{"id":9550,"date":"2022-09-11T16:14:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T20:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=9550"},"modified":"2022-09-11T16:14:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T20:14:44","slug":"stick-to-baseball-9-11-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/11\/stick-to-baseball-9-11-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 9\/11\/22."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I pushed this post back a day so I could file another post for the Athletic, so you had two from me in the last 48 hours \u2013 a scouting post on some top Guardians and Nationals prospects<\/a>, and a second edition of my looks at September prospect callups<\/a>. I also held a Klawchat<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over at Paste, I reviewed Next Station: London<\/a>, a great new flip-and-write game with a route-planning mechanic that makes it a sort of a puzzle \u2013 the choices you make early in the game constrain your choices later. This is definitely the year of the roll\/flip-and-write.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My guest on this week\u2019s episode of the Keith Law Show was Wingspan game designer Elizabeth Hargrave, talking about her next big game, The Fox Experiment, now on Kickstarter<\/a> (and already 500% funded in five days). You can listen and subscribe via iTunes<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>, Stitcher<\/a>, amazon<\/a>, or wherever you get your podcasts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Longreads first: The New Yorker<\/em> looks at how Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and the Ottawa County police department have worked together to turn rape victims into defendants<\/a>, putting one of their own on trial for accusing a cop \u2013 who has been accused by at least two other women of sexual assault \u2013 of coercing her into sex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A column denying the extent of racism in Canadian society led to a successful effort to unionize the country\u2019s conservative paper the National Post<\/em><\/a>, securing gains for BIPOC employees in the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Fox producer warned execs to stop Jeanine Pirro from airing her election-denial views<\/a>, according to documents revealed in the Dominion Systems lawsuit against the right-wing juggernaut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Billionaire Barre Seid has used his money to fund climate-change denialism and fight Medicaid expansion<\/a> (that is, health care for our poorest citizens), while also funding a law school to churn out archconservative future judges, according to records unearthed by ProPublica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One Alabama prison has been holding pregnant women there for weeks or months<\/a>, in what appears to be a violation of basic Constitutional rights, to protect the fetuses from drug use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David DeWitt of the Ohio Capitol Journal<\/em> writes of the intolerable cruelty of Ohio\u2019s total ban on abortions<\/a>, including the suffering already of pregnant women needing essential medical care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nature<\/em>\u2019s editors write of the need for greater protections for scientists and researchers from threats and abuse<\/a>, pointing at lawmakers and the executives running social media sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the House Minority Leader, introduced a new \u201cCommitment to America\u201d that is short on ideas and long on Trumpian insanity<\/a>, according to Alex Shephard of the New Republic<\/em>, pointing to the lack of details for how it will achieve vague goals, emphasis on truly counterproductive policies (like increasing<\/strong> fossil fuel production), and kowtowing to election deniers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oxford scientists may have developed an effective malaria vaccine<\/a>. Malaria has long resisted traditional approaches to vaccine development because it\u2019s caused by a parasite, rather than a bacterium or virus, and the parasite changes form once inside the host\u2019s body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Count me among those Duolingo users who hate the app\u2019s total redesign<\/a>, as it has removed most of the flexibility the old structure gave users to set their own pace; I used the app to try to keep my Spanish skills fresh, but wouldn\u2019t do those lessons at the same speed or rate as those of Welsh, which I was learning from scratch. The founder\u2019s comments don\u2019t give me much hope, as they betrayed a real disdain for their customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I knew Florida state Rep. Randy Fine in college, and am not surprised to see the person he\u2019s become as an adult or politician \u2013 he was one of the most vocal Florida officials to rail against \u201cwoke\u201d Disney, but is also happy to spend thousands of dollars on the company\u2019s cruises and products<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An 18-year-old student was elected to the Boise School Board<\/a>, in no small part because his opponent refused to denounce an endorsement from a far-right extremist group that arrives armed with AR-15s to public events, supports book banning, and refers to undocumented immigrants as \u201cillegals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As many GOP candidates across the country are trying to scrub anti-abortion or other hard-right rhetoric from their campaign sites, Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano is leaning harder in that direction<\/a>, becoming \u201cTrumpier than Trump\u201d in the words of Axios\u2019 Jonathan Swan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lots of board game Kickstarters etc. this week, starting with the solo-only game Legacy of Yu<\/a> from Shem Phillips, designer of Raiders of the North Sea and the North Sea and West Kingdom series of games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disney is introducing a new Magic: the Gathering-style collectible card game called Lorcana, and Polygon has images of some of the superb art<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keith Matejka, designer of the Roll Player games, has a new title on Kickstarter called Dawn of Ulos<\/a>, a tile-laying game for 1-5 players set in the Roll Player universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

25th<\/sup> Century Games has a Gamefound campaign up for expansions to its Prehistories and Space Explorers games<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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