{"id":4901,"date":"2016-06-04T10:28:57","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T14:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=4901"},"modified":"2016-06-04T10:28:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T14:28:57","slug":"stick-to-baseball-6416","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/04\/stick-to-baseball-6416\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 6\/4\/16."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/25EI0zq\" target=\"_blank\">third mock draft<\/a> went up Friday morning, without a ton of big changes from the last one. Feedback from club sources so far is that it&#8217;s reasonable other than the fact that I don&#8217;t have Mickey Moniak going in the top ten; I agree with them, and was very uncomfortable with where I had him, but as I said in <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1UlDpqo\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday&#8217;s Klawchat<\/a> I didn&#8217;t have a clear indication of any teams on him other than Philly and Colorado. I can add a bonus tidbit here: Boston, at 12, is on Virginia catcher Matt Thaiss as well as the other names I&#8217;ve mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>I also tweaked my <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1TRBq32\" target=\"_blank\">my rankings of the top 100 prospects<\/a> for the draft, again with the help of Eric Longenhagen.<\/p>\n<p>My latest <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1Ui6fIl\" target=\"_blank\">monthly new music playlist<\/a> went up Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to all of you who&#8217;ve signed up for my <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyletter.com\/keithlaw\" target=\"_blank\">newsletter<\/a> \u2013 I&#8217;m well over a thousand subscribers already.<\/p>\n<p>And now, the links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I tweeted this link, but here it is again: The founder of the Take Back the Night charity relives <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/magazine-36434191\" target=\"_blank\">how she used her own assault to tell the world about date rape<\/a>. How she was treated may appall you, or you may think &#8220;rape culture&#8221; is just some bullshit that SJWs made up on social media. Also, I&#8217;m not going to lie \u2013 I skimmed through the details of the rape, for the same reason I fast-forwarded through that scene in <em>The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo<\/em>. I just can&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li>Brock Allen Turner, a former Stanford student who sexually assaulted an unconscious woman, received just six months in prison for raping an unconscious woman because the judge feared a longer sentence would have a &#8220;severe impact&#8221; on him. His victim read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/katiejmbaker\/heres-the-powerful-letter-the-stanford-victim-read-to-her-ra?utm_term=.btE4zqm9Q#.chdV4bqly\" target=\"_blank\">this statement about the &#8220;severe impact&#8221; his assault had on her<\/a> at the sentencing hearing. I&#8217;m not sure what the terms are for recalling a judge in California, but this would seem to be a good reason for doing so.<\/li>\n<li>The Ringer has already featured some great stuff, none better so far than <a href=\"https:\/\/theringer.com\/muhammad-ali-keith-olbermann-remembrance-2d81ba11561b#.tl0pirobo\" target=\"_blank\">Keith Olbermann&#8217;s tribute to Muhammad Ali<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s a deluge of great content today on the life of Ali, and I&#8217;ve only read a sliver of it, but I&#8217;ll also recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/news-desk\/the-outsized-life-of-muhammad-ali\" target=\"_blank\">David Remnick&#8217;s remembrance<\/a> in the <em>New Yorker<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>The <em>NY Times<\/em> details the <a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2016\/06\/01\/dining\/coffee-shops-south-bronx.html\" target=\"_blank\">appearance of two indie coffee shops in the South Bronx<\/a>. There&#8217;s a real question underneath here: what kinds of small businesses (or large ones, I guess) encourage urban renewal? Do we want a Starbucks or a Whole Foods in a blighted area to help drive economic growth, even if a side effect is some gentrification? I&#8217;d certainly vote yes.<\/li>\n<li>The Big 12 conference <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/the-big-12s-walk-on-transfer-rule-is-about-control-not-education\" target=\"_blank\">won&#8217;t even let walk-ons transfer without sitting out a year<\/a>. I mean, really, the NCAA should be broken up by the feds for all of these restrictions on athletes. It&#8217;s a cartel.<\/li>\n<li>Alan Sepinwall looks back at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hitfix.com\/whats-alan-watching\/from-must-see-tv-to-peak-tv-20-years-of-covering-television?hf_headline=18736\" target=\"_blank\">twenty years of writing about watching television<\/a> and how the medium \u2013 both media, really \u2013 have changed in that period.<\/li>\n<li>Buzzfeed covers the bizarre story of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/danielralston\/the-true-story-of-the-fake-zombies-the-strangest-con-in-rock?utm_term=.vvBrla5On#.jm3R7a9by\" target=\"_blank\">how two bands toured as the Zombies in the 1960s<\/a> even though neither was the real band.<\/li>\n<li>Could psilocybin, the psychoactive chemical found in &#8216;magic mushrooms,&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/could-magic-mushrooms-be-used-to-treat-anxiety-and-depression-97313121\/?no-ist\" target=\"_blank\">help treat depression and\/or anxiety<\/a>? A pair of studies show some promise, although the mechanism is not yet understood.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Nation<\/em> offered an op ed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/on-the-shameful-and-skewed-redskins-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\">slamming the <em>Washington Post<\/em>&#8216;s poll on their NFL team&#8217;s nickname<\/a>. I have some problems with that poll, especially the identification of respondents, but I think this focuses too much on the potential harm of the name and not enough on questioning the science behind the poll (if needed).<\/li>\n<li>A chemist and a synthetic biologist (I didn&#8217;t know this was a thing) at Harvard have developed a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/bionic-leaf-makes-fuel-from-sunlight-water-and-air1\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;bionic leaf&#8221; that creates alcohol fuels from sun, water, and CO2<\/a>. It&#8217;s still very early in the development process, but the possibilities \u2013 creating renewable fuels and plastics while reducing CO2 in the atmosphere \u2013 are huge.<\/li>\n<li>This article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/20160602-computings-search-for-the-best-quantum-questions\/\" target=\"_blank\">what questions quantum computers might best be able to solve<\/a> reminded me of Lance Fortnow&#8217;s book on the P vs NP problem, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1GIkZ2y\" target=\"_blank\">The Golden Ticket<\/a><\/em>. So-called &#8220;NP-hard&#8221; problems represent the most complex problems in computational theory, and quantum computers right now appear to offer the only possible way to solve them.<\/li>\n<li>A deranged pediatrician in Nashville <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nashvillescene.com\/pitw\/archives\/2016\/06\/02\/cool-springs-family-doctor-stops-offering-vaccines-cites-debunked-autism-link\" target=\"_blank\">has stopped offering vaccinations, claiming they cause autism<\/a>. Needless to say, if you live around there, don&#8217;t give him your business.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My third mock draft went up Friday morning, without a ton of big changes from the last one. Feedback from club sources so far is that it&#8217;s reasonable other than the fact that I don&#8217;t have Mickey Moniak going in the top ten; I agree with them, and was very uncomfortable with where I had [&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":[828,84,883,870,807],"class_list":["post-4901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-climate-change","tag-coffee","tag-rape-culture","tag-stick-to-baseball","tag-vaccines","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4901","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=4901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4903,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4901\/revisions\/4903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}