{"id":8337,"date":"2020-03-28T09:17:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T13:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=8337"},"modified":"2020-03-28T09:17:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T13:17:21","slug":"stick-to-baseball-3-28-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/28\/stick-to-baseball-3-28-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 3\/28\/20."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One new article this week for subscribers to The Athletic,\nlooking at what the agreement between MLB and the players&#8217; union <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/33QzIqs\">might mean for this year&#8217;s draft<\/a>. It&#8217;s not\nvery good for the draft prospects themselves, unfortunately. I also held a <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/2Uketdt\">Klawchat<\/a> on Thursday and a Periscope (where\nmy voice gave out!) on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the gaming front, I had four new pieces this week. For <em>Paste<\/em>,\nI <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/2JlrIoc\">reviewed ClipCut Parks<\/a>, a new &#8220;flip-and-cut&#8221;\ngame that is great for younger kids who love using scissors but not much of a\ngame for older players. For Vulture, I updated my <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/2GuJdP0\">ranking of the top 25 board game apps<\/a> available\non mobile platforms. For Ars Technica, I reviewed the new <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/2Umqbob\">app version of the legacy game Charterstone<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My second book, <em>The Inside Game: Bad Calls, Strange Moves,\nand What Baseball Behavior Teaches Us About Ourselves<\/em>, is due out on April\n21<sup>st<\/sup> from Harper Collins, and you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/9780062942722\/the-inside-game\/\">pre-order\nit now<\/a> via their site or wherever fine books are sold. Also, check\nout <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyletter.com\/keithlaw\">my free email newsletter<\/a>, which I\nsay I&#8217;ll write more often than I actually write it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now, the links\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Matt Leacock, the game designer behind Pandemic, wrote an op ed for the <em>New York Times<\/em> about how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/25\/opinion\/pandemic-game-covid.html\">no one can win this real-life pandemic &#8216;game&#8217; by themselves<\/a>.<\/li><li>Who funds the Federalist? It would be nice to know that, after the extremist site ran a column from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/epg79z\/unlicensed-dermatologist-suggests-people-throw-coronavirus-parties\">an unlicensed dermatologist calling for people to hold &#8216;coronavirus parties,&#8217;<\/a> as VICE&#8217;s Laura Wagner writes. Twitter briefly locked the site&#8217;s account for posting the link.<\/li><li>The preacher who leads Bible study for members of Trump&#8217;s Cabinet claims that <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2020\/03\/24\/trump-cabinet-bible-studies-coronavirus\/\">coronavirus is God&#8217;s wrath on people<\/a> for allowing homosexuality and environmentalism to exist. His fans in government include Vice-President Mike Pence and Senator Joni Ernst. I wonder how much of our tax dollars go to enabling this hatemongering.<\/li><li>Delusional politicians and right-wing media members are making scientists developing statistical models of coronavirus&#8217;s spread harder by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2020\/03\/27\/coronavirus-models-politized-trump\/\">implying or outright claiming such models are hoaxes<\/a>.<\/li><li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2020\/03\/26\/822084429\/in-defense-of-coronavirus-testing-strategy-administration-cited-retracted-study\">Trump Administration has been citing a retracted paper<\/a> to defend its early opposition to expanding COVID-19 testing, a policy that will likely lead to tens of thousands of needless deaths. Meanwhile, their plan involves <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/white-house-pushes-us-officials-to-criticize-china-for-coronavirus-cover-up\/main-info?via=twitter_page\">blaming China for a &#8216;cover-up&#8217; that never happened<\/a> rather than coming up with a viable plan for slowing the pandemic.<\/li><li>Surgeons are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2020-03-24\/the-coronavirus-crisis-is-putting-surgeons-at-risk-too\">increasingly reluctant to perform operations<\/a> in this environment, due to equipment shortages, fear of infection from asymptomatic patients, and the possibility that doctors might be at higher risk for the most serious form of the disease.<\/li><li>&#8220;Mothers are held responsible for every detail \u2014 large and small \u2014 of their children\u2019s well-being.&#8221; Jess Grose explains how coronavirus has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/25\/opinion\/coronavirus-parenting.html?smid=em-share\">exposed the &#8216;great lie&#8217; of modern motherhood<\/a>.<\/li><li>The owner of a Philadelphia hospital \u2013 who shuttered the facility last year \u2013 demanded $6 million in rent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/closed-hahnemann-hospital-no-longer-an-option-to-house-coronavirus-patients\/2341801\/?amp\">for the city to use it for six months to house COVID-19 patients<\/a>.<\/li><li>Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey (guess) voiced opposition to the $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill because sending the unemployed or underemployed money &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pghcitypaper.com\/pittsburgh\/sen-pat-toomey-supports-coronavirus-stimulus-bill-but-worries-it-creates-incentives-not-to-work\/Content?oid=17012295\">creates incentives not to work<\/a>.&#8221; Toomey is repeating a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/economy\/news\/2010\/11\/15\/8665\/unemployment-insurance-benefits-dont-prevent-job-searching\/\">popular conservative myth<\/a>, probably because it sells. <\/li><li>Longreads: The Ford Motor Company purchased <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/extra\/KnxBMVGAcn\/michigan_central_detroit\">the Michigan Central train station in downtown Detroit<\/a>, part of that city&#8217;s ongoing revitalization, the story of which is the subject of this BBC longread.<\/li><li>A ProPublica investigation found that the Chinese government is using tens of thousands of hacked or fake Twitter accounts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/how-china-built-a-twitter-propaganda-machine-then-let-it-loose-on-coronavirus\">to spread pro-Beijing propaganda<\/a> on issues ranging from the Hong Kong protests to the government&#8217;s COVID-19 response.<\/li><li><em>Texas Monthly <\/em>looks at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/food\/heb-prepared-coronavirus-pandemic\/\">how the H-E-B supermarket chain prepared for the pandemic<\/a> several weeks ahead of just about any other company or government authority.<\/li><li>Writing for <em>Billboard<\/em>, Natalie Weiner looks at how two hits from 2000 that told of women getting revenge on their abusers elicited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/country\/9343495\/dixie-chicks-goodbye-earl-eve-love-is-blind-2000-response\">entirely different public reactions<\/a>. My real issue with &#8220;Goodbye Earl&#8221; is that there is no &#8220;midnight redeye flight&#8221; from Atlanta that would put you anywhere in the United States.<\/li><li>Ann Forsyth, director of Harvard&#8217;s Healthy Places Design Lab, writes about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsd.harvard.edu\/2020\/03\/what-role-do-planning-and-design-play-in-a-pandemic-ann-forsyth-reflects-on-covid-19s-impact-on-the-future-of-urban-life\/\">how COVID-19 may alter the future of urban and home life<\/a>.<\/li><li>Harvard finally reversed course and <a href=\"https:\/\/boston.eater.com\/2020\/3\/27\/21197182\/harvard-compensating-furloughed-dining-hall-contract-workers-covid-19-pandemic\">will pay its furloughed dining-hall workers<\/a>. The University has a miserable history of failing to reasonably compensate the people who keep the place running.<\/li><li>Americans are stocking up on various dry goods, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/2020\/03\/24\/americans-are-stocking-up-dry-goods-toilet-paper-puzzles\/\">also on jigsaw puzzles<\/a>. I have quite a few in the house but never seem to choose them over a board game or a movie.<\/li><li>I didn&#8217;t realize that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/asia_pacific\/south-korea-same-sex-marriage-gay-lesbian\/2020\/03\/22\/2890df14-61f6-11ea-912d-d98032ec8e25_story.html?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;wpisrc=nl_most\">gay marriage is still illegal in South Korea<\/a>, where there&#8217;s still a terrible social stigma around homosexuality in some parts of the country.<\/li><li>This ad, lambasting Trump for his late and inadequate response to this crisis, is superb. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">what an ad. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yZV9KJCOEn\">pic.twitter.com\/yZV9KJCOEn<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Florida Chris (@chrislongview) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrislongview\/status\/1242625324568973314?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One new article this week for subscribers to The Athletic, looking at what the agreement between MLB and the players&#8217; union might mean for this year&#8217;s draft. It&#8217;s not very good for the draft prospects themselves, unfortunately. I also held a Klawchat on Thursday and a Periscope (where my voice gave out!) on Tuesday. 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