{"id":9577,"date":"2022-10-08T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=9577"},"modified":"2022-10-07T21:08:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T01:08:20","slug":"stick-to-baseball-10-8-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/08\/stick-to-baseball-10-8-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 10\/8\/22."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/3CcaHaK\">My hypothetical ballots<\/a> for five of the six major postseason player awards went up for subscribers to the The Athletic this week. I also held a <a href=\"https:\/\/klaw.me\/3ElggGK\">Klawchat<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Paste, I reviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/games\/wormholes-board-game-review\/\">Wormholes<\/a>, a space-themed pickup-and-delivery game that\u2019s very easy to learn. I think it\u2019s great for family play, on the weight and fun level of Ticket to Ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On The Keith Law Show this week, I spoke with <em>Sports Illustrated<\/em>\u2019s Stephanie Apstein about the postseason awards, playoff predictions, rules changes, and more. You can listen and subscribe via <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-keith-law-show\/id1499877854\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/SpotKlawPod\">Spotify<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/show\/the-keith-law-show\">Stitcher<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3s1basB\">amazon<\/a>, or wherever you get your podcasts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I sent out another edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyletter.com\/keithlaw\">my free email newsletter<\/a> on Friday night. Also, you can buy either of my books, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/2960\/9780062490230\">Smart Baseball<\/a><\/em> or <em><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/2960\/9780062942739\">The Inside Game<\/a><\/em>, via bookshop.org at those links, or at your friendly local independent bookstore. I hear they make great holiday gifts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now, the links\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Longreads first: A Colorado state custody evaluator, who happens to be the brother of actor Val Kilmer, has a history of disbelieving abuse allegations and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/parental-responsibility-evaluators-colorado\">recommended a teenaged victim stay under the control of her abuser<\/a>, according to an extensive report from ProPublica. Mark Kilmer has also been convicted of harassing his ex-wife, who accused him of assaulting her.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>From last June, this <em>WIRED<\/em> story on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/lithium-mine-for-batteries-versus-the-wildflower\/\">the conflict between a potential lithium mine that could help power tens of thousands of electric cars<\/a> and a single species of wild buckwheat that only lives on that one site in Nevada is balanced and beautifully written.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The <em>Washington Post<\/em> let investigative reporter Radley Balko go, a very disappointing decision as the paper seems to be leaning away from the serious journalism that made them worth paying for in the last six years. He has a new post up on his Substack about how <a href=\"https:\/\/radleybalko.substack.com\/p\/the-maddening-irrelevance-of-charlie\">Arkansas has kept a severely intellectually disabled man in prison for 30 years<\/a>, even with questions about his guilt.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Thousands of Americans have died thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2022\/01\/human-sacrifice-ritual-mass-vaccination\/621355\/\">the propaganda efforts of anti-vaccine quacks and cranks<\/a>, writes Kurt Anderson for the <em>Atlantic<\/em>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Also from ProPublica: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/no-knock-warrants-missing-mississippi\">Mississippi police departments have taken to hiding search warrants from the public<\/a>, flouting state laws on making them available at courthouses, which has the result of protecting officers who may have violated residents\u2019 Fourth Amendment rights in no-knock searches. I donated to ProPublica today, as their journalism is incredible and this type of depth becoming more rare in our media landscape.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The <em>Guardian <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/oct\/04\/ransomware-hunters-the-self-taught-tech-geniuses-fighting-cybercrime\">has an extract<\/a> from the upcoming book <em>The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits\u2019 Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrime<\/em>, which you can <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/2960\/9780374603304\">pre-order here<\/a>.<\/li><li>The BBC has a story on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/culture\/article\/20220921-the-dangerous-books-too-powerful-to-read\">the ignominious and ongoing history of book-banning<\/a>, even in liberal, democratic societies.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>Scientific American<\/em> spoke to Dutch mathematician Ionica Smeets about her work <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/parental-responsibility-evaluators-colorado\">fighting the misuse of statistics by anti-science folks<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It\u2019s not perfect, but it\u2019s a start: a new California law <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/special-reports\/exclusives\/101008\">bans doctors from giving patients medical misinformation<\/a> during direct care.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-63140246\">Chess player Hans Niemann likely cheated in over 100 online games<\/a>, but there\u2019s no evidence he\u2019s done so in a live game, according to an investigation by Chess.com.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/news\/state\/kansas\/article266823871.html\">A Kansas City cop tasered a handcuffed child in the back of his police car<\/a> and still has his license.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The attorney for the family of an LAPD cop who died during a training exercise has alleged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/losangeles\/news\/lawyer-claims-lapd-officer-was-targeted-for-being-a-potential-whistleblower\/\">he was killed by fellow officers for being a whistleblower<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/opinion\/editorials\/2022\/10\/02\/kim-reynolds-commercial-iowa-governor\/10447313002\/\">ran a TV ad so racist<\/a> the Des Moines Register ran an editorial saying it has no place in their community. The ad seeks to distinguish white Iowan society from anything other.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em>TIME<\/em> has a story on Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow (D) and her message <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6218261\/mallory-mcmorrow-michigan-viral-fame-political-power\/\">that Democrats can\u2019t ignore the importance of state races<\/a> as they try to hold both houses of Congress.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/10\/03\/ron-desantis-migrant-stunt-perla-huerta-revealed\/\">Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) be in actual legal trouble<\/a> now that the identity of the woman who lured migrants on to his Publicity Stunt Airways flight to Massachusetts has been revealed?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Kareem Abdul-Jabbar <a href=\"https:\/\/kareem.substack.com\/p\/kareem-reacts-to-the-news-desantis-6ca\">weighed in on another DeSantis controversy<\/a>, where the Governor went on Fox News and falsely claimed that no Americans questioned slavery prior to the Revolutionary War. Even I knew the Quakers were abolitionists well before American independence. He also called out Kyrie Irving\u2019s idiocy for spreading nonsense conspiracy theories on his Instagram account.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Facebook banned the Proud Boys four years ago, but the site\u2019s software <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/facebook-continues-to-auto-generate-pages-for-the-proud-boys-other-extremist-groups-194527393.html\">still auto-generates pages for the group and its affiliates<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The hollow chocolate bunnies of the apocalypse? A Swiss court ruled that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/01\/business\/lindt-lidl-chocolate-bunnies.html\">Lidl\u2019s chocolate bunnies were too easily confused with Lindt\u2019s<\/a> and ordered the retailer to destroy its stock.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Board game news: A tiny publisher at Central Michigan University has a Kickstarter up for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/cmu\/rising-waters?ref=checkout_rewards_page\">Rising Waters, a new historical-themed board game about the 1927 Mississippi flood<\/a> that also focuses on the huge racial disparities exposed by the disaster.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The roll-and-write game Draft &amp; Write Records is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/insideupgames\/draft-and-write-records\">already funded on Kickstarter<\/a> with 11 days to go.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>This <em>New York Times<\/em> story on Russian men fleeing to neighboring countries to avoid being forced to serve in the war against Ukraine has a photo of some of those men <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/05\/world\/asia\/russians-fleeing-draft-kyrgyzstan-putin.html\">playing the board game Splendor<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My hypothetical ballots for five of the six major postseason player awards went up for subscribers to the The Athletic this week. I also held a Klawchat on Friday. At Paste, I reviewed Wormholes, a space-themed pickup-and-delivery game that\u2019s very easy to learn. I think it\u2019s great for family play, on the weight and fun [&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":[821,1051,1083,1201,1125,113,128,1004,190,961,1173,1268,1059,1197,870,807],"class_list":["post-9577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anti-science","tag-arkansas","tag-board-game-news","tag-chess","tag-colorado","tag-environment","tag-florida","tag-iowa","tag-links","tag-longreads","tag-michigan","tag-misinformation","tag-mississippi","tag-police","tag-stick-to-baseball","tag-vaccines","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9577","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=9577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9578,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9577\/revisions\/9578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}