{"id":5868,"date":"2017-08-12T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=5868"},"modified":"2017-08-11T22:00:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T02:00:52","slug":"stick-to-baseball-81217","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/12\/stick-to-baseball-81217\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 8\/12\/17."},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m back from a week of vacation in Aruba, which was lovely, not least because I turned my phone off when we took off from BWI and didn’t turn it back on until we landed on US soil seven-plus days later. That means my last Insider posts were at the trade deadline, including breakdowns of the Yu Darvish trade<\/a>, the Sonny Gray trade<\/a>, and the Justin Wilson\/Jeimer Candelario trade<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m back at Paste<\/em> with a new boardgame review, this time of the two-player variant of Uwe Rosenberg’s massive Caverna, Caverna: Cave vs. Cave<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I appeared on the Ringer’s Achievement Oriented podcast, co-hosted by Ben Lindbergh, to discuss the current golden age of boardgames<\/a> and how that might be affecting videogame funding. I also spoke with Jeff Krushell, who worked for the Blue Jays for some of the same years I did, about my book, Smart Baseball<\/em>, and the role of analytics in the sport<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While I was away, the Washington Post<\/em> ran a favorable review of Smart Baseball<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’ll be at GenCon 50 in Indianapolis starting on Thursday, appearing on a few panels, signing copies of Smart Baseball<\/em> on Friday at 2 pm (or if you see me walking around), and trying lots of new boardgames. I hope to see a bunch of you there.<\/p>\n

And now, the links…<\/p>\n