{"id":5688,"date":"2017-05-20T17:00:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T21:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=5688"},"modified":"2017-05-20T17:00:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T21:00:19","slug":"stick-to-baseball-52017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/20\/stick-to-baseball-52017\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 5\/20\/17."},"content":{"rendered":"

My one baseball post this past week was the annual ranking of the Top 25 MLB players under 25<\/a>, which causes more “read the intro” violations than anything else I write every year. I also held a Klawchat<\/a> on Thursday while in Minneapolis; I will do a quick eats post from there soon, but I’m about six topics behind here due to travel and lack of sleep.<\/p>\n

For Paste<\/em>, I reviewed the new puzzle game Shahrazad<\/a>, which has a solo version and a two-player mode, both pretty clever with fantastic artwork and very few rules to learn.<\/p>\n

My book, Smart Baseball<\/a><\/em>, came out on April 25th from HarperCollins in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook formats. I traveled to Atlanta and the Twin Cities for readings\/signings this past week, and am very grateful to all of you who came out to buy the book, have yours signed, or just say hello; we had 50+ folks at each event and Moon Palace Books sold out of the book Thursday night. Smart Baseball<\/em> also got a very positive review<\/a> from an unexpected source, the political site The Federalist<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I’m still sending out my email newsletter<\/a> when I can, and the last edition, about some recent troubles I’ve had with my anxiety disorder and the medication I take for it, got the strongest response yet \u2013 so many replies and comments, in fact, that I haven’t been able to respond to the majority of them. I did see them all, though, and I really appreciate all the kind words.<\/p>\n

And now, the links…<\/p>\n