{"id":6388,"date":"2018-02-24T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=6388"},"modified":"2018-02-24T21:19:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T02:19:04","slug":"stick-to-baseball-2-24-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/24\/stick-to-baseball-2-24-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 2\/24\/18."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pretty stoked about the game I reviewed this week for <em>Paste<\/em>: <a href=\" http:\/\/klaw.me\/2ooy6Qj\" target=\"_blank\">Charterstone<\/a>, a competitive, legacy game that incorporates so many great things from other games, plays in just an hour, and changes the board, cards, and rules in each play.<\/p>\n<p>I had Insider posts on this week&#8217;s <a href=\" http:\/\/klaw.me\/2CzmIXf\" target=\"_blank\">three-team trade<\/a> (AZ, NYY, TB) and <a href=\" http:\/\/klaw.me\/2HsImQi\" target=\"_blank\">the JD Martinez signing<\/a>. I held a <a href=\" http:\/\/klaw.me\/2GBTHMO\" target=\"_blank\">Klawchat<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><em>Smart Baseball<\/em> comes out in paperback on March 13th! More details <a href=\" https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/9780062490230\/smart-baseball\" target=\"_blank\">on the HarperCollins page for the book<\/a>. List price is $16.99 but I imagine it&#8217;ll be less than that at many retailers.<\/p>\n<p>And now, the links\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I posted this last Saturday night on Twitter, but it&#8217;s important enough to repost here: The BBC Inquiry podcast asks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/w3csvsyq\" target=\"_blank\">why is Cape Town running out of water?<\/a> The reasons are obvious, yet authorities didn&#8217;t see this crisis coming, and the story has serious implications for cities in arid, warm regions around the world, including our own Phoenix and Tucson.<\/li>\n<li>The <em>Guardian<\/em>&#8216;s longread of the week looks at <a href=\" https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/feb\/22\/casapound-italy-mussolini-fascism-mainstream\" target=\"_blank\">the rise of Italy&#8217;s proto-fascist movement CasaPound<\/a>. The country is expected to lurch to the right in elections in two weeks; incumbent leader Silvio Berlusconi, a corrupt lecher with endless political lives, has embraced the far-right to try to stay in office.<\/li>\n<li>The <em>Washington Post<\/em> has a long article about <a href=\" https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/national\/wp\/2018\/02\/19\/feature\/trump-accuser-keeps-telling-her-story-hoping-someone-will-finally-listen\/?utm_term=.dcb178ae3250\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Crooks, whom Trump sexually assaulted in a Trump Tower elevator in 2006<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Ben Lindbergh wrote a great profile of <a href=\" https:\/\/www.theringer.com\/mlb\/2018\/2\/20\/17030428\/sherri-nichols-baseball-sabermetric-movement\" target=\"_blank\">sabermetrics pioneer Sherri Nichols<\/a>, whose Defensive Average was the first great public defensive metric (and changed the way I thought about how we discuss defensive values).<\/li>\n<li>Twitter cracked down on a bunch of alt-right trolls, including hoaxers claiming the Parkland kids were &#8216;crisis actors,&#8217; and their general counsel <a href=\" https:\/\/twitter.com\/vijaya\/status\/966451264488857600\" target=\"_blank\">explained the moves in a thread<\/a> that deserves more attention. Yes, Twitter needs to do more, but this sweep was a big step.<\/li>\n<li>One of the kids targeted by these hoaxers <a href=\" https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2018\/02\/21\/i-am-not-a-crisis-actor-florida-teens-fire-back-at-right-wing-conspiracy-theorists\/?undefined=&#038;utm_term=.51ff834a20bd&#038;wpisrc=nl_most&#038;wpmm=1\" target=\"_blank\">directly responded to his accusers<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>My alma mater&#8217;s alumni magazine interviewed Tom Nichols on <a href=\" https:\/\/harvardmagazine.com\/2018\/03\/death-of-expertise-by-tom-nichols\" target=\"_blank\">the death of expertise<\/a> and the public&#8217;s rising refusal to listen to people who actually know things.<\/li>\n<li>Digg has a piece on a disease I&#8217;d never heard of, one that causes thousands of deaths each year with just a 50% survival rate: <A href=\" http:\/\/digg.com\/2018\/melioidosis\" target=\"_blank\">melioidosis, a.k.a. Whitmore&#8217;s disease<\/a>, a bacterial infection endemic in southeast Asia and northern Australia.<\/li>\n<li>Author, astronomer, and atheism advocate Lawrence Krauss <a href=\" https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/peteraldhous\/lawrence-krauss-sexual-harassment-allegations?utm_term=.ihLknxLqX#.imYkoMrxV\" target=\"_blank\">has been accused of sexual harassment by multiple women<\/a>, something that seems to be too common in the skeptic community (where Michael Shermer has also been accused of sexually harassing or assaulting multiple women). In a movement that prides itself on demanding and then accepting evidence, you&#8217;d think these women would find more support.<\/li>\n<li>Pennsylvania Republicans are willing to dismantle the state&#8217;s democracy to retain power, <a href=\" http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2018\/02\/the-gop-is-serious-about-impeaching-p-a-judges.html\" target=\"_blank\">moving towards impeaching the state judges who ruled against their gerrymandered map<\/a>. They&#8217;re also <a href=\" https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/pennsylvania-gerrymandering_us_5a8f3094e4b01e9e56b9b243\" target=\"_blank\">suing yet again to stop the redistricting<\/a>. One wonders what they&#8217;re so afraid of.<\/li>\n<li>The great ProPublica gets a profile of <a href=\" https:\/\/www.fastcodesign.com\/90160486\/how-propublica-became-big-techs-scariest-watchdog\" target=\"_blank\">how it&#8217;s taking its watchdog approach to Facebook, Google, and other tech giants<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Some good news on the vaccine front: <a href=\" https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/feb\/21\/trump-vaccination-safety-commission-robert-kennedy-autism?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other\" target=\"_blank\">Trump appears to have abandoned his vaccine-autism commission idea<\/a>. The UK is having its own vaccine-denial problem, prompting the <em>Guardian<\/em> to also issue this editorial <a href=\" https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/feb\/22\/vaccinating-children-immunisation-compulsory-immunisation?CMP=share_btn_tw\" target=\"_blank\">on how we need to hear parents&#8217; fears, and make them immunize their kids anyway<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>An Idaho group <a href=\" http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/friendlyatheist\/2018\/02\/20\/these-coffins-represent-kids-who-died-because-their-parents-were-faith-healers\/#Zj9hPlTkkOUPKlXd.99\" target=\"_blank\">brought 183 small coffins to the Boise state house<\/a>, one for each kid who died in the state because their parents were &#8216;faith healers,&#8217; going back to 1970. You have a right to practice your religion, but you do not have the right to let your kids die for your faith. The latter is something you get with so-called &#8220;religious freedom&#8221; laws.<\/li>\n<li>Kyle Lobner, formerly of BrewCrewBall, is starting a newsletter version of his Frosty Mug daily links roundups, aimed mostly at Brewers fans, and <a href=\" https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/FrostyMug\" target=\"_blank\">you can support his efforts via Patreon<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Sorry, but it turns out that <a href=\" https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goatsandsoda\/2018\/02\/20\/587252058\/so-how-excited-is-nigeria-about-its-history-making-womens-bobsled-team\" target=\"_blank\">Nigerians just don&#8217;t care about their bobsled team<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A brief post from the founder of the Environmental Voter Project argues that the NRA is effective <a href=\" https:\/\/medium.com\/@nathanielstinnett\/its-not-the-nra-s-money-it-s-the-nra-s-voters-c0694745eb13\" target=\"_blank\">because its voters show up, not because of money<\/a>. The answer, of course, is to boost turnout of people opposed to the NRA&#8217;s agenda.<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pretty stoked about the game I reviewed this week for Paste: Charterstone, a competitive, legacy game that incorporates so many great things from other games, plays in just an hour, and changes the board, cards, and rules in each play. I had Insider posts on this week&#8217;s three-team trade (AZ, NYY, TB) and the [&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":[984,985,190,971,799,986,870,807,987],"class_list":["post-6388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-guns","tag-italy","tag-links","tag-metoo","tag-science","tag-south-africa","tag-stick-to-baseball","tag-vaccines","tag-water-crisis","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6388","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=6388"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6398,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6388\/revisions\/6398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}