yes, expulsion for <em>being raped<\/em> \u2013 among the possible outcomes. &#8220;Honor code&#8221; is just another way of victim-blaming, of course, and here it comes at a university founded by and named after a racist, abusive polygamist (he had 55 wives). The school&#8217;s actions violate Title IX rules and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/home\/3773615-155\/prosecutor-says-rape-case-is-threatened?fullpage=1\" target=\"_blank\">are now endangering a rape prosecution<\/a>, but administrators don&#8217;t seem to see this as a problem.<\/li>\n<li>The Republican majority in Congress is trying to undo Net Neutrality by stripping the FCC of some of its regulatory powers and President Obama <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/omb\/legislative\/sap\/114\/saphr2666r_20160412.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">is having none of it<\/a>. This puts the Republicans, historically the party of business and of capitalist policies, on the wrong side, favoring a few very large companies over an open-market solution that should encourage more innovation and more small business growth.\n<li>People with anxiety disorder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/anxiety-perception-study_us_56d48e13e4b03260bf77a48e\" target=\"_blank\">appear to have fundamental brain differences<\/a> from those without.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_ca\/read\/rappers-talk-about-depression-and-hip-hop-456\" target=\"_blank\">Rappers discuss their histories with depression<\/a> in a surprisingly candid piece at <em>VICE<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Good stuff from FiveThirtyEight&#8217;s sports department: They examined a Joe Sheehan hypothesis about older hitters struggling with the game&#8217;s increased velocity and <a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/older-hitters-are-declining-but-its-not-because-they-cant-stand-the-heat\/\" target=\"_blank\">found no evidence to support it<\/a>, even looking at it from a few different angles. Joe floated the hypothesis in his email newsletter, to which I have subscribed since day one, and recommend highly.<\/li>\n<li>The <em>Tampa Bay Times<\/em> reveals how many Bay-area <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/projects\/2016\/food\/farm-to-fable\/restaurants\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;farm to table&#8221; restaurants lie about the provenance of their ingredients<\/a>. This is horrifying on many levels, not the least of which is that these restaurants are outright lying to customers.<\/li>\n<li>Vacciner deniers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2016\/02\/anti-vaxers-arent-stupid\/462864\/\" target=\"_blank\">aren&#8217;t stupid<\/a>, says this <em>Atlantic<\/em> piece, arguing instead that it comes from parents feeling &#8220;powerless&#8221; in the face of mandates. I think that&#8217;s stupid. Vaccine-denialists are overwhelmingly practicing extreme selection bias in what they read or believe, and if that ain&#8217;t the definition of stupidity, well, maybe I ain&#8217;t that smart.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a few Insiders posts this week, starting with the top 50 draft prospects, along with the list of the most prospect-laden minor league rosters, and a scouting blog from games earlier this week on Erick Fedde, Josh Staumont, Dansby Swanson, and Braxton Davidson. 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