{"id":9036,"date":"2021-05-23T16:51:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T20:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=9036"},"modified":"2021-05-23T23:21:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T03:21:10","slug":"stick-to-baseball-5-23-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/23\/stick-to-baseball-5-23-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 5\/23\/21."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I had one post this past week for subscribers to the Athletic, <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/2TcGXrF\">breaking down the four-player trade<\/a> between Milwaukee and Tampa Bay along with the implications for Wander Franco, Taylor Walls, and Luis Ur\u00edas. I also held a <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/3u8SgOi\">Klawchat<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over at <em>Paste<\/em>, I <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/3yrJ62U\">reviewed Cryo<\/a>, a really engaging new worker-placement game from the designers of Manhattan Project: Energy Empire, where resources are always limited and you have to build your board to maximize your resource collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to buy <em>The Inside Game<\/em> and support my board game habit, Midtown Scholar has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.midtownscholar.com\/signed-copies\/the-inside-game-signed\">a few signed copies still available<\/a>. You can also buy it from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/keithlaw\/status\/1379454275659632643?s=20\">any of the indie stores in this twitter thread<\/a>, all of whom at least had the book in stock earlier this month. If none of those works, you can find it <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/2960\/9780062942739\">on Bookshop.org<\/a> and at <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3a0pCYr\">Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now, the links\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Longreads first: Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul, &amp; Mary received a Presidential pardon from Jimmy Carter for a charge of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl. It turns out that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/history\/2021\/05\/17\/peter-yarrow-carter-pardon-assault\/\">she was far from his only victim<\/a>.<\/li><li>There&#8217;s a tradition in Alabama where sheriffs who lose elections <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/alabama-sheriffs-undermine-successors-after-losing-reelection\">waste a whole shitload of taxpayer money<\/a> to make things harder for their successors, because Alabama is apparently some sort of developing-world dictatorship.<\/li><li>The BBC looks at &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20210510-how-to-recycle-any-plastic\">infinite plastic<\/a>,&#8221; efforts to use chemistry to break down plastics back into a form of oil, which would make any plastic materials recyclable \u2013 even things like sandwich bags that contain multiple different types of plastic and can&#8217;t be recycled directly into new plastics.<\/li><li>Nik Sharma looks at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seriouseats.com\/science-of-aquafaba-meringues-5185233\">the science behind vegan meringues<\/a>, made from the liquid in canned chickpeas, for Serious Eats.<\/li><li>If staying at home with the kids (rather than working) is so wonderful, <a href=\"https:\/\/jessica.substack.com\/p\/american-moms-are-being-gaslit\">why don&#8217;t more men do it<\/a>? Jessica Valenti explores the manipulation going on in the wake of a pandemic that has disproportionately hurt women in the workforce.<\/li><li><em>Saturday Night Live<\/em>&#8216;s sketch parodying the Muppets was <a href=\"https:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/the-muppets-didnt-deserve-this-1846910691\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">embarassingly bad<\/a>. A bunch of people thought <a href=\"https:\/\/copyrightlately.com\/why-snls-muppets-parody-even-had-the-media-fooled\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the actual Muppets were part of the sketch<\/a>.<\/li><li>COVID denialists have pounced on a CDC data set that they claim shows an increased incidence of suicides under age 18 during lockdowns. <a href=\"https:\/\/threader.app\/thread\/1394684206656200707\">They are being disingenuous, at best, or are outright lying<\/a>.<\/li><li>Justice Elena Kagan has <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2021\/05\/edwards-vannoy-kagan-kavanaugh-scorekeeping.html\">had about enough of Brett Kavanaugh&#8217;s judicial activism<\/a>. I still want to know who paid off his credit card debts.<\/li><li>A Missouri lawyer, who represented the gun-toting bigots who got famous for standing courageously on their front porch, drew fire this week for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/crime-and-courts\/controversial-clayton-lawyer-draws-criticism-for-derogatory-references-to-the-disabled\/article_94371ff4-b42b-53b8-ab69-20fc6f0b7337.html\">derogatory comments about people with autism and people with disabilities<\/a>.<\/li><li>In Texas, where The Cruelty Is the Point, it is about to become almost impossible for a woman to exercise her right to abort a pregnancy. This Twitter thread elucidates <a href=\"https:\/\/threadreaderapp.com\/thread\/1395840749745364999.html\">just how cruel that law will be in practice<\/a>.<\/li><li>Ethiopia expelled a <em>New York Times<\/em> reporter who&#8217;d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/05\/20\/world\/africa\/ethiopia-new-york-times-simon-marks.html\">written about the regime&#8217;s extensive human rights abuses in Tigray<\/a>.<\/li><li>The BBC World Service looks at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-57093347\">Africans who were forced to speak English growing up<\/a> and now face an identity crisis of sorts when they find themselves unable to speak their native languages.<\/li><li>Two great pieces on the Yankees&#8217; Corey Kluber in the wake of his no-hitter this week: my colleague Lindsey Adler on <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/2603969\/2021\/05\/21\/how-the-yankees-corey-kluber-developed-his-pitching-arsenal-as-explained-by-three-of-his-pitching-coaches\/\">the development of his arsenal<\/a>, and the <em>New York Post<\/em>&#8216;s Dan Martin on <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/05\/20\/corey-klubers-no-hitter-validated-yankees-scouts\/\">what Yankees&#8217; scouts saw in Kluber<\/a> to convince the team to sign him.<\/li><li>The Onion, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theonion.com\/ap-fires-journalist-at-palestinian-civilians-1846942927\">always on point<\/a>.<\/li><li>Board game news: <a href=\"https:\/\/pandasaurusgames.com\/products\/brew\">Brew is now available for pre-order<\/a> from Pandasaurus Games.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had one post this past week for subscribers to the Athletic, breaking down the four-player trade between Milwaukee and Tampa Bay along with the implications for Wander Franco, Taylor Walls, and Luis Ur\u00edas. I also held a Klawchat on Friday. Over at Paste, I reviewed Cryo, a really engaging new worker-placement game from the [&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":[899,964,1083,857,190,961,971,1105,870],"class_list":["post-9036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-africa","tag-alabama","tag-board-game-news","tag-cooking","tag-links","tag-longreads","tag-metoo","tag-missouri","tag-stick-to-baseball","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9036","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=9036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9039,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9036\/revisions\/9039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}