{"id":7920,"date":"2019-09-28T12:07:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T16:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=7920"},"modified":"2019-09-28T12:07:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T16:07:08","slug":"stick-to-baseball-9-28-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/28\/stick-to-baseball-9-28-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 9\/28\/19."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My one piece for ESPN+ subscribers this week <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/2nryi4A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">had my six postseason player award ballots<\/a>, all hypothetical as I didn&#8217;t have any vote this year. I also held a <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/2lnVWyf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Klawchat<\/a> on Thursday and another <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/keithlaw\/status\/1176558339863400449&quot;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Periscope video chat<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>At <em>Paste<\/em>, I reviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/2lJ9Vit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Silver and Gold<\/a>, a tremendous new flip-and-write game from the designer of Gizmos and B\u00e4renpark, where players fill in polyomino shapes on their own cards, trying to complete as many cards as possible while racking up various bonuses. It&#8217;s due out in late October.<\/p>\n<p>My second book, <em>The Inside Game: Bad Calls, Strange Moves, and What Baseball Behavior Teaches Us About Ourselves<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/9780062942722\/the-inside-game\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is now available for pre-order<\/a> on all the usual sites. The release date is April 21, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>You can also get more updates from <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyletter.com\/keithlaw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">my free email newsletter<\/a>; the next edition will go out some time this week, before I head to Arizona for an abbreviated trip to the Fall League.<\/p>\n<p>And now, the links\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Longreads first: Royals pitcher Danny Duffy opened up to the <em>Kansas City Star<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.kansascity.com\/sports\/mlb\/kansas-city-royals\/article235235742.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">about his anxiety, depression, and panic disorder<\/a>, with a little about what he has done to combat it.<\/li>\n<li><em>Texas Monthly<\/em> has the story of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/articles\/serial-killer-border-patrol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the hunt for a serial killer in Laredo<\/a> last year; the culprit was actually a member of the Border Patrol.<\/li>\n<li>The backlash against so-called &#8220;cancel culture&#8221; among comedians <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/155141\/cancel-culture-con-dave-chappelle-shane-gillis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is nothing but a big con<\/a>. Most figures in entertainment who&#8217;ve supposedly been &#8220;cancelled&#8221; continue to perform or publish, and to make money, while other comedians have found an audience by railing against minority groups and &#8220;cancel culture&#8221; itself.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jezebel.com\/stories-about-my-brother-1835651181\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Writer Prachi Gupta remembers her brilliant, late brother<\/a>, who had become red-pilled and died under hard to fathom circumstances in Italy two years ago.<\/li>\n<li>Amid an apparent rise in suicides and cases of mental illness at British universities, the <em>Guardian<\/em>&#8216;s Samira Shackle asks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2019\/sep\/27\/anxiety-mental-breakdowns-depression-uk-students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">why it&#8217;s happening, what can be done<\/a>, and if it&#8217;s the schools&#8217; jobs to fix it at all.<\/li>\n<li>Author Matt Goulding examines <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/airbnbmag\/slice-of-tokyo-how-japan-became-a-pizza-hotspot-f734d834168\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the culture of Neapolitan pizzas in Tokyo<\/a>, where multiple <em>pizzaioli<\/em> pursue pizza perfection, even if they&#8217;ve never been to Italy themselves.<\/li>\n<li>Anti-vaxxer groups are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/social-media\/how-anti-vaxxers-target-grieving-moms-turn-them-crusaders-n1057566\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">targeting moms who lost children and convincing them vaccines killed their kids<\/a>, then turning the moms into &#8220;crusaders&#8221; and the kids into talking points. Dorit Reiss takes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skepticalraptor.com\/skepticalraptorblog.php\/evee-gayle-clobes-another-tragedy-incorrectly-blamed-vaccines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a closer look at the newest such case<\/a>, a baby who suffocated while sleeping in her parents&#8217; bed.<\/li>\n<li>The <em>Atlantic<\/em> looks at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2019\/09\/suicide-prevention-hotline-988\/598588\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a proposal to make 988 the suicide prevention hotline number<\/a>, and some of what we know about how and why such lifelines work.<\/li>\n<li>Rakim has a new book out on creativity and NPR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/2019\/09\/27\/thoughts-on-creativity-from-lyrical-powerhouse-rakim\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">excerpted a portion of it<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A new study found that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gastrojournal.org\/article\/S0016-5085(19)40896-2\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gluten doesn&#8217;t make you sick if you don&#8217;t have celiac or a wheat allergy<\/a>. &#8220;Gluten sensitivity,&#8221; &#8220;leaky gut,&#8221; and other pseudoscience diagnoses are just that \u2013 pseudoscience.<\/li>\n<li>The <em>New York Times<\/em> has really had a bad week. They published key details on the Ukraine whistleblower. Opinion columnist Bari Weiss&#8217;s new book on anti-Semitism <a href=\"https:\/\/jewishcurrents.org\/bari-weisss-unasked-questions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">got a damning review in <em>Jewish Currents<\/em><\/a>. And the <em>New Republic<\/em> exposed <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/155144\/conscience-bret-stephens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the haughty history of Bret &#8220;Bedbug&#8221; Stephens<\/a>, who likes to write as if he knows what &#8220;ordinary&#8221; (his word, and his quotes) Americans are thinking.<\/li>\n<li>The World Health Organization <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/09\/23\/763410795\/doctors-without-borders-calls-for-more-transparency-in-distribution-of-ebola-vac?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is holding back doses of the one existing Ebola vaccine<\/a> during the ongoing epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, spurring criticism from Doctors Without Borders.<\/li>\n<li>Ravensburger just announced an upcoming Minecraft board game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EvYqC_1wqgs&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_Blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">called Minecraft: Builders and Biomes<\/a>, due out worldwide on November 15th.<\/li>\n<li>(chef&#8217;s kiss)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lURLRFJhR9\">pic.twitter.com\/lURLRFJhR9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ed (@macaulaybalkan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/macaulaybalkan\/status\/1177213837189115904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My one piece for ESPN+ subscribers this week had my six postseason player award ballots, all hypothetical as I didn&#8217;t have any vote this year. I also held a Klawchat on Thursday and another Periscope video chat on Tuesday. At Paste, I reviewed Silver and Gold, a tremendous new flip-and-write game from the designer of [&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":[49,1083,190,961,969,861,240,807],"class_list":["post-7920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-baseball","tag-board-game-news","tag-links","tag-longreads","tag-mental-health","tag-mental-illness","tag-pizza","tag-vaccines","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7920","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=7920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7922,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7920\/revisions\/7922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}