I’m returning from a long vacation to England and Wales, one in which I was barely online and enjoyed this tremendously. A couple of folks reached out to see if my absence from the internet was due to something unfortunate, and I appreciate that you checked in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before I started this break, I had a slew of articles for subscribers to The Athletic, including a ranking of the top 60 prospects in the minors<\/a> that included recent draftees; some thoughts on which teams did best and worst at the trade deadline<\/a>; and breakdowns of the Juan Soto trade<\/a>, the Frankie Montas trade<\/a>; the Josh Hader trade<\/a>; and some smaller deals<\/a> from that final day. I held a Q&A<\/a> at the Athletic on August 1st.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Before this vacation, I took a few days to head to Indianapolis to go to Gen Con, the largest board game convention in North or South America, and wrote about it in two posts for Paste – one ranking the ten best games I played there<\/a>, and another discussing everything else I tried or saw<\/a>. I also reviewed the very disappointing new Stranger Things game<\/a>, Attack of the Mind Flayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My podcast will return this upcoming week, as will my newsletter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And now, the links…<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m returning from a long vacation to England and Wales, one in which I was barely online and enjoyed this tremendously. A couple of folks reached out to see if my absence from the internet was due to something unfortunate, and I appreciate that you checked in. Before I started this break, I had a […]<\/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":[1300,49,1083,1308,1162,190,961,971,870,1239,483],"class_list":["post-9523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abortion","tag-baseball","tag-board-game-news","tag-censorship","tag-coronavirus","tag-links","tag-longreads","tag-metoo","tag-stick-to-baseball","tag-trans-rights","tag-utah","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9523","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=9523"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9529,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9523\/revisions\/9529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}