{"id":4889,"date":"2016-05-28T10:26:32","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T14:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=4889"},"modified":"2016-05-28T12:48:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-28T16:48:22","slug":"stick-to-baseball-52816","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/28\/stick-to-baseball-52816\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 5\/28\/16."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/27WOsk5\" target=\"_blank\">Mock Draft 2.0<\/a> Is now up for Insiders. You can also see my post from Tuesday ranking the <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1WfCNc6\" target=\"_blank\">top 25 prospects in pro ball<\/a>. I&#8217;ll expand that list to 50 after the Futures Game in July.<\/p>\n<p>I also held my usual <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1U0BlnQ\" target=\"_blank\">Klawchat<\/a>, this time on Friday morning on a flight from Birmingham to Baltimore.<\/p>\n<p>And now, the links&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The wife of one of my readers penned this excellent piece on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/monkey-cage\/wp\/2016\/05\/23\/restricting-trade-may-be-popular-but-it-would-have-many-bad-consequences\/\" target=\"_blank\">how protectionism will hurt the United States<\/a>. With one Presidential candidate pushing a Hawley-Smoot vision of trade, and the other talking about using tariffs as a weapon, we may be on the verge of an entirely preventable hit to our economy.<\/li>\n<li>Colistin-resistant bacteria <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/dangerous-new-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria-reach-u-s\/\" target=\"_blank\">have made their first appearance in the U.S.<\/a> While health officials say there&#8217;s no current cause for alarm, this is very, very bad news. The most likely cause? China&#8217;s overuse of antibiotics in livestock.<\/li>\n<li>Best news\/opinion piece I saw on the Baylor debacle was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/the-daily-post\/end-art-briles-era\/\" target=\"_blank\">this review and takedown<\/a> from <em>Texas Monthly<\/em>&#8216;s Jessica Luther and Dan Solomon.<\/li>\n<li>Peter Thiel, billionaire founder of Paypal and Facebook board member, financed Hulk Hogan&#8217;s lawsuit against Gawker as part of his own personal vendetta. <a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\/story\/306927\/peter-thiel-gawker-dangerous-blueprint\/\" target=\"_blank\">This is a very dangerous precedent for our legal system<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>A Republican judge in Ohio ruled that <a href=\"http:\/\/littlegreenfootballs.com\/page\/320264_Federal_Court_Says_Ohio_GOP_Vi\" target=\"_blank\">a GOP-backed law violated the Voting Rights Act<\/a> because its practical effect would be to suppress the black vote.<\/li>\n<li>Ah, Mississippi, where gays are second-class citizens and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarionledger.com\/story\/news\/2016\/05\/21\/man-still-in-mississippi-jail-11-years-later\/84253880\/\" target=\"_blank\">a mentally ill man has been in jail for 11 years without a trial<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The <em>Washington Post<\/em> praised a speech <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/plum-line\/wp\/2016\/05\/25\/elizabeth-warren-just-absolutely-shredded-donald-trump-theres-a-lot-more-like-this-to-come\/\" target=\"_blank\">in which Elizabeth Warren eviscerated Donald Trump<\/a>, but does it matter? I feel like his base is impervious to this kind of criticism, and I&#8217;m not sure it will sway many of the undecided voters either, so this feels like either wishful thinking or some sort of cheerleading.<\/li>\n<li>Four <em>WaPo<\/em> pieces this week. Their in-depth profile of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sf\/style\/wp\/2016\/05\/25\/2016\/05\/25\/13-right-now-this-is-what-its-like-to-grow-up-in-the-age-of-likes-lols-and-longing\/\" target=\"_blank\">a 13-year-old girl&#8217;s online social life<\/a> disturbed me, the father of a 10-year-old girl who is sitting next to me with her iPad mini right now. Richard Deitsch pointed out online that this girl&#8217;s experience isn&#8217;t universal, though: she&#8217;s financially well off, certainly, and there&#8217;s probably a good companion piece to be written on a kid on the other side of the digital divide.<\/li>\n<li>The best BBQ place in San Antonio <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eater.com\/2016\/1\/29\/10869210\/san-antonio-best-barbecue-granary\" target=\"_blank\">has taken the egalitarian cuisine upscale<\/a>. I&#8217;m a little disappointed I couldn&#8217;t fit a trip to see Forrest Whitley into my schedule so I could have eaten dinner at the Granary.<\/li>\n<li>The World Bank issued a report warning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/05\/22\/479084475\/a-warming-world-means-less-water-with-economic-consequences\" target=\"_blank\">of the water shortages that will come with climate change<\/a>. It&#8217;s very cheery stuff.<\/li>\n<li>A writer at The Mighty shares her story of depression and how <a href=\"http:\/\/themighty.com\/2016\/05\/high-functioning-depression-we-cant-overlook-the-overachievers\/\" target=\"_blank\">we tend to overlook people who appear to be successful in life<\/a> but may still have depression or anxiety disorder.<\/li>\n<li>Why was the National Children&#8217;s Study <a href=\"http:\/\/undark.org\/article\/the-death-of-a-study-national-childrens-study\/\" target=\"_blank\">cancelled after 14 years, over $1 billion in expenses, and no results<\/a>? There are many answers, none very satisfying, provided in this look by Undark.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Mock Draft 2.0 Is now up for Insiders. You can also see my post from Tuesday ranking the top 25 prospects in pro ball. I&#8217;ll expand that list to 50 after the Futures Game in July. I also held my usual Klawchat, this time on Friday morning on a flight from Birmingham to Baltimore. 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