{"id":7563,"date":"2019-04-13T17:09:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T21:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=7563"},"modified":"2019-04-13T17:09:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T21:09:23","slug":"stick-to-baseball-4-13-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/13\/stick-to-baseball-4-13-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 4\/13\/19."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve had four ESPN+ posts this week. On the draft blog, I covered <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"last week's NHSI + Elon RHP George Kirby (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/2FVlNE1\" target=\"_blank\">last week&#8217;s NHSI tournament + Elon RHP George Kirby<\/a>, then scouted <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"West Virginia RHP Alek Manoah and Texas Tech 3b Josh Jung (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/2UgqIEE\" target=\"_blank\">West Virginia RHP Alek Manoah and Texas Tech 3b Josh Jung<\/a>. I&#8217;ve heard Jung&#8217;s name pronounced a few ways, but I think it has to be either Josh Jung or Yosh Yung, for consistency&#8217;s sake. On the pro side, I looked at the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"most prospect-laden minor league rosters this year (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/2Z26QZD\" target=\"_blank\">most prospect-laden minor league rosters this year<\/a>, and finally saw <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/2G8670b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Luis Robert play against the Royals' high-A squad (opens in a new tab)\">Luis Robert play against the Royals&#8217; high-A squad<\/a>. I also held a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Klawchat (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/2IrjThm\" target=\"_blank\">Klawchat<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over at <i>Paste<\/i>, I <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"reviewed Architects of the West Kingdom (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/articles\/2019\/04\/architects-of-the-west-kingdom-review.html\" target=\"_blank\">reviewed Architects of the West Kingdom<\/a>, the newest game from Shem Phillips, who got a Spiel nomination for 2015&#8217;s Raiders of the North Sea. Architects is a busy worker-placement game, but has a few fun quirks like capturing your opponents&#8217; meeples and selling them to the prison, or trading reputation to steal tax money or go to the black market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now, the links:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Longreads first: Anne Boyer writes in the <i>New Yorker<\/i> about <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2019\/04\/15\/what-cancer-takes-away\" target=\"_blank\">what cancer takes away from you<\/a> even if you survive it.<\/li><li>Adjunct professors are the minor-league baseball players of academia: overworked, underpaid, and often living on the edge of poverty. The <i>Atlantic<\/i> looks at one such adjunct <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/education\/archive\/2019\/04\/adjunct-professors-higher-education-thea-hunter\/586168\/\" target=\"_blank\">who died because she couldn&#8217;t afford basic medical care<\/a> that might have saved her.<\/li><li>Hampshire College has long had a reputation as a &#8216;hippie&#8217; school, loose on the academics, maybe heavy on the substances. The college may be <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/our-columnists\/hampshire-college-a-child-of-the-sixties-faces-its-visioning-problem\/amp\" target=\"_blank\">on the verge of extinction<\/a> as it seeks a partner or buyer.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/our-columnists\/hampshire-college-a-child-of-the-sixties-faces-its-visioning-problem\/amp\"><\/a><\/li><li><i>Forbes<\/i> looks at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/christopherhelman\/2019\/04\/09\/the-deadbeat-billionaire-the-inside-story-of-how-west-virginia-gov-jim-justice-ducks-taxes-and-slow-pays-his-bills\/\" target=\"_blank\">deadbeat billionaire Jim Justice<\/a>, the current governor of West Virginia, a man who doesn&#8217;t pay his bills and ignores state regulations that don&#8217;t suit him.<\/li><li>I&#8217;ve written quite a bit here about antibiotic resistance and the need for aggressive, science-based policies to combat it. Well, fungi can also make us sick, and now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/06\/health\/drug-resistant-candida-auris.html\">Candida auris has evolved resistance to antifungal drugs<\/a>, too &#8211; and it&#8217;s hard to kill even outside the body. Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (PA-06), an engineer by training, had <a href=\"https:\/\/threadreaderapp.com\/thread\/1115299327122006016.html\">a tweet thread about this topic<\/a> after the article ran. Guess her party.<\/li><li>Kyle Korver, who sources tell me is a professional basketball player, wrote in The Player&#8217;s Tribune about <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theplayerstribune.com\/en-us\/articles\/kyle-korver-utah-jazz-nba\" target=\"_blank\">learning to understand his own privilege<\/a>.<\/li><li>Isaac Chotiner <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"interviewed writer Bret Easton Ellis (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/q-and-a\/bret-easton-ellis-thinks-youre-overreacting-to-donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\">interviewed writer Bret Easton Ellis<\/a> for the <em>New Yorker<\/em>, and Ellis said some things that didn&#8217;t play particularly well online, for good reason. I&#8217;m not linking this to dunk on Ellis, but to praise Chotiner: Look at how consistently he probes when Ellis dissembles, and how he refuses to let Ellis off the hook for saying something wrong. This is how the media should interview people in power.<\/li><li>ScienceNews has <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/new-fossils-north-dakota-dinosaur-killing-asteroid-impact\" target=\"_blank\">a follow-up piece<\/a> to a link I posted last week that profiled fossil hunter Robert DePalma and the possible discovery of a fossil record from immediately after the Chicxulub impact.<\/li><li>Chik-Fil-A continues to pour money into nonprofit groups fighting LGBT rights across the country. I haven&#8217;t set foot in one of their restaurants in at least a decade, for this precise reason, but J. Kenji Lopez-Alt shows you <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"how to recreate their famous chicken sandwich at home (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seriouseats.com\/2012\/07\/the-food-lab-how-to-make-a-chick-fil-a-sandwich-at-home.html\" target=\"_blank\">how to recreate their famous chicken sandwich at home<\/a>.<\/li><li><i>WIRED<\/i> explains <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/robocalls-spam-fix-stir-shaken\/\" target=\"_blank\">why the robocall problem will never truly be fixed<\/a>.<\/li><li>Elizabeth Warren may not be faring well in early polls or fundraising, but Moira Donegan writes in the <i>Guardian<\/i> that <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/apr\/12\/elizabeth-warren-idemocratic-party-influence-2020\" target=\"_blank\">Warren is the intellectual powerhouse of the Democratic Party<\/a>, producing practical policy proposals where others purvey platitudes.<\/li><li>This week&#8217;s Hidden Brain podcast episode looks at how <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"societal views of gay rights changed so dramatically (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/hidden-brain\/id1028908750?i=1000434461022\" target=\"_blank\">societal views of gay rights changed so dramatically<\/a> inside of fifty years.<\/li><li>Stand your white ground: An Alabama woman who shot and killed the man who violently raped her and then assaulted her brother is <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"now facing life in prison (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/theappeal.org\/alabama-woman-faces-life-sentence-for-killing-man-who-allegedly-raped-her\/\" target=\"_blank\">now facing life in prison<\/a>. Don&#8217;t get mad when people stereotype the south while this shit still happens in your backyard.<\/li><li>In Missouri, two legislators &#8211; guess which party! &#8211; <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/govt-and-politics\/anti-vaccination-proposals-aired-in-missouri-legislature\/article_4a9c6a5e-7fd8-5969-a8cb-7a0d71aacc1a.html\" target=\"_blank\">are pushing anti-vaccine bills and conspiracy theories.<\/a><\/li><li>Another WIRED piece argues that <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"our health laws have failed the public good (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/new-york-vaccine-order-shows-how-health-laws-are-failing-us\/\" target=\"_blank\">our health laws have failed the public good<\/a> when it comes to vaccines, making it too easy for idiots and the ignorant to opt out.<\/li><li>Amidst the furor over US-Israeli relations, we&#8217;re losing track of the various despots Trump is propping up around the world, including <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"the rising dictatorship in Egypt (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2019\/04\/trump-sisi-dictatorship-visit.html\" target=\"_blank\">the rising dictatorship in Egypt<\/a>.<\/li><li>Why am I including <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"a link to a press release (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/in\/news-releases\/the-singleton-of-glendullan-12-year-old-launches-in-india-a-single-malt-that-can-be-unapologetically-enjoyed-869477222.html\" target=\"_blank\">a link to a press release<\/a> about a single-malt whiskey&#8217;s launch in India? You&#8217;ll see if you read it.<\/li><li>The New York Times crossword puzzle Twitter account <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"got into a bizarre beef (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DxGGEAUX\/status\/1115754373940830208\" target=\"_blank\">got into a bizarre beef<\/a> with another twitterer over what was pretty obviously a joke.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had four ESPN+ posts this week. On the draft blog, I covered last week&#8217;s NHSI tournament + Elon RHP George Kirby, then scouted West Virginia RHP Alek Manoah and Texas Tech 3b Josh Jung. I&#8217;ve heard Jung&#8217;s name pronounced a few ways, but I think it has to be either Josh Jung or Yosh [&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":[964,822,190,1105,799,807,1040],"class_list":["post-7563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alabama","tag-gay-rights","tag-links","tag-missouri","tag-science","tag-vaccines","tag-west-virginia","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7563","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=7563"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7566,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7563\/revisions\/7566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}