{"id":7590,"date":"2019-05-05T20:52:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T00:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=7590"},"modified":"2019-05-05T20:52:46","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T00:52:46","slug":"stick-to-baseball-5-5-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/05\/stick-to-baseball-5-5-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 5\/5\/19."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had two ESPN+ posts last week, my ranking of <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/2vrX6tV\">the top 50 prospects in this year&#8217;s draft class<\/a> and a scouting blog post covering <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/2LiOH7a\">a half-dozen top prep players<\/a> (five of them on the top 50). My first mock draft of 2019 goes up on Monday. I held a <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/2Lf0dQF\">Klawchat<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>I sent out the latest edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyletter.com\/keithlaw\">my free email newsletter<\/a> on Friday as well. I&#8217;ve been trying to time those to when I&#8217;ve got actual content to tell you all about, especially baseball things.<\/p>\n<p>And now, the links&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Longreads first: The Cut looks at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/2019\/04\/larry-ray-sarah-lawrence-students.html\">a small cult that operated within the Sarah Lawrence campus<\/a>, as the father of a student there ended up crashing in her dorm and taking control of many of her roommates&#8217; lives. The university&#8217;s reluctance to act is especially disturbing.<\/li>\n<li>BuzzFeed talked to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/rosiegray\/katie-mchugh\">former white nationalist writer\/provocateur Katie McHugh<\/a>, a piece that tries to exonerate her (and fails, in my opinion) but that is instructive into how the alt-right social media machine works.<\/li>\n<li>The Saudi government has regularly helped its citizens living in the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/saudi-fugitives-accused-of-serious-crimes-get-help-to-flee-while-u-s-officials-look-the-other-way\">escape prosecution for crimes by spiriting them out of the country<\/a>, yet we do nothing about this because we continue to believe that the Saudis are our friends despite forty-plus years of evidence that they are not. First it was oil, now it&#8217;s help against terrorism, but there&#8217;s always an excuse for treating the Saudis as allies even when their actions say otherwise.<\/li>\n<li>My friend Tim Grierson <a href=\"https:\/\/melmagazine.com\/en-us\/story\/werner-herzog-doesnt-do-introspection\">interviewed director\/actor Werner Herzog<\/a> on the eve of the German film giant&#8217;s new documentary <em>Meeting Gorbachev<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Kavitha Davidson wrote in the <i>Guardian<\/i>\u00a0about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2019\/apr\/27\/violence-against-women-isnt-a-sports-issue-but-a-societal-one\">sexual assault in sports and society<\/a>, focusing on Luke Walton&#8217;s attorney is trying to use #MeToo to denigrate the coach&#8217;s victim.<\/li>\n<li>The <i>New York Times<\/i>\u00a0explores <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/30\/dining\/farming-climate-change.html\">eleven major food crops already affected by climate change<\/a>, which, as the article notes, is widely denied by elected officials (always Republicans) from many of the states that rely on agriculture for employment and income.<\/li>\n<li>The <i>Washington Post<\/i>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/how-darcy-carden-finally-found-her-good-place\/2019\/04\/25\/e5584528-668f-11e9-8985-4cf30147bdca_story.html\">profiles D&#8217;Arcy Carden<\/a>, who plays Janet on <i>The Good Place<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li>The <i>Post<\/i>\u00a0also argues that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2019\/04\/30\/time-get-much-tougher-anti-vaccine-crowd\/\">anti-vaxxers should bear the financial costs of their actions<\/a> when outbreaks occur.<\/li>\n<li>The anti-vaxxer movement is <a href=\"https:\/\/respectfulinsolence.com\/2019\/05\/03\/violent-rhetoric-antivaccine-intensifies\/\">also turning to increasingly violent rhetoric<\/a>. We ignored this as a society when anti-abortion activists did it, and then when white nationalists did it, and both movements eventually turned to violence and terrorism.<\/li>\n<li>Those same anti-vaxxers are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/canada\/article-mother-whose-son-died-of-the-flu-says-shes-become-a-target-of-anti\/\">harassing and threatening a Toronto mother whose son died of the flu<\/a> as she has been advocating for greater use of the flu vaccine.<\/li>\n<li>Measles had been eradicated in this hemisphere in 2000; it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2019\/04\/measles-media\/588130\/\">just reached its highest level in the U.S. in twenty years<\/a>, entirely because of anti-vaxxers.<\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile, science-denier Darryl Metcalfe, Pennsylvania&#8217;s representative for its 12th district (guess which party!), introduced a bill <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cranberryeagle.com\/article\/20190430\/CRAN0101\/190439989\/-1\/CRAN\">making it <i>easier<\/i>\u00a0for parents to skip vaccinations<\/a> by requiring doctors to treat unvaccinated children even if it poses risks to other patients.<\/li>\n<li>Germany&#8217;s health minister proposed <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/wireStory\/germany-mulls-fines-boost-measles-vaccination-rates-62833643\">issuing large fines to families who don&#8217;t vaccinate<\/a> their school-aged children. Add that to liability and you might extinguish enough of the deniers to stop these outbreaks.<\/li>\n<li>Indonesia announced a plan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-48093431\">to move the capital away from Jakarta<\/a> because that city is sinking.<\/li>\n<li>The political science valedictorian at Brigham Young University <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1606229\/brigham-young-valedictorian-matt-easton-proud-to-be-a-gay-son-of-god\/\">announced during his speech that he&#8217;s gay<\/a>, a huge move given that the Mormon Church just announced a month ago that homosexuality was no longer considered apostasy.<\/li>\n<li>Adam Serwer argues in the <i>Atlantic<\/i>\u00a0that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2019\/03\/mosque-shooter-troll-like-original-nazis\/585415\/\">Nazis are and have always been trolls<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A <i>National Geographic<\/i>\u00a0editorial argues that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/environment\/2019\/04\/science-study-outlines-30-percent-conservation-2030\/\">we must keep half of all land mass in its natural state<\/a> to stop climate change. That may be true, but, uh, good luck with that.<\/li>\n<li>A federal court ruled that <a href=\"https:\/\/radio.wosu.org\/post\/ohios-congressional-map-ruled-unconstitutional-federal-court\">Ohio Republicans violated Ohioans&#8217; constitutional rights<\/a> with a 2011 gerrymander. I know New Jersey Democrats did this too, but are all of the remaining gerrymanders this decade by Republicans?<\/li>\n<li>Board game news: Plan B Games opened <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planbgames.com\/en\/all-our-games\/10-century-a-new-world.html\">pre-orders for Century: A New World<\/a>, the third game in Emerson Matsuuchi&#8217;s trilogy that also included Spice Road and Eastern Wonders.<\/li>\n<li>Acram Digital announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/charterstone.acram.eu\/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=FirstAnnounce\">they&#8217;re developing a digital port of Charterstone<\/a>, the tremendous legacy game that was my #2 title of 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Asmodee announced <a href=\"https:\/\/aconytebooks.com\/2019\/aconyte-press-release\/\">the creation of a new fiction imprint<\/a> to publish works based on or tied to its wide stable of board game and RPG titles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had two ESPN+ posts last week, my ranking of the top 50 prospects in this year&#8217;s draft class and a scouting blog post covering a half-dozen top prep players (five of them on the top 50). My first mock draft of 2019 goes up on Monday. I held a Klawchat on Thursday. I sent [&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":[1083,828,190,971,883,870,807],"class_list":["post-7590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-board-game-news","tag-climate-change","tag-links","tag-metoo","tag-rape-culture","tag-stick-to-baseball","tag-vaccines","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7590","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=7590"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7596,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7590\/revisions\/7596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}