{"id":7772,"date":"2019-07-27T17:52:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T21:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=7772"},"modified":"2019-07-29T19:30:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T23:30:21","slug":"stick-to-baseball-7-27-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/27\/stick-to-baseball-7-27-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 7\/27\/19."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My two ESPN+ posts this week covered <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/2LMTAV9\" target=\"_Blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a slew of low-A and short-season prospects for the Yankees, Phillies, Red Sox, and Orioles<\/a>, including Roansy Contreras and a third look at Grayson Rodriguez; and <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/2Y1fyKS\" target=\"_Blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">my wrapup of this year&#8217;s Under Armour game<\/a>, full of high school prospects for the 2020 draft. I held a <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/2OiTKWC\" target=\"_Blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Klawchat<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, it looks like I&#8217;ll be in Bristol on Wednesday for ESPN&#8217;s Trade Deadline special, driving home that night and flying out to Gen Con the following morning. That probably spikes a chat for this week, but I&#8217;ll return for one on the 7th or 8th.<\/p>\n<p>You can still subscribe to <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyletter.com\/keithlaw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">my free email newsletter<\/a> to get additional writing, typically of a more personal nature than what you find elsewhere. My deepest thanks to all of you who sent such kind replies to my most recent newsletter, and a seriously-fuck-off to the one guy who decided it was a good time to be an ass to me.<\/p>\n<p>And now, the links\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Longreads first: The <em>Atlantic<\/em> looks at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2019\/08\/an-epidemic-of-disbelief\/592807\/\" target=\"_Blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">why so many rape cases go unprosecuted or even uninvestigated<\/a>: Because men still don&#8217;t believe women.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/2019\/07\/bruce-hay-paternity-trap-maria-pia-shuman-mischa-haider.html\" target=\"_Blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Most Gullible Man in Cambridge<\/a>,&#8221; from <em>New York<\/em>&#8216;s The Cut, lives up to its title and then some \u2013 it&#8217;s a con story, but also a head-scratcher that an intelligent man could be such an easy mark.<\/li>\n<li>Say it ain&#8217;t so, Mo: Mariano Rivera <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/inside-baseball-hall-of-famer-mariano-riveras-secret-far-right-politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is a Trump supporter and has aligned himself with an anti-Semitic pastor<\/a> who says Jews deserve blame for their own genocide at the hands of Nazi Germany. Rivera spoke to the <em>New York Daily News<\/em> after the first story appeared but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/sports\/baseball\/yankees\/ny-mariano-rivera-fox-and-friends-20190724-hybi2uxi6rdz7jsr5axnbbkkoi-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reaffirmed his views<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Women face a substantial obstacle in their careers, regardless of type: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/jul\/21\/woman-greatest-enemy-lack-of-time-themselves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gender roles in our society give them little time to themselves<\/a>. Women are still expected to handle the lion&#8217;s share of the family responsibilities, even at the expense of their vocations or creative potential.<\/li>\n<li>Dutch parents have long engaged in &#8220;dropping&#8221; their teenaged children, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/07\/21\/world\/europe\/netherlands-dropping-children.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sending them into the woods in small groups at night<\/a> and telling the kids to find their own way back to base camp.<\/li>\n<li>Wyoming Valley West school district, northwest of Philadelphia, made news by threatening to send kids to foster care over unpaid school lunch debts, and then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/School-Lunch-Debt-La-Colombe-513095751.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">turned down a $22,000 offer from the founder of La Colombe Coffee<\/a> to clear those debts. Maybe it&#8217;s not about the money after all.<\/li>\n<li>Ed Kilgore&#8217;s piece in <em>New York<\/em> on <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2019\/07\/is-anything-worth-increasing-the-risk-of-trumps-reelection.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the argument against impeaching Trump even if you believe he&#8217;s guilty of obstruction<\/a> is worth reading, even though I still come down on the side of impeachment.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/ole-miss-students-pose-with-guns-in-front-of-shot-up-emmett-till-memorial\" target=\"_Blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Three Ole Miss students posed with guns in front of a shot-up Emmett Till memorial<\/a>, which somehow doesn&#8217;t violate the school&#8217;s code of conduct.<\/li>\n<li>Singer Nick Cave had a rather wonderful response <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynvegan.com\/nick-cave-responds-after-someone-refers-to-his-fans-as-pretentious-fat-lesbians\/\" target=\"_Blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">after someone referred to his fans as &#8220;pretentious fat lesbians.&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, a major driver of anthropogenic climate change, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harvardmagazine.com\/2019\/07\/rice-b-vitamin-content-declines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">also lead to reduced nutrition levels in rice<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Your bagged salads or lettuces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2019\/07\/27\/other-greens-your-bagged-lettuce-frogs-snakes-lizards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">may, on rare occasions, also include reptiles or amphibians<\/a>, alive, dead, or perhaps in pieces.<\/li>\n<li>I was relieved to see my friend Will Leitch had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/articles\/2019\/07\/once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-review.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a very positive review of Tarantino&#8217;s latest film<\/a>, <em>Once Upon a Time in Hollywood<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>The Hidden Brain podcast had an episode on vaccine refusal and other kinds of denialism called <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/hidden-brain\/id1028908750?i=1000445024940\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facts Aren&#8217;t Enough<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Renegade Games announced an upcoming title <a href=\"https:\/\/www.renegadegamestudios.com\/aquicorn-cove?mc_cid=4826558e99&amp;mc_eid=554c3f460b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">based on Katie O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s graphic novel <em>The Aquicorn Cove<\/em>. It&#8217;s a cooperative title listed for ages 10+, although the book is aimed at readers aged 7 and up.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My two ESPN+ posts this week covered a slew of low-A and short-season prospects for the Yankees, Phillies, Red Sox, and Orioles, including Roansy Contreras and a third look at Grayson Rodriguez; and my wrapup of this year&#8217;s Under Armour game, full of high school prospects for the 2020 draft. I held a Klawchat on [&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":[49,828,939,190,1059,228,256],"class_list":["post-7772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-baseball","tag-climate-change","tag-harvard","tag-links","tag-mississippi","tag-nutrition","tag-racism","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7772","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=7772"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7778,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7772\/revisions\/7778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}