{"id":6557,"date":"2018-04-15T12:18:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T16:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=6557"},"modified":"2018-04-15T12:18:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T16:18:20","slug":"stick-to-baseball-4-15-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/15\/stick-to-baseball-4-15-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 4\/15\/18."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two new posts for Insiders this week, both on draft prospects I went to see: one on <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/2Hp91R1\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Weathers, Ryan Rolison, and Ethan Hankins<\/a>; another on <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/2GFJ6Vv\" target=\"_blank\">Kentucky&#8217;s Sean Hjelle and Tristan Pompey<\/a>. All five are likely first rounders, although Hankins, coming back from a shoulder issue, could end up going to Vanderbilt if teams aren&#8217;t willing to pony up.<\/p>\n<p>My latest board game review for <em>Paste<\/em> covers <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/2JvCtDb\" target=\"_blank\">the dice-drafting game Sagrada<\/a>, which is easy to learn but has very high replay value. Players choose dice from a common set, rolled each round, to fill out their personal boards resembling stained-glass windows. I&#8217;ve also been playing a &#8216;pre-alpha&#8217; release of the Terraforming Mars app on Steam, and it looks fantastic.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/2foenM8\" target=\"_blank\">Smart Baseball<\/a><\/em> is now out in paperback! Buy a zillion copies for all your Linkedin contacts. You should also sign up for <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyletter.com\/keithlaw\" target=\"_blank\">my free not-quite-weekly email newsletter<\/a>, which has more personal essays and links to everything I&#8217;ve written.<\/p>\n<p>And now, the links\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Longreads first: Dayn Perry writes about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/news\/the-white-sox-ballpark-in-chicago-that-never-was-and-could-have-changed-history\/\" target=\"_blank\">the new White Sox ballpark that should have been but wasn&#8217;t<\/a>, a tight stadium in Armour Park that would have preserved more of the neighborhood and allowed for more economic development. Instead, the city and state caved to team ownership, funding a monstrous stadium, forcibly removing hundreds of families from their homes, and failing to even charge the team rent for 18 years.<\/li>\n<li>The BBC has a story written by an American man <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/stories-43700153\" target=\"_blank\">who was a schoolteacher for 17 years despite being illiterate<\/a>. He didn&#8217;t learn to read until he was 48, and how he got as far as he did is incredible.<\/li>\n<li>The <em>Guardian<\/em>&#8216;s long read of the week looks at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/apr\/13\/how-much-is-an-hour-worth-the-war-over-the-minimum-wage\" target=\"_blank\">the ongoing debate over the minimum wage<\/a>, which tends to be expressed solely in economic terms and often involves one side or the other rushing to claim victory based on a single study.<\/li>\n<li>Author Junot Diaz (<em>The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao<\/em>) revealed in a first-person piece for the <em>New Yorker<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2018\/04\/16\/the-silence-the-legacy-of-childhood-trauma\/amp\" target=\"_blank\">that he was raped by a family friend when he was eight years old<\/a>, never got therapy or any kind of help, and spent the next few decades dealing with the consequences.<\/li>\n<li>Also in the <em>New Yorker<\/em>, staff writer Adam Davidson looks at the Michael Cohen case, calling it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/news-desk\/michael-cohen-and-the-end-stage-of-the-trump-presidency\" target=\"_blank\">the beginning of the end of the Trump presidency<\/a>; I&#8217;m not so sanguine. The lawyerly folks at Popehat weighed in on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popehat.com\/2018\/04\/09\/the-search-of-trump-lawyer-michael-cohens-office-what-we-can-infer-immediately\/\" target=\"_blank\">what Monday&#8217;s raid on Cohen&#8217;s office implied<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A professor of social psychology and decision-making writes in <em>Scientific American<\/em> that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/psychological-weapons-of-mass-persuasion\/\" target=\"_blank\">targeted stories and fake news likely affected just a small percentage of voters<\/a> in the 2016 U.S. election, but that small number was also more than enough to swing the overall result. The author also looks at <em>why<\/em> those stories were effective.<\/li>\n<li><em>Adweek<\/em> looks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adweek.com\/digital\/heres-how-facebooks-algorithm-shift-is-hurting-digital-publishers-and-the-steps-they-can-take-to-survive\/\" target=\"_blank\">the change in Facebook&#8217;s news feed is killing digital publishers<\/a>. I&#8217;m still there with a public page for readers, but I get less traction there than on Twitter or via this site.<\/li>\n<li>Franklin Foer writes in <em>Atlantic<\/em> about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2018\/05\/realitys-end\/556877\/\" target=\"_blank\">our new era of fake videos<\/a> \u2013 not just the &#8216;deepfakes&#8217; of the porn world, but the new potential for fake news videos or videos of politicians &#8216;saying&#8217; things they never said.<\/li>\n<li>Hamilton Nolan has an angry &#8220;guide&#8221; to <a href=\"https:\/\/splinternews.com\/the-working-persons-guide-to-the-industry-that-might-ki-1824148959\" target=\"_blank\">how private equity firms are gutting companies for shareholder profits<\/a>, which was in evidence recently at the <em>Denver Post<\/em>. A writer at the Boulder <em>Daily Camera<\/em> wrote an editorial about this very topic that the publisher refused to print, so he posted it <a href=\"https:\/\/boulderfreepress.blog\/2018\/04\/14\/private-equity-owners-endanger-cameras-future\/\" target=\"_blank\">on his own blog<\/a> instead.<\/li>\n<li>The former Texas Deputy DA who rejected a recommendation to pursue charges against Trump University <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/politics\/2018\/04\/11\/trump-nominee-federal-judge-killed-texas-lawsuit-trump-university\" target=\"_blank\">just landed a nomination to a federal judgeship<\/a>. I&#8217;m sure that&#8217;s all a coincidence, though!<\/li>\n<li>The National Academy of Medicine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/09\/health\/academy-medicine-plagiarism.html\" target=\"_blank\">is resisting efforts to expel a member who plagiarized and fabricated major parts of his C.V.<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Australian novelist Tim Winton argues <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2018\/apr\/09\/about-the-boys-tim-winton-on-how-toxic-masculinity-is-shackling-men-to-misogyny\" target=\"_blank\">toxic masculinity in adults leads to the raising of misogynist boys<\/a> as the latter are discouraged from showing empathy or tenderness to meet a one-sided standard of macho behavior.<\/li>\n<li>The belief that people have different learning &#8220;styles,&#8221; usually categorized as visual or auditory, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2018\/04\/the-myth-of-learning-styles\/557687\/\" target=\"_blank\">is not supported by any evidence<\/a>. And folks have certainly tried.<\/li>\n<li>Antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis is on its way, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-04-11\/north-korea-s-other-weapon-is-poised-to-explode\" target=\"_blank\">and North Korea may be its incubator<\/a>, exacerbated by cuts to global funding (including sanctions by our current Administration) that will include money to try to fight the disease. While looking more into this I found an article from February 2017 explaining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goatsandsoda\/2017\/02\/14\/511227050\/why-killer-viruses-are-on-the-rise\" target=\"_blank\">how human encroachment on rain forests leads to the emergence of new viruses<\/a>, profiling one researcher trying to identify new pathogens before they start killing humans.<\/li>\n<li>CMON Games announced the August 2018 (scheduled) release of a board game based on the <em>Kick-Ass<\/em> comic book series:<br \/>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In 2018, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CMONGames?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CMONGames<\/a> will release Kick-Ass: The Board Game. Dudes on a map w\/players managing social media, too. \u2014WEM <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vxOeKOfgsV\">pic.twitter.com\/vxOeKOfgsV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BoardGameGeek (@BoardGameGeek) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BoardGameGeek\/status\/897918426802515968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two new posts for Insiders this week, both on draft prospects I went to see: one on Ryan Weathers, Ryan Rolison, and Ethan Hankins; another on Kentucky&#8217;s Sean Hjelle and Tristan Pompey. All five are likely first rounders, although Hankins, coming back from a shoulder issue, could end up going to Vanderbilt if teams aren&#8217;t [&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":[49,582,844,190,649,799,907,870,940],"class_list":["post-6557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-baseball","tag-board-games","tag-economics","tag-links","tag-ptsd","tag-science","tag-social-media","tag-stick-to-baseball","tag-the-swamp","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6557","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=6557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6558,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6557\/revisions\/6558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}