{"id":4968,"date":"2016-07-09T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=4968"},"modified":"2016-07-09T10:46:25","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T14:46:25","slug":"stick-to-baseball-7916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/09\/stick-to-baseball-7916\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 7\/9\/16."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My annual <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/29pryL2\" target=\"_blank\">top 25 MLB players under age 25<\/a> ranking went up this week for Insiders, and please read the intro while you&#8217;re there. I also wrote a non-Insider <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/29iQ91D\" target=\"_blank\">All-Star roster reaction piece<\/a>, covering five glaring snubs and five guys who made it but shouldn&#8217;t have. I also held my usual <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/29BUPnX\" target=\"_blank\">Klawchat<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>My latest boardgame review for <em>Paste<\/em> covers <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/29omjKi\" target=\"_blank\">the reissue of the Reiner Knizia game Ra<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tinyletter.com\/keithlaw\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for my newsletter<\/a>! You&#8217;ll get occasional emails from me with links to my content and stray thoughts that didn&#8217;t fit anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>And now, the links&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>U.S. Senior District Judge Henry Coke Morgan ruled this week that the federal government <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/computer-internet-hacked-us-government-privacy-international-a7113906.html\" target=\"_blank\">did not require a warrant to hack into a computer to get its IP address<\/a>. I&#8217;m linking to that news story, which takes a broader view of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/2896909-Opinion-and-Order-in-Matish.html\" target=\"_blank\">ruling<\/a> than I got from reading it (note: I&#8217;m not a lawyer), because I&#8217;m soliciting your opinions. While I don&#8217;t like the ruling, I don&#8217;t think this just some idiot judge failing to understand the technology. The ruling instead says that a user has no reasonable expectation of privacy around his\/her IP address (fair), and therefore the government did not need a warrant to do what it did here (unfair?).<\/li>\n<li>Alberta prosecutors are appealing for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/news\/canada\/alberta-crown-appeals-sentence-in-toddler-meningitis-death\/\" target=\"_blank\">a longer sentence against the anti-vaxxer parents<\/a> who let their kid die of meningitis. The father in particular has dug in, failing to comply with a judge&#8217;s order to <a href=\"http:\/\/calgaryherald.com\/opinion\/columnists\/breakenridge-ezekiels-parents-still-havent-complied-and-posted-judges-ruling\" target=\"_blank\">post the ruling<\/a> on their &#8220;prayers for Ezekiel&#8221; page.<\/li>\n<li>A study of 481 pitchers aged 9 to 14 found that <a href=\"http:\/\/ajs.sagepub.com\/content\/39\/2\/253?partnerId=as_mlb_20160123_56472336&#038;adbid=690911879791665152&#038;adbpl=tw&#038;adbpr=2617448580\" target=\"_blank\">pitching more than 100 innings in a year increased injury likelihood by 350%<\/a>. The same study found no correlation between curveball usage and injury, and a statistically insignificant correlation between playing catcher and suffering injury.<\/li>\n<li>Remember my post on how Suki Kim&#8217;s work of investigative journalism inside North Korea was tabbed a &#8220;memoir&#8221; over her objections? Well, the <em>NY Times<\/em> reviewed Hisham Matar&#8217;s latest book and wrote &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/10\/books\/review\/hisham-matar-the-return.html?smid=tw-nytbooks&#038;smtyp=cur&#038;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">It seems unfair to call Hisham Matar\u2019s extraordinary new book a memoir, since it is so many other things besides<\/a>.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>I tweeted about how people use the passive voice to avoid responsibility, at which point a reader sent this 2014 <em>Washington Post<\/em> story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2014\/07\/14\/the-curious-grammar-of-police-shootings\/\" target=\"_blank\">on exactly that topic in discussing police shootings<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The indie-rock band WAVVES, who appear quite frequently on my music playlists here, made \u2026 uh, waves this week when bandleader Nathan Williams <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/66612-wavves-ban-racists-homophobes-trump-supporters-from-shows\/\" target=\"_blank\">banned racists, homophobes, rape apologists, and Trump supporters from their concerts<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>A Jewish writer who works for Donald Trump&#8217;s son-in-law at <em>The Observer<\/em> wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.com\/2016\/07\/an-open-letter-to-jared-kushner-from-one-of-your-jewish-employees\/\" target=\"_blank\">this open letter on the candidate&#8217;s anti-Semitic comments<\/a> to her boss.<\/li>\n<li>Macy&#8217;s apparently has a history of <a href=\"http:\/\/jezebel.com\/judge-orders-macys-to-quit-fining-detaining-suspected-1782962867\" target=\"_blank\">illegally detaining and extorting suspected shoplifters<\/a>. This seems like something from a Philip K. Dick novel.<\/li>\n<li>Some state agencies won&#8217;t forgive student loans <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/04\/nyregion\/in-new-jersey-student-loan-program-even-death-may-not-bring-a-reprieve.html?smid=tw-nytimes&#038;smtyp=cur\" target=\"_blank\">even if the borrower dies<\/a>. Our student loan industry is a giant disaster anyway, and it isn&#8217;t doing anything to make college more affordable. I&#8217;d love to see Sallie Mae and other analogous institutions shut down entirely, at which point colleges won&#8217;t be able to hike tuition indiscriminately any more.<\/li>\n<li>You can be biased <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/mind-guest-blog\/we-re-all-biased-but-that-doesn-t-keep-us-from-making-valid-decisions\/?WT.mc_id=SA_TW_MB_BLOG\" target=\"_blank\">but still be right<\/a>. Maybe I should send this to every whining fan accusing me of bias for or against every team.<\/li>\n<li>Can organic farms <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geneticliteracyproject.org\/2016\/06\/28\/comes-sustainable-organic-farming-size-matter\/\" target=\"_blank\">be run on large spaces like so-called Big Ag<\/a>? The regulatory answer is yes, but the practices of these farms probably don&#8217;t match what you think of as &#8220;organic.&#8221; I&#8217;ve been listening to the audio version of Blue Hill executive chef Dan Barber&#8217;s new book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/29VTTaq\" target=\"_blank\">The Third Plate<\/a><\/em>, and it&#8217;s quite clear that &#8220;organic&#8221; as a food label is quickly losing its meaning.<\/li>\n<li>A longread from <em>Foreign Policy<\/em> about <a href=\"http:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2016\/07\/05\/the-disappearance-of-dahlia-yehia-nepal-sharing-economy-couchsurfing-earthquake-disappearance\/\" target=\"_blank\">the murder of an American woman in Nepal<\/a> touches on both the legally shady industry of couchsurfing (and similar businesses) and the possibility that an innocent man was tortured into a confession.<\/li>\n<li>Tweet of the week:<br \/>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tell me again how the US improved their water and sanitation in 1995. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/vaccines?src=hash\">#vaccines<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/vaccineswork?src=hash\">#vaccineswork<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0CPeI0gnFv\">pic.twitter.com\/0CPeI0gnFv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Doc Bastard (@DocBastard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DocBastard\/status\/751527399628636161\">July 8, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My annual top 25 MLB players under age 25 ranking went up this week for Insiders, and please read the intro while you&#8217;re there. I also wrote a non-Insider All-Star roster reaction piece, covering five glaring snubs and five guys who made it but shouldn&#8217;t have. I also held my usual Klawchat on Thursday. 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