{"id":6918,"date":"2018-09-09T15:53:02","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T19:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=6918"},"modified":"2018-09-09T15:53:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T19:53:02","slug":"stick-to-baseball-9-8-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/09\/stick-to-baseball-9-8-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 9\/8\/18."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My one piece for ESPN+\/Insider this week looked at <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/2NVonwN\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the top prospects at last weekend&#8217;s Future Stars Series<\/a>, including Daniel Espino, the top RHP for the 2019 draft, and Glenallen Hill, Jr. I also held a <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/2NREj2N\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Klawchat<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>My annual minor league player of the year column is supposed to run this upcoming week, which means I need to write it (it&#8217;s not like the winner is a tough choice, but I like to highlight a few other dudes who had great years too), and I am hoping to get a new edition of my email newsletter out as well.<\/p>\n<p>And now, the links&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Slate looks at <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/culture\/2018\/09\/the-athletic-is-poaching-from-local-sports-pages-and-reading-like-them-too.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the sustainability of The Athletic&#8217;s business model<\/a> while raising critical questions about whether their content is actually as unique as they claim it is. (I&#8217;m an Athletic subscriber and happy to pay for good content, but I would say I read a very small number of writers on that site.)<\/li>\n<li>Two longreads from the great investigative journalism site ProPublica this week. First, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/oregon-doctors-warned-that-a-killer-and-rapist-would-likely-attack-again-then-the-state-released-him\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">how Oregon keeps releasing violent criminals who were judged criminally insane<\/a>, with several such convicts eventually reoffending for violent crimes.<\/li>\n<li>Also, Jos\u00e9 Bacelga, a cancer researcher and the Chief Medical Officer at Sloan Kettering, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/doctor-jose-baselga-cancer-researcher-corporate-financial-ties\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">failed on several occasions to disclose financial conflicts of interest<\/a> when publishing cancer research in major journals. He was even editor-in-chief of one such journal that published his research yet broke its rules on disclosure.<\/li>\n<li>I loved Will Leitch&#8217;s take on <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2018\/09\/how-nike-got-all-the-way-to-lionizing-colin-kaepernick.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nike choosing to ally itself with Colin Kaepernick<\/a> despite the entirely expected outcry from the right. I also think they got more publicity value out of the announcement than they could possibly have bought. (Will is a friend of mine.)<\/li>\n<li>Ars Technica, for whom I have written one freelance piece, has a short column <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2018\/09\/let-science-be-your-guide-for-the-perfect-labor-day-bbq\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">asking BBQ pit masters for basic tips on pork butts and briskets<\/a>. I&#8217;ve used the foil trick to get around the stall problem with pork shoulders, but prefer not to use it because it softens the bark that forms on the meat&#8217;s exterior.<\/li>\n<li>The President&#8217;s increasingly overt racism shouldn&#8217;t be a surprise &#8211; he&#8217;s been attacking Elizabeth Warren for years by using &#8216;Pocahontas&#8217; as a sort of racial slur to question her integrity. The <em>Washington Post<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/plum-line\/wp\/2018\/09\/03\/the-truth-about-the-slander-trump-will-throw-at-elizabeth-warren\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">debunks Trump&#8217;s claims that she used her heritage<\/a> to obtain promotions or admission to schools.<\/li>\n<li>A trans woman of color was murdered in Philadelphia this week, and 2018 is shaping up to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.philly.com\/philly\/news\/transgender-violence-women-of-color-shantee-tucker-20180906.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an especially deadly year for trans people in the US<\/a>, although it seems like hard data on the subject is hard to come by. I think it&#8217;s fair to say the trend isn&#8217;t good &#8211; such killings should be going down and they&#8217;re probably not.<\/li>\n<li>Passengers on four Southwest Airlines flights <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/news\/local\/community\/dallas\/article217969895.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">may have been exposed to measles<\/a> thanks to a sick passenger who traveled on those planes. The measles virus is extremely contagious and can be fatal at the time of infection or later in life. I would entirely favor a law criminalizing the woman&#8217;s actions: flying with a contagious, vaccine-preventable disease, thus putting hundreds of people at risk.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/ride-hailing-sharing-services-uber-lyft-global-cities-traffic-26816575-fff8-44b0-a608-9dd86e8b5a10.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ride-sharing services like Uber may be exacerbating traffic problems<\/a> because riders choose them over public transportation, not over driving themselves. I do use these services from time to time, but not when public transit is available (and safe).<\/li>\n<li>Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2018\/9\/6\/17829264\/alex-jones-info-wars-banned-twitter\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">banned Alex Jones and InfoWars<\/a> this week after months of pressure to rid the site of the hoax-peddling arch-right conspiracy theory factory and its corpulent founder. Jane Coaston <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2018\/8\/6\/17655658\/alex-jones-facebook-youtube-conspiracy-theories\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">covered these bans last month<\/a> for Vox, looking at why YouTube, Apple, and Facebook took the same action.<\/li>\n<li>Board games! Z-Man Games, an imprint of Asmodee, announced the latest extension to the Pandemic brand with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zmangames.com\/en\/news\/2018\/9\/7\/announcing-pandemic-fall-of-rome\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pandemic: Fall of Rome<\/a>, which sounds a lot like last winter&#8217;s Pandemic: Rising Tide, another game that took the framework of the original Pandemic, added some clever twists to the rules, and shifted the theme away from fighting global epidemics.<\/li>\n<li>Floodgate Games announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/floodgategames\/bad-maps?ref=2w3iqu\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Kickstarter for Bad Maps<\/a>, a light family-level strategy game they demoed at Gen Con. It&#8217;s about 2\/3 to its goal with 18 days to go. Floodgate also released <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2CB66Dy\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the 5-6 player Sagrada expansion<\/a>, which includes a private dice board to tweak the original&#8217;s dice-drafting mechanic, to retail this past week. It&#8217;s $25 on amazon via that link.<\/li>\n<li>Starling Games announced a Kickstarter, opening to backers on September 10th, for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/starlinggames\/933977128?ref=532597&#038;token=2af0bd02\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pearlbrook, the first expansion for Everdell<\/a>, itself in the running for my #1 new game of 2018.<\/li>\n<li>It seems like each week brings one great new(ish) comic on vaccine denialism, so <a href=\"http:\/\/comicorama.tumblr.com\/post\/177063801446\/cientirinhas113\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s the latest<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My one piece for ESPN+\/Insider this week looked at the top prospects at last weekend&#8217;s Future Stars Series, including Daniel Espino, the top RHP for the 2019 draft, and Glenallen Hill, Jr. I also held a Klawchat on Thursday. My annual minor league player of the year column is supposed to run this upcoming week, [&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":[50,582,190,348,907,870,807],"class_list":["post-6918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bbq","tag-board-games","tag-links","tag-media-criticism","tag-social-media","tag-stick-to-baseball","tag-vaccines","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6918","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=6918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6920,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6918\/revisions\/6920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}