{"id":7668,"date":"2019-06-15T11:12:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T15:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=7668"},"modified":"2019-06-15T11:12:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T15:12:52","slug":"stick-to-baseball-6-16-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/15\/stick-to-baseball-6-16-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 6\/16\/19."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I had one ESPN+ piece this week, looking at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"which teams just drafted their new #1 or #2 prospects (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/2I88t1t\" target=\"_blank\">which teams just drafted their new #1 or #2 prospects<\/a> in last week&#8217;s draft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On July 8th, the day after the MLB Futures Game, I&#8217;ll be <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"speaking at the Hudson Library in Hudson, Ohio (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/engagedpatrons.org\/EventsExtended.cfm?SiteID=3850&amp;EventID=366612&amp;PK=\" target=\"_blank\">speaking at the Hudson Library in Hudson, Ohio<\/a>, about <em>Smart Baseball<\/em> and signing books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyletter.com\/keithlaw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"free email newsletter (opens in a new tab)\">free email newsletter<\/a> is back, at least in the sense that I&#8217;ve sent it out twice in the last two weeks, so maybe sign up for that too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now, the links&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Longreads first: The <em>Guardian<\/em> has an excerpt on a book that argues there are <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"harmful effects of the co-opting of mindfulness (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2019\/jun\/14\/the-mindfulness-conspiracy-capitalist-spirituality\" target=\"_blank\">harmful effects of the co-opting of mindfulness<\/a> by those who push it as a panacea.<\/li><li>The <em>New Yorker<\/em> solved <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/news-desk\/the-campaign-volunteer-whose-brilliance-haunted-robert-f-kennedy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"the mystery of the McCarthy campaign worker Pat Sylvester (opens in a new tab)\">the mystery of the McCarthy campaign worker Pat Sylvester<\/a> who impressed Robert F. Kennedy in an impromptu conversation (that included Taylor Branch, later to win a Pulitzer Prize) at the Indianapolis Airport just a month before Kennedy was assassinated. <\/li><li>This piece was free but went premium after I bookmarked it &#8211; the <em>Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em> looks at how the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"University of Utah failed to protect a student (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/interactives\/plain-sight?cid=wsinglestory_hp_3\" target=\"_blank\">University of Utah failed to protect a student<\/a> who was stalked and later killed by her former partner.<\/li><li>In the backwater swirling, update: Alabama banned abortion for rape victims but protects <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"the parental rights of rapists (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/in-alabama--where-lawmakers-banned-abortion-for-rape-victims--rapists-parental-rights-are-protected\/2019\/06\/09\/6d2aa5de-831b-11e9-933d-7501070ee669_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">the parental rights of rapists<\/a>. BBC&#8217;s The Inquiry podcast asked <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"why is it always Alabama? (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/w3csytg2\" target=\"_blank\">why is it always Alabama?<\/a> in this week&#8217;s episode.<\/li><li>Former Congressional candidate Paul Nehlen has turned to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"advocating violence in favor of a whites-only state (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/fighting-hate\/extremist-files\/individual\/paul-nehlen\" target=\"_blank\">advocating violence in favor of a whites-only state<\/a>.<\/li><li>Nancy Bass Wyden, owner of New York&#8217;s iconic bookstore The Strand, penned an editorial <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"opposing the city's designation of the building and store as a landmark (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/opinion\/ny-oped-breaking-the-back-of-a-bookstore-20190614-65uxejxmiffydhikn2cdwm5gwe-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">opposing the city&#8217;s designation of the building and store as a landmark<\/a>. <em>Reason<\/em> also has <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"an editorial on the topic (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2019\/06\/11\/new-york-city-landmarks-historic-bookstore-the-strand-over-owners-objections\/\" target=\"_blank\">an editorial on the topic<\/a>, pointing out the immense power the 11-person landmarks committee holds over New York City real estate.<\/li><li>Afghanistan veteran and former Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander spoke to NBC News about <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"his struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/former-democractic-rising-star-afghanistan-war-veteran-speaks-out-first-n1017406\" target=\"_blank\">his struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder<\/a>.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"A single mutation turned almonds from toxic (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thesalt\/2019\/06\/13\/732160949\/how-almonds-went-from-deadly-to-delicious\" target=\"_blank\">A single mutation turned almonds from toxic<\/a> to a major culinary item, as it removed the amygdalin (found in bitter almonds as well as the nuts at the hearts of peaches) from the nuts.<\/li><li>George Will says <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"that young people have decided the GOP is 'the dumb party,' (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/media\/448356-george-will-young-people-now-consider-gop-the-dumb-party\" target=\"_blank\">that young people have decided the GOP is &#8216;the dumb party,&#8217;<\/a> arguing that the Republicans have become the cult of Trump and are devoid of ideas. I tend to agree, but don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a fait accompli that Democrats benefit &#8211; they need to counter with workable policy ideas of their own and to improve their ground game to capitalize.<\/li><li>Board game news: Renegade Studios announced a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"September release for Icarus (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.renegadegamestudios.com\/icarus\" target=\"_blank\">September release for Icarus<\/a>, a collaborative storytelling game about the fall of a civilization.<\/li><li>Deep Water Games opened <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"a Kickstarter for Soveriegn Skies (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/deepwatergames\/sovereign-skies\" target=\"_blank\">a Kickstarter for Soveriegn Skies<\/a>, a midweight Euro that promises to play in 45 minutes.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had one ESPN+ piece this week, looking at which teams just drafted their new #1 or #2 prospects in last week&#8217;s draft. On July 8th, the day after the MLB Futures Game, I&#8217;ll be speaking at the Hudson Library in Hudson, Ohio, about Smart Baseball and signing books. My free email newsletter is back, [&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":[964,1083,132,190,961,969,649,870,1113],"class_list":["post-7668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alabama","tag-board-game-news","tag-food-science","tag-links","tag-longreads","tag-mental-health","tag-ptsd","tag-stick-to-baseball","tag-white-nationalism","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7668","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=7668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7670,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7668\/revisions\/7670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}