{"id":9330,"date":"2022-01-22T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=9330"},"modified":"2022-01-21T23:35:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T04:35:10","slug":"stick-to-baseball-1-22-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/22\/stick-to-baseball-1-22-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 1\/22\/22."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m still grinding away on the top 100, with more than half of the player capsules written so far. It&#8217;ll run on January 31<sup>st<\/sup>, followed later that week by the column of guys who just missed. The team-by-team reports will run the week after. I have a podcast episode ready to roll that should be up any day now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My latest review at Paste covers <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/3tFlt6T\">The Rocketeer: Fate of the Future<\/a>, a two-player game from Funko based on the cult classic Disney film, which is itself about to get a reboot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now, the links\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Before the longreads: Richard Uihlein has been a major dark-money contributor to the GOP and various right-wing endeavors (including anti-LGBT rights groups) for years, but a new report found that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/new-filings-reveal-another-billionaire-dick-uihlein-behind-the-big-lie\">he helped fund groups trying to overturn the 2020 election<\/a>. His company, U-Line, is one of the major sellers of shipping boxes in the country. If you run a company where you use cardboard boxes, please consider using another manufacturer. If you get a package and the box was made by U-Line, contact the shipper and ask them to consider using another manufacturer. Here&#8217;s another call for a <a href=\"https:\/\/urbanmilwaukee.com\/2021\/03\/14\/op-ed-boycott-the-uline-corporation\">boycott of U-Line<\/a>.<\/li><li>Longreads: Brookside, Alabama, has created a machine for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/2022\/01\/police-in-this-tiny-alabama-town-suck-drivers-into-legal-black-hole.html\">hitting travelers with bogus traffic violations and generating fines for it<\/a>, according to this outstanding investigative piece from John Archibald on AL.com.<\/li><li>Clarence Thomas&#8217;s wife, Ginni, is a right-wing activist with <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2lDc05CGY6?utm_source=pocket_mylist\">what appears to be undue influence at the Supreme Court<\/a>, according to this report from the great Jane Mayer (author of <em>Dark Money<\/em>). Judge Thomas has not recused himself from cases in which his wife his involved.<\/li><li><em>Texas Monthly<\/em> looks at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/arts-entertainment\/texas-gymnastics-abuse-safesport\/?utm_source=pocket_mylist\">the stalled investigation of an abusive gymnastics coach in Texas<\/a>, and how it parallels a dysfunctional process across the gymnastics community.<\/li><li>The <em>Washington Post<\/em> has the story of an alleged thief who lived with a wealthy woman for the last few years of her life and then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2022\/01\/18\/missing-jewels-georgetown-professor\/\">started selling off her art and jewelry when she died<\/a> \u2013 and may have stolen from many other people as well.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/joss-whedon-allegations.html\">Joss Whedon gave a long interview<\/a> to <em>New York<\/em> that I don&#8217;t think went the way he planned it. Tim Grierson <a href=\"https:\/\/melmagazine.com\/en-us\/story\/joss-whedon-vulture-interview\">broke it down<\/a> for <em>MEL<\/em>.<\/li><li>A Vanderbilt student who was raped by another student there writes about <a href=\"https:\/\/vanderbilthustler.com\/45350\/featured\/guest-editorial-vanderbilt-chose-not-to-expel-my-rapist\/\">how the university declined to expel her rapist<\/a>, despite a finding that he had committed the most serious violation in the student code.<\/li><li><em>Input<\/em> looks at Instagram &#8220;petfluencer&#8221; account owners <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inputmag.com\/culture\/instagram-influencers-viagen-cloning-pets-cats-dogs\">who clone their pets<\/a>. Just because you can does not mean you should.<\/li><li>I didn&#8217;t know Cincinnati had an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/news\/43223\/cincinnatis-unused-subway-system-is-a-century-old-dream-that-wont-die\">unused subway tunnel network<\/a> for a train system that was never built.<\/li><li>Maybe Cincinnati would have a subway if they hadn&#8217;t pissed away <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcpo.com\/news\/insider\/county-has-spent-920m-in-deal-to-build-stadium-keep-nfl-team-in-town-since-2000?\">$920 million to pay for the Bengals&#8217; stadium<\/a> in the last twenty years \u2013 with more costs to come.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/education\/2022\/01\/16\/mark-schlissel-fired-university-michigan\/\">The University of Michigan fired its President<\/a> after learning he may have had an affair with a subordinate, about two years after they first moved to fire their provost for his own sexual misconduct allegations.<\/li><li>Senate Republicans&#8217; move to block the John Lewis Act <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/politics\/voting-abortion-democracy\/\">puts more than just voting rights in grave peril<\/a>.<\/li><li>DirecTV announced, finally, they will drop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2022\/01\/15\/directv-drops-oan\/\">the misinformation-spreading OANN later this year<\/a>. Do you have Verizon FiOS? CenturyLink? Prism? AT&amp;T U-Verse? Call them and ask them to do the same.<\/li><li>The seven Chicago-based AV Club employees who were told to move to Los Angeles, only to find their jobs had already been listed online for new hires, have <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OnionIncUnion\/status\/1483504541266063360\">all chosen to take their CBA-protected severance<\/a>.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/talking-points\/1009207\/the-coronavirus-vaccines-are-safer-than-these-over-the-counter-painkillers\">The COVID-19 vaccines are safer than aspirin or acetominaphen<\/a>.<\/li><li>Arkansas is so in the thrall of anti-science forces that they gave ivermectin to prisoners who caught COVID-19, despite a lack of any evidence that the deworming paste is effective against the virus. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/01\/18\/1073846967\/arkansas-inmates-ivermectin-lawsuit-covid-19\">Some of those prisoners are now suing the state<\/a>.<\/li><li>Florida Republicans may pass a bill that would prohibit schools from teaching anything about the racism of white people <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/business-florida-lawsuits-ron-desantis-racial-injustice-3ec10492b7421543315acf4491813c1b\">that would make white students feel &#8220;discomfort<\/a>.&#8221;<\/li><li>Many major media outlets have been reporting on a &#8220;rise&#8221; in thefts that isn&#8217;t actually happening. Stories about cargo thefts against Union Pacific have omitted the fact that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lataco.com\/union-pacific-theft-police-laid-off\/\">UP laid off most of its security employees during the pandemic<\/a>.<\/li><li>Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni \u2013 who has been in power since 1986, and once spent foreign aid to buy himself a private jet \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/concerns-arise-that-a-uganda-novelist-imprisoned-for-tweets-has-been-tortured\/\">has imprisoned and tortured a writer for insulting him and his son in a tweet<\/a>.<\/li><li><em>Paste<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/music\/yard-act\/yard-act-the-best-of-whats-next\/\">profiled Yard Act<\/a>, one of my favorite new rock bands of the last two years, a Gang of Four-influenced post-punk act with lyrics that are spoken as often as they&#8217;re sung.<\/li><li>Board game news: The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/pandasaurus\/skate-summer?mc_cid=7ffc92fa30&amp;mc_eid=f418a09f9f&amp;ref=dnimyk\">Kickstarter for Skate Summer<\/a>, a route-building and set collection game from Pandasaurus, opened up this week.<\/li><li>Keymaster Games, publisher of Parks and Trails, opened <a href=\"https:\/\/keymastergames.com\/products\/caper-europe-preorder-bundle\">pre-orders for Caper: Europe<\/a>, an upcoming two-player heist-themed game.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still grinding away on the top 100, with more than half of the player capsules written so far. It&#8217;ll run on January 31st, followed later that week by the column of guys who just missed. The team-by-team reports will run the week after. I have a podcast episode ready to roll that should be [&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":[1051,839,1243,1274,190,961,1173,852,870,477,1273,807,1272],"class_list":["post-9330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arkansas","tag-cincinnati","tag-dark-money","tag-heists","tag-links","tag-longreads","tag-michigan","tag-music","tag-stick-to-baseball","tag-texas","tag-uganda","tag-vaccines","tag-vanderbilt","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9330","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=9330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9331,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9330\/revisions\/9331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}