{"id":8458,"date":"2020-05-30T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=8458"},"modified":"2020-05-30T11:06:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T15:06:48","slug":"stick-to-baseball-5-29-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/30\/stick-to-baseball-5-29-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 5\/30\/20."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My second mock draft<\/a> went up this week for\nsubscribers to the Athletic; I think it was a lot better than my first one,\nwhich went up two weeks ago, based on the feedback I got from sources after it\nwas posted. I also held a Klawchat<\/a> on Thursday to take your questions\nabout it. I’ll do another mock plus a draft ranking this upcoming week, then a\nfinal mock on June 10th<\/sup>, the morning of the draft.
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\nOver at Paste<\/em>, I reviewed Azul: Summer Pavilions<\/a>, the third game\nin the Azul series (Azul and Azul: Stained Glass of Sintra). If you liked\neither of the first two Azul games, you’ll probably like this one as well,\nwhich offers the same tile-selection mechanic but new ways to place and score.\nHere on the dish, I reviewed La Isla<\/a>, a midweight game from the designer of\nCastles of Burgundy and Carpe Diem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My podcast this week featured Dr. Claude Steele, a psychology professor at Stanford and the author of Whistling Vivaldi<\/em>, who spoke to me about stereotype threat<\/a> and how players and evaluators might cope with it in sports. You can also listen on Apple<\/a>, Stitcher<\/a>, or Spotify<\/a>. I also appeared on the Romantic About Baseball podcast<\/a> to discuss my new book The Inside Game<\/em>, the draft, and other issues in baseball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Inside Game<\/em> has garnered several recommendations from major publications as a Father’s Day gift or for summer reading, including from Forbes<\/em><\/a>, The New York Times<\/em><\/a>, and Raise<\/em><\/a>. My thanks to all of you who’ve already bought it; if you’re looking to pick up a copy, you can get it at bookshop.org<\/a> or perhaps at a local bookstore if they’re reopening near you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now, the links \u2026 many of which are from the Washington\nPost<\/em> this week, which wasn’t deliberate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n