{"id":8618,"date":"2020-08-22T10:59:57","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T14:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=8618"},"modified":"2020-09-05T12:39:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T16:39:49","slug":"stick-to-baseball-8-22-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/22\/stick-to-baseball-8-22-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 8\/22\/20."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I had three posts for subscribers to the Athletic this week, one column on what’s going on each day over at teams’ alternate sites<\/a>; and two scouting notebooks, one on Casey Mize, Dane Dunning, and Alec Bohm<\/a>, and the other on Tarik Skubal, Dylan Carlson, and the Nats’ Luis Garc\u00eda<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My guest on the Keith Law Show this week<\/a> was my friend Craig Calcaterra, late of NBC Sports’ Hardball Talk and now the author of his own subscription newsletter Cup of Coffee<\/a>. I also appeared on Blue Jays broadcaster Dan Shulman’s podcast Swingand a Belt<\/a>, talking about what this lost minor league season means for prospects and the teams that employ them; and on the U.S. Army’s Mad Scientist program podcast The Convergence<\/a>, talking about my new book, The Inside Game<\/a><\/em>, and what might help people become better analysts in a world awash in data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Paste<\/em>, I previewed many of the major board game titles due out for the rest of 2020<\/a>, including the follow-up to Wingspan from Elizabeth Hargrave and a new game inspired by New Jersey’s infamous Action Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My free email newsletter<\/a> returned this week, with thoughts on just how exhausting this science-denying, homophobic slur-using world has become.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now, the links\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n