{"id":8193,"date":"2020-01-18T11:10:04","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T16:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=8193"},"modified":"2020-01-18T11:10:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T16:10:06","slug":"stick-to-baseball-1-18-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/18\/stick-to-baseball-1-18-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 1\/18\/20."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve written five pieces for the Athletic so far over the\ntwo weeks since I joined. In reverse chronological order, they are a ranking of\nthe <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/2tccT2N\">ten best prospects to change\norganizations this winter;<\/a> a <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/2Reknds\">breakdown of\nthe Josh Donaldson signing<\/a>; a breakdown of <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/2sapVx3\">last\nweek&#8217;s Rays-Cardinals trade<\/a>; notes on <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/36F7Cz3\">what\nI look for when evaluating players<\/a>; and <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/2SSDTia\">my\nintroductory post<\/a>. I also held a <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/38e5K0M\">Klawchat<\/a>\nthis week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over at <em>Paste<\/em>, I <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/36VmzND\">reviewed\nThe Taverns of Tiefenthal<\/a>, the newest game from Kennerspiel des Jahres\nwinner Wolfgang Warsch, who also designed The Mind, That&#8217;s Pretty Clever!, and\nThe Quacks of Quedlinburg, all of which are quite good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My second book, <em>The Inside Game: Bad Calls, Strange Moves, and What Baseball Behavior Teaches Us About Ourselves<\/em>, is due out on April 21<sup>st<\/sup> from Harper Collins, and you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/9780062942722\/the-inside-game\/\">pre-order it now<\/a> via their site or wherever fine books are sold. You can also sign up for my free email newsletter for even more non-baseball content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now, the links\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Longreads first: <em>Slate <\/em>has the story of <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/culture\/2020\/01\/mets-rape-accusation-spring-training-1991.html\">a credible allegation of rape against three Mets<\/a> from the spring of 1991, with Doc Gooden, Daryl Boston, and Vince Coleman all accused. None was ever charged.<\/li><li>The Root and the Young Turks detail <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theroot.com\/mayor-pete-s-invisible-black-police-1840727624?utm_source=theroot_twitter&amp;utm_medium=socialflow\">outright racism in the South Bend police force under Pete Buttigieg<\/a>. The details herein, and Mayor Pete&#8217;s unwillingness to answer basic questions about them, are quite damning.<\/li><li>Did an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2020\/jan\/09\/a-scandal-in-oxford-the-curious-case-of-the-stolen-gospel\">Oxford classics professor steal and sell ancient pieces of papyrus<\/a>, including one that would be the oldest known piece of the gospels, to the billionaire owners of Hobby Lobby? \u00a0(Also, how can you be a billionaire and a devout Christian? I&#8217;m reasonably sure Jesus said those two things could not be true at the same time.) <\/li><li>The <em>New Yorker<\/em> looks at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2020\/01\/13\/a-world-without-pain\">a woman who can&#8217;t feel physical or emotional pain<\/a> due to a genetic mutation, and whether the extent to which we feel pain is really an essential part of being human. <\/li><li>The <em>New York Times<\/em> describes how a recently-deceased real estate &#8216;star&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/01\/10\/nyregion\/faith-hope-consolo.html?fbclid=IwAR17Blc9SIb7sw7_05SGxFAAAOyXNgDKpWhWnyTV3-stk64Lqhi_mNWCqqQ\">lied about her entire biography<\/a>.<\/li><li>Peter Hotez, author of <em>Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel&#8217;s Autism<\/em>, writes about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/01\/09\/opinion\/vaccine-hesitancy.html\">how sick you&#8217;re going to get<\/a> if you catch various vaccine-preventable diseases. It&#8217;s not pretty, and it&#8217;s all the more argument for tightening vaccination laws for schoolchildren.<\/li><li>Here&#8217;s a shocker: Gwyneth Paltrow&#8217;s new GOOP show on Netflix is <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2020\/01\/goops-netflix-series-its-so-much-worse-than-i-expected-and-i-cant-unsee-it\/\">a mixture of pseudoscience, bullshit, and tedium<\/a>, including an episode with a so-called &#8220;energy healer&#8221; (which is not real) and another with a self-proclaimed psychic (also not real).<\/li><li>Michigan state senator Peter Lucido, who has delusions of governorship, told a woman journalist trying to interview him that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michiganadvance.com\/2020\/01\/15\/i-tried-to-interview-sen-peter-lucido-he-told-me-a-group-of-schoolboys-could-have-a-lot-of-fun-with-me\/\">a group of high school boys &#8220;could have a lot of fun&#8221; with her<\/a>. As of Friday, he&#8217;s issued a half-assed apology, but remains in office. <\/li><li>The <em>New Yorker <\/em>talks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2020\/01\/20\/how-new-jerseys-twitter-found-its-big-state-energy\">the two people behind the great @NJGov<\/a> twitter account.<\/li><li>Writing for <em>VICE<\/em>, Laura Wagner (ex-Deadspin) writes about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/jge8j4\/teen-vogue-sponcon-fiasco-puts-spotlight-on-facebook-stooges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Facebook 'sponsored post' fiasco (opens in a new tab)\">Facebook &#8216;sponsored post&#8217; fiasco<\/a> at <em>Teen Vogue<\/em>.<\/li><li>A British Columbia court ruled that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/immune-vaccine-children-parents-1.5428024?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar\">two young children must be vaccinated<\/a> over their mother&#8217;s objections. The mother tried to cite one of the most vocal anti-vaccine cranks on Twitter, Toni Bark, who claimed the measles wasn&#8217;t a highly contagious disease (it&#8217;s considered the most or second-most contagious virus humans can catch).<\/li><li>Perhaps &#8220;cocktails&#8221; of multiple antibiotics aren&#8217;t as good of an idea for the long term as we thought, as one new study shows that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/bacteria-tolerant-of-one-antibiotic-are-more-likely-to-develop-resistance\/\">they may accelerate antibiotic resistance<\/a>.<\/li><li>Tabatha Southey writes for <em>McLean&#8217;s<\/em> about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/opinion\/donald-trump-the-board-game\/\">Watergate, my #3 game of 2019<\/a>, and what a future board game of the Donald Trump presidency and impeachment might look like.<\/li><li>I&#8217;ve got four new board game Kickstarters to share this week. First is the one I tweeted about on Tuesday, Restoration Games&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/restorationgames\/return-to-dark-tower\">Return to Dark Tower<\/a>, which is already clear of $2.25 million pledged as of Friday afternoon. It&#8217;s an update to the 1981 cult classic, and I was hooked when I saw the demo at PAX Unplugged.<\/li><li>Next is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/mikegnade\/alderquest-a-wintry-mix-of-area-control-and-match-3\">AlderQuest<\/a>, an area-control game from Rock Manor Games and Mike Gnade (Set a Watch, Brass Empire). Rock Manor pulled the original Kickstarter from before the holidays and restarted it; it&#8217;s about 2\/3 of the way to its funding goal as I write this. Full disclosure: I met Mike this week to play an upcoming Rock Manor title, Lawyer Up, as he lives a stone&#8217;s throw from me.<\/li><li>Leder Games has the newest game from designer Cole Wehrle (Root, Pax Pamir), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/2074786394\/oath-chronicles-of-empire-and-exile\">Oath: Chronicles of Empire and Exile<\/a>, already more than 13 times past its initial goal.<\/li><li>Vesuvius Media has a Kickstarter up for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/vesuviusmedia\/pacific-rails-inc?ref=ano4l1\">Pacific Rails<\/a>, a route-building\/worker-placement game based on the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869.<\/li><li>Finally, here&#8217;s an intriguing game of dirty popes: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/spielmannspiel\/habeamus\/\">Habeamus<\/a>, which the publishers describe as &#8220;a game for ending 2-4 friendships. This is the farthest from its goal of these five Kickstarters right now.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written five pieces for the Athletic so far over the two weeks since I joined. 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