{"id":9276,"date":"2021-12-06T13:33:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T18:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=9276"},"modified":"2021-12-06T13:37:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T18:37:10","slug":"stick-to-baseball-12-6-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/06\/stick-to-baseball-12-6-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 12\/6\/21."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We had a busy weekend of decorating the house, including acquiring the largest tree I&#8217;ve ever owned (since we have one room with exceptionally high ceilings, it seemed irresponsible to fail to take advantage of it), which means this post is late. I had a whole slew of posts for subscribers to The Athletic last week, however, including<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>the <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/3cUEp7V\">Starling Marte and Steven Matz signings<\/a><\/li><li>the <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/3I62A1O\">Rangers&#8217; signings of Jon Gray and Marcus Semien<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/3rnh7Aa\">Toronto&#8217;s signing of Kevin Gausman<\/a><\/li><li>the <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/3peOy5c\">Rangers&#8217; signing of Corey Seager<\/a><\/li><li>the <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/3E9nNp8\">Max Scherzer and Robbie Ray signings<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/3phFaha\">Detroit&#8217;s signing of Javier B\u00e1ez<\/a><\/li><li>and the <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/3Inn8D8\">Cubs&#8217; signing of Marcus Stroman<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Over at <em>Paste<\/em>, I reviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/32JYdt2\">The Crew: Mission Deep Sea<\/a>, the sequel to the 2019 Kennerspiel winner, and I think a small but significant improvement over the original. At Ars Technica, I contributed twenty new entries to their <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/3rytqJX\">Ars Technica&#8217;s ultimate board game gift guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I sent out a new edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyletter.com\/keithlaw\">my free email newsletter<\/a> last week, with a story about being too judgmental and learning to get past it. And finally, with Christmas just three weeks away, here&#8217;s another reminder that I have two books out, <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/2960\/9780062942739\"><em>The Inside Game<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/2960\/9780062490230\"><em>Smart Baseball<\/em><\/a>, that would make great gifts for the readers (especially baseball fans) on your lists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now, the links\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Longreads first: This <em>Columbia Journalism Review<\/em> report on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cjr.org\/tow_center_reports\/newsroom-social-media-policies.php\">the hazards of social media for journalists<\/a> is spot-on, and I wish the people running major social-media outlets would read and internalize its lessons. I can also say that ESPN&#8217;s ill-conceived, ambiguous, and inconsistently enforced social media policy ranks as the #1 reason I left the company. The straw that broke the camel&#8217;s back isn&#8217;t even public, but it related to this.<\/li><li>Utah, a state run by conservatives at all levels, makes it so hard to get public aid that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/utahs-social-safety-net-is-the-church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-saints-what-does-that-mean-if-youre-not-one\">some people join the Mormon Church to qualify<\/a>, even if they don&#8217;t believe in the tenets of that sect.<\/li><li>This August piece in <em>Science<\/em> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/new-sars-cov-2-variants-have-changed-pandemic-what-will-virus-do-next?s=09#.YaOtiLU95dg.twitter\">how variants emerge and change the way the pandemic goes<\/a> seems just as important now.<\/li><li>The longrunning debate over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/29\/dining\/recipe-theft-cookbook-plagiarism.html\">whether you can plagiarize a recipe<\/a> has reared its head again, after a published recently pulled a book from circulation after discovering that the author had copied recipes <em>and <\/em>stories from another book. (The short answer here is that you can&#8217;t plagiarize \u2013 or copyright \u2013 a recipe, but you can plagiarize or copyright the text around it.)<\/li><li>The BBC Three spoke to multiple victims of sexual assalt about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bbcthree\/article\/b41fb362-6615-4e9b-950e-36859358e023\">rape culture in British schools<\/a> and authorities failing to do enough about it. &nbsp;<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/society\/abortion-dobbs-argument\/\">We are witnessing the end of &#8220;Roe v. Wade,&#8221;<\/a> writes Elie Mystal in the <em>Nation<\/em>. Elections have consequences.<\/li><li>The <em>New York Times<\/em> ran two powerful editorials about abortion this week: one from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/30\/opinion\/abortion-texas-mississippi-rape.html\">a woman who was raped by her father and had an abortion<\/a>, and another from a woman who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/12\/02\/magazine\/abortion-parent-mother-child.html\">didn&#8217;t have an abortion but &#8220;erased&#8221; the future she&#8217;d planned for herself<\/a>, speaking very plainly about a life-altering decision from when she was 19.<\/li><li>Once again, for the people in the pack: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CW_a4eLvft3\/\">Pregnancy is not a riskless, health-neutral event<\/a>.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/us\/2021\/11\/29\/minnesota-school-board-transgender-mcmorris-pkg-vpx-lead.cnn\">Anti-mask lunatics outed the trans child of the local school board chair<\/a>, so now the family is moving out of the district.<\/li><li>Men who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/health\/covid-erectile-dysfunction\/\">get COVID-19 have a sixfold risk of experiencing erectile dysfunction<\/a> after the infection.<\/li><li>Many self-styled &#8220;experts&#8221; who minimize or deny the effects of COVID-19, or who soft-deny the vaccines&#8217; efficacy, or push fake treatments, <a href=\"https:\/\/absolutelymaybe.plos.org\/2021\/11\/30\/peeling-back-the-layers-of-medical-conservativism\/\">are now trying to brand themselves as &#8220;medical conservatives.&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li>With the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor coming up tomorrow, it&#8217;s good to remember that army leaders <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/navy\/pearl-harbor-first-attack.html\" target=\"_blank\">rejected evidence that the naval base was vulnerable to just such an attack<\/a>, demonstrated during a simulation (that sure sounds like a board game) by one of its own officers. It&#8217;s a cool blend of cognitive dissonance and old-fashioned racism.<\/li><li>A county judge told the Alabama coal miners union currently on strike against Warrior Met <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/daily-labor-report\/picketing-alabama-miners-stopped-by-rare-non-federal-court-order\">Coal they can&#8217;t protest outside the company&#8217;s offices<\/a>. I am not a lawyer, but this seems questionable on First Amendment grounds, no?<\/li><li><em>Scientific American<\/em> explains <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/how-brains-seamlessly-switch-between-languages\/\">how the brain switches between languages<\/a>.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2021\/nov\/20\/overloaded-is-there-simply-too-much-culture\">Is there simply too much culture<\/a> \u2013 film, TV, music, video games, podcasts, and more \u2013 for us to consume?<\/li><li>Former Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Grimes (D) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/former-kentucky-secretary-of-state-faces-ethics-charges\">now faces charges of misusing her office for political and personal gain<\/a> from the state ethics commission.<\/li><li>A defense industry worker says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/economy\/pentagon-budget-labor\/\">we need to cut the defense budget<\/a>.<\/li><li>Cleveland is asking taxpayers to pony up for improvements to the Guardians&#8217; statement. <a href=\"https:\/\/economicaccountability.org\/2021\/11\/27\/dont-let-economic-impact-claims-distort-the-progressive-field-stadium-subsidy-debate\/\">Don&#8217;t fall for their nonsense<\/a> about &#8220;economic impact.&#8221;<\/li><li>There&#8217;s a fight brewing in St. Louis over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/govt-and-politics\/next-up-after-rams-settlement-dividing-up-the-cash\/article_39e5566e-4e1c-5f4f-84f7-3805d7fff7ac.html\">who gets how much of the $500 million payday from their lawsuit<\/a> against the Rams and the NFL.<\/li><li>The same government ding-dongs in Missouri who accused the <em>Post-Dispatch<\/em> of hacking for discovering a huge security flaw in a state website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/govt-and-politics\/missouri-officials-planned-to-thank-post-dispatch-before-threatening-newspaper-emails-show\/article_0f6c5288-cd11-569c-804e-9b280e9c1e68.html?utm_source=pocket_mylist\">were originally going to thank the paper for it<\/a>.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/12\/03\/biden-media-coverage-worse-trump-favorable\/\">The media treats President Biden worse than it treated Trump<\/a>, and that&#8217;s a huge problem.<\/li><li>Longtime Montr\u00e9al chef and co-founder of Joe Beef <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/opinion\/columnists\/brownstein-burned-out-and-angry-chef-david-mcmillan-calls-it-quits\">David McMillan has retired from cooking<\/a> at age 50.<\/li><li>I enjoyed <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thekaranmenon\/status\/1466912293380231168\">this comic video explanation of how the west allowed omicron to happen<\/a> (even if he does misspell it in his caption).<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a busy weekend of decorating the house, including acquiring the largest tree I&#8217;ve ever owned (since we have one room with exceptionally high ceilings, it seemed irresponsible to fail to take advantage of it), which means this post is late. 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